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31. Mario Party DS - 6.11 million sold
This is the 8th of 8 Mario games on the list. With NSMBW, Mario games will perfectly mirror themselves on this list between Wii and DS, with one each of 3D platformers, 2D platformers,
Kart games and Party games, plus the multi-plat Mario and Sonic.
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32. FIFA 08 - 6.06 million sold
(1.67M for PS3, 1.45M for X360, 1.13M for PSP, .98M for Wii, .83M for DS)
Sept: Including PS2, this game was actually a bigger hit than FIFA 09, topping 9 million units.
That's a bad sign for EA, as some PS2 FIFA gamers may have drifted away
rather than transitioned to current gen.
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33. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed - 6.03 million sold
(1.91M for X360, 1.39M for Wii, 1.31M for PS3, .73M for PSP, .69M for DS)
This game is actually maintaining pretty good sales. Enough so that it has maintained
the same spot that it held on the September list, where most games past 28th
have fallen at least 2 spots due to WSR and MW2.
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34. Madden NFL 09 - 5.97 million sold
(2.36M for X360, 1.63M for PS3, .90M for Wii, .78M for PSP, .30M for DS)
Sept: 2008 was the year that Madden was supposed to break through on Wii, thanks to All-Play.
Instead, Wii sales declined from the year prior, but Madden broke through on PS3 instead,
thanks to an increased install base, which makes the difference for 09 outranking 08.
With PS2 and XB sales, the total is 7.34 million.
Now 7.42
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35. Gears of War - 5.96 million sold
Sept: In 2006, XBox 360 was not the XBox 360 we know today. Sales were slow,
there was no must-have game, and all eyes were on Sony and Nintendo's upcoming systems.
360 was launched for holiday 2005 on the promise of Halo, and likely would have declined
from the original XBox if that was all that was delivered. Then came Gears of War.
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36. Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories - 5.86 million sold
Sept: The PS2 version of LCS sold over 3 million, bringing total sales to over 9 million.
When the spin-off side game sells 9 million, and the franchise jumps ship to a
competing console, that's a big franchise. I lost count how many games based in
Liberty City have been sold somewhere between 30 and 40 million.
The only PSP exclusive on the list.
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37. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess - 5.36 million sold
Sept: This game's development ended bizarrely, with the mirroring of the entire game world.
In the end, it was not a game which left fans of the series in awe, as Mario Galaxy did.
But the hype train rolls on for the next Zelda Wii, based on a single piece of artwork.
With the Gamecube version, sales are 6.88 million.
6.92 now.
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38. Gears of War 2 - 5.32 million sold
This game has also held onto the place it had 2 months ago.
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39. Kung Fu Panda - 5.28 million sold
(3.02M for X360, 1.11M for DS, .76M for Wii, .39M for PS3)
Sept: You knew Wii Sports would be #1, but it's really the XBox 360 pack-ins messing up the list.
Microsoft insists on pushing the 360 as a family console, but when the best choice
for a family pack-in is a movie game that launched on 5 systems, and earned
an uninspiring 75 on metacritic, what's the point? PS2 adds a half mil.
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39.(tie) Need for Speed: ProStreet - 5.28 million sold
(2.01M for X360, 1.70M for PS3, .87M for Wii, .54M for PSP, .10M for DS)
Sept: As you have no doubt forgotten, ProStreet was the 2007 version of NfS.
Like the annual sports games, it was not until 2007 that the current systems had
the install base to land a game on this list, but unlike the annual sports games,
the 2008 edition, Undercover, does not make the list at all. Almost 7.5M with PS2.
Now 7.55M total.
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