Update. Some big jumps, some new games reaching the list.
#100 Big Brain Academy 4.66M
Will become DS's 9th 5-million selling game.
#99 Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories 4.66M
While this is the lowest ranking of any major system's top-selling game, it also ranks higher than any third party game on a Nintendo handheld.
#95 World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade 4.81M
#90 Gears of War 4.94M
Up from #92 despite being passed by Mario Galaxy
#73 Super Mario Galaxy 5.35M
Up from #97; Undertracking and continued brisk sales moved this game up the list quickly.
#65 Super Mario 64 DS 5.61M
Up from #68; recently passed Metal Gear Solid 1 and 2.
#47 Halo 3 7.06M
Closing in on the likes of Ocarina, Half-Life and Myst! (Has already passed them in shipments).
#35 Animal Crossing: Wild World 8.78M
Up from #36.
#33 World of Warcraft 9.19M
#32 Mario Kart DS 9.22M
Did I miss this one before? It is closing in on #26 Mario Kart 64 at 9.87M.
#29 Wii Play 9.42M
#28 More Brain Training 9.65M
& #21 Brain Training 11.19M
Both are perpetual top 10 sellers across Europe as they were in Japan some time ago. More Brain Training made a surprise top 10, 600K + showing in NPD's American numbers for December.
#18 New Super Mario Bros. 13.04M
#17 Pokemon Diamond/Pearl 13.39M
Could become the second DS game to outsell every game of last gen, with #12 Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas at 15.23M, and #11 the Sims at 16.08M both in sight.
#10 Nintendogs 16.94M
To become Europe's best-selling game ever?
#8 Wii Sports 17.81M
And maybe most interesting is the bubbling-under section...
#105 Zelda: Twilight Princess 4.46M
#111 Mario Party 8 4.35M
I really hope this doesn't catch Twilight Princess.
#115 Call of Duty 4 (X360) 4.32M
Huge jump up due to undertracking. Original XBox has two games in the top 100; the first two Halos at #54/6.43M and #37/8.45M. XBox 360 will soon have 3 games from three different franchises in the top 100, including a third party multi-platform game. Competing yearly franchise Medal of Honor has two higher ranking games, both for PS2. #102 MoH: Rising Sun at 4.65M will clearly be passed. #58 MoH: Frontline at 6.29M would be more difficult to catch. This is still a huge breakthrough for the series, which never broke 3M sales even on PS2, and one of the more obvious reasons Activision is threatening MoH-publisher EA as third party king.
#153 Forza Motorsport 2 3.51M
#160 The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass 3.44M
#190 Assassin's Creed (X360) 3.18M
"[Our former customers] are unable to find software which they WANT to play."
"The way to solve this problem lies in how to communicate what kind of games [they CAN play]."
Satoru Iwata, Nintendo President. Only slightly paraphrased.







