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The seventh generation is wrapping up, so I thought I'd take a look at the best selling new series of the gen. Just to see what new stuff we got that debuted on the DS, PSP, 360, Wii, and PS3.

 

Series Publisher Total Best-Seller
Wii Nintendo 190.22 81.55
Wii Sports Nintendo 113.45 81.55
Assassin's Creed Ubisoft 52.8 5.46
Wii Fit Nintendo 43.99 22.76
Just Dance Ubisoft 41.32 9.89
Brain Age Nintendo 35.31 20.04
Kinect Microsoft 35.03 20.43
Nintendogs Nintendo 27.67 24.54
Rock Band Electronic Arts 25.7 2.41
Mario & Sonic at the Olympics Sega 25.16 7.88
Imagine Ubisoft 20.32 2.85
Gears of War Microsoft 19.88 6.64
Uncharted Sony 17.91 6.25
Mama Majesco 17.3 5.49
Professor Layton Nintendo 16.34 5.09
Batman Arkham Warner Bros 16.25 4.5
LEGO Batman Warner Bros 16.03 3.05
Mass Effect Electronic Arts 13.27 3.01
Saints Row THQ 13.15 2.81
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed LucasArts 12.76 2.57
MySims Electronic Arts 12.65 3.62
Zumba Fitness 505 Games 11.91 6.5
LittleBigPlanet Sony 11.39 5.23
Ben 10 D3 10.93 1.68
Bioshock Take-Two 10.51 2.67
Big Brain Academy Nintendo 10.3 6.56

 

Notes:

*So far as I can tell, we had about 20 new big series this gen, not counting all the Wii subseries and Mario spinoffs and whatnot.

*The big winners this gen were Nintendo and Ubisoft

*Sony and Microsoft, despite relying on older series, each had two big new franchises.

*Mass Effect was the only big new RPG

*Only a minority of these series are really shooting-based

*Not counting games with "Wii" in the title that are parts of other series, like Mario Kart Wii, the Wii series is the third most popular retail series of all time

*Some of these series, like Brain Age, Nintendogs, Rock Band, Imagine, and Mama, have already declined significantly or even ceased over the course of a single generation

*The split between new "hardcore" and "casual" series is pretty even

*Games like Call of Duty debuted last gen silly!

 

 

 

Did I miss anything?

 

 

Edit: I missed a lot of stuff. Hopefully Version 2.0 works better!



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