Nintendomination increasing...

[Sullla]

shams said:

It would be interesting to take the top#200 worldwide weekly sellers, and sort by "number of weeks since release". Ninty would probably own the entire top#20, and 90% of the top#50. But the legs of their main games are well known by now. 

Done! I wanted to see the result, so I ran the numbers myself. Although for my own sanity, I cut it down to the top 100 instead of 200. As shams said before, you'd really need to run this comparison over a number of different weeks to get a statistically meaningful result. Someone else can do that though.  Here we go:

#1-10
189 weeks Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas 17.1m
164 weeks Nintendogs 18.5m
160 weeks Brain Training 13.1m
136 weeks Clubhouse Games 2.2m
134 weeks Mario Kart DS 10.9m
133 weeks Animal Crossing: Wild World 9.4m
128 weeks More Brain Training 11.2m
117 weeks Daxter 1.7m
116 weeks Cooking Mama 2.7m
108 weeks New Super Mario Bros 14.6m

#10-20
89 weeks Pokemon Diamond / Pearl 14.9m
83 weeks Resistance: Fall of Man 2.9m
81 weeks Wii Sports 24.3m
81 weeks The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess 4.8m
80 weeks Wii Play 12.8m
78 weeks Motorstorm 3.3m
77 weeks Lost Planet: Extreme Condition (360) 1.1m
59 weeks Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree 2.4m
54 weeks Mario Party 8 5.3m
54 weeks Sight Training 2.6m

#20-30
51 weeks The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass 4.2m
43 weeks Madden NFL 08 (360) 2.4m
41 weeks Carnival Games 1.9m
39 weeks Pokemon Mysterious Dungeon 2.2m
39 weeks Imagine: Happy Cooking  1.2m
38 weeks MySims 2.3m
37 weeks Halo 3 7.9m
37 weeks FIFA 08 (PS2) 2.7m
37 weeks FIFA 08 (PS3) 1.4m
35 weeks Imagine: Fashion Designer  1.3m

#30-40
33 weeks Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 (PS2) 3.3m
33 weeks Imagine: Babies 1.8m
33 weeks Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 (PS3) 1.6m
33 weeks Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction 1.2m
33 weeks Naruto: Clash of the Ninja Revolution (Wii) 616k
32 weeks Super Mario Galaxy 6.7m
32 weeks Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (PS2) 4.0m
32 weeks Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (360) 3.0m
32 weeks Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Wii) 2.8m
32 weeks Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (PS3) 1.3m

#40-51
31 weeks Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (360) 6.1m
31 weeks Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Wii) 4.6m
31 weeks Mario Party DS 4.0m
31 weeks Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PS3) 3.3m
31 weeks Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga (Wii) 1.3m
31 weeks Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga (DS) 1.3m
31 weeks Hannah Montana: Music Jam (DS) 587k
30 weeks Assassins Creed (PS3) 2.7m
30 weeks Uncharted: Drakes Fortune 1.7m
30 weeks Cooking Mama 2: Dinner With Friends 1.2m
30 weeks Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 1.2m

#51-61
29 weeks Link's Crossbow Training 2.1m
29 weeks Mass Effect 1.9m 
29 weeks Rock Band (360) 1.6m
28 weeks Wii Fit 4.6m
28 weeks Game Party 881k
27 weeks SingStar PS3 400k
26 weeks Gran Turismo 5 Prologue 1.8m
21 weeks Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (DS) 2.2m
19 weeks Super Smash Bros Brawl 5.5m
19 weeks We Ski 226k

#62-70
16 weeks Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 (Wii) 532k
14 weeks Army of Two (360) 1.2m
14 weeks God of War: Chains of Olympus 722k
13 weeks House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return 421k
12 weeks Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 (360) 1.5m
12 weeks Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 (PS3) 627k
12 weeks Sega Superstars Tennis 462k
12 weeks Deca Sporta 279k
11 weeks Monster Hunter Freedom 2nd G 2.3m

#71-78
9 weeks Mario Kart Wii 5.6m
6 weeks Grand Theft Auto IV (360) 5.4m
6 weeks Grand Theft Auto IV (PS3) 3.8m
6 weeks Iron Man (360) 282k
6 weeks Iron Man (PS3) 187k
5 weeks Boom Blox 204k
5 weeks High School Musical 2: Work This Out! (DS) 123k
3 weeks Haze 311k

#79 (tied)
2 weeks Powerful Pro Baseball Portable 3 (PSP) 145k
2 weeks GRID (360) 119k 
2 weeks GRID (PS3) 106k
2 weeks Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (360) 91k
2 weeks Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (PS3) 50k

#84 (tied)
1 week Ninja Gaiden 2 243k 
1 week Lego Indiana Jones (Wii) 156k
1 week Dragonball Z: Burst Limit (PS3) 137k
1 week Lego Indiana Jones (360) 133k
1 week Lego Indiana Jones (PS2) 132k
1 week Lego Indiana Jones (DS) 116k
1 week Lego Indiana Jones (PS3) 98k
1 week Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer 3 60k
1 week Robert Ludlum's Bourne Conspiracy (360) 58k
1 week Dragonball Z: Burst Limit (360) 53k
1 week Lego Indiana Jones (PSP) 41k
1 week DS Misa Yamamura Suspense 34k
1 week Robert Ludlum's Bourne Conspiracy (PS3) 31k
1 week Incredible Hulk (360) 30k
1 week Incredible Hulk (PS3) 21k
1 week Kung Fu Panda (Wii) 21k
1 week Sports Island (Wii) 21k

Totals
Wii 28
DS 23 
PS3 20
360 18
PS2 5
PSP 5

Apologies for the colorfest, it was WAY too hard scanning the list when everything was black. I used the same colors we use on this website, with the one addition of changing PS2 to orange to distinguish it from PS3. I'll come back and do some more analysis tomorrow (time for bed!), but here are some early conclusions:

- Pretty balanced between all of the major platforms, to be honest. PS3 and 360 did better than expected - at least over the full 100 spots. The DS really dominates the top 25 spots on the list.

- What's up with the legs of 360 games? Despite being out a year longer, the top 360 game (Lost Planet, 77 weeks) is below the top PS3 (83 weeks) and top Wii game (81 weeks)! 360 also only manages 5 games in the top 50 (Wii has 13, PS3 has 9). 360 definitely sells software, but wow is the console front-loaded!

- It's really obvious when the holiday season hits, because so many titles are released at the same time. Look at the huge cluster of games released 30-33 weeks ago, and you can even see the year before that at 77-83 weeks!

Anyway, that was a fun way to kill an hour. More tomorrow.