Top 20 Best-selling Japanese games on home consoles this gen

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Troll_Whisperer on 02 September 2012

Why? Because I was curious, that's it.

I'm gonna post one list with Nintendo games and one without so we can see other parties' efforts better and for variety's sake.

WITH NINTENDO

Ranking	Game	Sales	Platforms
1	Wii Sports	79m	Wii
2	Mario Kart Wii	32m	Wii
3	Wii Sports Resort	30m	Wii
4	Wii Play	29m	Wii
5	New Super Mario Bros. Wii	28m	Wii
6	Wii Fit	23m	Wii
7	Wii Fit Plus	21m	Wii
8	Super Smash Bros. Brawl	11m	Wii
9	Super Mario Galaxy	10m	Wii
10	Resident Evil 5	8m	PS3, X360, PC
11	Mario Party 8	7.9m	Wii
12	Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games	7.9m	Wii
13	Gran Turismo 5	7.8m	PS3
14	Wii Party	7.8m	Wii
15	Super Mario Galaxy 2	6.8m	Wii
16	Final Fantasy XIII	6.8m	PS3, X360
17	The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess	6.6m	Wii
18	Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots	5.7m	PS3
19	Animal Crossing: City Folk	4.4m	Wii
20	Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games	4.3m	Wii

WITHOUT NINTENDO:

Ranking	Game	Sales	Platforms
1	Resident Evil 5	8m	PS3, X360, PC
2	Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games	7.9m	Wii
3	Gran Turismo 5	7.8m	PS3
4	Final Fantasy XIII	6.8m	PS3, X360
5	Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots	5.7m	PS3
6	Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games	4.3m	Wii
7	Sega Superstars Tennis	4.2m	PS3, X360, Wii
8	Pro Evolution Soccer 2009	4.2m	PS3, X360, Wii, PC
9	Gran Turismo 5 Prologue	4.1m	PS3
10	Pro Evolution Soccer 2008	3.8m	PS3, X360, Wii, PC
11	Street Fighter IV	3.7m	PS3, X360
12	Tekken 6	3.5m	PS3, X360
13	Pro Evolution Soccer 2010	3.5m	PS3, X360, Wii, PC
14	Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection	3.2m	PS3, X360
15	Pro Evolution Soccer 2011	3.1m	PS3, X360, Wii, PC
16	Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games	3.1m	Wii
17	Pro Evolution Soccer 2012	2.8m	PS3, X360, Wii, PC
18	Devil May Cry 4	2.7m	PS3, X360
19	Final Fantasy XIII-2	2.6m	PS3, X360
20	Deca Sports	2.4m	Wii

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Troll_Whisperer on 02 September 2012

Observations:

Resident Evil is much bigger than FF now (and the difference will probably augment with RE6).

Sega rocks more than I thought.

PES can suck my d*ck because it was a pain to track.

Japan is the king of fighting games and these sell very well still, better than I thought.

Gran Turismo 5 will soon be 10th in the general ranking and 1st in the non-Nintendo one.

PES is in steep decline since 2008 (PES 2009).

Nintendo dominates pretty much.

The only non-Nintendo franchises to chart in the first list are the big 4: RE, GT, FF and MGS. These are by far the healthiest 3rd party franchises in Japan WW. Oh, and the Olympic games ones...

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radishhead on 02 September 2012

Are you going to do something similar for the other regions? I want to see the USA one in-particular :)

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Troll_Whisperer on 02 September 2012

radishhead said:
Are you going to do something similar for the other regions? I want to see the USA one in-particular :)

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Damn, it took me like 1h to compile all this data and the very first comment demands me to do more, lol. :p

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NiKKoM on 02 September 2012

How is Mortal Kombat a japanese game?

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NiKKoM said:
How is Mortal Kombat a japanese game?

It's not???

Noooooooo!!!!!

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Troll_Whisperer said:

NiKKoM said:
How is Mortal Kombat a japanese game?

It's not???

Noooooooo!!!!!

It was made in the USA I believe :P

Still, really nice job with this though. Was an interesting read!

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Troll_Whisperer on 02 September 2012

OK, I fixed it. Let me know if there's anything else wrong.

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I like this Nintendo dominated japan lol. I think resident evil is so much higher than ff because of the gold edition and the dlc.

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pezus said:
Another observation: FFXIII-2 sales are absolutely horrible compared to FFXIII

Probably a negative thing to say, but I hope the Lightning Saga does even worse, much worse.

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