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Oyvoyvoyv said:

That means, Wii Fit alone, outsold the entire software sales of Ps3 in that period!



Total sales is only of tracked software.  So if the games don't make the top charts it is not counted.  This probably doesn't matter much for PS3 like it does for PS2 where the library is so large there are tons of untracked titles...  just saying you are not really looking at "entire" software sales for the PS3...

@jlauro... that is only true of Europe weekly... In both American and Japan charts all software is tracked as long as it sells more than 100 copies in a week.

checking last week;
-In America the top 50 PSP titles sold 177k for the week if my math is correct... the software shows 246k
-In Japan all software is tracked too, but the PSP only has 25 titles that sold over 100 for the week, so the number is exact. (not all of those 25 are in the top 200 though)



To be added: top 10 selling titles in each genre. I am going by what the games are defined as on Vgchartz. Correct me if I have any mistakes/anything should be added. I am not combining sales for multiplats.

Action:

1. GTA:SA - 15.35M
2. GTA:VC - 14.20M
3. GTA 3 - 11.6M

4. RE2 - 5.82M
5. MGS - 5.59
6. MGS2 - 5.56
7. RE - 5.05

8. GTA:LSC - 4.69M
9. Spiderman: The Movie - 4.33M
10. Lord of the Rings: Two towers.  - 4.28M

Total sales for top 10 in genre: 76,47M
 
Dominant console: Ps2 in front of Ps.

Dominant franchise: Grand Theft Auto

Dominant Publisher: Rockstar

Adventure (or more namely, The legend of Zelda genre)

1. The legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - 7.60M
2. Myst - 7.59M
3. The Legend of Zelda - 6.51M

4. Tomb Raider 2 - 4.94
5. The Legend Of Zelda: Twilight Princess - 4.67M
6. The Legend Of Zelda: A link to the Past - 4.61M
7. The legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker - 4.38M
8. The Legend of Zelda: Link's awakening - 3.83
9. The legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass - 3.72
10. Banjo-Kazooie - 3.65M

Total sales of top 10 in genre: 51.50M

Dominant Console: NES/SNES/N64/GC in front of Wii

Dominant franchise: The Legend of Zelda

Dominant publisher: Nintendo.

Fighter:

1. Tekken 3 - 6.91M
2. Super Smash Brothers Melee - 6.58M
3. Pokemon Stadium - 5.88M
4. Super Smash Brothers - 5.55M
5. Tekken 2 - 5.45M

6. Street Fighter 2: Turbo - 4.10M
7. Tekken Tag Tournament - 3.94M
8. WWE Warzone: 3.36M
9. Tekken 4: 3.31M
10. WWE Smackdown 2 - 3.20M

Total sales for Genre: 48.28M

Dominant Console: Nintendo 64/Playstation

Dominant Franchise: Tekken, but this will change before 1st of May.

Dominant Publisher: Nintendo/Namco

Stay tuned, more genres will soon be added!



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TWRoO said:
@jlauro... that is only true of Europe weekly... In both American and Japan charts all software is tracked as long as it sells more than 100 copies in a week.

checking last week;
-In America the top 50 PSP titles sold 177k for the week if my math is correct... the software shows 246k
-In Japan all software is tracked too, but the PSP only has 25 titles that sold over 100 for the week, so the number is exact. (not all of those 25 are in the top 200 though)


My mistake, sounds clear for America anyways.  I always just assumed it was that way for all the charts, and was just more obvious when the chart only showed to 50.

 



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Shooters (First Person Shooters is combined into this)

1. Duck Hunt - 28.31M


2. Halo 2 - 8.45M
3. Golden Eye 007 - 8.09M
4. Half-Life - 7.85M
5. Halo 3 - 7.43M
6. Halo - 6.43
7. Medal of Honour Frontline - 6.29M
8. Gears of War - 5.04M
9. Call of Duty 4 - 5.03M
10. Starfox 64 - 4.93M

Total sales for top 10 in genre: 87.85M

Dominant console: Nintendo Entertainment System

Dominant Franchise: Duck Hunt

Dominant Publisher: Nintendo

Platformer (or more namely, Marioworld)

1. Super Mario Brothers - 40.64M


2. Super Mario World- 20.61M

3. Super Mario Land - 18.14M
4. Super Mario Brothers 3 - 17.28M
5. New Super Mario Brothers - 13.48M
6. Super Mario 64 - 11.89M
7. Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins - 11.18M
8. Super Mario Allstars - 10.55M
9. Donkey Kong Country - 9.30M
10. Super Mario Bros 2 USA - 7.46M

Total sales for Genre: 160.53M

Dominant Console: NES in front of SNES

Dominant Franchise: Mario

Dominant Publisher: Nintendo

Puzzle:

1. Tetris - 30.3M

2. Tetris - 5.8M
3. Dr Mario - 5.3M

4. Dr Mario - 4.9M
5. Pokemon Snap - 3.63M
6. Yoshi - 3.12M
7. Tetris DS - 2.41M
8. Big Brain Academy Wii - 2.16M
9. Super Puyo Puyo - 1.7M
10. Tetris Worlds - 1.5M

Total: 60.82M

Dominant Console: GB/NES

Dominant Franchise: Tetris

Dominant Publisher: Nintendo

Racers



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Racers:

1. GT3 - 14.9M
2. GT - 10.8M
3. MK64 - 9.9M
4. MKDS - 9.7M
5. GT 2 - 9.3M
6. GT4 - 8.9M
7. SMK - 8.8M
8. MK:DD - 6.6M
9. NFS: Underground 2 - 6.4M
10: Super Mario Circuit - 5.5M

Total sales for top 10: 90.8M

Dominant Console: PS

Dominant Franchise: MK/GT

Dominant Publisher: Sony/Nintendo

Role Playing (or more namely Kanto):

1. Pokemon Red/Blue - 31.4M

2. Pokemon Gold/Silver - 23.1M

3. Pokemon Ruby/Saffire - 15.2M
4. Pokemon Yellow - 14.6M
5. Pokemon Diamond/Pearl - 14.0M
6. Pokemon Fire Red/Leaf Green - 10.3M

7. Final Fantasy 7 - 9.7M
8. World Of Warcraft - 9.2M
9. Final Fantasy 10 - 8M
10. Final Fantasy 8 - 7.9M

Total sales for top 10: 143.4M

Dominant Console: Gameboy

Dominant Franchise: Pokemon!

Dominant Publisher: Nintendo

Sports:

1. Wii Sports - 19.7M

2. Tony Hawk 2 - 4.6M
3. Madden 05 - 4.5M
4. Tony Hawk 1 - 4.2M
5. Golf - 4.0M
6. Tony Hawk 3 - 3.9M
7. Fifa 06 - 3.9M
8. Pro Evo 06 - 3.9M
9. Madden 06 - 3.9M
10. Pro evo 05 - 3.8M

Total sales for top 10: 60.3M

Dominant Console: Wii

Dominant Franchise: The Wii Franchise

Dominant Publisher: Nintendo



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Sum up:

Best selling top 10 in each Genre:

1. Platformers: 160M
2. Role Playing: 143M

3. Racers: 90M
4. Shooters: 87M
5. Action: 76M
6. Puzzle - 61M
7. Sport - 60M
8. Adventure - 52M
9. Fighter - 48M

Most oftenly dominant in the genre:

1. Nintendo: 7/9
2. Rockstar: 1/9
3. Namco: 0.5/9
3. Sony: 0.5/9.

Most Dominant in its genre goes to:

1. Super Mario - platformers
2. Pokemon - Role Playing Games
3. The legend of Zelda - Adventure
4. Grand Theft Auto - Action
5. Duck Hunt - Shooters.








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Oyvoyvoyv said:
Raving Rabbids was only out on Wii and X360, and the graphics were just alike the Wii one on the 360, the game was meant for Wii and ported to 360, I don't think that is a great example (pardon me if I am wrong)

Spot on.  I know you were explaining why Rayman didn't sell well on 360 but is explains exactly why so many third party games have not sold well on Wii.  They port a game previously released on PS2, don't improve the graphics, add motion controls and expect the game to be a huge success.  If porting from an inferior system (in terms of graphical capability) didn't help Rayman sell on 360 which people regard as the king of software sales then why should such ported games sell on Wii?  If developers put more effort into their Wii games and built the game from scratch on Wii then they would see better success.  But of course they are too lazy and conwardly to do this.  Rather they take the easy option of making a port and then try to argue that only Nintendo games sell on Wii. 



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Good point tuoyo, I've never thought of it like that.



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