Top 70 best selling games EVER in Japan

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MANUELF on 08 October 2008

Rank / System / Title / First week / LTD / Publisher / Numbers till

Only Top100:

System Allocation:

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Titles System Units 27x NES 58.320.000 13x GB(C) 43.187.051 14x NDS 40.711.813 17x SNES 40.420.000 9x PSX 22.697.709 6x PS2 13.217.711 5x Wii 11.727.000 3x GBA 10.216.660 3x N64 4.983.637 2x PSP 4.138.387 1x SS 1.417.034

Publisher Allocation:

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Titles Publisher Units 61x Nintendo 164.762.013 11x Square 25.142.817 9x Enix 24.197.128 5x Capcom 11.273.362 4x Square Enix 8.959.995 4x SCE 6.863.700 2x Konami 3.733.134 1x Enterbrain 1.737.819 1x Hudson 1.500.000 1x Bandai 1.450.000 1x Sega 1.417.034

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Xen on 08 October 2008

Nintendo's share of that is like 75-80%. Woah.

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Godot on 08 October 2008

Top 10 is Nintendo (mostly portables though).

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TheSource on 08 October 2008

Famicom had a 19m userbase in Japan and the highest attach ratio of any platform ever in Japan (~12 games shipped/Famicom shipped)...so thats a pretty good foundation for Nintendo.

Game Boy and DS are sort of the opposite - ridiculously big base - but relatively low attach rates.

If you believe this thread NES probably is still the platform to sell the most software ever in Japan. Nintendo shipped 225m units of software in Japan. PS2 sellthrough is at ~190m or so in 2008, with shipments probably within a few percent of 200m.

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Oyvoyvoyv on 09 October 2008

Hey, VGC has no SMB numbers, whereas this one has it at 6.8M, meaning that it is the best selling console game (by far). I guess my prediction of Wii Fit and Wii Sports becomming nr 1 and 2 won't come true then :/

The most interesting in the data is opening week for Pokemon Gold. VGC claims 260K, whereas this one claims 980K.

http://www.vgchartz.com/games/userreviewdisp.php?id=261

That is VGChartz LONGEST review. And it's NOT Cute Kitten DS