Top 70 best selling games EVER in Japan

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perpride on 09 October 2008

wow. Japanese people love RPGs...I should move to Japan.

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atma998 on 09 October 2008

The best selling non-nintendo game is Dragon Quest VIII.....Too bad the next Dragon Quest game is coming to a Nintendo console :P

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Veggie on 09 October 2008

It's hard to say. I think Wild World benefited from the fact that it was on a handheld.

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MANUELF on 09 October 2008

atma998 said:
The best selling non-nintendo game is Dragon Quest VIII.....Too bad the next Dragon Quest game is coming to a Nintendo console :P

Wrong, the best selling No Nintendo title is Dragon Quest VII not VIII

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atma998 on 09 October 2008

MANUELF said:

atma998 said:
The best selling non-nintendo game is Dragon Quest VIII.....Too bad the next Dragon Quest game is coming to a Nintendo console :P

Wrong, the best selling No Nintendo title is Dragon Quest VII not VIII

You're right, but it doesn't change the fact that Sony lost their biggest franchise to Nintendo.

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Pretendo on 09 October 2008

Wow. Top 10 is all Nintendo.

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MANUELF on 18 October 2008

Updated with top 100 and some interesting numbers

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zexen_lowe on 18 October 2008

It's interesting that the best-selling title of all time in Japan had the third worst opening week of all the titles that have one in that ranking (Brain Age and Big Brain Academy only have lower than Pokemon RBG)