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Forums - Sales - Best selling western games in Japan?

Tetris
Nintendo 4,217,306
Donkey Kong Country
Nintendo 2,996,150
Donkey Kong Country 2
Nintendo 2,203,009
Donkey Kong Country 3
Nintendo 1,751,778
Crash Bandicoot 3 Buttobi Sekai Issyuu
Sony Computer Entertainment 1,420,593
Tetris DS
Nintendo 1,330,124
Crash Bandicoot 2
Sony Computer Entertainment 1,311,153
Donkey Kong 64
Nintendo 1,092,602
Crash Bandicoot
Sony Computer Entertainment 938,949
Diddy Kong Racing
Nintendo 885,412
Sim City
Nintendo 745,637
Super Mario USA
Nintendo 694,652
Rachet and Clank
Sony Computer Entertainment 568,876
Mickey Magical Adventure
Capcom 515,723
Sim City 2000
Imagineer 485,461


Since the late N64/PS1 era, no other western developed game, or western franchise was able to sell 500k or more. Japanese have lost interest on western developed franchises. SNES was probably the best platform for them, since theres a plethora of games selling well, not over 500k though.

Still, western developed games can do good in Japan or at least they could once upon a time.

Who knows what's the best selling Japanese game in the West?

Edit: Damn the list looks horrible, I dont know how to fix it.



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donkey kong is from nintendo and thats a japanese company.



 

 

 

 

Donkey Kong Country is a game made by RARE.
RARE is an English company, they only used Japanese created characters. It's a western platformer.



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tag - "I wouldn't trust gamespot, even if it was a live comparison."

Bets with Conegamer:

Pandora's Tower will have an opening week of less than 37k in Japan. (Won!)
Pandora's Tower will sell less than 100k lifetime in Japan.
Stakes: 1 week of avatar control for each one.

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