i should say that the percentage of old people is growing while the percentage of young people is shrinking in Japan. This is actually causing the population to shrink because people are having so few babies.

I actually remember that from my College Geography class back in 2003. We were analyzing how a huge portion of the Japanese population would be over the age of 60 by the end of 2010.

1		Wii Sports                                   (same)	Nintendo	1,552,676	2,129,690
2		Monster Hunter Freedom 2nd        (same)	Capcom	1,348,118	1,348,118
3		Wii Play                                      (same)	Nintendo	1,166,501	1,695,255
4		New Super Mario Bros                    (Yoshi island DS)	Nintendo	1,009,985	4,970,340
5		Pokemon Diamond / Pearl             (New Super Mario Bros) [pokemon isnt paired]	Nintendo	982,063	5,455,755
6		Yoshi Island DS                            (Brain Training 2)	Nintendo	954,883	954,883
7		More Brain Training                       (Dragon Quest Monsters:Joker)	Nintendo	954,342	4,791,728
8		Pokemon Mysterious Dungeon 2:   (LoZ: Phantom hourglass) [pokemon isn't paired]Time / Darkness Exploration Team	Nintendo	862,994	862,994
9		Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker        (Mario Party 8)	Enix	852,299	1,479,321
10		Mario Party 8                                (Animal Crossing)	Nintendo	839,332	839,332
11		The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass  (Mario Kart DS)	Nintendo	826,037	826,037
12		Animal Crossing: Wild World           (Final Fantasy XII) [should that be XII or VII]	Nintendo	724,405	4,539,108
13		Mario Kart DS                                (Prof Layton etc)	Nintendo	705,393	2,641,091
14		Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII          (flash focus)	Square	675,615	675,615
15		Prof. Layton and the Mysterious Village    (Musou Orochi)	Level 5	675,083	675,083
16		Warriors Orochi	Koei	639,298	639,298
17		Flash Focus: Vision Training in Minutes a Day	Nintendo	619,876	619,876
18		Common Sense Training	Nintendo	617,162	1,580,716
19		Brain Training	Nintendo	555,405	3,715,819
20		Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings	Square	533,865	533,865
21		More English Training for Adults	Nintendo	513,844	513,844
22		English Training for Adults	Nintendo	503,943	2,153,399
23		Super Paper Mario	Nintendo	502,431	502,431
24		Phoenix Wright 4	Capcom	498,031	498,031
25		Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors	Enix	477,291	477,291
26		Super Robot Wars OG: Original Generations	Banpresto	430,418	430,418
27		Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas	Capcom	401,908	401,908
28		Kanji Performance Test	IE Institute	389,011	608,398
29		Itadaki Street DS	Enix	361,473	361,473
30		World Puzzle Mojipittan DS	Namco	361,355	361,355

comparing VGC top 30 to theirs (i put the top 15 of the Media Create chart in parenthesis next to the VGC games) If we take out the fact that Media Create seperates the Pokemon games, the order is generally correct for VGC, except VGC has warriors orochi and flash focus swapped, Phantom hourglass and MP8 swapped and NSMB and Yoshi swapped (the worst one because VGC has NSMB selling 50k+ more than Yoshi island)

i would do the next 15 but i want to go to bed.

Yeah, I want FF XII for my PSP./Sarcasm

 When you're older, you get more boring every 10 years, in quick bursts, and start to give up all your interests and hobbies.  You then spend your time wittling and talking to lamps.

 The Wii might not be selling as well as the DS then, but in regards to other consoles, a Wii with 3.5 users could sell more games than a PS2 with 2.4 users.

I didn't realize the GameCube had a 42% female ratio

I always just assumed all consoles were about 20% female or so....

I used to tell my friends that couldn't get their girlfriends interested in gaming to get a Gamecube ... I don't exactly know what it is but many women who would look negatively towards most games would love to play games like Mario Golf/tennis/kart, Animal Crossing or Pikmin

Link has been fixed.

http://www.irwebcasting.com/071010/53/f078bbc3f8/index.html

ah yes i was about to say you added a space to the link (i just watched the video) i loved the bit where the translator with the dull voice was talking but Iwata was drinking water.

Also it was interesting to see the age/sex charts for GC, GBA and DS (before and after)