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Japan's top-selling games of 2010 are...

Posted Dec 28, 2010 at 4:30PM EST by Glenn M.

Listed in: PSP, Wii, PS3, Nintendo DS, Xbox 360, PC Gaming Tags: Media Create, sales

We're down to the last days of the year so we're in for quite a number of year-end recaps. For Media Create, they tracked down sales figures for the 2010's top sellers and put them all together in one convenient list. New Super Mario Bros. Wii came in second, while Final Fantasy XIII came at a distant third. So which game outsold everyone this year?

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Top honors go to the twins - Pokemon Black and Pokemon White. No surprises there. As for the rest, here's the list

Pokémon Black / White (DS) - 4,494,106
New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii) - 4,043,637
Final Fantasy XIII (PS3) - 1,903,186
Tomodachi Collection (DS) - 1,708,505 (total: 3,456,091)
Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Revelation (DS) - 1,339,352
Wii Party (Wii) - 1,232,562
Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 (DS) - 1,222,496
Wii Fit Plus (Wii) - 1,132,500 (total: 2,125,139)
Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Wii) - 882,880
Inazuma Eleven 3: Challenge the World! Spark/Bomber (DS) - 867,600
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (PSP) - 810,089
Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep (PSP) - 737,348 (total: 767,348)
Pokémon HeartGold / SoulSilver (DS) - 718,748 (total: 3,808,535)
The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks (DS) - 668,725
God Eater (PSP) - 634,244
Super Mario All-Stars 25th Anniversary Edition (Wii) - 613,415
Wii Sports Resort (Wii) - 593,212 (total: 1,989,124)
Phantasy Star Portable 2 (PSP) - 589,837
Yakuza 4 (PS3) - 574,951
Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage (PS3) - 548,032

Honorable mention also goes to New Super Mario Bros. for the DS, which sold 435,424 copies in 2010, bringing the four-year-old title's grand total to 6,023,845 in this updated Media Create chart.

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When the hype died everyone already bought their copy. FF XIII sold something like 5 millions on the first week.

@robthom robthom: Lol as much as you want, but the number 1 game of 2011 in the US will probably be Pokemon as well. The majority of players are still kids and they will buy this game in their millions.

# RE: Japan's top-selling games of 2010 are... — DoMthyBoMb 2010-12-28 18:16

I can't believe there is no mention of Monster Hunter Freedom 3. It has over 3 millions sold in its short release.

# RE: Japan's top-selling games of 2010 are... — KylBlz 2010-12-28 18:54

phantasy star portable should be higher, nintendo is owning the charts everywhere, black ops isnt up there

# ... — symbal 2010-12-28 19:58

Predictably all Japanese consoles and all Japanese developers again. Simply a cultural thing? Or possibly console racism? Who knows. All i know is they the only country that avoids non domestic gaming products like the plague.

# .... — frankeinface 2010-12-29 03:24

or perhaps the japanese console/game developers know their target audience. there's no need to assume some sinister racism is going on

# hmmm... — ov3rkill 2010-12-28 20:01

I thought one of the Monster Hunter series would end up on that list but oh well. Good list nonetheless.

# Japan only games?! — Racist 2010-12-29 09:03

Wheres red dead redemption, halo reach, black ops?

# RE: Japan only games?! — NR 2010-12-30 06:21

They stayed in the U.S. where people give a damn about the 360. But me, and all the Japanese know that 360 is crap. In japan we only play eroge on it and eroge never pass the 10,000 mark sales.

# Cheating! — MrEzekial 2010-12-28 20:02

I call bullshit!

I want to see independent titles of black and white not combined. 2 titles under the same sales chart seems a bit cheap to me. I bet if you did only black or only white they would drop down.

# RE: Cheating! — Roflcopter-Pilot 2010-12-29 20:17

I call bullshit to you, sir!

The games are the same, except for the starting areas and a legendary creature that you can not catch in the other version (as far as I, as a not pokemon-fan, am informed. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong).

And OF COURSE they would drop down! No shit, Sherlock! I'm 100% serious!!1 Ok, enough sarcasm and flaming...

They would probably drop by half, or by a value pending around that value. Where I know that from? Statistic...
And even then... It would drop to the second and third or second and fourth place. So Fist of the North Star (in any case) would have been kicked out.

What is your intention, a sales chart flooded with pokemon-titles named after all colors of the rainbow?
You should probably think before you write... And after that, you should think again and probably delete what you have written.

Sorry for the flaming, I always get upset when I read something like this -.-

# RE: Cheating! — MStatic 2011-01-01 15:04

"I want to see independent titles of black and white not combined. 2 titles under the same sales chart seems a bit cheap to me. I bet if you did only black or only white they would drop down."

People aren't buying both copies; if someone wants to play Black/White, they'll pick up Black or White. It's common sense to show combined sales, would be ridiculous to halve the sales just because they're two different names to essentially the same game.

# RE: Japan's top-selling games of 2010 are... — But Fukir 2010-12-29 00:53

Bunch of junk on there except for Phantasy star.

Lol @ Pokemon and Mario.

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