Nintendo's been going strong in Japan for awhile now, thanks to the phenomenon known as the DS Lite, and growing interest in Wii. During Japan's "Golden Week" series of holidays, the top 21 selling games were all for Nintendo platforms. Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings, for Nintendo DS, took the top spot with 109,326 units. Super Paper Mario was the top selling Wii game, coming in at number two overall with 90,151 units sold. The first non-Nintendo platform game on the list is Capcom's Monster Hunter Portable 2nd for the PSP, and ranks in twenty-second. Check out the top ten below:
[NDS] Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings (Square-Enix) - 109,326
[WII] Super Paper Mario (Nintendo) - 90,151
[WII] Wii Sports (Nintendo) - 84,782
[NDS] Yoshi's Island DS (Nintendo) - 58,948
[WII] Wii Play (Nintendo) - 58,718
[NDS] Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis (Nintendo) - 57,741
[WII] Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree (Nintendo) - 55,165
[NDS] New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo) - 51,681
[NDS] Momotarou Dentetsu DS: Tokyo & Japan (Hudson) - 45,662
[NDS] More Brain Age (Nintendo) - 44,047
Title: RE: Nintendo Dominates Japanese Sales Charts
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on May 11, 2007, 05:12:29 AM
Why mention a sweep of the Top 21 but only list the Top 10?
And if you look at he whole chart Nintendo took almost the entire Top 50 with 42 of the 50. Its complete Nintendomination, and it will probably only get worse (or better depending on how you look at it.) in the very near future. I wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo took the Top 27 next week with 29 out of the 30.
Title: RE: Nintendo Dominates Japanese Sales Charts
Post by: WuTangTurtle on May 11, 2007, 09:24:07 AM
wtf, how the hell is that even possible? Did stores stop selling PS2 stuff?
Seriously that is unbelievable news.
Title: RE: Nintendo Dominates Japanese Sales Charts
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on May 11, 2007, 10:13:48 AM
It's not unbelievable. The future is now.
The traditional hardcoor driven market is shrinking, therefore the Playstation era is dying.
Long live short easy non-gaming.
Title: RE: Nintendo Dominates Japanese Sales Charts
Post by: Kairon on May 11, 2007, 10:16:41 AM
Don't worry, FF: Tactics just came out on the PSP and sold 100k units on the first day to rescue the game industry from Nintendo.
Title: RE:Nintendo Dominates Japanese Sales Charts
Post by: Dasmos on May 12, 2007, 04:33:49 AM
pitiful. i expected more from nintendo.
Title: RE:Nintendo Dominates Japanese Sales Charts
Post by: Sir_Stabbalot on May 12, 2007, 05:01:21 AM
Flawless Victory!
It's safe to say Japan is firmly in Nintendo's zone of control.
Title: RE:Nintendo Dominates Japanese Sales Charts
Post by: Bill Aurion on May 12, 2007, 06:44:04 AM
Quote Originally posted by: WuTangTurtle wtf, how the hell is that even possible? Did stores stop selling PS2 stuff?
Seriously that is unbelievable news.
Unlike other territories, when "next gen" comes around in Japan, the last gen falls flat on its face...
Title: RE:Nintendo Dominates Japanese Sales Charts
Post by: TJ Spyke on May 12, 2007, 10:04:22 PM
You mean when next gen comes around, non-Nintendo systems fall flat on their face. PS3 is just barely floating above 10K a week and Xbox 360 is basically a non factor. DS has won the handheld war and Wii has just about won the console war (the only way PS3 will win is if the Wii suffered the largest collapse in the history of consoles, even more than Dreamcast). The PS3 has NEVER outsold Wii since it launched (even when the PS3 got a game Japanese love like Gundam Mousou and Wii had no new games), at the current rate of sales the Wii will reach 3 million before the PS3 even hits 1 million.
Title: RE: Nintendo Dominates Japanese Sales Charts
Post by: UERD on May 13, 2007, 04:28:37 AM
I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.
Good riddance. At least we can be assured that the future of video gaming is not a dreary mass of sci-fi FPS games, each looking more similar to the last.
