Games Weather Report of Week 44, 2010

Games Weather Report Week 44
What were the best-selling games in America, Japan, and Europe the past week? Thanks to Amazon online sales data here are the games that are the hottest. Think of it as a games weather report.

What follows is a listing of the Top 10 bestsellers per region, for all systems combined.

North America’s Top 10 Games:

1. Kinect Adventures with Kinect Sensor (Xbox 360)
2. Just Dance 2 (Wii)
3. Disney Princess: Enchanted Journey (Wii)
4. Medal of Honor (PS3)
5. Medal of Honor (Xbox 360)
6. Kinect Sports (Xbox 360)
7. The Princess and the Frog (Wii)
8. Dance Central (Xbox 360)
9. Toy Story Mania (Wii)
10. Kirby’s Epic Yarn (Wii)

Kinect, Microsoft’s motion-controlled gaming add-on for the Xbox 360, is selling out everywhere in America after its November 4th launch. While cheesy, the Kinect commercial shows off all the games and features nicely.

Japan’s Top 10 Games:

1. Super Mario All-Stars – Special Edition: Mario’s 25th Anniversary!
2. Radiant Historia including Soundtrack CD (DS)
3. Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 (PS3)
4. Pokemon Black (DS)
5. Pokemon White (DS)
6. Fallout: New Vegas (PS3)
7. Fallout: New Vegas (Xbox 360)
8. God Eater Burst – Limited Edition (PSP)
9. Wii Party (Wii)
10. Kirby’s Epic Yarn (Wii)

To celebrate Mario’s 25th birthday, Nintendo of Japan is airing commercials showing everything that’s included in the package that’s coming to the rest of the world in early December. The games included in the Super Mario All-Stars collection are the SNES remakes of Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, Super Mario Bros. 2 (known as USA in Japan) and Super Mario Bros. 3. Take a look.

Europe’s Top 10 Games:

1. Just Dance 2 (Wii)
2. Football Manager 2011 (PC)
3. Professor Layton and the Lost Future (DS)
4. Fallout: New Vegas (Xbox 360)
5. Crackdown 2 (Xbox 360)
6. Just Dance (Wii)
7. Alan Wake (Xbox 360)
8. FIFA 11 (Xbox 360)
9. Wii Party with White Remote Controller (Wii)
10. Wii Fit Plus with Balance Board (Wii)

Ubisoft strikes again with another casual game everyone and their family can enjoy. It’s no wonder Just Dance 2 is topping the charts. Here’s the commercial.

To recap the top games per system: Just Dance 2 once again places first on the Wii chart. The Kinect Sensor that comes with Kinect Adventures debuts on top of the Xbox 360 chart. Medal of Honor becomes #1 on the PS3 chart. Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty stays on the PC chart. Super Scribblenauts returns to the DS chart. Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep stays on the PSP chart. And lastly, WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2011 makes an appearance on the PS2 chart.

Sales data collected from Amazon’s US, JPN (PC) & UK / DE / FR websites.