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. Call of Duty: Black Ops (Xbox 360)
2. Donkey Kong Country Returns (Wii)
3. Just Dance 2 (Wii)
4. Call of Duty: Black Ops (PS3)
5. Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood (Xbox 360)
6. uDraw Studio – Game and Tablet (Wii)
7. Kinect Sports (Xbox 360 Kinect)
8. Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood (PS3)
9. Wii Fit Plus with Balance Board (Wii)
10. Mario Kart Wii with Wii Wheel (Wii)
With launch day sales of Call of Duty: Black Ops over 5.6 million, word has it Activision pulled off the biggest entertainment launch in history last week.
Japan’s Top 10 Games:
1. Call of Duty: Black Ops – Subtitled (PS3)
2. Dance Evolution (Xbox 360 Kinect)
3. Tactics Ogre: The Wheel of Fortune (PSP)
4. Call of Duty: Black Ops – Subtitled (Xbox 360)
5. Wii Party (Wii)
6. Pokemon Black (DS)
7. Pokemon White (DS)
8. Super Mario All-Stars – Special Edition: Mario’s 25th Anniversary! (Wii)
9. Pointed Bow and Magic Shop System (DS)
10. Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 (PSP)
Europe’s Top 10 Games:
1. Just Dance 2 (Wii)
2. Call of Duty: Black Ops (Xbox 360)
3. Call of Duty: Black Ops (PS3)
4. Wii Party with White Remote Controller (Wii)
5. Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood (PS3)
6. Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood (Xbox 360)
7. Professor Layton and the Lost Future (DS)
8. Art Academy: Learn Painting and Drawing Techniques with Step-by-Step Training (DS)
9. Kinect Adventures with Kinect Sensor (Xbox 360 Kinect)
10. Just Dance (Wii)
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To recap the top games per system: Call of Duty: Black Ops stays #1 on the Xbox 360 & PS3. Donkey Kong Country Returns is the only Sunday-release and debuts on top of the Wii chart. StarCraft II conquers the PC chart. Mario vs. Donkey Kong Mini-Land Mayhem! debuts on first place on the DS chart. Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep returns on top of the PSP chart. And lastly, Madden NFL 11 makes a return on the PS2 chart.
Sales data collected from Amazon’s US, JPN (PC) & UK / DE / FR websites.