What are the top 10 bestselling video games in America, Japan, and Europe? Thanks to Amazon online sales data here are the video games that are the hottest worldwide right now.
What follows is a listing of the Top 10 bestsellers per region, for all systems combined.
North America’s Top 10 Games:
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1. Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon (3DS)
2. BioShock Infinite (Xbox 360)
3. Call of Duty: Black Ops II (Xbox 360)
4. Call of Duty: Black Ops II (PS3)
5. Just Dance 4 (Wii)
6. BioShock Infinite (PS3)
7. SimCity (PC)
8. Tomb Raider (PS3)
9. NBA 2K13 (Xbox 360)
10. Tomb Raider (PC)
Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon is the 12-years-awaited 3DS sequel to the GameCube launch game. Nintendo 3DS handheld sales have long since launch come out of their first-year-slump and Luigi’s Mansion 2 — as it’s called in all other regions — is outselling everyone else in an otherwise quiet release week.
Methinks more people grew up wanting to be Ghostbusters than they care to admit. 😉
Take a look at the ghostly Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon TV commercial.
Japan’s Top 10 Games:
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1. Luigi’s Mansion 2 (3DS)
2. Animal Crossing: New Leaf (3DS)
3. One Piece: Pirate Warriors 2 (PS3)
4. Dragon Quest VII: Warriors of Eden (3DS)
5. Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 ReMIX (PS3)
6. Pro Baseball Spirits 2013 (PS3)
7. Uta no Prince-sama: All Star – Limited Edition (PSP)
8. Far Cry 3 (PS3)
9. Taiko Drum Master Wii: Do Don and the Second Generation! – Super Deluxe Edition including Drum (Wii)
10. Fate / Extra CCC – Limited Edition (PSP)
New #1 Luigi’s Mansion 2, with its 390.991 sales, can only hope to continuously sell as much as Animal Crossing: New Leaf, which four months after launch Nintendo of Japan has sold nearly 3 million copies of (2.976.228 according to Media Create).
Here are the relaxing new Japanese Animal Crossing: New Leaf TV commercials.
Europe’s Top 10 Games:
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1. BioShock Infinite (Xbox 360)
2. Luigi’s Mansion 2: Dark Moon (3DS)
3. Tomb Raider (PS3)
4. Tomb Raider (Xbox 360)
5. Defiance (Xbox 360)
6. FIFA 13 (Xbox 360)
7. BioShock Infinite (PS3)
8. Call of Duty: Black Ops II (Xbox 360)
9. SimCity (PC)
10. Just Dance 4 (Wii)
BioShock Infinite is the third game in the BioShock blockbuster series. With pre-orders rumored to be around 1 million in the West, it was highly anticipated by fans and critics claim it pays off… giving the game a metacritic average score of 95%!
Take a look at the BioShock Infinite TV commercial featuring Nico Vega’s song “Beast”.
To recap the top games per system:
- Luigi’s Mansion 2: Dark Moon jumps to numero uno on the 3DS chart.
- BioShock Infinite stays atop the Xbox 360 charts.
- Call of Duty: Black Ops II returns on the PS3 charts.
- Just Dance 4 rocks the 1st place on the Wii chart.
- SimCity 2013 stays on first place on the PC chart.
- Pokemon Black & White Version 2 get caught at #1 on the DS chart.
- Lego City: Undercover remains 1st on the Wii U charts.
- Persona 4 Golden is still on the PS Vita chart.
- Lastly, The Sims 3: University Life reappears as #1 on the Mac chart.
Since last month PS2 & PSP game sales are no longer being tracked. But for years now 90% of the time they consisted out of all the Kingdom Hearts games appearing on the #1 spot on both classic PlayStation platforms, so it’s not like you’re missing out with no new games being released for them anymore.
Sales data collected from Amazon’s US, JPN (PC) & UK / DE / FR websites.