Top 10 Bestselling Video Games Worldwide in Week 36, 2013

What are the top 10 bestselling video games in America, Japan and Europe this week? 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:

    1. Madden NFL 25 Anniversary Edition with NFL Sunday Ticket (Xbox 360)
    2. Madden NFL 25 (Xbox 360)
    3. Diablo III (Xbox 360)
    4. Madden NFL 25 Anniversary Edition with NFL Sunday Ticket (PS3)
    5. Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition (Xbox 360)
    6. BioShock Infinite (PC)
    7. NCAA Football 14 (Xbox 360)
    8. Madden NFL 13 (Xbox 360)
    9. Sid Meier’s Civilization V: Gold Edition (PC)
    10. Diablo III (PS3)

EA Sports has debuted Madden NFL 25 to 1 million sales last week on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 (down from 1.65 million last year in its first week). There was also much rejoicing of American Football fans looking to get a $200 NFL Sunday Ticket for just $40 on top of the $60 game. The Xbox One and PlayStation 4 versions will follow in November.

Check out the funny Madden 25 TV commercial.

Japan’s Top 10 Games:

    1. JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle – Limited Edition (PS3)
    2. Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn (PS3)
    3. Splinter Cell: Blacklist (Xbox 360)
    4. Animal Crossing: New Leaf (3DS)
    5. Friend Collection: New Life (3DS)
    6. Disney Magic Castle: My Happy Life (3DS)
    7. Yokai Watch (3DS)
    8. The Last of Us (PS3)
    9. L.A. Noir (PS3)
    10. Mario & Luigi RPG 4: Dream Team (3DS)

“JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle” lets many manga characters from Shonen Jump series battle it out. Why? Because it’s awesome! Its “unconventional story mode” is said to be the kind of game all us 3D fighting game fans would love to play in English, alas this Namco Bandai series — that got half a million pre-orders and a perfect score in Famitsu!! — stays put in Japan.

Here’s the epic JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle TV commercial that’s airing in Japan.

PS: It’s one thing to leave a game like this with many unknowns in Japan, but they better find a way to release “J-Stars Victory VS” internationally. Because that pits Dragon Ball Z, Naruto Shippuden, One Piece, Bleach, Gintama and other popular manga/anime series against each other!

Europe’s Top 10 Games:

    1. Saints Row IV – Commander In Chief Edition (Xbox 360)
    2. Farming Simulator 2013 (Xbox 360)
    3. Total War Rome II (PC)
    4. Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition (Xbox 360)
    5. Saints Row IV – Commander In Chief Edition (PS3)
    6. Payday 2 (Xbox 360)
    7. LEGO Lord of the Rings (Xbox 360)
    8. Farming Simulator 2013 (PS3)
    9. LEGO Lord of the Rings (PS3)
    10. Diablo III (PS3)

Deep Silver launched the Volition-developed Saints Row IV last month. Widely acclaimed as the craziest and stupidest fun open world game series there is; there’s aliens and super powers this time. Saints Row IV does not take itself seriously in the least and so far 1+ million fans love it for that.

Here’s the Saints Row IV TV commercial.

To recap the top games per system:

  • Madden NFL 25 stays high on the Xbox 360 & PS3 charts
  • BioShock Infinite returns on top of the PC chart.
  • Just Dance 4 keeps swinging on 1st place on the Wii chart.
  • Animal Crossing: New Leaf is at numero uno on the 3DS & global charts.
  • Pokemon Black & White Version 2 get caught at #1 on the DS chart.
  • New Super Luigi U stays in the Wii U chart.
  • SimCity 2013 remains atop the Mac chart.
  • Lastly, LittleBigPlanet comes in at #1 on the PS Vita chart.

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

What video games will you play this weekend? Any of these?