Games Weather Report of Week 45, 2010

Games Weather Report Week 45
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. Call of Duty: Black Ops (PS3)
3. Kinect Sports (Xbox 360 Kinect)
4. Just Dance 2 (Wii)
5. Dance Central (Xbox 360 Kinect)
6. Halo: Reach (Xbox 360)
7. Your Shape Fitness Evolved (Xbox 360 Kinect)
8. Fable III (Xbox 360)
9. Wii Fit Plus with Balance Board (Wii)
10. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii)

With launch day sales of Call of Duty: Black Ops over 5.6 million, word has it Activision just pulled off the biggest entertainment launch in history this week.

Japan’s Top 10 Games:

1. Tactics Ogre: The Wheel of Fortune (PSP)
2. Pointed Bow and Magic Shop System (DS)
3. Super Mario All-Stars – Special Edition: Mario’s 25th Anniversary!
4. Pokemon Black (DS)
5. Pokemon White (DS)
6. Tactics Ogre: The Wheel of Fortune with extras (PSP)
7. Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 (PS3)
8. Forza Motorsport 3 – Ultimate Edition (Xbox 360)
9. Wii Party (Wii)
10. Call of Duty: Black Ops – Import Version: North America and Asia (PS3)

Tactics Ogre: Unmei no Wa means The Wheel of Fortune and will be subtitled Let Us Cling Together in the West. It’s a popular fantasy turn-based strategy game by Square Enix, and that’s about as much as I can tell you about it. Have a look at the Japanese trailer.

Europe’s Top 10 Games:

1. Call of Duty: Black Ops (Xbox 360)
2. Call of Duty: Black Ops (PS3)
3. Just Dance 2 (Wii)
4. Professor Layton and the Lost Future (Nintendo DS)
5. Wii Party with White Remote Controller (Wii)
6. Just Dance (Wii)
7. Football Manager 2011 (PC)
8. Wii Fit Plus with Balance Board (Wii)
9. FIFA 11 (Xbox 360)
10. FIFA 11 (PS3)

To recap the top games per system: Call of Duty: Black Ops debuts #1 on the Xbox 360, PS3 & PC charts. Just Dance 2 remains on top of the Wii chart. Mario Kart DS races to first place on the DS chart. God of War: Ghost of Sparta stands on top of the PSP chart. And lastly, Shadow of the Colossus makes a return on the PS2 chart.

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