Games Weather Report of Week 4, 2011

Games Weather Report Week 4
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. Just Dance 2 (Wii)
2. Call of Duty: Black Ops (Xbox 360)
3. Zumba Fitness (Wii)
4. Donkey Kong Country Returns (Wii)
5. Call of Duty: Black Ops (PS3)
6. Dance Central (Xbox 360 Kinect)
7. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii)
8. Gran Turismo 5 (PS3)
9. Red Dead Redemption (PS3)
10. Call of Duty: Black Ops (Wii)

Pretty much the same list as many previous weeks, just with more exercise games. Ubisoft strikes again with another casual game everyone and their family can enjoy. It’s no wonder Just Dance 2 keeps topping the charts. Here’s the commercial depicting a 100% realistic dance scenario for your livingroom.

Japan’s Top 10 Games:

1. Monster Hunter Portable 3rd (PSP)
2. The Last Story (Wii)
3. Valkyria Chronicles 3 (PSP)
4. Dragon Age: Origins (Xbox 360)
5. Studio Ghibli’s Second Land: The Jet-Black Mage (DS)
6. My Little Sister Can’t Possibly Be This Cute (PSP)
7. Dragon Age: Origins (PS3)
8. Gal Gun (Xbox 360)
9. Black Rockshooter: The Game – Limited Edition (PSP)
10. Donkey Kong Country Returns (Wii)

I guesstimate Capcom has sold, in Japan alone, over 4.1 million copies of Monster Hunter Portable 3rd on PSP at this time. Expect this to keep selling for a long long time, as it becomes apparent from this video the fans really get into the game! Still no word on a Western release date from Capcom.

Europe’s Top 10 Games:

1. FIFA 11 (PS3)
2. FIFA 11 (Xbox 360)
3. Art Academy: Learn Painting and Drawing Techniques with Step-by-Step Training (DS)
4. Just Dance 2 (Wii)
5. Just Dance (Wii)
6. Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood (Xbox 360)
7. LittleBigPlanet 2 (PS3)
8. Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood (PS3)
9. Dead Space 2 – Limited Edition (PS3)
10. LEGO Batman: The Videogame (Wii)

EA scores again with close to 9 million sales across every platform in existence. Soccer is “the most popular sport in the world” according to 3.5 billion fans, and so FIFA 11 is a force to be reckoned with!

To recap the top games per system: Just Dance 2 returns to star on the Wii chart. Call of Duty: Black Ops returns on the PS3 & Xbox 360 charts. DC Universe Online remains #1 on the PC chart. New Super Mario Bros. returns to first place on the DS chart. Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep stays on top of the PSP chart. And lastly, Kingdom Hearts II keeps returning on the PS2 chart.

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