What were the top 10 best-selling games in America, Japan, and Europe this week? Thanks to Amazon online sales data here are the games that are the hottest.
Thanks to last-minute Christmas shoppers the bestsellers may indicate what gift you’ll find under your Christmas tree! 🙂
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. Just Dance 3 (Wii)
2. Kinect Sports: Season Two (Xbox 360 Kinect)
3. Dance Central 2 (Xbox 360 Kinect)
4. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Xbox 360)
5. Kinect Disneyland Adventures (Xbox 360 Kinect)
6. Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Xbox 360)
7. Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary (Xbox 360)
8. Kinect Sports (Xbox 360 Kinect)
9. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (PS3)
10. Star Wars: The Old Republic (PC)
Did you know Just Dance 3 has 8.4 million players? Ubisoft has made quite a splash with the series that’s now gone multiplatform, although the favorite version is still on Wii.
Here’s the launch trailer for the game.
Japan’s Top 10 Games:
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1. Mario Kart 7 (3DS)
2. Super Mario 3D Land (3DS)
3. Musou Orochi 2 – Limited Edition (PS3)
4. Monster Hunter 3G (3DS)
5. Final Fantasy XIII-2 (PS3)
6. Just Dance Wii (Wii)
7. Kirby of the Stars Wii (Wii)
8. The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword – Special CD Limited Edition Bundle (Wii)
9. Rhythm Heaven for Everyone (Wii)
10. Mobile Suit Gundam: EXTREME VS. (PS3)
In Japan, neither Final Fantasy XIII-2’s 524,000 debut week nor PlayStation Vita’s 321,407 launch week, made a dent in the Nintendo-ruled charts. The only portable Sony games that came close to showing up were “Everybody’s Golf 6” and “Uncharted: The Beginning of an Adventure Without a Map”.
Nintendo brings the Mario racing series to the 3DS handheld with Mario Kart 7. Nintendo EAD who developed the game, previously made Mario Kart DS & Mario Kart Wii. And it shows in this cross between all previous six Mario Kart games.
Here are the game’s Japanese TV commercials.
Europe’s Top 10 Games:
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1. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (PS3)
2. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Xbox 360)
3. Just Dance 3 – Special Edition (Wii)
4. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Xbox 360)
5. FIFA 12 (PS3)
6. FIFA 12 (Xbox 360)
7. Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games (Wii)
8. Saints Row The Third (Xbox 360)
9. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (PC)
10. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (PS3)
Activision may have pulled off the biggest media launch ever with 9 million copies of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 sold worldwide in its first 3 weeks in America alone. Crazy as it sounds, that may mean that in the coming year it’s set to have more than 25+ million worldwide sales!
Here’s Modern Warfare 3’s TV commercial.
To recap the top games per system:
- Just Dance 3’s stardom stays #1 on the Wii chart.
- Kinect Sports: Season Two ranks highest on the Xbox 360 chart
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 stays at the top of the PS3 chart.
- Star Wars: The Old Republic is now at the top of the PC chart.
- Mario Kart 7 finishes on 1st place on the 3DS chart.
- New Super Mario Bros. DS shows up on the DS chart.
- The Sims 3 Pets remains at the top of the Mac chart.
- Everybody’s Golf 6 does well on the PS Vita chart.
- Need for Speed: Most Wanted returns at the top spot of the PSP chart.
- And lastly, Kingdom Hearts appears on the PS2 chart, where it’s been for 9 years now.
Sales data collected from Amazon’s US, JPN (PC) & UK / DE / FR websites.