What were the top 10 bestselling games in America, Japan, and Europe? Thanks to Amazon online sales data here are the games that are the hottest worldwide.
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. Your Shape Fitness Evolved 2012 (Xbox 360 Kinect)
2. NCAA Football 13 (PS3)
3. NCAA Football 13 (Xbox 360)
4. Just Dance 3 (Wii)
5. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Xbox 360)
6. LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes (Wii)
7. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (PS3)
8. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii)
9. LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7 (Xbox 360)
10. Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Xbox 360)
Ubisoft’s Your Shape Fitness Evolved 2012 workout game is doing well for itself this week. It’s already managed to stay in the charts for half a year so far.
Here’s the TV commercial.
Japan’s Top 10 Games:
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1. Digimon World Re:Digitize (PSP)
2. Kirby Special Collection 20th Anniversary (Wii)
3. Pokemon Black 2 (DS)
4. Pokemon White 2 (DS)
5. Live Powerful Pro Baseball 2012 (PS3)
6. Run For Money: Flee From the Strongest Hunters in History! (3DS)
7. Assassin’s Creed I + II – Welcome Pack (PS3)
8. Rune Factory 4 – First print includes: Special Headphones and Drama CD To Listen To As You Go To Sleep (3DS)
9. Pocket Soccer League: Calcio Bit (3DS)
10. Taiko Drum Master: The Little Dragon and the Mysterious Orb (3DS)
This week Namco Bandai Games released the newest digital pet-RPG in the Digimon series in Japan, exclusively made for the PSP, it’s titled “Digimon World Re:Digitize” which is named to be a call back to the first Digimon World game. Gameplay revolves around the 14-year-old lead who gets transported to the digital world of Digimon. There he can raise Digimon to grow from In-Training, Rookie, Champion, Ultimate, to Mega.
Here’s the Japanese TV commercial.
For a poster of the main characters in Digimon World Re:Digitize, click the thumbnail here:
Europe’s Top 10 Games:
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1. Halo: Combat Evolved – Anniversary (Xbox 360)
2. Batman: Arkham City (Xbox 360)
3. Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games (Wii)
4. Lego Batman 2 – Limited Lex Luthor Toy Edition (Xbox 360)
5. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Xbox 360)
6. Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance (3DS)
7. London 2012: The Official Video Game of the Olympic Games – Ltd Edition Steelbook, gift with purchase (Xbox 360)
8. Lego Batman 2 – Limited Lex Luthor Toy Edition (Wii)
9. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Xbox 360)
10. The Sims 3 (PC/Mac)
Last year’s Halo: Combat Evolved – Anniversary edition is a HD remake of the first Halo game exclusively for Xbox 360 with optional Kinect motion & voice controls and brand new online co-op added. — In the lead-up to this year’s Halo 4 release, fans are getting nostalgic and newcomers can’t resist the heavily discounted game at only £9/€10!
Here’s the Halo Anniversary launch trailer.
To recap the top games per system:
- Digimon World Re:Digitize makes an astonishing debut on #1 in Japan on the PSP chart.
- Your Shape Fitness Evolved 2012 returns on the Xbox 360 chart for the summer.
- NCAA Football 13 remains high on the PS3 chart.
- Just Dance 3 comes in first on the Wii chart.
- New Super Mario Bros. returns to #1 on the DS chart.
- Diablo III stays on top of the PC & Mac charts.
- Super Mario 3D Land returns on 1st place on the 3DS chart.
- Mortal Kombat fights to the top of the PS Vita chart.
- And lastly, Kingdom Hearts II stays popular after 6 years in the PS2 chart’s Top 100!
Sales data collected from Amazon’s US, JPN (PC) & UK / DE / FR websites.