What are the top 10 bestselling video games in America, Japan, and Europe? 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:
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1. Call of Duty: Black Ops II (Xbox 360)
2. Call of Duty: Black Ops II (PS3)
3. Halo 4 (Xbox 360)
4. Just Dance 4 (Wii)
5. Assassin’s Creed III (Xbox 360)
6. Call of Duty: Black Ops II – Hardened Edition (Xbox 360)
7. Assassin’s Creed III (PS3)
8. Madden NFL 13 (Xbox 360)
9. FIFA Soccer 13 (PS3)
10. NBA 2K13 (Xbox 360)
Activision’s 100-million-selling blockbuster Call of Duty series debuts high on the charts worldwide with Call of Duty: Black Ops II on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. It’s one of the biggest entertainment launches of the year, right alongside last week’s Halo 4, which stands firm at the #3 spot this week. It’s safe to say the first-person shooters still reign supreme and are set to entertain 10’s of millions in 2012!
Take a look at the official Call of Duty: Black Ops II live-action “Surprise” launch trailer directed by Guy Ritchie.
Japan’s Top 10 Games:
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1. Animal Crossing: New Leaf (3DS)
2. Assassin’s Creed III (PS3)
3. Call of Duty: Black Ops II – Import Version: North America (PS3)
4. Bravely Default: Flying Fairy (3DS)
5. Assassin’s Creed III: Lady Liberty (PS Vita)
6. Tales of Xillia 2 – Special Edition including 2 Cels, Original Short Story & Product Code (PS3)
7. New Super Mario Bros. 2 (3DS)
8. Okami HD: Superb Edition (PS3 Move)
9. Assassin’s Creed I + II – Welcome Pack (PS3)
10. Summon Night 4 (PSP)
Last week Nintendo sold 721,786 copies of the Nintendo 3DS-exclusive life-simulation game “Animal Crossing: New Leaf” in Japan, where it’s titled “Animal Forest: Jump Out”. It’s developed by the same creators as the previous DS & Wii versions. Making full use of the 3DS’ abilities, the game features much more customization around town on: your house’s walls & furniture, other people’s houses if you become town mayor, and even down to your character’s shirt, hat & accessories can all be changed at will. Oh and you can now swim in the ocean too!
Here are the relaxing new Japanese Animal Crossing: New Leaf TV commercials.
Note: The Animal Crossing 3DS release caused the 3DS (with 187,077 units) to outsell the PS Vita (with 4,021 units) by a margin of 47-to-1 in Japan!!
Europe’s Top 10 Games:
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1. Call of Duty: Black Ops II (Xbox 360)
2. Call of Duty: Black Ops II (PS3)
3. Halo 4 (Xbox 360)
4. Just Dance 4: Special Edition (Wii)
5. Assassin’s Creed 3 (Xbox 360)
6. Assassin’s Creed 3 (PS3)
7. FIFA 13 (Xbox 360)
8. FIFA 13 (PS3)
9. Football Manager 2013 (PC)
10. New Super Mario Bros: 2 (3DS)
Microsoft’s 46-million-selling blockbuster Halo series stays high on the charts worldwide with Halo 4 on Xbox 360.
Take a look at the official Halo 4 live-action “Scanned” launch trailer produced by David Fincher.
To recap the top games per system:
- Call of Duty: Black Ops II is the global #1 in its debut week on the Xbox 360 & PS3 charts.
- Just Dance 4 dances to 1st place on the Wii chart.
- New Super Mario Bros. 2 jumps on the 3DS chart at numero uno.
- Pokemon Black & White Version 2 catch a shiny #1 on the DS chart.
- The Sims 3 Seasons debuts on the PC & Mac charts.
- Call of Duty: Black Ops – Declassified debuts 1st in the PS Vita chart.
- 2005’s Need for Speed Most Wanted is still on the PSP chart.
- And lastly, Kingdom Hearts stays popular after 10 years in the PS2 chart’s Top 100!
- Wii U comes to the USA late this week on Sunday, but its games didn’t yet chart high enough to rank. Probably next week. They included mainly multiplatform titles like Call of Duty: Black Ops II, Scribblenauts Unlimited, Assassin’s Creed III & Just Dance 4
Sales data collected from Amazon’s US, JPN (PC) & UK / DE / FR websites.