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Famitsu report: 2008's Top 100 console game sales in Japan

January 21, 2009 in Industry News comments 17

Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu has released its report on the top 100 console game sales for last year. Funnily, the Xbox 360 is nowhere to be found...

Below are the top 10; rest are at the source.

01. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (Capcom) 2,452,111
02. [NDS] Pokemon Platinum (Pokemon) 2,187,337
03. [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo) 2,149,131 / 2,967,297
04. [WII] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo) 2,003,315
05. [WII] Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Nintendo) 1,747,113
06. [NDS] Rhythm Heaven (Nintendo) 1,350,671
07. [NDS] Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride (Square Enix) 1,176,082
08. [WII] Animal Crossing: City Folk (Nintendo) 895,302
09. [NDS] Kirby Super Star Ultra (Nintendo) 855,427
10. [WII] Wii Sports (Nintendo) 841,736 / 3,306,470
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  • 1
    Storm Jan 21, 09
    Guess the sales from Tales of Vesperia and Infinite Undiscovery didn't cut it. I bet Star Ocean will pick things up over there, though.
  • 0
    FinalFantasyFanaticc Jan 22, 09
    Wow, it just wasn't obvious the NDS and Wii would be dominating that list, the PS3 would be somewere in the top 20 and the 360 would be trailing somewere in the 70s - 100s.
  • 1
    Akira_EX Jan 22, 09
    For further information, this is how it splits up:
    DS 47
    Wii 15
    PSP 15
    PS3 10
    PS2 12
    360 1

    2008 Software Sales:
    NDS | 28,260,498
    PSP | 9,745,758
    Wii | 13,802,220
    PS3 | 5,155,082
    PS2 | 7,111,971
    360 | 1,770,034
    Other | 210,100
  • 0
    Seeker X Jan 22, 09
    What makes Monster Hunter: Freedom THAT good? Are there THAT many people in public with PSP's? *bleep* I wouldn't mind that here.
    • 0
      Xeros the Slayer Jan 25, 09
      Have you ever played Monster Hunter? Amazingly fun games that have hundreds of hours of gameplay easy.

      Portable 2nd G sold 800,000 copies in its first week, its no surprise its #1 right now. Monster Hunter 3 on the Wii will probably replace it soon enough though.
      • 0
        GrEyCrEsT Mar 20, 09
        quote Xeros_the_Slayer
        Portable 2nd G sold 800,000 copies in its first week, its no surprise its #1 right now. Monster Hunter 3 on the Wii will probably replace it soon enough though.


        • i agree with that
    • 0
      GrEyCrEsT Mar 20, 09
      quote Seeker X
      What makes Monster Hunter: Freedom THAT good? Are there THAT many people in public with PSP's? *bleep* I wouldn't mind that here.


      • dude you need to try that
  • 0
    Pyrazor Jan 22, 09
    Well Japan has much less space than we do so it's a much more mobile society, it's why the PSP and DS dominate so heavily there.
    • 0
      Slumpy monkey Jan 22, 09
      Japan is bigger than the UK.
      • 1
        chautemoc Jan 22, 09
        Maybe but I believe the population is much larger. That's why they all sleep in drawers.
  • 0
    Nagare Jan 22, 09
    good thing they combined the pogemanz otherwise about 10% of that list would be gone.
  • 0
    Jagermax Jan 22, 09
    I am pretty suprised about the 360 sales being so bad. I guess it's an American product, and the rest are Japanese maybe?
    • 0
      HisServant77 Jan 22, 09
      Kinda . . . they just really don't like the 360 that much over there.

      Almost like how the media doesn't like anything Sony related over here in the US, and people feel the need to pass off the Wii as a kids toy.
    • 0
      Nagare Jan 23, 09
      not to mention that the Japanese majority prefers RPGs over FPS games which is the focal of the 360.
      • 0
        Slumpy monkey Jan 23, 09
        Well considering that the PS3's main game is Killzone 2 and MGS was last year, and with all this RPG love Square has been giving MS all this time. But the PS3 still dominates the 360 there, so its not games, its something else.
  • 0
    Disillusioned Jan 22, 09
    To me that list makes sense xD
    Except for some of the games that I've never heard of.
    • 0
      Nagare Jan 23, 09
      The second part of your comment is because it is in Japan and they have so many games we will never hear of

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