Top 10 in Sales - DS - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 03 September 2012 / 9,420 Views
Welcome to the ‘Top 10’ weekly feature. Each week we will be taking a look at the top 10 selling games in a particular genre, platform, most recent month, even sprinkling in the top 10 selling games from a past year. All sales specified will be worldwide, unless stated otherwise.
This week we will be looking at the top 10 bestselling games on the DS. Last week we looked at the top 10 bestselling games on the PlayStation 3 and the week before that the top 10 selling games in July 2012. If there is a particular top 10 you want to see leave a comment and it may be featured in a future top 10.
Looking at the top 10 bestselling DS games, all 10 games are first party. One game was released in 2004, five games in 2005, two in 2006, one in 2009, and one in 2010. Three of the games feature Mario has a playable character three are for the Pokémon franchise, two for the Brain Age franchise, and one each for the Nintendogs and Animal Crossing franchises.
The top 10 bestselling DS games sold a combined 175.21 million games. Nine of the top 10 games sold 10 or more million units. Also the top three games sold 20 million or more units.
The three Pokémon games sold a combined 43.66 million units. This is also 24.9 percent of the total games sold in the top 10. The two Brain Age games sold a combined 35.19 million units. This is also 20.1 percent of the total games sold in the top 10.
Taking a look at the top 10 bestselling DS games a graph it really shows how popular Mario is as a brand name. The three Mario games sold a combined 60.15 million units. This is also 34.3 percent of the total games sold in the top 10.
As a quick note the top 16 games sold five million or more units and the top 55 sold two million or more units. 127 games sold one million or more units and 266 games sold 500,000 or more units.
First party games, have sold more than 300 million units for the DS. The top 15 games sold five million or more units and the top 40 sold two million or more units. 54 games sold one million or more units, while 82 sold 500,000 or more units.
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I had no idea that Nintendogs/Brain age were that popular, are those really the games that Nintendo won over the casual market with?
they effectively opened up a whole new market with brain age, making the DS a tool to deal with Alzheimer's disease and other motor neuron diseases which effect the elderly. I would never refer to the brain age games as a casual market game simply because of how many lives it mad so much better. As for nintendogs, remember that isn't just a single game, there are about 5 different variations of the game featuring all different breeds of dogs, Vgchartz just records them as one game and many fans of it would have purchased all 5 copies just for the breeds.
Everytime i look at Pokemon sales it keeps wowing me every single time. Even after so many games, the franchise sells like there`s no tomorrow. Amazing!
it's because there is always a new generation of kids growing into the pokemon age and while I myself grew apart from the series it's great to see a new generation loving it :)
Man. DS and Wii are so unbelievably epic when game sales are concerned, I don't there will ever be another generation with this high game sales for individual games. I mean, the top ten sold over 175(!) million units, and most of them on that list are still selling. Selling quite good after all these years even. The Wii is even better, even if Wii Sports wouldn't be counted!
well, Wii sports on the list is just basically a count of how many Wii systems have sold, but agreed Nintendo have done pretty amazingly for themselves this gen especially considering all the doom and gloom talks around the launch of something different.
You have an error at the end of the article, you started talking about the ps3 when it must have been the DS, the part about first party sellers
