Top 10 Best-Selling Nintendo 3DS Games in 2015 - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 March 2016 / 55,859 Views
Today we take a look at the top 10 best-selling games for yet another platform. Last week we looked at the top 10 best-selling Wii U games in 2015 and before that the Xbox One games in 2015 and PlayStation 4. This week it's the turn of Nintendo's 8th generation handheld, the Nintendo 3DS.
The 3DS in 2015 sold 7.70 million units, a 21 percent decrease year-over-year, to bring its lifetime sales to 57.80 million units. 46.06 million games were sold at retail on the 3DS in 2015 and has now sold 225.23 million games lifetime.
The 3DS proved most successful in the US, but also sold a similar amount in Europe and Japan. It sold 2.45 million units in the US, 2.33 units in Europe, and 2.16 units in Japan.
10 games for the console in 2015 managed to sell over one million units and five games sold more than two million units. Below we've compiled a list of the 10 best-selling 3DS games:
10th. Tomodachi Life - 1.00 Million
9th. Animal Crossing: New Leaf - 1.12 Million
8th. Mario Kart 7 - 1.22 Million
7th. Monster Hunter 4G - 1.33 Million
6th. Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS - 1.58 Million
5th. Yo-Kai Watch Busters Red Cat Team / White Dog Squad - 2.14 Million
4th. The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D - 2.18 Million
3rd. Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire - 2.38 Million
2nd. Monster Hunter X - 2.54 Million
1st. Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer - 2.63 Million
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A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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2015 kinda sucked for 3DS imo...
Ya it lacked any truly big hitters outside of Japan. Some remaster/ports (Majora's Mask/Xenoblade 3D) along with a handful of spinoffs (Happy Home Designer/Triforce Heroes/Super Mystery Dungeon). Other than that some niche localizations & small budget releases.
AC Home Designer is first? Huh, I thought Monster Hunter X would win. Great legs for every game.
Well MHX was only available in Japan.
yeah i'm truly amazed!
Not very impressive numbers.
Hope we see the PS4 top ten next.
Already done.
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Next week is PS Vita?
What's the deal with this site always using the same MH3U box art for other games in the series? :)
I'm really interested in seeing what kind of holiday bundles they are gonna have. Like a New 3ds Pokemon Sun/Moon bundle.
digital sales count on this?
Stop spamming a videogame site with stuff like this.
