Top 100 games sold in the last year

Posted Apr 10th 2008 4:00PM by David Hinkle
Filed under: News

Perhaps we're just cynics, but we're not at all surprised that this list of the 100 top-selling games in the U.S. and Europe isn't filled with more good games. We understand that not everyone has the tastes of the DS Fanboy staff (as much as we try to ram it down your throat), but some of these are just crazy.

Of course, some easy picks like Pokemon Diamond & Pearl and Brain Age 2 populate the list, but where is the love for some other great DS games? Phantom Hourglass at the 23rd spot? For shame. 1.2 million copies of High School Musical: Makin' the Cut sold and Drawn to Life only selling 820,000 copies? For shame.

In all, it's an interesting list that you should take a look at.

[Via Joystiq]

Tags: brainage2, europe, list, north-america, phantomhourglass, pokemon, sales, salesfigures, us

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

4-10-2008 @ 4:29PM

Sabi said...

Very shameful list, but it makes sense all those little girls buying Hannah Montana games and little boys buying TMNT games...
I was glad Call of Duty 4 was on top though.

4-10-2008 @ 5:08PM

Croove55 said...

At least the best game of 2007 (according to metacritic, don't flame me) got..... ninth. Well, that's not too bad, what did it lose to?

*looks at spot #6*
Oh.... oh dear GOD.

4-10-2008 @ 5:23PM

Mad Martin Kinderhook said...

Wow, that's A LOT of grade-schoolers, confused grandparents, soccer moms, and frat boys.

4-10-2008 @ 8:19PM

BlackDS said...

Good Job of misleading gamers by NOT counting sales in Japan, where the Xbox 360 is shunned.

If you count Japanese sales then Pokemon Diamond and Pearl wins with over 14 million copies sold (sales until December 2007 per Wikipedia [yes, I know it's Wikipedia]).

This crushes the top spot holder of Call of Duty 4's 8.3 million. Since Next Generation only counted U.S. & European sales, the Xbox 360 title won. If you count Japanese sales, the Xbox 360 titles will not increase hardly at all, but all other system's titles will increase significantly.

There are lies, damn lies, then there are ...

Peace.

4-10-2008 @ 8:49PM

Micah said...

Why isn't Smash Bros Brawl on that list? Hasn't it sold over a million and a half copies or something like that?

4-10-2008 @ 10:25PM

Erik said...

Micah: Top 100 games sold in the LAST YEAR!

LAST YEAR!

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