Japan snaps up 100,000,000 DS games

Posted Apr 17th 2008 8:00PM by Chris Greenhough
Filed under: News, Sales

In what is yet another statistical landmark for the DS in its homeland, the data gatherers at Media Create have revealed that Japanese consumers have purchased their 100,000,000th Nintendo DS game.* Considering the handheld itself hit the twenty million mark only last November, we calculate that to be ... a pretty good attachment rate! In total, 922 titles have appeared in the region, 21 of which have been million-sellers. Hit the break for the top ten best-selling games to date.

* Rumors that the 100,000,000th game sold was Bangai-O Spirits are yet to be verified, and are suspected to have originated at popular Nintendo DS blog "DS Fanboy."

New Super Mario Bros. (5,174,163)
Brain Age 2 (4,835,159)
Animal Crossing Wild World (4,693,662)
Brain Age (3,771,440)
Mario Kart DS (3,042,753)
Pokemon Diamond (3,005,505)
Pokemon Pearl (2,490,564)
English Training DS (2,216,322)
Mario Party DS (1,706,506)
Big Brain Academy (1,654,285)

Tags: animal-crossing, bangai-o, brain-age, business, english-training, japan, mario-kart, mario-party-ds, new-super-mario-bros, pokemon

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

4-17-2008 @ 8:41PM

hvnlysoldr said...

(long drawn out whistle of astonishment)

4-17-2008 @ 9:37PM

Eleniel said...

That 'shop never fails to make me laugh.

4-18-2008 @ 12:19AM

Paulmichael said...

That's almost a game per person over there! How funny.

4-18-2008 @ 4:47AM

Dio said...

I'm sure it's Duel Love or that witch-touching game. Yep.

4-18-2008 @ 8:53AM

Kreep said...

I don't get how they manage this kind of consumerism over there. I mean, everybody has to purchase every console and at least 30 games, read 12 manga series constantly, buy dvds, watch movies, stay in front of the pc while using dokomo all the time everywhere...if they're not standing in line in order to buy yet even more stuff. It doesn't sum up. I truly love this country.

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