New Super Mario Bros. on top in Japan

By Robert Purchese Published 8 January, 2010

Final Fantasy XIII sales up to 1.8m.

Square Enix's PS3-exclusive Final Fantasy XIII continued to do big business in Japan as the Far East led the way into 2010.

The JRPG finished fourth on Media Create's software chart for the week ending 3rd January, boosting its lifetime sales by 111,705 up to 1.8 million units - over a third of the local installed base for the console itself.

New Super Mario Bros. Wii topped the chart, selling 268,212 copies and taking its its lifetime total up to 2.7m units.

The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks is third, with this week's 126,303 sales down 50 per cent, behind Tomodachi Collection.

Wii Fit Plus (5), Pokemon Heart Gold/Soul Silver (6), Inazuma Eleven 2 (7), Wii Sports Resort (8), Phantasy Star Portable (9) and Professor Layton and the Devil's Flute round out the top 10.

Nintendo's consoles dominated hardware sales, as the three DS SKUs amassed a meaty 180,492 sales and Wii chased hard with 163,855 units sold.

PS3 shifted an impressive 114,369 units, while PSP topped that figure with 136,814 sales, but the PSPgo continued to struggle, contributing just 3903 to the total.

Miles behind was Xbox 360, which sold 6878 units.

Sales data courtesy of Media Create, helpfully translated and correlated on NeoGAF.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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  • Burkey123 #1 2 years ago

    Impressive numbers by PS3 but in fairness, it is complete Nintendo domination. 8 of the top 10 are on Nintendo systems and also the best hardware figures.

  • RobTheBuilder #2 2 years ago

    I'm very glad to see NSMBW do so well, thoroughly enjoying it. Much more so than the DS version.

  • swissorc #3 2 years ago

    rock on ninty

  • robson_wii #4 2 years ago

    Impressive. Most impressive. Enjoying NSMBWii at the moment! Another quality title for the Wii... Can we have more please this year? ;-)

  • Boomerang #5 2 years ago

    Mario Galaxy 2 is on the way this year :) ~

    /drool

  • robson_wii #6 2 years ago

    Mama Mia! Letsa go!! SMG was awesome. I hope SMG 2 is as good or better. Early vids seem promising.

  • Boomerang #7 2 years ago

    And it's got Yoshi in it!! The part of the trailer where Mario is zooming through space on his little green back put a huge smile on my face.

    Me and the gf just got all 120 stars on Galaxy, so we're chomping at the bit for #2!

  • GreyBeard #8 2 years ago

    Phenomenal performance by Nintendo, I just wish there was more substance and advancement in their software offerings to justify their level of success. Not to say that their games aren't really good, I just wish they weren't so conservative in their approach.

  • chukcyQ #9 2 years ago

    I'm on top of Bayonetta. And currently going in...

  • markymark22 #10 2 years ago

    Impressive ps3 sales! I think we'll see this for the rest of this gen, ps3 on top in japan and 360 on top in america. Makes complete sense i suppose.

  • secombe #11 2 years ago

    Having just started NSMW Wii, I'm completely in love with it. Takes me back to a simpler time, but in a good way.

  • Diomedes #12 2 years ago

    What are you smoking messiah?November 2008 the 360 outsold the PS3 2-1 but that was some 400k units more or less not 1.2 millions.This november even with the MW2 pack and the banning of 1 million 360 that drove many users to buy another it has outsold the PS3 by 100K ,yes the same the PS3 outsells the 360 in Japan in a single week right now.

  • NotSoSlim #13 2 years ago

    Messiah get your facts right!!

    Pulling random figures out of thin air again...100k difference as stated so in fact PS3 outsold 360 worldwide in November!!

    Your a joke mate :o)

  • Stuz359 #14 2 years ago

    Greybeard

    The weird thing is though, you say Nintendo are conservative in their approach, and I tend to agree with you. But on the other hand, Nintendo games feel fresh because they offer something different to 'identikit FPS no 247' on the 360. I'm not saying there are not good games on the 360 and PS3, but alot of them end up feeling samey as they use the same conventions that have been laid down over the years.

    The point is, that these days, Nintendo games are the only ones that actually make me smile, they are just plain fun which can't be said for a lot of games this generation.

  • smelly #15 2 years ago

    NSMBWii is what ALL games should be... Fun, challenging, and entertaining.. and above all.. A GAME!

    Lets ditch these dull plots and convoluted story lines which keep people playing games which wouldnt hold together without them and have more PURE gaming please... It seems to me like gaming has taken a step backwards recently..

    If you took a lot of modern popular games and removed their stories.. would the actual GAME itself still be fun? In a lot of cases (and i wont mention names for fear of upsetting people) the answer is no...