Nintendo (mostly) owned Japan in 2008

by Alisha Karabinus on Dec 31st 2008 12:06PM

While Nintendo couldn't boast the biggest-selling game in Japan in 2008 -- that honor went to Monster Hunter Portable -- but the company dominated ASCII Media Works' list of the top 30 games of the year. In fact, the entire rest of the top ten is split between DS and Wii titles, as does most of the rest of the list. A few PSP, PS3, and PS2 games pepper the top thirty, but they're the sparse, skinny trees in the grand forest of Nintendo. Wii Fit and Mario Kart Wii took the top spots for Nintendo (2 and 3, respectively), while the DS game Rhythm Tengoku Gold snagged the sixth slot, tops for the handheld. Perhaps the best news is that many of the non-Nintendo games have Nintendo versions coming out soon, so next year, the Wii and DS may be even more dominant.

At #30? New Super Mario Bros. Yes, still. For the full list, check after the break.

PSP Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (Capcom) - 2 507 400 / 2 507 400
DS Pokémon Platinum (Nintendo) - 2 125 348 / 2 125 348
Wii Wii Fit (Nintendo) - 2 024 113 / 2 889 790
Wii Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo) - 1 973 089 / 1 973 089
Wii Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Nintendo) - 1 808 709 / 1 808 709
DS Rhythm Heaven (Nintendo) - 1 320 047 / 1 320 047
DS Dragon Quest V (Square Enix) - 1 228 014 / 1 228 014
DS Kirby Super Star Ultra (Nintendo) - 724 608 / 724 608
Wii Animal Crossing : Let's Go to the City (Nintendo) - 709 640 / 709 640
Wii Wii Sports (Nintendo) - 694 765 / 3 180 278
PSP Phantasy Star Universe Portable (Sega) - 664 660 / 664 660
DS Pokémon Ranger : Nuit sur Almia (Nintendo) - 663 040 / 663 040
PS3 Metal Gear Solid 4 : Guns of the Patriots (Konami) - 654 648 / 654 648
DS Professor Layton 3 (Level 5) - 551 890 / 551 890
Wii Wii Play (Nintendo) - 539 825 / 2 638 954
PSP Dissidia : Final Fantasy (Square Enix) - 496 178 / 496 178
PS2 Super Robot Taisen Z (Banpresto) - 490 112 / 490 112
DS Mario Party DS (Nintendo) - 487 822 / 1 811 132
DS Calligraphy Training (Nintendo) - 467 490 / 467 490
DS Jam With The Band DX (Nintendo) - 450 711 / 450 711
DS Mario Kart DS (Nintendo) - 433 908 / 3 265 962
PS2 Warriors Orochi 2 (Koei) - 432 672 / 432 672
DS Wagamama Fashion (Nintendo) - 430 835 / 430 835
DS Chrono Trigger (Square Enix) - 425 625 / 425 625
DS Taiko no Tatsujin DS 2 (Bandai Namco) - 408 529 / 408 529
PSP Mobile Suit Gundam : Gundam Vs. Gundam (Bandai Namco) - 377 662 / 377 662
DS Mario & Sonic aux Jeux Olympiques (Nintendo) - 366 265 / 366 265
PSP Powerful Pro Baseball Portable 3 (Konami) - 334 445 / 334 445
PS2 Persona 4 (Atlus) - 314 418 / 314 418
DS New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo) - 310 796 / 5 085 112

[Via Nintendo Everything]

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Tags: japan, mario-kart, rhythm-tengoku, sales, wii-fit

Reader Comments (4)

I see Wii Fit and Mario Kart and #3 and #4 [Or maybe you were talking about 2 and 3 of all Nintendo games?]
And Pokemon Platinum is #1 DS game.

Am I missing something? Or maybe because my first language is not english, I didn't understand very well what you were talking about?

You're right.

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lol, psp game beat all the ds games there. haha!!!

yeah but look at how many PSP games made it on that list of 30 oh wait just 5 compared to 21 Nintendo games. We all know the DS prints money and the PSP wishes it did.

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