Famitsu Reveals Japan's Best Selling Games Of The 21st Century

"with nine of the top ten games being for Nintendo platforms — seven of which are for the Nintendo DS system."

Holy smokes.

Nintendomination

Sales don't equal good games but in most of these case's it Actually does. The day Nintendo and Sony stop selling games in the west is the day I move to Japan for good.

doooooooooooooooooooomed

@Emblem Sony pretty much is a Western company. All their devs are Western. PS4 is to be released later in Japan than the US/UK (Even their financial results are not listed in yen) .

Looking at the whole list, I'm surprised NSMB 2 sold slightly more than MK7, despite NSMB 2 coming out a bit later, and MK7 being a racer. I always thought MK games were more popular than other Mario games in Japan, apart from NSMB, which I'm not surprised at all, no matter what part of the world, 'cause that game was a true reboot of the Super Mario Bros. series.

Diamond and Pearl were very good.

There's hardly any Playstation games on that list that aren't made by Square-Enix. That makes me... happy. c:

They deserve it imho.

They deserve it imho.

It's not too surprising considering Microsoft are going to be virtual absent in terms of sales compared to Sony and Nintendo, so it was always a two horse race company wise.

Hmmm as brilliant as this news is, its this unstoppable nature in japan that makes nintendo do very silly and questionable things in the west. Things like lack of marketing and not releasing things in certain territories until months or years later.
So yes, this is great news, but il be much happier when results like this are happening worldwide,not just in its biased and handheld obssessed home!

Man, I should just move to Japan already.

With 22 oft he top 25 games since 2001 being played on their system, maybe everyone will finally realize that despite a small bump Nintendo has plenty in cash reserves.

@cookiex if you actually look at the entire list. Nintendo practically owns the entire list.

no EA, UBI, Activison and no XBX, no 360 in the top 100 - like the good old 90s

Go Pokemon!

Nintendo utterly dominates that list.

sarcasm I don't know ppls, I still think Nintendo is in alot of trouble, durrrrrrr lol

I'm sorry, but this proves right here that those so called "experts" out there are absolutely clueless Nintendo will always be on top, because they remember that video games should be fun and accessible to everyone to play!

Some of the Later games - like Monster Hunter 4 don't include downloads. . . . . I think it should include downloads - a sale is a sale and a Download is a more solid sale as it shows commitment to your console!

Xbox just isn't for Japan.

Well, it's good to see Pokemon games blowing up in not just
Japan but also in the west. I think it's a franchise that deserves to sell.

This is not a shocker, Nintendo could win Japan with their handhelds alone. While the home console market is dicey, handhelds are king overthere. This means in general, Nintendo will sell their games very well over there since their handhelds are their strongest market, and the only serious compeitior over there is Sony who is struggling to get their newest handheld to sell.

Plus the market over there is less diverse than in the west. Microsoft is nowhere to be seen, Sony's strongest markets are in the west, and I'm not even sure tablets and smartphones have taken over like they have over here.

This results in a wide open market for Nintendo to dominate.

But I'm curious, where would Nintendo stand on a US sales chart? Would they dominate the US as much as they do in Japan.

Worse case scenario for nintendo if wii u doesn't do well:
they stick to making handheld games only (for their own systems) not phones.

simple as that. company never going down in flames.

I really am hoping for a revival of the Pokemon series in the west. Granted it's never done bad per se but I'd definitely like if it did just as well here as it does in Japan. It's just the best. :c

@luckybreak They could do what they are doing now for 10 years with not real damage to their cash reserves. They just need another hit at some point for it to be worth carrying on.

"New Super Mario Claims Top Spot"

Boooh!!

@unrandomsam you got that right. Sony got a taste for that dudebro market and they are chasing it exclusively. It's almost like Japan is an after thought to Sony...... That's ok, I prefer Japanese games over everything else (I'm still playing the snot out of SMT IV everyday), so Nintendo can feel free to dominate Japan all they want, cause the Japanese focus of their games is gaming bliss.

@6ch6ris6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXU8w336oGs

I want to pretend that I didn't see this coming. But, I'm quite happy that Everybody's Favorite Plumber (that's my own nickname for Mario ) is still the champion of Nintendo and he won't let some prissy little monsters take it from him. Plus, Japan really knows the real concept of video games, focusing more on general gameplay instead of on graphics and sound like a lot of American games do.

Mario owns Japan!

Congratulations to Famitsu for getting the definition of the "21st Century" correct. Now if only people would realize that despite the naming theme the same rule should also apply to decades. For example, the 2000's decade should be 2001 to 2010, otherwise you're splitting the decade between centuries and including 1 B.C. with 1-9 A.D.