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Japanese All-time Million Sellers list *updated* (DS million sellers reaches 19!)

Fresh from Yosou-Oh
There are six new entries.
Sorry I couldn't line it up perfectly...
*The Pokemon title pairs have been combined.
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NO.SYS.	TITLE.					PUB.		SHIP.
1 GB	Pocket Monster Red/Green			Nintendo		8.22
2 GB	Pocket Monster Silver/Gold			Nintendo		7.19
3 FC	Super Mario Brothers + Disk System ver.	Nintendo		6.81
4 GBA	Pocket Monsters Ruby/Sapphire		Poke-Nintendo	5.34
5 NDS	Pocket Monsters Diamond/Pearl		Poke-Nintendo	5.17
6 NDS	New Super Mario Brothers			Nintendo		4.46
7 NDS	More Brain Training			Nintendo		4.30
8 GB	Tetris					Nintendo		4.24
9 NDS	Hit The Animal Forest			Nintendo		4.21
10 GB	Super Mario Land				Nintendo		4.19
11 PS	Dragon Quest VII - warriors of eden		Enix		4.14
12 PS	Final Fantasy VII				Square		4.00
13 FC	Super Mario Brothers 3			Nintendo		3.84
14 SFC	Super Mario Kart				Nintendo		3.82
15 FC	Dragon Quest III - into the legend...		Enix		3.77
16 PS	Final Fantasy VIII				Square		3.64
17 PS2	Dragon Quest VIII - journey of the cursed king 	Square-Enix	3.63
18 SFC	Super Mario World				Nintendo		3.55
19 NDS	Brain Training				Nintendo		3.45
20 SFC	Dragon Quest VI - dream world		Enix		3.19
21 GB	Pocket Monster Pikachu			Nintendo		3.16
22 PS2	Final Fantasy X				Square		3.07
23 FC	Dragon Quest IV - lead the people		Enix		3.04
24 SFC	Super Donkey Kong			Nintendo		3.00
25 SFC	Street Fighter II				Capcom		2.90
26 GBA	Pocket Monster Fire Red/Leaf Green		Poke-Nintendo	2.90
27 PS	Final Fantasy IX				Square		2.80
28 SFC	Dragon Quest V - bride of heaven		Enix		2.79
29 GB	Super Mario Land 2 - six golden coins		Nintendo		2.70
30 FDS	Super Mario Brothers 2			Nintendo		2.65
31 SFC	Final Fantasy VI				Square		2.55
32 PS	Gran Turismo				SCE		2.55
33 GB	YuGiOh Duel Monsters IV (Three Decks)	Konami		2.50
34 FC	Golf					Nintendo		2.46
35 SFC	Final Fantasy V				Square		2.45
36 FC	Dragon Quest II - the evil pantheon spirit	Enix		2.41
37 PS2	Final Fantasy X-2				Square-Enix	2.41
38 FC	Baseball					Nintendo		2.35
39 GB	Dragon Quest Monsters - terry's wonderland	Enix		2.35
40 PS2	Final Fantasy XII				Square-Enix	2.33
41 NDS	Mario Kart DS				Nintendo		2.27
42 N64	Mario Kart 64				Nintendo		2.24
43 SFC	Super Donkey Kong 2 - dixie & diddy		Nintendo		2.21
44 FC	Mahjong					Nintendo		2.13
45 PS	Everybody's GOLF				SCE		2.13
46 SFC	Super Mario Collection			Nintendo		2.12
47 GB	Pocket Monster Crystal			Nintendo		2.12
48 SFC	Street Fighter II Turbo			Capcom		2.10
49 GB	Doctor Mario				Nintendo		2.08
50 FC	Pro Baseball Family Stadium		Namco		2.05
51 SFC	Chrono Trigger				Square		2.03
52 PS	Bio Hazard 2				Capcom		2.03
53 GB	Pocket Monster Blue			Nintendo		2.01
54 PS	Derby Stallion				ASCII		2.00
55 FDS	Volleyball				Nintendo		1.98
56 N64	Nintendo All-Stars! Big Ruckus Smash Brothers	Nintendo		1.97
57 NDS	Brain Training ~ English			Nintendo		1.95
58 N64	Super Mario 64				Nintendo		1.92
59 GBA	Pocket Monster Emerald			Poke-Nintendo	1.91
60 PS2	Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec			SCE		1.89
61 FC	Tetris					BPS		1.81
62 SFC	Super Mario - Yoshi Island			Nintendo		1.77
63 SFC	Super Donkey Kong 3 - krem's puzzle island	Nintendo		1.77
64 GB	Kirby Star				Nintendo		1.72
65 PS	Gran Turismo 2				SCE		1.71
66 SFC	Super Puyo Puyo				Banpresto	1.70
67 SS	Virtua Fighter 2				Sega		1.70
68 FDS	Legend of Zelda				Nintendo		1.69
69 NDS	Nintendogs - dalmatian, dachshund, chiwawa	Nintendo		1.66
70 PS2	Dragon Quest V - bride of heaven		Square-Enix	1.65
71 FC	Mario Brothers				Nintendo		1.63
72 FDS	Link's Adventure				Nintendo		1.61
73 GB	Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Monsters			Konami		1.61
74 GB	Super Mario Land 3 - Wario Land		Nintendo		1.59
75 FC	Moero! ProBaseball			Jaleco		1.58
76 FC	Excitebike				Nintendo		1.57
77 GB	Dragon Quest Monsters 2 - ruka's / iru's journey	Enix		1.57
78 FC	Tennis					Nintendo		1.56
79 FC	Soccer					Nintendo		1.53
80 FC	Doctor Mario				Nintendo		1.53
81 FC	F1 Race					Nintendo		1.52
82 GB	Kirby Star 2				Nintendo		1.51
83 FC	Ninja Hatori 君 忍者は修行でござるの巻	Hudson		1.50
84 FC	Dragon Quest				Enix		1.50
85 SFC	Seiken Densetsu 2				Square		1.50
86 PS	Everybody's GOLF2			SCE		1.49
87 PS	Parappa The Rapper			SCE		1.48
88 SFC	Super Mario RPG				Nintendo		1.47
89 NDS	Gentle Brain Training			Nintendo		1.47
90 N64	Legend of Zelda - ocarina of time		Nintendo		1.46
New NDS	Common Sense Brain Training for Adults	Nintendo		1.46
92 FC	4 Player Mahjong				Nintendo		1.45
93 SFC	Dragon Ball Z - hyper transmission		Bandai		1.45
94 GB	Game of Discovery!! Tamagotchi		Bandai		1.45
95 GB	Game of Discovery!! Tamagotchi 2		Bandai		1.45
96 PS	Crash Bandicoot 3 - flying! The worldwide lap	SCE		1.45
97 PS	Bio Hazard 3 LAST ESCAPE		Capcom		1.45
98 GC	Big Ruckus Smash Brothers DX		Nintendo		1.44
99 SFC	Final Fantasy IV				Square		1.43
New Wii	Wii Sports				Nintendo		1.43
101 FC	Spartan X				Nintendo		1.42
102 FDS	Pro Wrestling				Nintendo		1.42
103 PS2	Everybody's GOLF4			SCE		1.42
104 FC	Final Fantasy III				Square		1.40
105 PS	Tekken 3					Namco		1.40
106 GB	Pokemon Card GB				Nintendo		1.39
107 PS2	Everybody's GOLF3			SCE		1.39
108 PS	Final Fantasy Tactics			Square		1.38
109 PS	Tekken 2					Namco		1.37
110 N64	Pokemon Stadium				Nintendo		1.37
111 SFC	Super Famicom Dragon Quest III - into the legend... Enix		1.36
112 PS	Crash Bandicoot 2 - counterattack of cortex	SCE		1.33
New NDS	Dragon Quest Monsters - Joker		Square-Enix	1.33
114 FC	Pro Baseball Family Stadium '87 Edition	Namco		1.30
115 SFC	Romancing SaGa 3			Square		1.30
116 PS2	Kingdom Hearts				Square		1.30
117 SFC	Super Street Fighter II			Capcom		1.29
118 GB	Yakuman					Nintendo		1.28
119 FC	Xevious					Namco		1.27
120 PS	Dance Dance Revolution			Konami		1.27
121 GBA	Famicom Mini - Super Mario Brothers		Nintendo		1.27
122 FC	Gegege no Kitaru - youkai daimakyou		Bandai		1.25
123 FC	Dragon Ball - mystery of shenlong		Bandai		1.25
124 PS2	Shin SanGoku Musou 3			Koei		1.24
125 PS	Dragon Quest IV - lead the people		Square		1.21
New Wii	Wii Play					Nintendo		1.21
127 SFC	Dragon Ball Z - hyper transmission 2		Bandai		1.20
128 SFC	Derby Stallion III				ASCII		1.20
129 SFC	Romancing SaGa 2			Square		1.17
130 PS2	Shin SanGoku Musou 2			Koei		1.17
131 SFC	Legend of Zelda - gods of the triforce		Nintendo		1.16
132 PS2	World Soccer winning ELEVEN 6		Konami		1.16
133 NDS	Sawaru Made in Wario			Nintendo		1.16
New PSP	Monster Hunter Portable 2nd			Capcom		1.16
135 FC	Doraemon				Hudson		1.15
136 SFC	Dragon Quest I.II				Enix		1.15
137 PS	Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon		Square		1.14
138 N64	Pokemon Stadium Gold/Silver		Nintendo		1.14
139 PS2	World Soccer winning ELEVEN 7		Konami		1.13
140 PS2	Kingdom Hearts II				Square-Enix	1.13
141 GB	Kirby's Pinball				Nintendo		1.12
142 PS	XI [sai]					SCE		1.12
143 PS2	World Soccer winning ELEVEN 8		Konami		1.12
144 NDS	Tamagotchi's petite petite show		Bandai		1.12
145 NDS	Tetris DS					Nintendo		1.12
146 NDS	Foppish Witch - Love & Berry DS Collection	Sega		1.12
147 PS	Arc The Lad				SCE		1.11
148 PS	Bio Hazard				Capcom		1.11
149 FC	Load Runner				Hudson		1.10
150 FC	Famicom Jump - hero biography		Bandai		1.10
151 GB	makaitoushi Sa.Ga				Square		1.10
152 SFC	Derby Stallion '96				ASCII		1.10
153 SFC	Kirby Star Super Deluxe			Nintendo		1.10
154 GB	Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Monsters II 闇界決闘記	Konami		1.10
155 PS	Derby Stallion '99				ASCII		1.10
156 N64	Donkey Kong 64				Nintendo		1.10
157 N64	Mario Tennis 64				Nintendo		1.10
158 PS2	Onimusha				Capcom		1.10
159 PS2	Onimusha 2				Capcom		1.10
160 FDS	Palutena's Mirror				Nintendo		1.09
161 FC	Pro Baseball Family Stadium '88 Edition	Namco		1.09
162 PS2	Gran Turismo 4				SCE		1.09
163 GB	Super Donkey Kong GB			Nintendo		1.08
164 PS	Beat Mania				Konami		1.07
165 N64	Mario Party 2				Nintendo		1.07
166 N64	Kirby Star 64				Nintendo		1.07
167 PS2	SenGoku Musou				Koei		1.07
168 PS	SaGa Frontier				Square		1.06
169 PS	Parasite Eve				Square		1.06
170 NDS	Super Mario 64 DS				Nintendo		1.06
171 PS2	World Soccer winning ELEVEN 10		Konami		1.06
New NDS	Kirby Star - joining the dorochie squad		Nintendo		1.06
173 FC	Takahashi Expert's Adventure Island		Hudson		1.05
174 FC	Kinmeat Muscle Tag Match			Bandai		1.05
175 PS	Arc The Lad 2				SCE		1.05
176 FDS	Metroid					Nintendo		1.04
177 PS	Densha de GO!				Taito		1.02
178 GB	Pokemon Pinball				Nintendo		1.02
179 PST	Doko demo Issho				SCE		1.02
180 PS	I.Q. Intelligence Cube			SCE		1.01
181 PS	SIMPLE1500 Series Vol.1 THE Mahjong	D3 Publisher	1.00
182 GBA	Mario Kart Advance			Nintendo		1.00
183 PS2	Encounter The Pachisuro winning technique! Fist of The North Star	1.00
184 PS2	Shin SanGoku Musou 4			Koei		1.00
185 PS2	World Soccer winning ELEVEN 9		Konami		1.00
186 NDS	Final Fantasy III				Square-Enix	1.00?
 

Ether_Snake

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Alfarif

This picture? uhh I can explain really!
So basically what you're telling me with this is that Nintendo sales millions of copies of games no matter what the market situation is at any given time? Because I'm pretty much just seeing Nintendo on that list wiht some SquareEnix thrown in for good measure. Seriously.

Oh, and Pokemon is just a fad.
 

Alfarif

This picture? uhh I can explain really!
What's crazy about this chart is that, just by glancing at it, you can tell the "strength" of various franchises that various companies make. I can see why Capcom loves the 360 now. They really are a big fish in a small pond, whereas on a Nintendo/SquareEnix domintated system, they don't do anything, comparatively speaking. Absolutely amazing.
 
Million Sellers by System:
1. FC - 32+7 (Disk System)
2 .PSX - 31+1 (Pocket Station)
3. SFC - 29
4. GB/GBC - 27*
5. PS2 - 23
6. NDS - 19
7. N64 - 10
8. GBA - 7*
9. Wii - 2
10. SS - 1
11. GC - 1
12. PSP - 1

*Pokemon title pairs counted separately

The DS has done extremely well (surprise!) in catching up with the GB>GBP>GBC 12 year history of SW million sellers in less than 3 years!
 

AntMurda

Member
1) Could you fix up some of the engrish titles? It's a nice list.
2) Where is FF3: DS at? I thought it was near the 1 mill mark.
 

Alfarif

This picture? uhh I can explain really!
AntMurda said:
1) Could you fix up some of the engrish titles? It's a nice list.
2) Where is FF3: DS at? I thought it was near the 1 mill mark.

At the bottom.
 
Looking at the sales of FF games, they peaked at VII and have shrunk 25-40% since its release, with FF XII being the worst-selling game in the series since the dawn of the Playstation era...should we expect FFXIII to reverse this trend?
 

zojoz

Banned
Joe Molotov said:
Yeah, that just came out of nowhere!


The previous versions of animal crossing (N64 and GC)are nowhere to be found on that list. While animal crossing for the DS in the top 10 of all time?!

i guess animal crossing, like te pokemon series, was meant to be on a portable.
 

Datschge

Member
Sho_Nuff82 said:
Looking at the sales of FF games, they peaked at VII and have shrunk 25-40% since its release, with FF XII being the worst-selling game in the series since the dawn of the Playstation era...should we expect FFXIII to reverse this trend?
If you combine all FFXIII games like is being done with Pokemon... maybe?
 

Alfarif

This picture? uhh I can explain really!
I think that really depends on the price of the PS3 at the time FF13 launches and the installed base. It might get another 300-400k out of the Japanese + whatever % of PS3 owners will buy FF13 anyway but I don't think it'll reverse the trend. I think the problem is oversaturation. I've heard it say that Final Fantasy doesn't really feel as "special" anymore, especially with so many spin offs. I haven't played Final Fantasy since IX myself so I can't comment on the newer ones but the spin offs do seem a bit distracting. They might be what's eating into the intial series sales.
 
Sho_Nuff82 said:
Looking at the sales of FF games, they peaked at VII and have shrunk 25-40% since its release, with FF XII being the worst-selling game in the series since the dawn of the Playstation era...should we expect FFXIII to reverse this trend?

Declining sales of the series on an even worse selling console. No, probably not.
 

disc

Banned
chibcicylist said:
Declining sales of the series on an even worse selling console. No, probably not.

There's an interesting trend with sequels. The first iteration on a new console will sell more than the last iteration (usually) and the last iteration will sell the least copies. With the PS3 the interest should be renewed but depending on when they release it they will be limited by the market.
 

Eteric Rice

Member
disc said:
Cheap console/handheld + Cheap games = Lots of sales.

But the DS games aren't cheap right?

In quality? Not usually, unless it's a game from some third party no one knows about. But in price, sure. They're affordable to me.
 

milanbaros

Member?
FF VII sold 4m and FFX sold 3.07m. I don't see that trend changing much. I predict 2-2.5m total for FFXIII.

When's the game set for release? Q1 next year? I hope Square Enix don't do an ET because the PS3 sales are really low atm.
 

ethelred

Member
If Hit the Animal Forest can sell 4 million, I can't wait to see what happens with the sequel, Shoot Bambi's Mom.
 

Mar

Member
It's amazing to see 4 NDS titles in the top 10. Already. That system is destroying the world at the moment.

How did a Sony system get in the Nintendo top 15 anyway?

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Square2005 said:
The DS has done extremely well (surprise!) in catching up with the GB>GBP>GBC 12 year history of SW million sellers in less than 3 years!

The way it's going, I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up at the top of the list in another 2.
 
I'm surprised to see F1 Race for Game Boy in there. I remember Samus and Link would be standing in the crowd when you won or something. So awesome.
 

Pewp

Member
Wait wait.....Crash Bandicoot sold well in Japan? I thought they had a tough time with it over there.
 
zojoz said:
The previous versions of animal crossing (N64 and GC)are nowhere to be found on that list. While animal crossing for the DS in the top 10 of all time?!

i guess animal crossing, like te pokemon series, was meant to be on a portable.
Yeah, a combination of Animal Crossing working well on portable and DS being much hotter in 2005 than N64 and GCN were in 2001.
 

cvxfreak

Member
JoshuaJSlone said:
Yeah, a combination of Animal Crossing working well on portable and DS being much hotter in 2005 than N64 and GCN were in 2001.

Didn't the GC versions actually exceed 1 Million when combined? (AF+, AFe+)
 

jj984jj

He's a pretty swell guy in my books anyway.
Pewp said:
Wait wait.....Crash Bandicoot sold well in Japan? I thought they had a tough time with it over there.
Must've been some really crappy source since they did some retooling and a ton of marketing and it took off quite well. They have a popular Crash dance in Japan.
 
cvxfreak said:
Didn't the GC versions actually exceed 1 Million when combined? (AF+, AFe+)
That sounds a little high. Looking at some old Famitsu lists, it looks like the first GCN release hit nearly 500K while in the top 30 and two months after the release of e+ (when the archive of lists ends) it's not up to 220K.

The N64 release also passed 500K, though, so you might have the factoid of the initial N64+GCN releases summing to a million floating in your head.


EDIT:
Of course, I could be wrong.
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Android18a said:
This can't be right. Where's that Xbox game with the boobies?
Not everyone thinks boobies=a good game. Most games like that are pure garbage and only done to lure in retarded ass 14 year olds.
 

HolyCheck

I want a tag give me a tag
CrushDance said:
Not everyone thinks boobies=a good game. Most games like that are pure garbage and only done to lure in retarded ass 14 year olds.


YOU TAKE THAT BACK.

MONSTER.
 
CrushDance said:
Not everyone thinks boobies=a good game. Most games like that are pure garbage and only done to lure in retarded ass 14 year olds.

"Not everyone thinks boobies=a good game."
Uhh....BMX XXX says hello.

It's like people have been living under a rock or something. SRSLY.
 
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