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Japan's Best-Selling Games Of 2011
Games retail tracker Media Create published the best-selling games in Japan for 2011.
The data comes from Japanese website 4gamer and was translated by Andriasang. Below are the top 10 games. The full top 30 can be seen through the link below.
- Mario Kart 7 (Nintendo): 1,160,169
- Super Mario 3D Land (Nintendo): 1,080,192
- Monster Hunter 3G (Capcom): 985,498
- Final Fantasy Type-0 (Square Enix): 746,203
- Final Fantasy XIII-2 (Square Enix): 704,236
- Monster Hunter Portable 3rd (Capcom): 682,651 (4,532,557)
- Rhythm Heaven: 654,403
- Tales of Xillia (Namco Bandai): 627,346
- Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 2 Professional (Square Enix): 602,664
- Wii Sports Resort Wiimote Plus Pack (Nintendo):
Here are the total hardware sales for 2011 in bold with life-to-date numbers in parentheses.
- Nintendo 3DS - 4,282,143 (LTD 4,282,143)
- Sony PSP - 2,063,609 (LTD 8,553,397)
- Sony PlayStation 3 - 1,548,895 (LTD 7,636,386)
- Nintendo Wii - 883,586 (LTD 12,163,221)
- Sony PlayStation Vita - 439,986 (LTD 439,986)
- Nintendo DSi LL - 346,736 (LTD 2,294,319)
- Nintendo DSi - 290,326 (LTD 5,834,051)
- Microsoft Xbox 360 - 115,548 (LTD 1,536,045)
- Sony PlayStation 2 - 78,015 (LTD 21,774,107)
- Nintendo DS Lite - 20,724 (LTD 24,680,117)
- Sony PSP Go - 15,563 (LTD 175,986)
[Source: Andriasang]
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