Japan snaps up 100,000,000 DS games

by Chris Greenhough { Apr 17th 2008 at 8:00PM }

In what is yet another statistical landmark for the DS in its homeland, the data gatherers at Media Create have revealed that Japanese consumers have purchased their 100,000,000th Nintendo DS game.* Considering the handheld itself hit the twenty million mark only last November, we calculate that to be ... a pretty good attachment rate! In total, 922 titles have appeared in the region, 21 of which have been million-sellers. Hit the break for the top ten best-selling games to date.

* Rumors that the 100,000,000th game sold was Bangai-O Spirits are yet to be verified, and are suspected to have originated at popular Nintendo DS blog "DS Fanboy."

New Super Mario Bros. (5,174,163)
Brain Age 2 (4,835,159)
Animal Crossing Wild World (4,693,662)
Brain Age (3,771,440)
Mario Kart DS (3,042,753)
Pokemon Diamond (3,005,505)
Pokemon Pearl (2,490,564)
English Training DS (2,216,322)
Mario Party DS (1,706,506)
Big Brain Academy (1,654,285)

Tags: animal-crossing, bangai-o, brain-age, business, english-training, japan, mario-kart, mario-party-ds, new-super-mario-bros, pokemon

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

hvnlysoldr @ Apr 17th 2008 8:41PM

(long drawn out whistle of astonishment)

Eleniel @ Apr 17th 2008 9:37PM

That 'shop never fails to make me laugh.

Paulmichael @ Apr 18th 2008 12:19AM

That's almost a game per person over there! How funny.

Dio @ Apr 18th 2008 4:47AM

I'm sure it's Duel Love or that witch-touching game. Yep.

Kreep @ Apr 18th 2008 8:53AM

I don't get how they manage this kind of consumerism over there. I mean, everybody has to purchase every console and at least 30 games, read 12 manga series constantly, buy dvds, watch movies, stay in front of the pc while using dokomo all the time everywhere...if they're not standing in line in order to buy yet even more stuff. It doesn't sum up. I truly love this country.