Japan snaps up 100,000,000 DS games


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."

  1. New Super Mario Bros. (5,174,163)
  2. Brain Age 2 (4,835,159)
  3. Animal Crossing Wild World (4,693,662)
  4. Brain Age (3,771,440)
  5. Mario Kart DS (3,042,753)
  6. Pokemon Diamond (3,005,505)
  7. Pokemon Pearl (2,490,564)
  8. English Training DS (2,216,322)
  9. Mario Party DS (1,706,506)
  10. 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

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