Top 5 Best Selling Games of 2009
Top Global Markets releases the top five best selling games of last year.
It's awards season and between the Grammys, the Oscars and the Golden Globes, both cinema and music are well represented. But what about our favorite form of entertainment? Don't video games get a nod this time of year? Of course they do! See the Spike TV VGA's here. But what about in terms of commercial success? Top Global Markets has released a list of the top five games of 2009.
It might not be an awards ceremony but it does offer a little recognition for the best selling titles of the year. Nintendo wiped the floor this year with games for the company's Wii console taking four of the titles. Hardly surprising when you consider the Wii is so wildly popular with the casual gaming market.
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - 11.86 million units (8.82M US / 2.8M UK / 237.5K JP)
- Wii Sports Resort - - 7.57 million units
(4.54M US / 1.49M UK / 1.54M JP) - New Super Mario Bros. Wii - 7.41 million units
(4.23M US / 687.3K UK / 2.49M JP) - Wii Fit - - 5.80 million units
(3.53M US / 968.3K UK / 1.3M JP) - Wii Fit Plus - 5.44 million units
(3.6M US / 1.25M UK / 588.3K JP)
MCV reports that the most recent Top Global Markets most recent report (compiled by NPD, GfK Chart-Track and Enterbrain) shows that combined video game software unit sales across the world’s three largest games markets experienced a decline of 8 percent last year.
Japan suffered a 2 percent decline in software units (5 percent in console software and a 1 percent in portable game software), while the United States saw a 7 percent decline in software units, with a console and portable software decline of 7 and 8 percent. The UK was hit the hardest with a 14 percent decline and 6 percent and 25 percent in console and portable software.
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Jane you should've added the amount of money that each one of those games made, besides their actual units sold. Let's face it we are shallow people: WE LOVE MONEYYYY!!!!
Nintendo must be pleased with these results. 4/5 of the top games are Wii, impressive...
Would have been nice to see some of the more graphically awesome game in the list.
11.86 million? wow, that's really impressive.
11.86 million? wow, that's really impressive.
Yeeep. Activision Blizzard's Financials go crazy with the release of a Call of Duty, that and the Guitar Hero Series has made them Billions!
Wow, Wii Fit AND Wii Fit plus? Eh, go Nintendo!
Amazing... CoD MW2 #1. I'm sure all the whiners/haters will chime in soon about this.
11.86 million is really impressive for a game that "everybody" was going to boycott because of DRM
last 4 are gay
Wii Fit isn't a game. I wish they would put an asterik and include 2 more games to that list.
What's not mentioned is the turn around time that a Nintendo product like Wii is either returned or sold to someone else because it's a disappointment.
wii sux. played wee (i mean wii) like games when i was 8.
That 11.86 million is pretty impressive but pales in comparison to the combined Nintendo sales of 26.22 million. And of course the obligatory morons commenting and saying "Wii Fit isn't even a game." Those same morons continue to make sure we are all aware of their opinion that the Nintendo Wii is a crappy console.
What I find interesting is the difference in sales between the US and Japan for MW2. The other titles are about 2:1 to 6:1 but MW2 is like 35:1. (population ratio is about 5:2)
I'm just surprised that MW2 sold 237K units in Japan..
And lets keep in mind that its 11.86 million in just 2 months.
I feel embarrassed to be a gamer.
11.86 million with atleast 4 million hackers lol
MW2 wasn't boycotted because of its DRM, it was because the PC version is just a lazily and poorly done Xbox port. They didn't even bother to include dedicated servers and instead resorted to P2P - a technology that has been out of date in the PC gaming world since the early 90s - because that's what the Xbox uses.
I would also like to point out that of the 5 games listed here, MW2 was the only game to be released on multiple platforms. I would be shocked if even 10% of MW2's sales were on the PC.
yeah...they should do a split on different platforms...then we could see if everyone's boycott worked
If MW2 was just a "poor and lazy" port, then hopefully more developers will follow that same "poor and lazy" way of porting, rofl.
11.8M, amazing. Add pirated to that and the Wii titles combined bite the dust.
Cheers!
I get the feeling the picture would be different if steam, xblive and ps store scores were counted.
I'm just surprised that MW2 sold 237K units in Japan..
I'm not surprised at all. People in Japan simply don't like the video game philosophy of the US. To prove that point, Japan relegates U.S. into a corner and labels them (almost like a dunce cap) American, or U.S. games.
I'm surprised to see Mario doing so well. He's been around for a long long time.
I'm not surprised at all. People in Japan simply don't like the video game philosophy of the US. To prove that point, Japan relegates U.S. into a corner and labels them (almost like a dunce cap) American, or U.S. games.
It's ingrained in their culture really. You can call it racism or nationalism but their culture has always been xenophobic. It's more shocking when outside culture hits mainstream over there. It's weird how they'll take to some things while others just doesn't translate. Kinda like Germans and David Hasselhoff. Nobody can explain it.
They're stubborn though the same thing could be said for americans as well. Just shows how human we all are.
Wii fit.. didn't make exercise any easier or fun did it
suckers
It's ingrained in their culture really. You can call it racism or nationalism but their culture has always been xenophobic. It's more shocking when outside culture hits mainstream over there. It's weird how they'll take to some things while others just doesn't translate. Kinda like Germans and David Hasselhoff. Nobody can explain it.They're stubborn though the same thing could be said for americans as well. Just shows how human we all are.
Totally agree.
I wonder who wins if you counted piracy as well.
11.86 million is really impressive for a game that "everybody" was going to boycott because of DRM
actually people were going to boycott it because it was shit.
I was going to buy it day one, but I just couldn't stand the arrogance of the company for what was a pretty bob standard iteration in the series. then it dawned on me that, with MP lamed, I was not going to pay full price for 5 hours of gameplay, gameplay that I had already experienced in the first one, with the same graphics ect. so what? there are new set pieces? and 'story' ?
I'll buy it when it gets cheap.
People didn't boycott it because it was bad, they boycotted it because they heard it was bad. It got a bad reputation from people who hadn't played it, just as Vista got a bad reputation from people who didn't use it. I myself have not played it either, but I'm not going to say it's bad because someone else doesn't like it.
Haven't played COD yet myself. I don't agree with DRM but not really deliberately boycotting it. Just haven't gotten around to it. Life seems just a bit more important atm.
My opinion of CoD MW2 is that its not as good as the first one but on its own its a pretty good game (really lacks in the replay value part, but that could be because I played the hell out of the first one)
anyway next years sales numbers will be dominated by Wii games of some sort or another. The system is still out selling the PS3 and 360 combined on a month to month basis. This will continue on until PS4 and the 720 and the WiiII/Super Wii come out, then its anyones guess as to who will sell more crap.