Amazon.co.jp has revealed its top selling games of 2009 (minus Final Fantasy XIII), and the result seems to confirm the expected carve up of the market between RPGs and casual games, and the PS3/PSP and Wii/DS…
1. Dragon Quest IX (DS)
2. Tomodachi Collection (DS)
3. Monster Hunter 3 (Wii)
4. Tales of Vesperia (PS3)
5. Hatsune Miku: Project Diva (PSP)
6. Wii Sports Resort (Wii)
7. Wii Fit Plus (Wii)
8. Biohazard 5 (PS3)
9. Ryu ga Gotoku 3 (PS3)
10. Dissidia Final Fantasy (PSP)
A certain Microsoft platform seems painfully absent from the ranking…
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Yay Miku!
miku`s project DIVA should be released for the west we like vocaloid too :p
Miku ftw~
so happy miku made it onto the list :3
can't wait for the next one :D
Agree with you on this one Ichiro.
Wii Fit Plus... gee, even games for women fit in the top charts O.o
(P.S. If you're a man and you play Wii Fit Plus, all your arguments about why you are not gay are invalid from now on.)
Monster Hunter!!!!!
Holy shit, a Darkrockslizer post with a negative rating! Where's my camera?
Use print screen please...
Aww you're making me feel special. :3
How does playing "fun" games make you gay? It's like the "guilty pleasure games".
I've never played wii fit, but I actually never thought that it would be gay to play.. I don't know if it's a western mentality that makes you think like that.. idk...
The thing about eastern men is they think they have some special ability to identify western women on teh internets.
But I'm a man. >:D
Then how dou yo know ã�¤ã��ã�ã��ã�¤ã�� is really eastern men
awesome monster hunter!
Surprisingly, Wii games claimed 3 top 10 positions despite low sales.
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/10/05/ps3-slim-sales-crush-wii-dsi/
Im just glad project diva is among them ^^
the thing about western women is they think they have some special ability to tell if a mans gay, but in reality they have less relationship sense than a rock.
I dunno man. A rock stays quiet. That's pretty high on the charts for me.
Of course the sandwiches are still an issue. Never heard of a rock making one.
He's probably some high schooler who thinks that "gay" is some kind of insult.
Like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syWJlRHpXZY
Skip to 2:01 and it's totally just like what you said drunkspidreman...
about some of the women who thinks they have some special ability to tell if a man's gay...
Bullshit, the point of Wii Fit is to get your body moving and get you thinking about how many hours you spend with your ass on the couch, not to mention that some of the minigames are pretty damn fun.
Caring about your health (self-image issues aside) is certainly not only for women and gays.
a real man wears pantsu while taking down a drug cartel with only his bare fists!
@ anon 05:41
Then what is a manly man like you doing chatting in an anime culture-related forum instead of spending hours sitting on your ass in a bar?
[_] ~(=v =). ~*
A real man doesn't sit in a bar, but does some sport -.-
you mean a real man wears pantsu while taking OVER a drug cartel.....real men don't participate in the BS "war on drugs".
Petty games...
Only women and gay people need games like Wii Fit to let them understand they spend hours with there ass on the couch. Real men spends hours sitting on there asses in a bar where they can not be bothered with such pitty games.
I laughed.
Perhaps I meant to say that Wii Fit is moreso a fun way to get your body moving, rather than an enlightening experience.
WOOO MONSTER HUNTER 3 YEAAA baby!!
good work yakuza and RE
Because Japan sales are everything!!!
>Implying sales in xenophobic japan are an indicator of a consoles global success
It is on a site thats focused on Japanese happenings.
Gud thing DQ is on the top. I really liked DQ series and IX made gaming even better.
Hmm...dissidia got 10th. And miku got 5th. Besides those and possibly tales of vesperia, I'm not really interested in the rest.
Wii Sports Resort FTW!
poor Re5...
Japanese sales...lawl
Happy for Miku and Resident Evil being on there.
Blaze Blue is a really good game. Very underrated though by consumers
/cheers for miku!! she should be number 1!!
Not a surprising result in Japan.
Modern warfare 2 should be there.
While it is a vastly superior title to half of those in the list, it was a big step down from the first one on many aspects.
Uhm... No
Dude... save for perhaps Monster Hunter and Biohazard, Japanese folk have shittier taste than I thought.
Hey, no Dream Club C?
Why is it called Biohazard 5? Does Japan not like the Evil part? lol
fuck ds games and wii games.graphic too poor,games just for kids.too boring.although my little brother get boring playing ds
Xit box games sucks...
lol, ther's nothing of xbox360
Japan, xenophobic... M$, American company... obvious why it isn't on the list.
Royally depressing that the Wii is still selling.
Top 3 on Nintendo consoles. 'Nuff said.
Amazon.co.JP list I lol.
Awesome, as long as Monster Hunter 3's on the list, I'm happy! Monster Hunter WHOOOAAYEAH
MW2 ia buggy as hell. all i here about is how the turrets ruin the game on the hard difficulty levels because theres no way to deal with them.
PROTIP: If you shoot the gunner, the turret stops firing
Thank god they finally patched the javelin glitch, that shit was fucking annoying.
That was on the xbox right? Never saw it on the PS version. Haven't seen any other glitches either. A big step up from world at war, where you could get under any map, go through any wall, and walk in the sky. That shit was hardcore. Killing the fucking cheaters made you a man.
Way to go, Project DIVA! The Vocaloid gang's come a long way from being the face(s) of a Yamaha program.
Yeah, I was surprised to see it on there, but it's actually a pretty good game.
...also the only one on that list that I have, lol
lol... Project Diva making into top 10 before BioHazard 5 is a shock >_>
>Implying Modern Warfare 2 isn't the best game ever
Implying? Who wants to play soldiers anymore? I'd take any of that list before MW2, and the thought of playing the RPGs makes me cringe.
Of course not. I'll admit I'm still playing it nearly every day, struggling to get my KD ratio to 1.80 again, but I honestly like World at War better. Had zombies, big ass maps, tanks, puppies, and the Russian story line was epic. Now it's all about camping and silencers. When I try to go Rambo some dude is lying in a window with a silencer. Goddamn silencers up the ass. Then the guys that run around with double shotguns and knives. Well I guess that's pretty cool if they can pull it off.
Anyway, anyone want to add me on PSN, my username is the PS name. BlackEpsilon
TL;DR version: It's not.
Well yeah it was more of a letdown more than anything else.
Hmmm, haven't heard of Tomodachi Collection.
I'm curious too.
What is this, and how did it get so high?
MH 3 should be on number 1, seriously!
just what is you wii japan users doing!!!!????
just asking, DS console sale vs wii console sale, who's winning?
DS
and DQIX seems to be beating MH in that whole local network play stuff
Oh well its Amazon.co.jp. They sell anything and everything
Other casual gamers might be on the PC games side
miku is boring after awhile though. only otaku put up with it which means i'm not otaku enough
As an avid fan of rhythm games, I kind of have to agree. There's replayability to a point, but after you can do over 90% of the songs on the hardest difficulty with relative ease, it's just kind of a struggle to do the last few.
Not to mention having to replay the entire songlist six times to unlock the swimsuit costumes...
Who cares if Xbox games doesn't sell in Japan. It's hard to appeal to these guys anyway.
too bad Biohazard 5 wasn't that good :\
it definitely wasn't as horror as the first ones, at least..
Stop whining, the showdown with Wesker was EPIC
and it wasn't suppose to be designed as horror anyway
more like action horror, or towards to gears of war genre
what i'm dissappointed about RE 5 is only their enemy design, and no unlimited ammo ranking limit
either the designer being lazy, or they just ran out of idea, all RE5 enemy design was already made from previous series
irving -> leviathan, DMC3
wesker -> how hard can it be?
reaper -> drain deimos, RE3
ndesu -> la gigante
bui kichwa was cool tho
and fucking unlimited ammo really ruin the decency of this game... i hate unlimited ammo partners...
its already easy even if you play without it, and unlimited ammo just ruin it
wow no xbox lol and everyone who owns an xbox boasts about how there games are better and now look.
You're an idiot. Don't you get the irony here?
It's all import games for consoles nobody would by games for at gamestop. It also goes to show how badly a certain demographic prefers to stay inside and have their games sent to them rather than go out and buy it from a real store.
none of these are import games. This list is from amazon.co.JP (note the last two letters).
And of course there are no xbox games on the list seeing that the 360 has sold rather poorly over there.
There is a difference between sales and quality. JSRF would like to have a word with you.
yeah, there is a correlation, all of these games aren't crap
There is also a correlation between sales and quality, though.
I´ve seen awesome games in the top of the charts and I've not seen some of the most boring games ever released in the charts.
So... what are the point again?
I've seen awesome games that almost no one knows and I've seen some of the most boring games ever released top the charts. What correlation do you speak of?
Guess you can't expect anything less from a Japanese website to have nothing but Japanese games on that list.
MIRCOSOFT HAS NO HANDHELD
What kind of game is monster hunter 3? From the screenshots it looks a little bit like a dmc-like game...
a game at epic ownage of multiplayer
by far the best MMORPG ever created
if you say it look like DMC, yeh it kinda look alike, but MUCH more slower & harder to master
basically, you fight a monster with size about 100x times to 10000x than you, without magic attack, 10 m high jump & all epic ownage action that is impossible for human
all we can do is roll, sidestep, attack with our preset attack, and all of those attack are somehow very very human possible, tho we still able to breath on water for 8 minutes without any effort whatsoever
this is also the 4th game of capcom where you can actually fight enemy in water, but in much more epic proportion from previous 3
I want it now. You should advertise for them.
apparently, i don't own a wii, yet, or maybe never
i borrowed my sis in law wii to played it
i'll wait when capcom "betrayed" their exclusivity, or bring their series on PS3
i got x360, but here in indonesia? microsoft going to fuck my ass with diamond dildo coated with corrosive acid
i'm all for paying service to PS3 if there;s any
or i;ll wait for update of MH3 (all MH series will have update after 6 or 12 month, i'll wait)
Detroit metal city?
Devil May Cry;-)
Nice List. Especially Monster Hunter 3 being in the top 3.
No Modern Warfare 2. That's.... good
I agree, hyped game
Japan only, thats some bullshit right there.
Call of Duty would destroy all these games.
More like "Top 10 casual Games of 2009"
Where the fuck is Modern Warfare 2? That games easily tops every game on this list. I would think even a country with as bad video game taste as Japan would appreciate CoD:MW2.
Yeah dissidia on list!
Minus Final Fantasy XIII?
Why? Because it's so far in the lead or something?
I'm honestly curious.
Because it just missed the list?