What Are Amazon Japan’s Best-Selling Games Of The Decade?

Ishaan Sahdev

Published: Nov 5, 2010 12:31 pm

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To celebrate their ten-year anniversary, Amazon Japan have compiled a list of their best-selling games for the past decade, from October 1st, 2001 through June 30th, 2010. Here’s what it looks like:

Rank	Title	System	Year
01.	Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies	DS	2009
02.	Final Fantasy XIII	PS3	2009
03.	New Super Mario Bros. Wii	Wii	2009
04.	Wii Fit (w/ Balance Board)	Wii	2007
05.	Tomodachi Collection	DS	2006
06.	Monster Hunter Freedom Unite (Portable 2nd G)	PSP	2008
07.	Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King	PS2	2004
08.	New Super Mario Bros.	DS	2006
09.	Animal Crossing: Wild World	DS	2005
10.	Final Fantasy XII	PS2	2006

Food for thought:

Note that this doesn’t necessarily equate to the best-selling games in Japan. For instance, there isn’t a single Pokémon title on the list.

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Ishaan Sahdev

Ishaan specializes in game design/sales analysis. He's the former managing editor of Siliconera and wrote the book "The Legend of Zelda - A Complete Development History". He also used to moonlight as a professional manga editor. These days, his day job has nothing to do with games, but the two inform each other nonetheless.