What Were 2010’s Top Ten Best-Sellers In The U.S.?

Ishaan Sahdev

Published: Jan 13, 2011 07:04 pm

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The list of the top ten best-selling games in 2010 in the U.S. offers little in the way of surprises, given that every item on the list is part of one explosively popular franchise or another, but here it is anyway for the curious:

Rank	Title	System	Publisher
01.	Call of Duty: Black Ops	PS3, 360, PC, Wii DS	Activision Blizzard
02.	Madden NFL 11	PS3, 360, Wii, PSP, PS2	Electronic Arts
03.	Halo: Reach	360	Microsoft
04.	New Super Mario Bros. Wii	Wii	Nintendo
05.	Red Dead Redemption	PS3, 360	Take Two
06.	Wii Fit Plus	Wii	Nintendo
07.	Just Dance 2	Wii	Ubisoft
08.	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2	PS3, 360, PC	Activision Blizzard
09.	Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood	PS3, 360	Ubisoft
10.	NBA 2K11	PS3, 360, Wii, PSP, PS2	Take Two

Total consumer spend on physical game-related content in the U.S., which includes portable, console and PC game software, generated revenues of $10.1 billion, a 5% decline over the $10.6 billion generated in 2009, according to the NPD Group.

However, 2010 also saw increased spending on on used games, full-game digital downloads and downloadable content, mobile gaming apps, and social network gaming.

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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.