Pokémon Tops October Sales in Japan

By Adam Riley 09.11.2010 7

Pokémon Tops October Sales in Japan on Nintendo gaming news, videos and discussion

Famitsu magazine has revealed the top ten selling games for October in Japan and unsurprisingly it is the duo of Pokemon Black and White that top the list, with nearly 860,000 units sold, bringing its lifetime total to 4.3 million already. Taking the No.2 spot, though, is the Wii release of Super Mario Collection, a port of the SNES Mario collection that will be restocked until January 2011 as part of Mario's 25th Anniversary celebrations.

Check out the Top 10 below, courtesy of NeoGAF, dating from 27th September, 2010 to 31st October, 2010:

1.) Pokémon Black / White (NDS, The Pokémon Company) - 886,845 | 4,296,302
2.) Super Mario Collection: Special Pack (Wii, Nintendo) - 403,166 | NEW
3.) God Eater: Burst (PSP, Bandai Namco) - 267,178 | NEW
4.) World Soccer Winning Eleven 2011 (PS3, Konami) - 229,076 | NEW
5.) K-On! After School Live!! (PSP, Sega) - 219,393 | NEW
6.) Kingdom Hearts Re:coded (NDS, Square Enix) - 183,883 | NEW
7.) Kirby's Epic Yarn (Wii, Nintendo) - 173,107 | NEW
8.) Gekijouban Macross F: Itsuwarino Utahime (PS3, Bandai Namco) - 162,178 | NEW
9.) Wii Party (Wii, Nintendo) - 127,399 | 1,098,405
10.) Lord of Arcana (PSP, Square Enix) - 126,199 | NEW

Box art for Pokémon Black & White
Developer

Game Freak

Publisher

Nintendo

Genre

Turn Based RPG

Players

5

C3 Score

Rated $score out of 10  9/10

Reader Score

Rated $score out of 10  9/10 (54 Votes)

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Unsurprisingly, indeed.

Well deserved too Smilie

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Super Mario Collection: Special Pack (Wii, Nintendo) - 403,166 | NEW

Man I bet Sony/MS are jealous Nintendo can get away with shit like this Smilie

License to print money.

I can't wait till Black & White comes out over here. I wonder if it cam be the best selling Pokemon game ever.

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wendy (guest) 12.11.2010#5

Smilie

Damn... and it's not even outside of Japan yet. Remarkable.

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Do a Barrel Roll!<

I wonder if NoA is waiting as badly as the pokemon fans are, to get Black and White out over here. Smilie

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