Saling The World: Professor Layton Outsells New Pokemon Title in U.S.

Gamasutra's weekly column, "Saling The World", covers the top five real-time Amazon.com sellers for every available platform in the United States, Japan, and Europe, providing an important update of sales patterns worldwide.

This week's charts, with data taken from March 26th, 2009, find Professor Layton and the Curious Village taking a surprise victory over Pokemon Platinum in its North American debut week, while Gundam: Senjou no Kizuna Portable and Rittai Picross lead multiplatform sales in Japan.

Data for "Saling The World" comes courtesy of the public sales information on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, and Amazon.co.jp, with sales split out for each platform and territory, and pre-orders disregarded. This results in a true sense of what games are selling worldwide on the real-time updated service, as follows:

Nintendo Wii
North America: 1. Wii Fit (Nintendo), 2. My Fitness Coach (Ubisoft), 3. Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo), 4. Wii Play (Nintendo), 5. Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga (LucasArts).

Japan: 1. Wii Fit (Nintendo), 2. Wii de Asobu: Pikmin 2 (Nintendo), 3. Suzumiya Haruhi no Heiretsu -- Chou SOS Danhiro Collection (Sega), 4. Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo), 5. Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu NEXT (Konami).

UK: 1. Wii Fit (Nintendo), 2. Wii Play (Nintendo), 3. My Fitness Coach (Ubisoft), 4. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Sega), 5. Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo).

Demand for Wii Fit and My Fitness Coach remains fever-pitched at Amazon, where both games finish this week as North America's two biggest-selling software titles across all platforms. Upcoming titles like Gold's Gym Cardio Workout and EA Sports Active also see a preorder sales boost in this week's results.

Japanese sales numbers find Wii de Asobu: Pikmin 2 trailing behind Wii Fit, as Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu NEXT falls to fifth place in its second week of release.

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