Saling The World: Wii Fit Rocks, L4D, Fallout 3 Top Japanese Charts

Gamasutra's weekly column, "Saling The World", covers the top five 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 January 22nd, 2009, see Wii Fit dominating worldwide Wii charts, as Fallout 3 tops PS3 software sales in Japan and Left 4 Dead leads Japanese results on the Xbox 360 and PC platforms. 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. Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo), 3. Wii Play (Nintendo), 4. Active Life: Outdoor Challenge (Namco Bandai), 5. Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga (LucasArts). Japan: 1. Taiko no Tatsujin Wii (Namco), 2. Wii Fit (Nintendo), 3. Fragile: Sayonara Tsuki no Haikyo (Namco), 4. Wii de Asobu: Mario Tennis GC (Nintendo), 5. Suzumiya Haruhi no Gekidou (Kadokawa Shoten). UK: 1. Wii Fit (Nintendo), 2. Wii Play (Nintendo), 3. Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Nintendo), 4. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Sega), 5. Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo). Wii Fit and Mario Kart Wii remain at the top of the North American multiplatform sales charts, seemingly unstoppable in the post-holiday season. Namco's exercise mat-bundled Active Life: Outdoor Challenge returns to the top five this week, meanwhile, as does Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga. Taiko no Tatsujin keeps its place atop the Japanese sales charts, meanwhile, as the recent releases Fragile: Sayonara Tsuki no Haikyo and Suzumiya Haruhi no Gekidou square off against Wii de Asobu: Mario Tennis GC. Xbox 360 North America: 1. Call of Duty: World at War (Activision), 2. Gears of War 2 (Microsoft), 3. Left 4 Dead (EA Games), 4. Fable II (Microsoft), 5. Skate 2 (EA Games). Japan: 1. Left 4 Dead (EA Games), 2. Fallout 3 (Bethesda), 3. Gears of War -- Xbox 360 Platinum Collection (Microsoft), 4. Tales of Vesperia (Namco), 5. Armored Core For Answer -- Xbox 360 Platinum Collection (From Software). UK: 1. FIFA 09 (EA Sports), 2. The Lord of the Rings: Conquest (EA Games), 3. Call of Duty: World at War (Activision), 4. Fable II (Microsoft), 5. Grand Theft Auto IV (Rockstar). Skate 2 finishes its first week on store shelves at fifth place in Xbox 360 software sales in North America. Call of Duty: World at War and Gears of War 2 stay at the top, while Fable II finishes behind Left 4 Dead at fourth place. Left 4 Dead also performs well in Japan, where it finishes as the region's best-selling Xbox 360 title in its first week of release. Fallout 3 takes second in Japanese sales, while last week's leader Race Driver: GRID drops out of the top five entirely. PlayStation 3 North America: 1. Call of Duty: World at War (Activision), 2. LittleBigPlanet (SCEA), 3. Grand Theft Auto IV (Rockstar), 4. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Konami), 5. Gran Turismo 5: Prologue (SCEA). Japan: 1. Fallout 3 (Bethesda), 2. Naruto: Narultimate Storm (Bandai), 3. Gundam Musou 2 (Bandai), 4. Ryu ga Gotoku Kenzan! -- PlayStation 3 The Best (Sega), 5. Grand Theft Auto IV (Capcom). UK: 1. LittleBigPlanet (SCEE), 2. Resistance 2 (SCEE), 3. Grand Theft Auto IV (Capcom), 4. FIFA 09 (EA Sports), 5. Fallout 3 (Bethesda). Call of Duty: World at War rises up to take the top spot in North America's PlayStation 3 charts, beating out LittleBigPlanet in weekly sales numbers for the first time this year. Grand Theft Auto IV moves up a spot to take third place, while Metal Gear Solid 4 and a returning Gran Turismo 5: Prologue finish out the top five. In Japan, this week's debuting PlayStation 3 port of Fallout 3 tops regional platform sales, pushing Naruto: Narultimate Storm to second place. PlayStation 2 North America: 1. Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 (Atlus), 2. Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 FES -- Special Edition (Atlus), 3. Ar tonelico II: Melody of Metafalica (NIS America), 4. Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories (Square Enix), 5. Rock Band Special Edition (MTV Games). Japan: 1. Gundam Musou 2 (Bandai), 2. Hokuouki (Idea Factory), 3. Fate/Unlimited Codes -- SP-BOX (Capcom), 4. Devil Summoner: Kuzunoha Raidou tai Abaddon Ou (Atlus), 5. Ryu ga Gotoku 2 -- PlayStation 2 The Best (Sega). UK: 1. SingStar: ABBA (SCEE), 2. Tomb Raider: Underworld (Eidos), 3. Call of Duty: World at War Final Fronts (Activision), 4. FIFA 09 (EA Sports), 5. SingStar Legends (SCEE). Atlus' Persona series once again rules the PlayStation 2 charts at Amazon. Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 leads North American PS2 sales for the third week in a row, with Persona 3 FES trailing close behind. Persona's chart reign may not last long, however, as both games face newfound RPG competition from Square Enix's Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories and NIS America's recently released Ar tonelico II. PC North America: 1. The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle Earth Anthology (EA Games), 2. World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (Blizzard), 3. Fallout 3 (Bethesda), 4. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion -- Game of the Year Edition (2K Games), 5. World of Goo (Brighter Minds). Japan: 1. Left 4 Dead (Zoo), 2. Final Fantasy XI: The Vana'diel Collection (Square Enix), 3. Civilization IV Complete Edition (Cyber Front), 4. Monster Hunter Frontier Online Season 4.0 Premium Package (E Frontier), 5. Clannad Full Voice (Key). UK: 1. Football Manager 2009 (Sega), 2. Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 (EA Games), 3. Left 4 Dead (EA Games), 4. Fallout 3 (Bethesda), 5. Spore (EA Games). A recently discounted The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle Earth Anthology takes top honors in North American PC platform sales this week, as World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King finishes at a close second. Fallout 3 remains at third place, as last week's leader World of Goo falls to fifth. Nintendo DS North America: 1. Mario Kart DS (Nintendo), 2. New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo), 3. Geometry Wars: Galaxies (Sierra), 4. Brain Age (Nintendo), 5. Brain Age 2 (Nintendo). Japan: 1. Megami Ibunroku: Devil Survivor (Atlus), 2. DS Uranai Seikatsu (Nintendo), 3. Rhythm Tengoku Gold (Nintendo), 4. Pocket Monsters Platinum (Nintendo), 5. Wagamama Fashion: Girls Mode (Nintendo). UK: 1. Professor Layton and the Curious Village (Nintendo), 2. More Brain Training (Nintendo), 3. Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training (Nintendo), 4. 42 All-Time Classics (Nintendo), 5. Junior Brain Trainer (Avanquest). Club Penguin: Elite Penguin Force falls out of chart range this week in North America, leaving Brain Age and Brain Age 2 to pick up its slack. Geometry Wars: Galaxies returns to make a surprise finish at third place this week, thanks to a recent Amazon-sponsored discount, while Mario Kart DS and New Super Mario Bros. continue to top overall sales. Megami Ibunroku: Devil Survivor and DS Uranai Seikatsu again finish at the top of the Japanese charts, while Rhythm Tengoku Gold moves up to take third. Professor Layton leads sales in the UK, meanwhile, with More Brain Training finishing at second place. PlayStation Portable North America: 1. Star Ocean: Second Evolution (Square Enix), 2. God of War: Chains of Olympus (SCEA), 3. Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII (Square Enix), 4. Syphon Filter: Logan's Shadow (SCEA), 5. Daxter (SCEA). Japan: 1. Zill O'll Infinite Plus (Koei), 2. Dissidia: Final Fantasy (Square Enix), 3. Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G -- PSP the Best (Capcom), 4. Eiyuu Densetsu: Sora no Kiseki Set (Nihon Falcom), 5. Musou Orochi: Maou Sairin (Koei). UK: 1. FIFA 09 (EA Sports), 2. Lego Indiana Jones (LucasArts), 3. Football Manager Handheld 2009 (Sega), 4. Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 (Konami), 5. Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters -- Platinum (SCEE). Star Ocean: Second Evolution achieves fast sales in its first week of release in North America, beating out God of War: Chains of Olympus to take the platform's top chart spot. Last week's chart-topping title Syphon Filter: Logan's Shadow drops to fourth place in this week's results, while Daxter returns to take fifth.