State of play: One giant HD game and a ton of Nintendo ones

money dollar signsCombined video game sales across the world’s three largest markets (USA, Japan, UK) were released by the NPD group today. Here’s what the top 5 best-selling games were last year:

  1. Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, 11.86mil
  2. Wii Sports Resort, 7.57mil
  3. New Super Mario Bros. Wii, 7.41mil
  4. Wii Fit Plus, 5.80mil
  5. Wii Fit, 5.44mil

Activision took the top spot with Nintendo filling in the remaining four slots. Think we’ll see the same thing this year?