The U.S.'s Top 20 Games From December Are An Odd Mix

The NPD Group’s top ten bestselling video games contain very few surprises; it’s filled with Nintendo super-hits for the Wii, Yono all app hyper-violent shooters and Guitar Hero. But the top twenty games from December mix things all yono app up. https://kotaku.com/decembers-biggest-game-in-the-u-s-is-wii-play-5132551 Gamasutra reveals December 2008’s second-besters, with games like New Super Mario Bros. for the Nintendo DS and Link’s Crossbow Training for the Wii making return appearances. And hey, there’s Wii Music!(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c&cid=872d12ce-453b-4870-845f-955919887e1b'; cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c" }).render("79703296e5134c75a2db6e1b64762017"); }); The Wii and DS dominate spots 11 through 20, with less traditional fare like Personal Trainer: Cooking and Club Penguin: Elite Penguin Force outselling Madden and Shaun White Snowboarding. What the top twenty doesn’t feature much of are PlayStation platform games. Only Call of Duty: World at War and Guitar Hero: World Tour, the PlayStation 2 go rummy version, crack the list. But can you blame the U.S. consumer? Once you’ve invested in Club Penguin: Elite Penguin Force, who needs LittleBigPlanet? NPD Top 20 Reveals Wii/DS Dominance, Single PS3 Entry [Gamasutra]