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NPD’s confirmed that Wii Play is the biggest-selling game of all time in the US, with Guitar Hero III and GTA: San Andreas coming second and third respectively.

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Wii Play is the bestselling game so far in the US this decade, NPD said last night, with 11.1 million units moved.

Guitar Hero III and GTA: San Andreas are second and third respectively, with 10.3 million and 9.8 million units sold respectively.

Full list below. These are sales from January 2000 to August 2009. Thanks, Gamespot.

1. Wii Play with Remote (2006) / Wii / 11.1 million
2. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (2007) / PS2, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360 / 10.3 million
3. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004) / PS2, Xbox/ 9.8 million
4. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007) / DS, PS3, Xbox 360 / 8.5 million
5. Wii Fit with Balance Board (2008) / Wii / 7.9 million
6. Madden NFL 07 (2006) / GC, GBA, PSP, PS2, PS3, Wii, Xbox, Xbox 360
7. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002) / PS2, Xbox
8. Madden NFL 08 (2007) / GC, PSP, PS2, PS3, Wii, Xbox, Xbox 360,
9. Call of Duty: World at War (2008) / DS, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii
10. Halo 2 (2004) / Xbox

For the rest of the new from last night’s NPD release, hit this.

Wii Play has become North America’s top-selling game of the decade by moving 11.1 million copies in the US since launch, and these numbers do not include a Wii Bundle.

It’s ahead of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (8.25 million sales), Wii Fit (7.9 million), GTA: Vice City (6.9 million) and Mario Kart Wii (6.7 million), according to NPD.

Good for Nintendo.

More through IGN, CVG.

Call of Duty: World at War is celebrating a month at the top of the UK charts, MCV writes.

The Activision shooter’s looking good for Christmas number one, although FIFA refuses to drop off, taking third place this week.

Last week’s chart here. Data below for the week ending December 6.

1. Call of Duty: World at War
2. Mario Kart Wii
3. FIFA 09
4. Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training
5. Need For Speed: Undercover
6. Tomb Raider: Underworld
7. Fallout 3
8. Wii Fit
9. Wii Play
10. Guitar Hero: World Tour

By Mike Bowden

According to the official Nintendo Korea site, Wii is now confirmed to launch in the country on April 26, priced 220,000 won (£114). GoNintendo’s reporting that the system will release with eight games including Wii Sports (system sold by itself), Wii Play, Super Swing Golf 2 and Zack and Wiki.

Wii sold 274,000 units in America in January, according to NPD data released yesterday, making it the best selling US console for the money.

PlayStation 3 came second, outselling Xbox 360. The Sony machine sold 269,000 units, compared to 230,000 for Microsoft’s console. Microsoft has blamed hardware shortages and heavy Christmas demand for the figures.

“Our retailers are telling us that Xbox 360 is selling as fast as they can restock, but due to this high demand, Xbox 360 is experiencing temporary shortages,” said the company in a statement. We are working as quickly as we can to replenish inventory.”

Here’s the list:

1. Wii – 274K (from 1.35 million)
2. PlayStation 3 – 269K (from 798K)
3. Nintendo DS – 251K (from 2.47 million)
4. PSP – 230K (from 1.06 million)
5. Xbox 360 – 230K (from 1.26 million)

Call of Duty 4 was the most bought American game last month, selling another 330,000 units. In second place was the bundled Wii Play with 298,000 copies sold, third place going to Guitar Hero III, which sold 240,000 units. Activision’s probably “quite pleased”. Here’s the top ten:

1. Call of Duty 4 (Xbox 360, Activision) – 330.9K
2. Wii Play w/remote (Wii, Nintendo) – 298.1K
3. Guitar Hero III: Legends Of Rock w/guitar (Wii, Activision) – 239.6K
4. Rock Band (Xbox 360, MTV/Harmonix) – 183.8K
5. Guitar Hero III: Legends Of Rock w/guitar (Xbox 360, Neversoft/Activision) – 182.7K
6. Super Mario Galaxy (Wii, Nintendo) – 172K
7. Burnout Paradise (Xbox 360, EA) – 144.1K
8. Call of Duty 4 (Xbox 360, Activision) – 140K
9. Mario Party (DS, Nintendo) – 138.5K
10. Mario and Sonic: Olympic Games (DS, Sega) – 133K

The overall market was up 11 percent, meaning that all the analysts that predicted a 5 percent drop for the month due to it containing four weeks at retail insead of five, were completely wrong. Way to earn your emormous salaries there, analyst-types.

Capcom will be smiling this morning at news that DMC4 has made it to the top of the UK chart, with previous number one Burnout Paradise drifting down to fourth. Turok’s also put in a decent debut performance, coming in third. And way to go PDC World Championship Darts 2008: we never knew you had it in you.

1. Devil May Cry 4 (Capcom)
2. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Sega)
3. Turok (Touchstone)
4. Burnout Paradise (EA)
5. Wii Play (Nintendo)
6. PDC World Championship Darts 2008 (Oxygen Interactive)
7. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Activision)
8. Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training (Nintendo)
9. The Club (Sega)
10. FIFA 2008 (EA)