What Does 100,000,000 Mean To You?

Could it be the number of breaths you take in your lifespan? The average times a hummingbird beats it's wings in a year? Number of pencils sharpened daily by elementary school teachers?

Well, it's possible it's all of those things, but in today's post the number 100,000,000 stands for how many Nintendo DS games have been sold in Japan alone.

Normally that's an astounding number, but what's even more amazing is that only 922 DS games have been released over there and 21 of said games were multi-million sellers. The Japanese truly have a love for their DS games apparently.

DS Fanboy wrote up a neat little list that shows the highest selling games in Japan.

1. New Super Mario Bros. (5,174,163)
2. Brain Age 2 (4,835,159)
3. Animal Crossing Wild World (4,693,662)
4. Brain Age (3,771,440)
5. Mario Kart DS (3,042,753)
6. Pokemon Diamond (3,005,505)
7. Pokemon Pearl (2,490,564)
8. English Training DS (2,216,322)
9. Mario Party DS (1,706,506)
10. Big Brain Academy (1,654,285)


Yet again we hear the tired joke....it prints money.





-Undrallio

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Creator of Brain Age Turns Down 22 Mil

...I guess the world isn't full of greedy people.

The creator of the brain age series, Professor Ryuta Kawashima, turned down his Royalties check for 22 million dollars(thats 2.4billion Yen). Ryuta is content to live off of his annual salary of 11 million yen (100,000 dollars). When asked if he considered taking the money and moving to a tropical paradise he replied,"I wouldn't know what to do there. If I had such time to spare, I want to do my research."

Since Brain Age's release in japan in may 2005 the game has sold 17 million units(it prints money), and thats only for the DS.

If I were him I'd take the money and do something awesome with it...like... build a pool full of pudding...or...pay Tay Zonday to never sing again...

Sigh...One can dream...

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It prints money!

Sorry for the tired joke in the title....but I couldn't resist.

Nintendo's much anticipated fighting game, Super Smash Bros Brawl has been released this week in Japan. According a Japanese blogger by the name of Sinobi, Super Smash Bros Brawl sold 500,000 units on its opening day. If this is indeed true, SSBM outsold every other game released this week in Japan. This also means that SSBM sold double what Super Mario Galaxy sold in it's opening week.

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On a much different note, I'd like to share this with you guys.

Best. Fanfic. EVER!

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