{"id":96346,"date":"2019-07-09T03:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T03:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/07\/npd_reveals_the_best-selling_third-party_nintendo_games_in_the_united_states"},"modified":"2019-07-09T03:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T03:30:00","slug":"npd-reveals-the-best-selling-third-party-nintendo-games-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/07\/09\/npd-reveals-the-best-selling-third-party-nintendo-games-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"NPD Reveals The Best-Selling Third-Party Nintendo Games In The United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/151e4177bb516\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/151e4177bb516\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Mario &amp; Sonic Cropped\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/151e4177bb516\/mario-and-sonic-cropped.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/151e4177bb516\/mario-and-sonic-cropped.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Mario &amp; Sonic Cropped\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Last week, NPD Video Game Industry Analyst Mat Piscatella <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/07\/npd_reveals_the_top_10_best-selling_switch_games_in_the_united_states\">shared<\/a> the top ten best-selling games on the Nintendo Switch in North America. Apart from Ubisoft&#8217;s title <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_plus_rabbids_kingdom_battle\">Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle<\/a><\/strong>, there were no other third-party games featured.<\/p>\n<p>To make up for this, he&#8217;s now <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MatPiscatella\">revealed<\/a> North America&#8217;s top ten best-selling third-party games of all-time on Nintendo platforms. It&#8217;s mostly dominated by music and rhythm games, but the Mario &amp; Sonic series is also featured a few times over. Unfortunately, no figures were attached.<\/p>\n<p>1. Guitar Hero World Tour \u2013 Activision<br \/>2. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock \u2013 Activision<br \/>3. Just Dance 2 \u2013 Ubisoft<br \/>3. Just Dance 3 \u2013 Ubisoft<br \/>4. Mario &amp; Sonic at the Olympic Games \u2013 SEGA<br \/>6. LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga \u2013 Warner Bros. Interactive<br \/>7. Rock Band \u2013 MTV\/EA<br \/>8. Just Dance 4 \u2013 Ubisoft<br \/>9. Mario &amp; Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games \u2013 SEGA<br \/>10. Rock Band 2 \u2013 MTV\/EA<\/p>\n<p>Refocusing on Nintendo exclusives, we have a list of the best-selling portable games of all-time within the United States. It&#8217;s dominated by Mario and Pok\u00e9mon:<\/p>\n<p>1. New Super Mario Bros. DS<br \/>2. Mario Kart DS<br \/>3. Mario Kart 7<br \/>4. Super Mario 64 DS<br \/>5. Pok\u00e9mon Blue<br \/>6. Super Smash Bros. for 3DS<br \/>7. Pok\u00e9mon Yellow<br \/>8. Pok\u00e9mon Red<br \/>9. Super Mario 3D Land<br \/>10. Mario Party<\/p>\n<p><em>Are these the games you expected to see? Which ones do you own? Tell us below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, NPD Video Game Industry Analyst Mat Piscatella shared the top ten best-selling games on the Nintendo Switch in North America. Apart from Ubisoft&#8217;s title Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, there were no other third-party games featured. To make up for this, he&#8217;s now revealed North America&#8217;s top ten best-selling third-party games of all-time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}