Top Christmas Console Games for 2010

Professor Layton 3 | Rock Band 3 | Super Mario Galaxy 2

Christmas Gifts 2010

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Here are our predictions for this years Top Christmas Console Games.

Call Of Duty - Black Ops

Call of Duty: Black Ops, inserts players behind enemy lines during the most dangerous time period mankind has ever known. An epic single player campaign filled with heart-racing action, Call of Duty: Black Ops puts players in the boots of elite special forces units engaged in covert warfare, deniable operations, and explosive conflicts around the globe.

Fifa 11

Fifa 11 reinvents player authenticity "on and off the ball" for every player and at every position on the pitch with Personality+, an all-new feature that sees individual abilities reflected in game, enabling clear differentiation for every player.

Assassins Creed 3

The critically acclaimed single-player experience of Assassin's Creed is back and better than ever as Ezio returns in an epic struggle against the powerful Templar Order.

Dance On Broadway

Sing, dance and act in the very best of Broadway musicals, from classics to the most modern tunes, experience the magic of Broadway in your living room!

La Noire

L.A Noire is an interactive detective story set in the classic noir period of the late 1940's. L.A. Noire blends action, detection and complex storytelling and draws players into an open-ended challenge to solve a series of gruesome murders. Set in a perfectly recreated Los Angeles before freeways, with a post-war backdrop of corruption, drugs and jazz, L.A. Noire will truly blend cinema and gaming.

Madden 11

Madden NFL 11 redefines the way you experience the game of football. It's simpler: From 350 plays down to 1, the all-new GameFlow system puts you in the helmet of an NFL quarterback to execute an authentic, situational game plan, one play at a time.

Professor layton 3

Professor Layton receives a letter asking for help from Luke. The strange thing is that this letter is from 10 years in the future, and the Luke in question is not Professor Layton’s young apprentice, but rather his older self. According to the future Luke, the London of the future has been brought to the brink of ruin by Professor Layton’s future self, who is the head of the largest crime syndicate in town. It seems the only man who can save London and stop the evil Professor Layton of the future is Professor Layton himself.

Rock Band 3

Rock Band 3 is the next generation of the ultimate social and interactive music gaming platform developed by the category’s leading pioneers, Harmonix Music Systems. Featuring innovative game modes and instruments, Rock Band 3 will change the way fans think about and play music games.

Super Mario Galaxy 2

Launch into a new universe of gravity warping worlds in the sequel to one of the greatest games of all time! Yoshi joins Mario as they traverse a wild variety of galaxies exploding with imagination, helping out our hero as he gulps enemies, runs at super speed, or inflates like a blimp to reach high cliff tops. Whether Mario’s leaping into orbit around tiny micro-planets, tumbling through rooms with constantly flip-flopping gravity, or drilling through craggy worlds to emerge on the other side, he’ll need new abilities and serious jumping skills to survive the all-new challenges ahead!

Top 20 Console Games Of All Time

The 20 best-selling console/handheld games, not originally bundled with a console/handheld system. Cross-platform sales are not counted. (source Wikipedia)

Wii Play (Wii – 27.38 million, Wii remote bundled with all copies)
Nintendogs (DS – 23.26 million, all five versions combined)
Wii Fit (Wii – 22.61 million)
Mario Kart Wii (Wii – 22.55 million)
New Super Mario Bros. (DS – 22.49 million)
Pokémon Red and Blue (Game Boy – 20.68 million approximately: 10.23 million in Japan, 9.85 million in US)
Wii Sports Resort (Wii – 19.16 million)
Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day! (DS – 18.72 million)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES – 18 million)
Mario Kart DS (DS – 17.90 million)
Pokémon Diamond and Pearl (DS – 17.39 million)
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PS2 - 17.33 million)
New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii – 15.81 million)
Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec (PS2 – 14.89 million shipped)
Wii Fit Plus (Wii – 14.52 million)
Pokémon Gold and Silver (Game Boy Color – 14.51 million approximately: 7.6 million in US, 6.91 million in Japan)
Super Mario Land (Game Boy – 14 million)
Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day! (DS – 13.71 million)
Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire (GBA – 13 million)
Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen (GBA – 11.82 million)

Bundled games

Games that were originally bundled at launch and have sold or shipped at least ten million copies.

Wii Sports (Wii – 66.19 million, packaged with system in all regions except Japan)
Super Mario Bros. (NES – 40.23 million)
Tetris (Game Boy – 35 million)
Super Mario World (SNES – 20 million)

By genre

Action-adventure – Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PS2 – 17.33 million)
Fighting – Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii – 9.48 million)
First-person shooter – Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Xbox 360 & PlayStation 3 – 11.86 million)
Party – Wii Play (Wii - 27.38 million)
Platform – Super Mario Bros. (NES – 40.23 million)
Puzzle – Tetris (Game Boy – 35 million)
Racing – Mario Kart Wii (Wii – 22.55 million)
Role-playing – Pokémon Red, Blue, and Green (Game Boy – 20.08 million approximately: 10.23 million in Japan, 9.85 million in US)
Simulation – Nintendogs (DS – 23.26 million)
Sports – Wii Sports (Wii – 63.46 million)
Stealth – Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (PS2 – 7 million)
Survival horror – Resident Evil 2 (PS1 – 4.96 million)

Top Christmas Console Games for 2010

Professor Layton 3 | Rock Band 3 | Super Mario Galaxy 2