TOP 100 best selling DS games in Japan

Famitsurecently compiled a list of the Top 100 best selling DS games in Japan as of June 01, 2025, andCubed3has the entire list up. Now, admittedly, I haven’t heard of a lot of these titles, but the positions of certain games in this list will probably surprise you. The top ten in the list should come as no surprise to anyone, however:

1. More Brain Training (Nintendo) – 3,417,9562) New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo) – 3,351,2343) Animal Crossing: Wild World (Nintendo) – 3,335,1954) Pokémon Diamond / Pearl (Nintendo) – 3,060,0325) Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Training (Nintendo) – 2,837,3946) Mario Kart DS (Nintendo) – 1,626,2427) English Training (Nintendo) – 1,408,2438) Nintendogs (Nintendo) – 1,335,1859) Big Brain Academy (Nintendo) – 1,299,18810) Tamagotchi Connection: Corner Shop (Bandai) – 1,110,046

Wait, I take that back.English Training? I didn’t think the Japanese cared that much about the language. Or maybe they just decided to bite the bullet and take more of an interest in it, seeing as how almost every other major country uses it to some extent. And I won’t even pretend I’ve heard ofTamagotchi Connection.

Hit the jump for the rest.

Just off the top ten,Wario Wareleads the rest of the crowd.

11. WarioWare: Touched! (Nintendo) – 1,013,29712) Super Mario 64 DS (Nintendo) – 960,71813) Tetris DS (Nintendo) – 889,17814) Final Fantasy III (Square Enix) – 860,49015) Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team (Nintendo) – 751,84816) Pokémon Ranger (Nintendo) – 629,10317) Shaberu! DS Oryouri Navi (Nintendo) – 586,21118) 42 All-Time Classics (Nintendo) – 572,91519) Tamagotchi Connection: Corner Shop 2 (Bandai) – 568,82020) Jump! Super Stars (Nintendo) – 549,26521) Common Knowledge Training (Nintendo) – 444,81222) Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time (Nintendo) – 416,47923) Mario Slam Basketball (Nintendo) – 348,64924) Pokémon Dash (Nintendo) – 348,37625) Kirby & the Power Paintbrush (Nintendo) – 315,21126) Dragon Ball Z: Supersonic Warriors 2 (Bandai) – 298,44027) Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime (Square Enix) – 293,97028) Pokémon Link (Nintendo) – 293,80729) Children of Mana (Square Enix) – 280,77530) Zaidan Houjin Nippon Kanji Nouryoku Kentei Kyoukai Kounin: KanKen DS (Rocket Company) – 222,44331) Naruto: Saikyou Ninja Daikesshuu 3 (Tomy) – 220,92832) Kirby Squeak Squad (Nintendo) – 219,80733) Digimon Story (Bandai) – 213,77034) Yoshi Touch & Go (Nintendo) – 197,33735) Super Princess Peach (Nintendo) – 196,64136) Mushi King (Sega) – 191,38837) Mogitate Tingle no Barairo Rupee Land (Nintendo) – 181,00038) Densetsu no Stafi 4 (Nintendo) – 164,95039) Daigassou! Band Brothers (Nintendo) – 164,16640) Sudoku Master (Hudson) – 153,81941) Naruto RPG 2: Chidori vs Rasengan (Tomy) – 131,74842) Power Pro Kun Pocket 8 (Konami) – 122,78843) Naruto: Saikyou Ninja Daikesshuu 4 (Tomy) – 120,15444) Tales of the Tempest (Namco) – 117,97145) Phoenix Wright – 117,78446) Unou no Tatsujin (Namco) 116,50647) Harvest Moon DS for Girls (Marvelous) – 112,50348) Minna no DS Seminar: Kanpeki Kanji Ryoku (TDK) – 111,81749) Eyeshield 21: Max Devil Power (Nintendo) – 110,26050) Kanji Sonomama DS Rakubiki Jiten (Nintendo) – 109,18251) Harvest Moon: Colobocle Station (Marvelous) – 107,13652) Rockman EXE 5 DS Twin Leaders (Capcom) – 106,52653) Trace Memory (Nintendo) – 105,45254) Rune Factory (Marvelous) – 104,03755) Yu-Gi-Oh Nightmare Troubadour (Konami) – 102,24956) Mushiking 2 (Sega) – 102,18557) Feel the Magic (Sega) – 100,26358) Pac Pix (Bandai Namco Games) – 98,65059) Phoenix Wright Best Price (Capcom) – 95,14860) BLEACH DS (Sega) – 95,04461) Polarium (Nintendo) – 94,94762) SD Gundam G Generation DS – 94,31763) Rockman ZX (Capcom) – 93,97264) Power Pocket Koushien (Konami) – 93,22065) Egg Monster Hero (Square Enix) – 92,09666) Ochaken no Heya DS (MTO) – 89,80067) Kirarin Star Revolution Kira Kira Idol Audition (Konami) – 89,69068) Metroid Prime Hunters (Nintendo) – 89,66269) Atsumare! Power Pocket no Koushien DS – 88,14770) Star Fox Command (Nintendo) – 86,58871) Chou-Gekijou-Ban Keroro Gunsou: Enshuu Dayo! Zenin Shuugou (Bandai Namco Games) – 83,77172) Gekitou! Custom Robo (Nintendo) – 83,36573) Project Hacker (Nintendo) – 83,14474) Naruto RPG 3 (Tomy) – 80,97475) Kenshuui Tendo Dokuta [ Lifesigns ] (Spike) – 76,78676) DS Talking Travel Software Vol. 4 America – 74,85377) Puyo Puyo Fever (Sega) – 74,21878) Atama Scan (Sega) – 72,34379) DS Rakubiki Jiten (Nintendo) – 71,55780) World Soccer Winning Eleven DS (Konami) – 68,78981) Doraemon: Nobita no Kyouryuu 2006 DS (Sega) – 61,63582) Meteos (Bandai Namco Games) – 57,88083) Point Blank DS (Bandai Namco Games) – 57,86584) Chousoujuu Mecha MG (Nintendo) – 57,81585) Gintama DS: Yorozuya Daisoudou (Bandai Namco Games) – 54,24986) Cooking Mama (Taito) – 51,71287) Tennis no Oujisama 2005 DS (Konami) – 51,65888) Choco Inu no Omise (TDK Core) – 50,95889) DS Talking Travel Software Vol. 3 Korea – 49,71490) Ouendan (Nintendo) – 49,23691) Futari wa PuriCure Max Heart DANZEN (Bandai Namco Games) – 47,84892) Magical Starsign (Nintendo) – 46,82093) Jissen Pachislot Fist of the North Star DS (Sega) – 46,35394) Resident Evil Deadly Silence (Capcom) – 46,28095) Jissen Pachislot Fist of the North Star SE (Sega) – 45,95696) San Ex Land Theme Pack de Asobou (MTO) – 45,30197) Bomberman (Hudson) – 44,60898) Phoenix Wright Justice for All Best Price (Capcom) – 44,60899) Mawashite Tsunageru Touch Panic (Nintendo) – 43,921100) Kanpeki Kanji (TDK Core) – 43,664

Phew! Now that you’ve made it to the end, note the positions ofMetroid Prime: Hunters,Star Fox Commandand theNarutogames. I certainly expected those to sell a lot better. Oh, andFeel the Magicdefinitely deserves to be higher up on that list.