Famitsu has published its readers most wanted games of 2012 and Dragon Quest X: Rise of the Five Tribes Online for Wii, and eventually Wii U, has topped the list. There are a total of five games for Nintendo related platforms in the entire top ten. Here’s the games the Japanese are looking forward to playing the most this year:

1. [Wii] Dragon Quest X: Rise of the Five Tribes Online
2. [PS3] Dragon’s Dogma
3. [3DS] Monster Hunter 4
4. [PSV] Persona 4: The Golden
5. [PS3] One Piece: Kaizoku Musou
6. [3DS] Animal Crossing 3DS
7. [3DS] New Love Plus
8. [PSP] Shining Blade
9. [PSP] Super Robot Taisen Z
10. [3DS] Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance

THQ has admitted that it took a massive gamble releasing the uDraw tablet on platforms other than the Wii. CEO Brian Farrell confessed that the company sold one million uDraw tablets to retail stores, but the vast majority of the tablets remain unsold to consumers. Farrell estimates that there’s roughly 1.4 million uDraw tablets left sitting in warehouses.

“We were confident that uDraw would resonate again this holiday, given last year’s robust sell-through. Our confidence was misplaced.”

“We were looking at uDraw as a bridge to this core and digital future, and that bridge turned out to be a plank that we walked off of.”

This weeks Media Create Japanese software charts show that Capcom’s Resident Evil Revelations managed to secure second place on its week of release. The software charts show that there were a grand total of twelve Nintendo related games in the top twenty overall. The Nintendo 3DS once against topped the Japanese hardware charts, easily outselling the competition selling 84,789.

• 01./00. [PS3] Armored Core V
• 02./00. [3DS] Resident Evil: Revelations
• 03./00. [PSV] Tales of Innocence R
• 04./01. [3DS] Mario Kart 7
• 05./03. [3DS] Monster Hunter 3G
• 06./00. [360] Armored Core V
• 07./04. [3DS] Super Mario 3D Land
• 08./00. [PS3] The Idolmaster
• 09./02. [3DS] Rhythm Thief & the Emperor’s Treasure
• 10./07. [3DS] Inazuma Eleven Go: Shine / Dark
• 11./00. [PSP] Mobile Suit Gundam: Mokuba no Kiseki
• 12./12. [WII] Just Dance Wii
• 13./10. [PS3] Warriors Orochi 3
• 14./13. [PSP] Monster Hunter Freedom 3)
• 15./11. [PS3] Final Fantasy XIII-2
• 16./14. [WII] Wii Party
• 17./15. [WII] Wii Sports Resort with Remote Plus
• 18./19. [3DS] Nintendogs + Cats: French Bulldog / Shiba / Toy Poodle & New Friends
• 19./17. [WII] Mario Kart Wii
• 20./16. [WII] Kirby’s Return to Dream Land

1. Nintendo 3DS: 84,789
2. PlayStation 3: 22,924
3. PlayStation Vita: 18,942
4. PlayStation Portable: 16,008
5. Wii: 10,369
6. Nintendo DS: 1,918
7. Xbox 360: 1,235
8. PlayStation 2: 713

This weeks Media Create Sales are in and once again the Nintendo 3DS is clearly out-performing all the competition selling an impressive 80,960 units. The Nintendo 3DS’ closest competitor is the PlayStation 3 which only managed to sell 21,155 units. Mario Kart continues to be the best-selling Nintendo 3DS game in Japan taking the number one position. Thirteen of the overall top twenty games in Japan are on Nintendo platforms.

1. [3DS] Mario Kart 7
2. [3DS] Rhythm Thief & the Emperor’s Treasure
3. [3DS] Monster Hunter 3G
4. [3DS] Super Mario 3D Land
5. [360] Onechanbara Z: Kagura
6. [PSP] Heroes Phantasia
7. [3DS] Inazuma Eleven Go: Shine / Dark
8. [3DS] Beyond the Labyrinth
9. [PSP] Super Robot Wars OG Saga: Masou Kishin II – Revelation of Evil God
10. [PS3] Warriors Orochi 3
11. [PS3] Final Fantasy XIII-2
12. [WII] Just Dance Wii
13. [PSP] Monster Hunter Freedom 3
14. [WII] Wii Party
15. [WII] Wii Sports Resort with Remote Plus
16. [WII] Kirby’s Return to Dream Land
17. [WII] Mario Kart Wii
18. [PS3] Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 – Dubbed Edition
19. [3DS] Nintendogs + Cats: French Bulldog / Shiba / Toy Poodle & New Friends
20. [WII] Go Vacation (Bandai Namco Games) 

1. Nintendo 3DS: 80,960
2. PlayStation 3: 21,155
3. PlayStation Portable: 17,181
4. PlayStation Vita: 15,219
5. Wii: 10,173
6. Nintendo DS: 2,022
7. Xbox 360: 1,588
8. PlayStation 2: 903

Tip: Nintendaan

Capcom has unveiled the Resident Evil 6 trailer a little earlier than expected due to a leak of information to major games publications. As I reported earlier the game will see the return of Chris Redfield and Leon Kennedy as the main protagonists. Those expecting to find a Wii U logo at the end of the trailer will be left disappointed as Capcom has only announced it for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC at present. Hopefully we will hear something about a Wii U version at E3. Resident Evil 6 comes out November 20th.

Nintendo France has announced that the Nintendo 3DS was the best-selling console of 2011 selling an impressive 761,000 units. The Wii and the Nintendo DS also performed well in France although Nintendo would only give a combined figure for both platforms.

• Nintendo 3DS: 761K
• PlayStation 3: 656K
• Xbox 360: 409K
• Wii + DS: >1250K

The Nintendo 3DS continues to set the Japanese hardware charts on fire as the console saw a 20% increase in sales in the first full week of the new year. The Nintendo 3DS sold 240,819 units which clearly propelled it above the competition. In the same week Capcom’s Monster Hunter Tri 3G managed to cross the million mark in sales, becoming the third 3DS game to do so, and the first third-party 3DS game to do so.

Japanese hardware charts

• 1. 3DS: 240,819 (197,952)
• 2. PS3: 74,459 (67,199)
• 3. PSP: 71,033 (62,746)
• 4. Wii: 49,525 (33,208)
• 5. PSV: 42,915 (42,648)
• 6. DSi LL: 3,971 (3,356)
• 7. X360: 2,738 (2,453)
• 8. DSi: 3,565 (2,418)
• 9. PS2: 1,323 (1,659)

Japanese software charts

• [3DS] 01. Mario Kart 7 (Nintendo, 12/01): 157,188 (1,317,357)
• [3DS] 02. Super Mario 3D Land (Nintendo, 11/03): 119,093 (1,199,285)
• [3DS] 03. Monster Hunter 3G (Cacpom, 12/10): 98,355 (1,083,853)
• [3DS] 04. Inazuma Eleven Go (Level-5, 12/15): 56,134 (325,358)
• [PS3] 05. Musou Orochi 2 (Tecmo Koei, 12/22): 42,464 (316,516)
• [WII] 06. Just Dance Wii (Nintendo, 10/13): 37,266 (490,677)
• [PS3] 07. Final Fantasy XIII-2 (Square Enix, 12/15): 35,325 (739,561)
• [WII] 08. Wii Party (Nintendo, 07/08/2010): 33,174 (2,256,803)
• [WII] 09. Hoshi no Kirby Wii (Nintendo, 10/27): 33,040 (570,168)
• [WII] 10. Wii Sports Resort Wiimote Plus Pack (Nintendo, 11/11/2010): 30,783 (833,757)

MocoSpace, the largest mobile gaming community in North America has conducted a survey to find out exactly where gamers are spending their time. The survey which was conducted with 15,000 users found that the majority of gamers are now spending their gaming time on mobile devices rather than traditional consoles.

A whopping 46 percent of those surveyed by Moco Space reported that they are playing more on their mobile devices this year, compared to 26 percent of the participants  who said that they are playing more on their consoles, and just 23 percent said they are playing more on their computers.

US retail chain Toys ‘R Us is selling Ubisoft’s fantastic 2D platformer for a mere $19.99. The pricing includes the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions as well as Wii. Rayman Origins is one of the best platform games I’ve played since Donkey Kong Country Returns and I would say that it proudly sits alongside Super Mario 3D Land as the best platformer of 2011.

Respected Japanese gaming publication Famitsu published its readers most wanted games during the end of December. As you can see from the list below Dragon Quest X for both the Wii U and the Nintendo 3DS is the most wanted game of 2012 thus far with Dragon’s Dogma for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 trailing just slightly behind.

01. Dragon Quest X
02. Dragon’s Dogma
03. Photo Kano
04. Monster Hunter 4
05. Persona 4: The Golden
06. Animal Crossing
07. New Love Plus
08. Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
09. Asura’s Wrath
10. Resident Evil: Revelations
11. One Piece: Pirate Musou
12. Final Fantasy Versus XIII
13. The Last Remnant
14. God Eater 2
15. Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayoneka Arena
16. Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: MK II
17. Tales of Innocence R
18. Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance
19. The Last Guardian
20. 2nd Super Robot Wars Original Generation