{"id":9171,"date":"2010-12-29T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T08:20:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"mario-still-big-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/9171-mario-still-big-in-japan","title":{"rendered":"Mario still big in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"

A recent Yahoo! Japan survey (via 1UP<\/a>) has revealed that – SUPLISU! – Mario is still Japan’s favourite thing in video games ever, with the diminutive plumber hogging the #1 spot in both the favourite character and favourite game categories.<\/p>\n

The complete result list includes:<\/p>\n

Top Games of 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n

   1. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii)
   2. Pokemon Black\/White (DS)
   3. Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker (PSP)
   4. Sengoku Basara: Samurai Heroes (PS3\/Wii)
   5. Yakuza 4 (PS3)
   6. Love Plus + (DS)
   7. Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 2 (DS)
   8. The Legend of Heroes: Zero no kiseki (PSP)
   9. God Eater (PSP)
  10. Monster Hunter Frontier Online Beginner’s Package (360)<\/p>\n

Top Game Characters of 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n

   1. Mario – New Super Mario Bros. Wii
   2. Hatsune Miku – Hatsune Miku DIVA Project 2nd
   3. Date Masamune – Sengoku Basara: Samurai Heroes
   4. Naked Snake – Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker
   5. Airu – Monster Hunter Diary: Poka Poka Airu Village
   6. Reshiram – Pokemon Black
   7. Wadadon – Taiko no Tatsujin DS Dororon! Yokai Daikessen!!
   8. Anegasaki Nene – Love Plus +
   9. Tutoria Helmold – Atelier Totori: Alchemist of Arland 2
  10. Black Heart – Hyperdimension Neptunia<\/p>\n

Love Plus +? Characters I’ve never heard of? The PSP<\/em>? Seriously, Japan’s like a different planet.<\/p>\n

Mario is still number 1 in Japan. Discuss on the MyGaming forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Things are easy when you\u2019re big in Japan, oh when you\u2019re big in Japan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}