Amazon.com has posted their year-end sales rankings for everything in the video games category (via Gamasutra). Looking at just the top ten, Nintendo positively dominated the year and took home nine of the slots. The video games category includes software, hardware, and optional peripherals.

Interestingly, of those nine slots, seven are straight hardware or are hardware bundles (or six, if you don’t think that the Wii wheel counts). So if you’re looking for the long tail, it’s not showing up in software.

Looking lonely at number nine is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Despite coming out at the end of the year, the game singlehandedly defends the XBOX 360′s honor in Amazon’s annual popularity contest. The PS3 doesn’t quite make the top ten and sees its first entry at rank 11.

I guess Iwata got what he wanted for Christmas.

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