let's not forget that 20 years ago -- because it is almost Sonic's 20th anniversary -- and particularly when Sonic 2 came out, that was the Call of Duty of its time; that was the first core game. Gaming has moved on, Sonic is still as relevant now as he was then, but the way in which you play is different.Just consider Mario and Sonic; it sold 19 million copies globally. So that is a huge power brand that is being bought because it was a fun party game everyone can play. So he's as popular today, but the relevance is completely different, and Sonic's never going to FIFA Coins become a "modern Call of Duty" as he was then. So again, we have to understand and plan accordingly.

Gamasutra's weekly column, "Saling The World", covers the top five sellers for every available platform in the United States, Japan, and Europe, providing an important update of sales patterns worldwide.This week's charts, with data taken from September 8th, 2011, find Dead Island and Super Mario Galaxy heading domestic multiplatform sales, while Tales of Xillia and BioHazard Revival Selection top the FIFA 18 Coins charts in Japan.Data for "Saling The World

comes courtesy of the public sales information on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, and Amazon.co.jp, with sales split out for each platform and territory, and pre-orders disregarded. This results in a true sense of what games are selling worldwide on the real-time updated service, as follows:MultiplatformNorth America: 1. Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo, Wii), 2. Super Paper Mario (Nintendo, Wii), 3. Dead Island (Deep Silver, X360), 4. Dead Island - Download

(Deep Silver, PC), 5. Madden NFL 12 (EA Sports, X360).Japan: 1. Tales of Xillia (Namco Bandai, PS3), 2. BioHazard Revival Selection to nba18mt  (Capcom, PS3), 3. Tales of Xillia - Limited Edition (Namco Bandai, PS3), 4. Grand Knights History (Marvelous, PSP), 5. Minna no Rhythm Tengoku (Nintendo, Wii).UK: 1. Zumba Fitness (505 Games, Wii), 2. Just Dance 2 (Ubisoft, Wii), 3. Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Limited Edition (Square Enix, X360), 4. Michael Jackson