Charts: Japanese Hardware & Software
Posted 28 Apr 2005 at 15:51 by Ashley Jones
These charts are just preliminary ones so they are missing the hardware charts and the numbers are rounded. However, good news for Nintendo as Nintendogs sells more than expected and Fire Emblem: Souen no Kiseki enters the charts at number two. Charts are for the week ending April 24th.
It is a good week for Nintendo, as Nintendogs surpasses the previously expected sales and actually sold 182,000 units. As well as this Fire Emblem: Souen no Kiseki also sold 102,000, meaning Nintendo are in the money this week. This also means that Nintendogs is the highest grossing game on the DS, surpassing Super Mario 64 DS.
| No. | Title | Publisher | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NEW | Romancing SaGa: Minstrel Song PS2 - 216,904 | Square Enix |
| 2 | NEW | Fire Emblem: Souen no Kiseki GameCube - 102,073 | Nintendo |
| 3 | NEW | Naruto 3 for DSDS - 84,195 | Tomy |
| 4 | NEW | nintendogs: Shiba and friends DS - 82,585 | Nintendo |
| 5 | NEW | nintendogs: Dachs and friends DS - 52,263 | Nintendo |
| 6 | NEW | nintendogs: Chihuahua and friends DS - 45,826 | Nintendo |
| 7 | NEW | Baseball Live 2005 PS2 - 43,852 | Namco |
| 8 | NEW | Rockman Zero 4 GBA - 37,973 | Capcom |
| 9 | V | Gundam: One Year War - Bandai PS2 - 29,592 (234,332) | Bandai |
| 10 | NEW | Shutokou Battle PSP - 29,473 | Genki |
Japanese software charts are thanks to Media Create.
The hardware charts have now been released, and the Nintendo DS sold very well, becoming the number one selling console for the week in question. The GameCube also saw good sales, due to Fire Emblem: Souen no Kiseki.
| No. | Console | Week Sales | Last Week Sales | Year Sales | Total Sales |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nintendo DS | 96,191 | 21,698 | 675,310 | 2,171,906 |
| 2 | PlayStation 2 | 33,080 | 30,572 | 788,353 | - |
| 3 | PlayStation Portable | 33,004 | 28,950 | 757,876 | 1,230,128 |
| 4 | Game Boy Advance SP | 10,820 | 10,529 | 265,512 | 5,260,474 |
| 5 | GameCube | 8,329 | 3,376 | 93,449 | - |
| 6 | Game Boy Advance | 422 | 397 | 9,146 | - |
| 7 | Xbox | 112 | 315 | 6,089 | - |
Japanese hardware charts are thanks to Media Create.
