Charts: Japanese Hardware & Software
Posted 24 Jan 2005 at 21:36 by Ashley Jones
It's all change in Japan for the week ending January 16th, 2005. The PSP has outsold the DS, and there's a new Game Boy Advance title at number one!
It seems that the Japanese just can't get enough of Mario Party, so they have purchased the new Game Boy Advance Mario Party Adavance title. What is interesting to note that is even though the PSP outsold the DS the software sales are still strongly in favour of the DS.
| No. | Title | Publisher | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NEW | Mario Party Advance GBA - 67,927 (67,927) | Nintendo |
| 2 | V | Gran Turismo 4 PS2 - 63,584 (843,340) | SCE |
| 3 | NEW | The Story of Hero Yoshitsune PS2 - 41,927 (41,927) | From Software |
| 4 | V | Sawaru Made in Wario DS - 33,537 (575,069) | Nintendo |
| 5 | ^ | DQ & FF in Itadaki Street Special PS2 - 25,264 (299,989) | Square-Enix |
| 6 | - | Dragon Quest VIII PS2 - 23,858 (3,235,861) | Namco |
| 7 | V | Super Mario 64 DS DS - 22,671 (593,831) | Nintendo |
| 8 | NEW | Everybody's Golf Portable PSP - 18,682 (18,682) | SCE |
| 9 | V | Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater PS2 - 18,166 (790,518) | Konami |
| 10 | NEW | Shin Sangoku Musou PSP - 17,070 (17,070) | Koei |
Japanese software charts are thanks to Media Create.
As stated before, the PSP has outsold the DS this week. However the hardware sales remain as tight as always, but those towards the lower end have seen a huge dip since last week.
| No. | Console | Week Sales | Year Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PlayStation 2 | 65,837 | 189,238 |
| 2 | Sony PSP | 64,602 | 126,654 |
| 3 | Nintendo DS | 53,527 | 162,088 |
| 4 | Game Boy Advance SP | 18,289 | 89,140 |
| 5 | GameCube | 7,475 | 27,178 |
| 6 | Game Boy Advance | 588 | 2,307 |
| 7 | Xbox | 506 | 1,685 |
Japanese hardware charts are thanks to Media Create.
