Charts: Japanese Hardware & Software
Posted 01 Apr 2005 at 14:41 by Ashley Jones
It seems that Japanese gamers love different colour consoles, because the launch of the black and white versions of the DS has caused unit sales to skyrocket for the week ending 27th March.
The first six titles are all occupied by new games, which the rest have been knocked down the charts. Donkey Konga 3 has managed to just hang in there this week, but next week it will probably be out of the charts.
| No. | Title | Publisher | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NEW | World Soccer Winning Eleven 8 Liveware Evolution PS2 - 238,293 | Konami |
| 2 | NEW | Wild Arms: The 4th Detonator PS2 - 131,380 | SCE |
| 3 | NEW | Touch! Kirby DS - 75,365 | Nintendo |
| 4 | NEW | Shining Force Neo PS2 - 62,775 | Sega |
| 5 | NEW | BLEACH ~Heat The Soul~ PSP - 36,678 | SCE |
| 6 | NEW | Egg Monster Hero DS - 31,219 | Square Enix |
| 7 | V | Shin Sangoku Musou 4 PS2 - 25,832 (824,804) | Koei |
| 8 | V | Phantom Kingdom PS2 - 17,431 (90,325) | Nippon Ichi Software |
| 9 | V | Harvest Moon: Corobockle Station DS - 16,925 (45,237) | Marvelous Interactive |
| 10 | V | Donkey Konga 3 GameCube - 15,681 (53,666) | Nintendo |
Japanese software charts are thanks to Media Create.
The DS manages to regain the top spot this week, due to newly released Black and White versions of the console. For those who wish to know, the total sales of the DS since launch now rest at 1,980,966 while the PSP has sold 1,105,415 since launch.
| No. | Console | Week Sales | Last Week Sales | Year Sales |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nintendo DS | 55,825 | 22,446 | 485,370 |
| 2 | PlayStation Portable | 43,043 | 43,644 | 623,163 |
| 3 | PlayStation 2 | 40,398 | 40,270 | 642,714 |
| 4 | Game Boy Advance SP | 14,904 | 11,013 | 212,760 |
| 5 | GameCube | 4,568 | 3,357 | 74,584 |
| 6 | Game Boy Advance | 653 | 477 | 6,906 |
| 7 | Xbox | 406 | 345 | 5,012 |
Japanese hardware charts are thanks to Media Create.
