Charts: Japanese Hardware & Software
Posted 20 Mar 2005 at 20:29 by Ashley Jones
Find out what games are riding high and which are crashing out for the week ending 13th March.
Shin Sangoku Musou 4 manages to cling onto the top spot for a third week in a row now, impressive for an often-changing chart such as these. There are a few new DS and GBA titles, but nothing new for the GameCube as Star Fox Assault slips down to the ninth position.
| No. | Title | Publisher | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | - | Shin Sangoku Musou 4 PS2 - 61,920 (760,978) | Koei |
| 2 | NEW | Sangokushi X PS2 - 30,541 | Koei |
| 3 | V | Tales of Eternia GBA - 30,489 (111,139) | Namco |
| 4 | NEW | Pac Pix DS - 30,173 | Namco |
| 5 | NEW | Sennen Kazoku GBA - 27,552 | Nintendo |
| 6 | NEW | Meteos DS - 22,304 | Bandai |
| 7 | V | Dragon Ball Z3 PS2 - 18,050 (606,267) | Bandai |
| 8 | NEW | Ys Napishtim no Hako PS2 - 16,490 | Konami |
| 9 | V | Star Fox Assault GameCube - 15,240 (125,573) | Nintendo |
| 10 | V | Rockman X8 PS2 - 14,927 | Capcom |
Japanese software charts are thanks to Media Create.
The consoles themselves stay in the same place this week. The top selling ones have generally sold less than the previous week, but interestingly the consoles toward the bottom have sold more.
| No. | Console | Week Sales | Last Week Sales | Year Sales |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PlayStation Portable | 46,307 | 47,633 | 536,476 |
| 2 | PlayStation 2 | 41,349 | 44,228 | 562,046 |
| 3 | Nintendo DS | 26,537 | 25,759 | 407,099 |
| 4 | Game Boy Advance SP | 14,596 | 12,307 | 186,753 |
| 5 | GameCube | 4,245 | 3,635 | 66,659 |
| 6 | Game Boy Advance | 616 | 398 | 5,776 |
| 7 | Xbox | 244 | 177 | 4,261 |
Japanese hardware charts are thanks to Media Create.
