Charts: Latest Japanese Software & Hardware Sales
Posted 28 Nov 2006 at 07:12 by guest
Despite PS3 Week Two, Japan still DS territory in the week ending November 19th.
Courtesy of Media-Create, we have the most recent sales figures from Japan.
The software charts were led by the latest in Koei's popular line of games set in ancient China. Overall, the top 10 was split between new titles for the stalwart PS2 and steady sellers for the ever-popular DS. Note the complete absence of PS3 games from the list...in fact, the highest PS3 title ranked in at 16 (Namco's Ridge Racer 6). It will be interesting to see whether Wii software will fare similarly once Nintendo's newest console launches in Japan.
In hardware, week two of the PS3 era proved underwhelming yet again. The DS Lite continued to swallow up Japanese converts as Sony again wallowed in the pit of their supply problems. The Wii is less than two weeks away now.
The weekly software numbers follow:
| No. | System | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PS2 | Sengoku Musou 2 Empires 97,170 | Koei |
| 2 | DS | Common Sense Training 78,722 | Nintendo |
| 3 | DS | Pokemon Diamond 68,147 | Nintendo |
| 4 | DS | Pokemon Pearl 57,627 | Nintendo |
| 5 | DS | Hoshi no Kirby 52,177 | Nintendo |
| 6 | DS | Magic Taizen 28,215 | Nintendo |
| 7 | DS | New Super Mario Bros. 22,986 | Nintendo |
| 8 | PS2 | Yakuza PS2 The Best 21,154 | Sega |
| 9 | DS | Brain Age 2 19,349 | Nintendo |
| 10 | PS2 | Naruto Kinoho Spirits 19,277 | Bandai-Namco |
The week's console numbers follow:
| No. | Console | Week Sales | Last Week Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nintendo DS Lite | 128,621 | 148,174 |
| 2 | PlayStation 3 | 42,099 | 81,639 |
| 3 | PlayStation Portable | 16,690 | 19,123 |
| 4 | PlayStation 2 | 15,068 | 16,157 |
| 5 | Xbox 360 | 4,050 | 3,864 |
| 6 | Game Boy Advance SP | 1,199 | 1,320 |
| 7 | Game Boy Micro | 1,037 | 1,213 |
| 8 | GameCube | 514 | 496 |
