Charts: Latest Japanese Software & Hardware Sales
Posted 06 Nov 2006 at 04:49 by guest
In the week ending October 29th, Nintendo's latest "non-game" arrived for Japanese mass consumption.
Courtesy of Media-Create, we have the most recent sales figures from Japan.
The week saw several interesting developments: first off was the release of Nintendo's newest "Touch Generations" title Common Sense Training. If other Training games are any indication, get used to seeing the game on the charts for the next few weeks. Speaking of the Training games, the past week also marked the sudden disappearance of Brain Training 2 and Animal Crossing. Those titles had been such a fixture of the weekly charts that that their omission so suddenly is a bit jarring.
In other software news, the DS RPG Tales of the Tempest debuted solidly.
In hardware sales, the only notable shift came in a slight uptick of PSP sales. Otherwise, the field was again overshadowed by the DS juggernaut. The release of the PS3 and the Wii are getting closer and closer however...it may well become Wii versus the DS Lite in the marketplace come the holidays.
The weekly software numbers follow:
| No. | System | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DS | Common Sense Training 187,700 | Nintendo |
| 2 | DS | Pokemon Diamond 127,011 | Nintendo |
| 3 | DS | Tales of the Tempest 88,137 | Bandai Namco |
| 4 | DS | Pokemon Pearl 85,530 | Nintendo |
| 5 | PS2 | Utawareru Mono Chiriyuku Mono e-no Komori Uta 82,343 | Aquaplus |
| 6 | PSP | Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception 60,584 | Bandai Namco |
| 7 | PS2 | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood 20,406 | Bandai Namco |
| 8 | DS | Zaidan Houjin Nippon Kanji Nouryoku Kentei Kyoukai Kounin: KanKen DS 31,108 | Rocket Company |
| 9 | DS | New Super Mario Bros. 30,885 | Nintendo |
| 10 | PS2 | Yakuza (The Best) 29,854 | Sega |
The week's console numbers follow:
| No. | Console | Week Sales | Last Week Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nintendo DS Lite | 158,681 | 116,941 |
| 2 | PlayStation Portable | 25,908 | 20,271 |
| 3 | PlayStation 2 | 21,832 | 22,380 |
| 4 | Game Boy Advance SP | 1,858 | 2,421 |
| 5 | Xbox 360 | 1,565 | 1,287 |
| 6 | Game Boy Micro | 1,351 | 1,660 |
| 7 | GameCube | 644 | 638 |
| 8 | Nintendo DS | 114 | 130 |
