Charts: Latest Japanese Software & Hardware Sales
Posted 22 Oct 2006 at 02:35 by guest
Pokemon continues its assualt on the DS market in the week ending October 15th.
Courtesy of Media-Create, we have the most recent sales figures from Japan.
Pokemon continued its strong sales in again taking two of the top three slots. Notably, Final Fantasy V Advance was released as well to solid sales. Final Fantasy III meanwhile sunk out of the top 10 for the first time since it's release.
Hardware sales continued to follow the popular trend of feeding the DS behemoth. The GBA recieved a boost meanwhile, likely due to the release of FF V.
The weekly software numbers follow:
| No. | System | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DS | Pokemon Diamond 159,443 | Nintendo |
| 2 | GBA | Final Fantasy V Advance 124,840 | Square-Enix |
| 3 | DS | Pokemon Pearl 116,051 | Nintendo |
| 4 | PS2 | DragonBall Z Sparking NEO 67,642 | Bandai Namco |
| 5 | DS | New Super Mario Bros. 40,609 | Nintendo |
| 6 | DS | Zaidan Houjin Nippon Kanji Nouryoku Kentei Kyoukai Kounin: KanKen DS 36,622 | Rocket Company |
| 7 | DS | DS Training For Adults: Work Your Brain More 25,758 | Nintendo |
| 8 | PS2 | Bleach: Blade Battlers 25,203 | SCE |
| 9 | DS | Animal Crossing Wild World 23,627 | Nintendo |
| 10 | PS2 | Everyone's Tennis 22,599 | SCE |
The week's console numbers follow:
| No. | Console | Week Sales | Last Week Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nintendo DS Lite | 104,487 | 124,137 |
| 2 | PlayStation 2 | 24,727 | 28,264 |
| 3 | PlayStation Portable | 21,603 | 21,050 |
| 4 | Game Boy Advance SP | 2,299 | 1,532 |
| 5 | Xbox 360 | 1,743 | 2,101 |
| 6 | Game Boy Micro | 1,714 | 1,273 |
| 7 | GameCube | 653 | 488 |
| 8 | Nintendo DS | 273 | 260 |
