Japan: MGS4 steps down for Taisen Wars, PSP still on top

Posted Jun 28, 2008 at 6:39AM EST by QJ Staff

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After a brief one-week run on top of the Japanese charts, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots has stepped down in favor of the PSP game, Super Robot Taisen Advance Portable. It's brief stay on top of the charts echoes the game's sales in Europe, where it also yielded after only a week on top.

New this week in the Japan charts in Mario Super Sluggers, otherwise known as Super Mario Stadium: Family Baseball in Japan. It's a surprisingly mediocre entry considering Japan's love for Mario games on the Wii. Here are the rest of the top games in Japan for the week ending on June 22.

Super Robot Taisen A Portable
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
Super Mario Stadium: Family Baseball
Harukanaru Toki no Naka de 4
Mario Kart Wii
Wii Fit
Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G
Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu Portable 3
DS Bimoji Training
Pro Yakyuu Team o Tsukurou!

On the hardware side of things, the PSP reigns on top once more, with a few hundred short of 60,000 units sold in Japan. The Wii, which ran second, sold little more than 41,000. Here are the hardware sales numbers in Japan for the same week:

PSP 59,351
Wii 41,037
DS Lite 36,599
PS3 20,336
PS2 6,346
Xbox 360 2,555

Via Media Create

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Japan week ending june 22? what's on japan "week ending mgs4"? it's really strange because i could have sworn seeing the ps3 hardware sales claiming top for the mgs4 launch week... but now... it's back below wii and ds? is this for real? was last week just a fluke because of mgs4 - everyone buying ps3 consoles and then now none? and then the week after... fall back down... man. the market's reeeeaaaally picky. blarrrrgh. that's so weird, o_0

# -.- — WiiCool 2008-06-29 14:45

Now i'm not sure if the japanese are buying the PSP b/c the slim version just looks better, or b/c they get cooler games. Either way, I'm pretty annoyed with the lack of PSP games...

I don't like GoW or Patapon or Crisis Core! What the heck is there other than that!

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