Japan video game sales charts: Last week's top 10

Posted Mar 18, 2007 at 3:03PM by QJ Staff Listed in: News, Games Tags: Japan, PS2, Sony
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Yoshi's Island 2 packshot - Image 1Portable video game consoles appear to reign once again, as we bring in last week's hardware sales in Japan. Reports show that Yoshi's Island 2 for the DS leads the pack with a little over 300,000 sales in its first week in Japan, while the rest of the top ten is dotted by other DS games like Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker.

The reports also show Japan's mecha fever has simmered down considerably, with Gundam Musou (PlayStation 3) and Super Robot Wars W now lowered to seventh and fifth place respectively. On the plus side for PSP fans, the previously record-breaking game Monster Hunter Portable 2 holds fast to its place among the chart's top ten, at a little more than 90,000 units sold for last week alone.

As for the week's console sales, the Wii led the pack with 44,495 consoles sold, followed by the PlayStation 3 (32,115), the PlayStation 2 (14,585), and the Xbox 360 (3333).
  1. Yoshi's Island DS: 303,114 (DS)
  2. Monster Hunter Portable 2: 93,099 (PSP)
  3. Layton Kyoujo no Fushigi na Machi: 45,344 (DS)
  4. Kenka Banchou 2: Full Throttle: 42,131 (PS2)
  5. Super Robot Taisen W: 36,310 (DS)
  6. Wii Sports: 35,298 (Wii)
  7. Gundam Musou: 31,145 (PS3)
  8. Dragon Quest Monsters – Joker: 26,452 (DS)
  9. Wii Play: 26,340 (Wii)
  10. Motto Nou o Kitaeru Otona DS Training: 20,716 (DS)


Via Games Industry

 
 
 

Comments

by - 2007-03-18 15:36:45
awesome

monster hunter still strong
by - 2007-03-18 15:42:06
s

its all nintendo and sony same will befor europe and soon u.s
by - 2007-03-18 16:07:37
Nice

PS3 goin good there. Surprised lol, thought it would be ignored in Japan :p
by - 2007-03-18 16:46:20
Amazing

The Japanese just can't get enough of smelly Nintendo DS arse. Weirdos!
by - 2007-03-18 17:34:36
l

The japanese seem to love cheap new things, but oh, the PSP and the PS3 arent so cheap are they.... oh well.
by - 2007-03-19 04:05:04
???

WTF, how come none of the games on the 360 made the top ten?

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