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Japan Weekly Sales (April 17th to April 23rd)

Posted Apr 27, 2006 at 1:44PM EST by QJ Staff

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This has been one hell of a week in Japan. The numbers will be posted first so you can reference to them as I explain exactly what happened.

Software
  1. GBA Mother 3 -  205,914 [NEW]
  2. PS2 Dragon Quest: Yangus - 127,502 [NEW]
  3. PS2 Final Fantasy XI: Treasures of Aht Urhgan - 75,983 [NEW]
  4. NDS Brain Training 2 - 70,831 [1,957,633]
  5. PSP Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai - 70,559 [NEW]
  6. PS2 Okami - 60,161 [NEW]
  7. NDS Brain Training - 48,493 [1,977,999]
  8. NDS Animal Crossing: Wild World - 42,994 [2,505,056]
  9. NDS English Training - 39,757 [886,471]
  10. NDS Pokemon Ranger: Road to Diamond and Pearl - 31,640 [390,641]
Hardware
  1. Nintendo DS Lite - 168,809 [996,546]
  2. PSP - 32,323 [3,325,005]
  3. PS2 - 25,763 [22,237,134]
  4. Game Boy Micro - 18,390 [492,074]
  5. GBA SP - 11,044 [15,609,281]
  6. Nintendo DS - 8,051 [6,435,397]
  7. Xbox 360 - 3,990 [111,546]
  8. Gamecube - 1,106 [4,098,383]
  9. GBA - 58 [???]
  10. Xbox - 16 [474,380]
This past week saw the release of a game that's been consistently on the Top 10 Most Wanted list of Famitsu for the past ten years. I am talking about Mother 3, the sequel to the game we know as Earthbound. Even though absolutely no information was revealed on the game for years, it's still been in the Top 10. It rose to the number one spot without any problem. In addition, not only did it outsell everything else, it spurred hardware sales to rise as well. The DS Lite, GB Micro, GBA SP, and GBA all sold more than they did last week. The GB Micro actually sold more than four times last week's figures while the GBA SP's almost doubled!

Also, we can now see that the original Nintendo DS is finally being sold out. It was the #2 console last week, but supplies must be almost used up with the arrival of the DS Lite. It might just make the push to 6.5 million sold before it's finally put to rest. The DS Lite on the other hand has almost certainly hit 1 million by now.

In other console news, the PSP beat out the PS2 for the first time in a while. However, numbers are unimpressive when you consider the fact that the White PSP Core System launched last week. It also beat the original DS, something it doesn't exactly do regularly, but that's not really saying anything anymore. Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai did make the top 5 though. The highly anticipated Okami hit PS2s and so did Dragon Quest: Yangus. Both cracked the top 10.

Good news for Xbox 360 fans, its sales were also more than double last week's amount, mostly due to the #11 game of the week, Ninety-Nine Nights. Hopefully games like Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey will also spur sales.



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# ahhGuest 2006-04-27 16:37
haha psp suks, software wise ds rules (software wise) sup, Iregret buying a psp i shoulda buy a DS noooooo.

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# wowazary1010 2006-04-27 16:46
i wish i had a psp

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# wowArchimedes 2006-04-27 16:59
I'm a little surpised the xbox 360 outsold the gamecube :P

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# OkamiGuest 2006-04-27 17:13
I have Okami, this game will sell more, it's the best ****ing game ever made, I swear to gods.

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# reGuest 2006-04-27 17:41
what company made and published earthbound and what company made and published mother 3? couldnt they port it to the psp?

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# lol!DarkLegacy 2006-04-27 17:46
lol, well, I am glad the Xbox 360 outsold something. Such a damn bias market I tell you when it comes to gaming XD.

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# Holy s***!FreePlay 2006-04-27 17:54
Mother 3? The sequel to Earthbound! Holy s***, I've been waiting almost ten years for this!

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# ArrrgGuest 2006-04-27 18:14
Holy crap, I still have a horrible twitch reaction hearing the name Earthbound. Very few games occupy that dark corner of my mind. A special area reserved only for the very worst of all time. Games that I can only wish to forget, yet I can not. I even remember the "scratch and sniff" cards that the game came with. They were supposed to let you see what the characters smelled like.



THEY ALL SMELLED LIKE POOP!



Oh god, and the game ended with putting their minds in gay little trashcan robot bodies for the final climactic battle. Why cant they just let this horrid game dissapear into the bowels of gaming history?

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# Will never come to the PSPGuest 2006-04-27 18:17
The can't and will not port it to the PSP. Thank god for that. EarthBound is a nintneod franchise.

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# Mother 3 (Earthound 2)Guest 2006-04-27 18:32
Finally! I remember getting all excited about the N64 version, only to see it cancelled. Woohoooooooo! Glad they released in on GBA; the DS port may have taken until 2020 to complete.



Also glad it wasn't released on the Revolution. Who wants to play with Mother Wii? (huhuhuhuh... he said wee)

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# wowGuest 2006-04-27 19:20
I don't understand why mother 3 is so big. A time will come with the psp gba emulator will be perfect, so in essence mother 3 or earth bound is a psp game as well as a gba game.

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# reGuest 2006-04-27 21:48
no casue no one will translate it for at least a few yrs and nitnendo is probably not gonna release it in the west.

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# Amma 3Guest 2006-04-27 22:18
I've had mother 3 for a while now & I cant even get past the first page. Not because I'm retarded but I can't understand Jap.



lololol



PSP emulated gba roms will always be painfuly slow.

Thats a promise. Unless there will soon be a PSP2 then do not hold your breath for complex games to ever run at full speed on the P(Slow)P no matter what firmware yours is.



Q.E.D



Prognosis:- buy a 2nd hand gb micro for 40 bones

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# WHOAH!!!RaiderX 2006-04-27 23:46
WHEN THE HELL WAS MOTHER 3 RELEASED!??!?!?!?!?!? Im gonna have tio search for info and a dump of that, hopefully its like the old Mother 1 and 2

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# YESGuest 2006-04-28 03:10
finnaly earthbound was the greatest rpg ever released on SNES and ive been waiting for this game forever, hope we get a western release sometime soon

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# Attn RaiderX:akuma2099 2006-04-28 03:14
Mother 3 was released on the 20th of this month in Japan. I have been playing it since then via a rom dump. It is alot like the previous versions so if you like those then you will like it too. It is only available in Japanese right now but fortunately I can understand it.

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# Bring the white PSP to the USTheProfessor 2006-04-28 05:05
Sony should just concentrate more on the West.



Bring the white psp over here and it will sell out instantly. Come on sony the japanese know nothing about style.



Can't wait until Roco Loco comes out in japan and when good RPGs come out for the PSP, it will take off and never look back. Also there is a rumor that Squeenix is planning to show a DragonQuest game for the PSP. Then we can start making comparisons.



I'm really happy the DS is killing in Japan though. It has many good games and its making sony and others realease better and better games for the PSP (which is an amazing machine by any standards). The hendheld market will finally balance itself by christmas.

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# AWWW YEAH!!!!!RaiderX 2006-04-28 16:02
I got a rom of Mother 3, and it kicks ass!!!! I wodul leanr Japanese for this!!! but Im gonan wait for the english version to fully play ti cuz I dont even know half of wut Im doing right now, lol, but its still aweosme in Jap,a nd ti folows EB a lot!! I cant wait for the US version!!

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# Cool New WebsiteGuest 2006-04-29 00:50
Check out this cool new website http://s3.invisionfree.com/Psp_Guides/

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# Go Mother 3Guest 2006-04-30 06:05
Keep topping those charts and prolonging the period of 2D RPGs. ;)

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