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Popular TagsWii Fit Topples PlayStation 3 Lifetime Sales in Japan
on 24.05.2008 at 12:43
Posted by Adam Riley (jesusraz)
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Media Create, Battalion Wars II, Luminous Arc
Posted by Adam Riley (jesusraz) Tags:
Media Create, Battalion Wars II, Luminous Arc Recent News
The full Media Create software and hardware charts have been updated and it has been revealed that the Wii Fit package, including the Balance Board, has now surpassed the lifetime sales of the PlayStation 3 in Japan, with Sony's console falling to almost its lowest ever ranking and Wii Fit still selling considerably well on a week-to-week basis. Elsewhere, in the fallout after the Golden Week holiday period, Monster Hunter nudges back ahead of Mario Kart Wii, whilst the PlayStation Portable continues its stint atop the hardware chart. There are also strong starts for Luminous Arc 2 on DS and Battalion Wars II on Wii, both starting slightly stronger than their previous editions.
Media Create Top 50:
Stick around for more Media Create updates next week...
Media Create Top 50:
12th-18th May, 2008
| Position | Title/System/Publisher | Sales (Plus Total Where Available & Commentary) |
| 1.) | Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (PSP, Capcom) | 53,248 | 2,045,000 |
| 2.) | Mario Kart Wii (Wii, Nintendo) | 41,739 | 1,269,000 |
| 3.) | Luminous Arc 2: Will (NDS, Marvelous Entertainment) | 40,753 | NEW |
| 4.) | Bleach: Heat the Soul 5 (PSP, Sony) | 39,403 | NEW |
| 5.) | Wii Fit (Wii, Nintendo) | 34,847 | 2,074,000 |
| 6.) | Battalion Wars II (Wii, Nintendo) | 24,213 | NEW |
| 7.) | DS Beautiful Letter Training (NDS, Nintendo) | 15,477 | 218,000 |
| 8.) | Link's Crossbow Training (Wii, Nintendo) | 14,442 | 156,000 |
| 9.) | Drum Master DS: Seven Island Adventure (NDS, Bandai-Namco) | 14,182 | 147,000 |
| 10.) | Wii Sports (Wii, Nintendo) | 10,206 | 2,989,000 |
| 11.) | Pokémon Ranger: Batonnage (NDS, The Pokémon Company) | Dropping from No.6 |
| 12.) | The ColoUr Blue (PS2, Success) | New entry |
| 13.) | Musou Orochi: The Evil King Returns (PS2, Koei) | Back up three places |
| 14.) | Valkyria Chronicles (PS3, Sega) | Climbing one |
| 15.) | Mario Kart DS (NDS, Nintendo) | Falling three |
| 16.) | We're Fossil Diggers (NDS, Nintendo) | Dropping from No.9 |
| 17.) | Wii Play (Wii, Nintendo) | Falling six |
| 18.) | Tottado! Yowiko's Deserted Island Life (NDS, Bandai-Namco) | Sliding four places |
| 19.) | Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii, Nintendo) | Falling quickly, down nine |
| 20.) | Deca Sporta (Wii, Hudson) | Plummeting from No.7 |
| 21.) | SimCity DS 2: From the Past to the Future (NDS, EA) | Leaping back up six spots |
| 22.) | Kanji Brain Test 2.5M (NDS, IE Institute) | Climbing three |
| 23.) | The Darkness (360, Spike) | New entry |
| 24.) | New Super Mario Bros. (NDS, Nintendo) | Slipping five spots |
| 25.) | Home Teacher Hitman Reborn! DS: Fate of Heat (NDS, Takara-Tomy) | Dropping from No.17 |
| 26.) | Pro Baseball Spirits 5 (PS2, Konami) | Sliding three |
| 27.) | Gyakuten Saiban (NDS, Capcom) | Back up four places |
| 28.) | Emblem of Gundam (NDS, Bandai-Namco) | Back down six places |
| 29.) | Professor Layton and the Curious Village (NDS, Level 5) | Re-entry for the first entry in the series |
| 30.) | Crayon Shin-chan: Arashi wo Yobu Cinema Land (NDS, Banpresto) | Dropping six places |
| 31.) | Pokémon Diamond (NDS, The Pokémon Company) | Back up two as Pokémon fever starts to creep back up in Japan |
| 32.) | Gyakuten Saiban 3 (NDS, Capcom) | Leaping back up nine places |
| 33.) | Professor Layton and Pandora's Box (NDS, Level 5) | Re-entry for the second game in the series |
| 34.) | Animal Crossing Wild World (NDS, Nintendo) | Falling just four spots |
| 35.) | Mario Party DS (NDS, Nintendo) | Dropping surprisingly quickly from No.18 |
| 36.) | Gyakuten Saiban 4 (NDS, Capcom) | Back up six places |
| 37.) | Naruto: Shippuuden Shinobi Retsuden II (NDS, Takara-Tomy) | Quickly down from No.20 |
| 38.) | Yatterman DS: Surprising, Startling Battle (NDS, Takara-Tomy) | Falling hard, down from No.21 |
| 39.) | Harvest Moon: Shining Sun and Friends (NDS, Marvelous Entertainment) | Considering the previous game sold nearly 300,000, this is sadly only just over 100,000 and down five this week |
| 40.) | Gyakuten Saiban 2 (NDS, Capcom) | Jumping back up six |
| 41.) | Kanji Test 2 (NDS, Rocket Co.) | Down two places |
| 42.) | Pokémon Pearl (NDS, The Pokémon Company) | Down six places |
| 43.) | DS Bookkeeping, Level 3 (NDS, Square-Enix) | Re-entry |
| 44.) | More English Training (NDS, Nintendo) | Back up five |
| 45.) | Drum Master DS (NDS, Bandai-Namco) | Falling quickly from No.29 |
| 46.) | Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games (NDS, Nintendo) | Plummeting twenty places! |
| 47.) | Everyone's General Knowledge Training TV (Wii, Nintendo) | Back down from No.35, despite renewed advertising on the Nintendo Channel |
| 48.) | There in Japan (PSP, Sony) | Down a further eight |
| 49.) | Pro Baseball Spirits 5 (PS3, Konami) | Sliding four |
| 50.) | Go, Gen-san! Sunset Carpenter Story (PSP, Irem) | New entry |
Media Create Hardware Chart
| Format | This Week | Last Week | 2008 Sales | Lifetime Sales |
| PlayStation Portable | 70,536 | 89,884 | 1,754,623 | 9,356,217 |
| Wii | 41,572 | 67,308 | 1,419,792 | 6,035,952 |
| Nintendo DS | 34,905 | 51,228 | 1,378,157 | 22,551,208 |
| PlayStation 3 | 7,701 | 8,054 | 408,602 | 2,050,278 |
| PlayStation 2 | 7,022 | 7,464 | 221,294 | 21,148,331 |
| Xbox 360 | 1,474 | 1,298 | 56,501 | 563,842 |
Stick around for more Media Create updates next week...
More on Battalion Wars 2 (Wii)
Developer: Kuju Entertainment
Publisher: Nintendo
Genre: Sport
Players: 4
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D_prOdigy Reply Quote #1
L13 Spore Spawn
124 
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23.03.2008 
D_prOdigyI'm glad BWii did well. That jewel of a game deserves it.
jesusraz Reply Quote #2
News Editor
10643 431 22.01.2003 noneIt's worth noting that Luminous Arc 2 started stronger than the original and the first BW sold 21,516 in its first week, tapping out at just over 55,000 sales in total. Looks like the Wii edition could improve upon that.
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Fenton Reply Quote #3
L83 Hyper Knuckles
3379 150 03.07.2004 noneThis just shows how different the japaneese are to the west.
PSP is right on top. Whereas here I cant remember the last time I even heard the mention of PSP, almost as if it quietly slipped away and died.
Pretty suprising that PS2 sales for the week are almost the same as PS3 sales. The PS2 stopped being receiving 'top' games after 2005. Now halfway through 2008, PS3 *should* be doing better than this.
Im fairly sure the PS2 was selling more than the PS1 in 2003.
PSP is right on top. Whereas here I cant remember the last time I even heard the mention of PSP, almost as if it quietly slipped away and died.
Pretty suprising that PS2 sales for the week are almost the same as PS3 sales. The PS2 stopped being receiving 'top' games after 2005. Now halfway through 2008, PS3 *should* be doing better than this.
Im fairly sure the PS2 was selling more than the PS1 in 2003.
Linkyshinks Reply Quote #4
L100 Eternal Master
6649 714 15.02.2007 LinkyshinksI am not that surprised Bwii is doing well there, it's got a style and gameplay mechanic that Japanese players were always going to like.
Some may even think it's a Japanese developed game because of the name Kuju, which means...something in Japanese I cannot remember just now.
Well if it does do well there it could bode well for another game. The Voice Chat system should be running by then.
Some may even think it's a Japanese developed game because of the name Kuju, which means...something in Japanese I cannot remember just now.
Well if it does do well there it could bode well for another game. The Voice Chat system should be running by then.
D_prOdigy Reply Quote #5
L13 Spore Spawn
124 14 23.03.2008 D_prOdigyKuju are already working on multiple projects.
Plus, the ending of BWii certainly left it open for another. Man, the online on that game sapped so much of my life away.
Plus, the ending of BWii certainly left it open for another. Man, the online on that game sapped so much of my life away.
aburnett Reply Quote #6
L8 Floating Lakitu
78 21 30.09.2007 noneSo a third of all Wii owners in Japan own Wii Fit...
Interesting.
Interesting.
mOojc Reply Quote #7
L93 Shadow Priest
4323 170 06.06.2004 mOojcGood to see Luminous Arc 2 doing so well. I enjoyed the first one.
Megadanxzero Reply Quote #8
L100 Eternal Master
5512 447 24.03.2006 MegadanX 0Damnit, I thought this was going to be a thread about a video of 'Wii Fit Topless Play'. That would have been a hilarious typoStill a proud member of the 'omfg amazing water in games' society
jesusraz Reply Quote #9
News Editor
10643 431 22.01.2003 noneIf The Sun newspaper doesn't do something like that I'd be very surprised, since it's done topless Wii Sports in the past...
And to think the Balance Board, which many thought wouldn't take off like it has done, has managed to quickly out-sell the PS3 is pretty shocking.
Nice to see both Layton games pop back into the chart. I wonder if there was a price promotion or something, like with the four Ace Attorney games?
Cubed³ Senior Editor :: Lead Writer :: News & Interviews Editor
And to think the Balance Board, which many thought wouldn't take off like it has done, has managed to quickly out-sell the PS3 is pretty shocking.
Nice to see both Layton games pop back into the chart. I wonder if there was a price promotion or something, like with the four Ace Attorney games?
Cubed³ Senior Editor :: Lead Writer :: News & Interviews Editor
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