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CommunityDragon Quest V on Nintendo DS Passes 1 Million
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Dragon Quest V on DS has now reached total sales of a million in just four weeks in Japan, whereas DQIV did it in six at the end of last year. Check out the first set of listings from 4th-10th August below:
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And then last week's chart showed that the Japanese holiday of Obon lifted several games to a much higher status, with Rhythm Tengoku Gold shooting up to claim the No.1 spot, Taiko no Tatsujin 2 and Band Bros. DX re-entering the Top 10 and Wario Land: The Shake Dimension sneaking its way to the 100,000 mark after a terribly slow start.
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4th-10th August, 2008
| Position | Title/System/Publisher | Sales (Plus Total Where Available & Commentary) |
| 1.) | Phantasy Star Portable (PSP, SEGA) | 148,230 | 490,000 |
| 2.) | Fire Emblem: New Shadow Dragons and the Blade of Light (NDS, Nintendo) | 144,905 | NEW |
| 3.) | Rhythm Tengoku Gold (NDS, Nintendo) | 130,412 | 343,000 |
| 4.) | Tales of Vesperia (360, Namco Bandai) | 108,328 | NEW |
| 5.) | Dragon Quest V (NDS, Square Enix) | 72,598 | 1,019,000 |
| 6.) | Sangokushi Taisen Ten (NDS, SEGA) | 32,734 | NEW |
| 7.) | Summon Night 2 (NDS, Namco Bandai) | 29,715 | NEW |
| 8.) | Wii Fit (Wii, Nintendo) | 27,414 | 2,470,000 |
| 9.) | Mario Kart Wii (Wii, Nintendo) | 22,739 | 1,656,000 |
| 10.) | Soul Calibur IV (PS3, Namco Bandai) | 22,575 | 97,000 |
| 11.) | Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 15 (PS2, Konami) | |
| 12.) | Code Geass: Hangyaku no Lelouch R2 - Banjou no Geass Gekijou (NDS, Namco Bandai) | 17,000 | NEW |
| 13.) | Monster Hunter Portable 2 G (PSP, Capcom) | 16,000 | 2,374,000 |
| 14.) | Daigasso! Band Brothers DX (NDS, Nintendo) | 15,000 | 246,000 |
| 15.) | Wario Land: Shake It! (Wii, Nintendo) | 15,000 | 58,000 |
| 16.) | Soukoku no Kusabi: Hiiro no Kakera 3 (PS2, Idea Factory) | 11,000 | NEW |
| 17.) | Gundam Battle Universe (PSP, Namco Bandai) | 11,000 | 220,000 |
| 18.) | Monster Farm DS 2: Yomigaeru! Master Breeder Densetsu (NDS, Tecmo) | 11,000 | NEW |
| 19.) | Beautiful Letter Training DS (NDS, Nintendo) | |
| 20.) | Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse (Wii, Nintendo) | 11,000 | 39,000 |
| 21.) | Wii Sports (Wii, Nintendo) | |
| 22.) | Drum Master 2 (NDS, Namco Bandai) | 11,000 | 274,000 |
| 23.) | Persona 4 (PS2, Atlus) | |
| 24.) | Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu Portable 3 (PSP, Konami) | |
| 25.) | Soul Calibur IV (360, Namco Bandai) | 9,300 | 42,000 |
| 26.) | Katekyoo Hitman Reborn! DS Flame Rumble Hyper (NDS, Takara Tomy) | |
| 27.) | Densetsu no Stafi: Taiketsu! Dire Kaizokudan (NDS, Nintendo) | |
| 28.) | Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 15 (Wii, Konami) | 9,300 | 36,000 |
| 29.) | SIREN: New Translation (PS3, SCEI) | |
| 30.) | Super Mario Stadium: Family Baseball (Wii, Nintendo) | 9,300 | 149,000 |
| 31.) | Mario Kart DS (NDS, Nintendo) | 9,300 | 3,160,000 |
| 32.) | Mame Goma 2: Uchi no Ko ga Ichiban! (NDS, TDK Core) | |
| 33.) | Wii Play (Wii, Nintendo) | 6,200 | 2,445,000 |
| 34.) | Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriot (PS3, Konami) | |
| 35.) | Wantame Variety Channel (NDS, Capcom) | |
| 36.) | New Super Mario Bros. (NDS, Nintendo) | 6,200 | 5,249,000 |
| 37.) | Ron-Q! Highland in DS - Poo Poo Seijin Arawareru! (NDS, 3 O'Clock) | 4,400 | NEW |
| 38.) | Family Trainer (Wii, Namco Bandai) | |
| 39.) | Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure (NDS, Nippon Ichi Software) | 4,400 | NEW |
| 40.) | Kirarin * Revolution: Minna de Odorou Furi Furi Debut! (NDS, Konami) | |
| 41.) | Derby Stallion DS (NDS, Enterbrain) | |
| 42.) | Trauma Centre: Under the Knife 2 (NDS, Atlus) | 4,400 | NEW |
| 43.) | Pok?n Diamond (NDS, The Pok?n Company) | Both this and Pearl are now at 5,551,000 according to Famitsu |
| 44.) | Eiyuu Densetsu: Sora no Kiseki the 3rd (PSP, Falcom) | |
| 45.) | Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii, Nintendo) | |
| 46.) | We are Fossil Diggers (NDS, Nintendo) | |
| 47.) | Imabikisou: Kaimei Hen (Wii, SEGA) | 3,100 | NEW |
| 48.) | Tottadoo! Yoiko's Deserted Island Life (NDS, Namco Bandai) | |
| 49.) | Major DS: Dream Baseball (NDS, Takara Tomy) | |
| 50.) | Lost in Blue (Wii, Konami) 3,000 | NEW |
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| Format | This Week | Last Week | 2008 Sales | Lifetime Sales |
| Nintendo DS | 60,434 | 57,398 | 1,938,946 | 23,111,550 |
| PlayStation Portable | 59,351 | 64,675 | 2,077,100 | 10,112,156 |
| Wii | 58,501 | 61,181 | 2,510,556 | 6,563,305 |
| Xbox 360 | 24,962 | 5,359 | 120,598 | 627,939 |
| PlayStation 3 | 9,673 | 9,508 | 618,991 | 2,260,667 |
| PlayStation 2 | 8,503 | 9,045 | 235,686 | 21,162,723 |
And then last week's chart showed that the Japanese holiday of Obon lifted several games to a much higher status, with Rhythm Tengoku Gold shooting up to claim the No.1 spot, Taiko no Tatsujin 2 and Band Bros. DX re-entering the Top 10 and Wario Land: The Shake Dimension sneaking its way to the 100,000 mark after a terribly slow start.
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11th-17th August, 2008
| Position | Title/System/Publisher | Sales (Plus Total Where Available & Commentary) |
| 1.) | Rhythm Tengoku Gold (NDS, Nintendo) | 137,000 | 480,000 |
| 2.) | Phantasy Star Portable (PSP, SEGA) | 74,000 | 564,000 |
| 3.) | Dragon Quest V (NDS, Square Enix) | 74,000 | 1,092,000 |
| 4.) | Wii Fit (Wii, Nintendo) | 47,000 | 2,516,000 |
| 5.) | Mario Kart Wii (Wii, Nintendo) | 36,000 | 1,692,000 |
| 6.) | Fire Emblem DS (NDS, Nintendo) | 35,000 | 180,000 |
| 7.) | Band Brothers DX (NDS, Nintendo) | 24,000 | 280,000 |
| 8.) | Taiko Drum Master 2 (NDS, Namco Bandai) | 20,000 | 282,000 |
| 9.) | Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 15 (PS2, Konami) | 19,000 | 161,000 |
| 10.) | Wario Land: The Shake Dimension (Wii, Nintendo) | 18,000 | 76,000 |
| 11.) | Tales of Vesperia (360, Namco Bandai) | Amazingly not dropping anywhere near as heavily as 360 games normally do in Japan, and apparently causing hardware sellouts due to unexpected high demand, 18,000 | 120,000 |
| 12.) | Monster Hunter Portable 2 G (PSP, Capcom) | 17,000 | 2,388,000 |
| 13.) | Wii Sports (Wii, Nintendo) | 17,000 | 3,095,000 |
| 14.) | Soul Calibur IV (PS3, Namco Bandai) | 12,000 | 104,000 |
| 15.) | Powerful Pros Portable 3 (PSP, Konami) | |
| 16.) | Mario Kart DS (NDS, Nintendo) | 12,000 | 3,174,000 |
| 17.) | Densetsu no Stafi: Taiketsu! (NDS, Nintendo) | Not doing as well as Stafi 4 on DS, perhaps as people may not think it is a direct sequel due to the lack of '5' in the title, but still slowly building up decent sales |
| 18.) | Gundam Battle Universe (PSP, Namco Bandai) | 11,000 | 230,000 |
| 19.) | Beautiful Letter Training DS (NDS, Nintendo) | |
| 20.) | Fatal Frame IV (Wii, Nintendo) | Already way ahead of the 1st game, and now on track to at least match the 2nd and 3rd's sales on PS2, which sold 64,000 and 69,000, respectively. This edition sold 11,000 this week to make its total 49,000 |
| 21.) | We Are Fossil Diggers (NDS, Nintendo) | 10,000 |?190,000 |
| 22.) | Wii Play (Wii, Nintendo) | 10,000?| 2,455,000 |
| 23.) | Super Mario Stadium: Family Baseball (Wii, Nintendo) | 11,000?| 160,000 |
| 24.) | New Super Mario Bros. (NDS, Nintendo) | 10,000 |?5,259,000 |
| 25.) | Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 15 (Wii, Konami) | Still hanging on, with 44,000 in total, but nowhere near as strong as its PS2 brother |
| 26.) | Sangokushi Taisen Ten (NDS, SEGA) | Performing far worse than its DS predecessor |
| 27.) | Akane Iro ni Somaru Saka: Parareru (PS2, GN Software) | 10,000 | NEW |
| 28.) | Mame Goma 2: Uchi no Ko ga Ichiban! (NDS, TDK Core) | |
| 29.) | Crazy Taxi: Double Punch (PSP, SEGA) | 9,000 | NEW |
| 30.) | Persona 4 (PS2, Atlus) | Now the best selling edition of Persona by far |
| 31.) | Katekyoo Hitman Reborn! (NDS, Takara Tomy) | |
| 32.) | Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii, Nintendo) | |
| 33.) | Kirarin * Revolution (NDS, Konami) | |
| 34.) | Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (PS3, Konami) | |
| 35.) | Pok?n Diamond (NDS, The Pok?n Company) | Spurred on by both the recent Pok?n movie release and interest in next month's release of Platinum |
| 36.) | Summon Night 2 (NDS, Namco Bandai) | Quite a large drop out of the top ten in its 2nd week |
| 37.) | Mario Party DS (NDS, Nintendo) | 8,500 | 1,763,000 |
| 38.) | Tottadoo! Yoiko's Deserted Island (NDS, Namco Bandai) | |
| 39.) | Ron-Q! Highland in DS-Poo Poo Fart (NDS, 3 O'Clock) | |
| 40.) | Animal Crossing: Wild World (NDS, Nintendo) | |
| 41.) | SIREN: New Translation (PS3, SCEI) | |
| 42.) | Major DS: Dream Baseball (NDS, Takara Tomy) | |
| 43.) | Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (NDS, Nintendo) | |
| 44.) | Monster Farm DS 2 (NDS, Tecmo) | |
| 45.) | Gegege no Kitarou: Youkai Daigekisen (NDS, Namco Bandai) | |
| 46.) | Taiko Drum Master (NDS, Namco Bandai) | |
| 47.) | Family Trainer (Wii, Namco Bandai) | |
| 48.) | Pok?n Pearl (NDS, The Pok?n Company) | Totalling 5,560,000 for this and Diamond, according to Famitsu |
| 49.) | Naruto Shippuuden: Naruto vs. Sasuke (NDS, Takara Tomy) | |
| 50.) | Pet Shop Monogatari DS (NDS, Taito) |
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| Format | This Week | Last Week | 2008 Sales | Lifetime Sales |
| Nintendo DS | 78,666 | 60,434 | 2,017,612 | 23,190,216 |
| PlayStation Portable | 64,413 | 58,501 | 2,574,969 | 10,176,569 |
| Wii | 53,036 | 38,506 | 2,000,181 | 6,616,341 |
| PlayStation 3 | 11,393 | 9,673 | 630,384 | 2,272,060 |
| PlayStation 2 | 10,168 | 8,503 | 245,854 | 21,172,891 |
| Xbox 360 | 7,358 | 24,962 | 127,956 | 635,297 |
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Developer: Artepiazza / Armour Project
Publisher: Square Enix
Genre: Turn Based RPG
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Amazing sales. I cannot wait to get 4 next month, hopefully I will finish FF4 DS by then, and Ys, Book 1 and the very least. I am in a state of RPG overload right now 
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Next huge hit is likely to be Pok?n Platinum...that should keep the DS at the top!
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Why were we in Indonesia? Cheap Christmas ticket fare?
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Yep, the PSP put up a very respectable fight earlier this year, but its time has likely come and gone.
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Sony has done very well to make a comeback with the PSP following the release of the Slim & Light model, as well as MANY new colours over the past six or so months, plus a special bundle with a TV Tuner.
But the fact that the DS has been chugging away nicely in the background whilst all that happened is quite impressive and now it's managed to sneak ahead thanks to (from what I've heard) hugely positive word-of-mouth about Rhythm Tengoku.
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But the fact that the DS has been chugging away nicely in the background whilst all that happened is quite impressive and now it's managed to sneak ahead thanks to (from what I've heard) hugely positive word-of-mouth about Rhythm Tengoku.
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Jacob4000 said:
Yep, the PSP put up a very respectable fight earlier this year, but its time has likely come and gone.
Yep, the PSP put up a very respectable fight earlier this year, but its time has likely come and gone.
No way!, the PSP is far from dead, there are some HUGE titles in development. Sony could not reveal them at E3 because they are third party and still deep in the works. You never see PSP games at big shows until they are near finished. But aside from that, first party wise, GT Mobile and LittleBigPlanet are going to happen, just wait and see. The Liverpool Studios is rumoured to be working on the latter. When those games are released you will see a sales spike of epic proportions.
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Kingdom Hearts on PSP is going to be huge...and that's just one example.
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Why were we in Indonesia? Cheap Christmas ticket fare?
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Don't get me wrong, in Japan the PSP is still kicking, but even Sony fans admit the PSP is nearly dead in other regions. Its like Sony has given up everywhere BUT Japan. They haven't released nearly as many colors or peripherals outside of Japan, and there is literally no marketing or apparent effort, at least in the USA.
If God of War couldn't make a lasting impact, I doubt much of anything else can.
Isn't that the one they said was going to launch with the PSP and then was practically never heard from again?( Edited 28.08.2008 20:23 by Jacob4000 )
When those games are released you will see a sales spike of epic proportions.
If God of War couldn't make a lasting impact, I doubt much of anything else can.
GT Mobile
Isn't that the one they said was going to launch with the PSP and then was practically never heard from again?( Edited 28.08.2008 20:23 by Jacob4000 )
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Get that dirt off the number 1 spot. 
I can't understand Japan buying tons of PSOs and DQs and Monster Hunters....they all suck =/
Oh but my brother bought the fire emblem game and he likes it
- I've not played it though.
I can't understand Japan buying tons of PSOs and DQs and Monster Hunters....they all suck =/
Oh but my brother bought the fire emblem game and he likes it
- I've not played it though.Most games are a waste of time.
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Linkyshinks said:
No way!, the PSP is far from dead, there are some HUGE titles in development. Sony could not reveal them at E3 because they are third party and still deep in the works. You never see PSP games at big shows until they are near finished. But aside from that, first party wise, GT Mobile and LittleBigPlanet are going to happen, just wait and see. The Liverpool Studios is rumoured to be working on the latter. When those games are released you will see a sales spike of epic proportions.
Jacob4000 said:
Yep, the PSP put up a very respectable fight earlier this year, but its time has likely come and gone.
Yep, the PSP put up a very respectable fight earlier this year, but its time has likely come and gone.
No way!, the PSP is far from dead, there are some HUGE titles in development. Sony could not reveal them at E3 because they are third party and still deep in the works. You never see PSP games at big shows until they are near finished. But aside from that, first party wise, GT Mobile and LittleBigPlanet are going to happen, just wait and see. The Liverpool Studios is rumoured to be working on the latter. When those games are released you will see a sales spike of epic proportions.
yeah its possible sales will pick up paticuarly when the new version is released with the mic (what next dual screens)
I've just got back from Cyprus, and in the hotel bar in the evening there must have been about 20 or more kids and some adults all playing on DS's, i only remember seeing 1 kid with a PSP (loner).
peer preasure wont help PSP sales
incidently,
most were playing Mario Kart with a handfull on Pokermon
and the Psp guy was just waiting for a des