Nintendo Sales | Tetris Continues to Puzzle Japan

By Adam Riley 19.05.2006 10

Below are the latest sales from Japan, courtesy of Media Create, showing that although sales on the whole are down considerably this week, English Training has passed a million and Tetris is holding very strong as well:


Software - This Week | Total Sales

1.) Jikkyou Powerful Major League (PS2, Namco) - 89,536 | NEW
2.) Tetris DS (DS, Nintendo) - 69,673 | 447,920
3.) Brain Training 2 (DS, Nintendo) - 55,043 | 2,219,298

4.) World Soccer Winning Eleven 10 (PS2, Konami) - 50,568 | 611,978
[b]5.) Brain Training (DS, Nintendo) - 38,090 | 2,174,947
6.) Animal Crossing: Wild World (DS, Nintendo) - 30,536 | 2,676,017
7.) English Training DS (DS, Nintendo) - 27,681 | 1,026,024
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Mario Kart always charts at 11, i wonder what the sales figures are for that now. Naruto games seem to be having a slowing effect on the jap sales

Mother 3 sales are also pretty dissapointing, especially for such a hyped game.

what are the 'Mother' games?

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its Earthbound, it never got a release over here in Europe but the main star is Ness of Super Smash Bros fame

ShinyRainbow said:
what are the Mother games?

It's an RPG series, called Earthbound in America, never released in Europe. They're supposed to be very good, but I haven't played them as the gits have never brought them out here and I can't be bothered getting them by...alternate means.

Great! More people to play against!
I'm so happy they released Tetris as Wi-Fi...

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wow thats preety low sales!!! for the Pokemon

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I was waiting for hardware sales before commenting...

Looks like all hardware is down, and the DS is probably out of stock again. The DS Lite is still selling more then all other consoles added together though, and the X-360 STILL hasn't managed to overtake the Cube for sales this year...I'd give it a month.

Anyways, good to see Tetris selling strongly again, any bets on when Animal Crossing will leave the top 10? Smilie

Anyways, good to see Tetris selling strongly again, any bets on when Animal Crossing will leave the top 10?

never. Smilie

The Original Ds is really on quite a roller coster!

I think the fact that the two Pok

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almost 1.5million ds lites already Smilie

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