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Nintendo Sales | Final Fantasy III Stampedes Across Japan

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35668 on 30.08.2006 at 12:04

In addition to the original story below, here are the confirmed sales figures for both the software and hardware in Japan:

Software - This Week | Total Sales

1.) Final Fantasy III (NDS, Square Enix) - 503,051 | NEW
2.) NEW Super Mario Bros. (NDS, Nintendo)- 65,556 | 2,901,264
3.) Rune Factory (NDS, Marvelous Interactive) - 42,210 | NEW
4.) Brain Training 2 (NDS, Nintendo) - 41,784 | 3,073,195
5.) Cooking Navi (NDS, Nintendo) - 37,326 | 384,045
6.) Tamagotchi 2 (NDS, Bandai Namco) - 30,504 | 430,934
7.) Mario Basketball 3-on-3 (NDS, Square Enix) - 30,355 | 233,762
8.) Animal Crossing Wild World (NDS, Nintendo) - 30,023 | 3,149,130
9.) Brain Training (NDS, Nintendo) - 22,866 | 2,736,150
10.) English Training (NDS, Nintendo) - 17,465 | 1,401,669

11.) PS2 - Daito Giken Pachislot Hihouden - 15,986
12.) NDS - Tetris DS - 14,923
13.) NDS - Mario Kart DS - 14,833
14.) PS2 - Jissen Pachislot Hokuto no Ken SE - 13,759
15.) PS2 - Melty Blood Act Cadenza - 12,829
16.) PS2 - Wrestle Angels Survivor
17.) PSP - SD Gundam G Generation Portable - 12,423
18.) PS2 - Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 13 - 11,248
19.) PS2 - Sengoku BASARA 2 - 10,601
20.) PSP - Guilty Gear Judgment
21.) NDS - Digimon Story - 7,863 | 177,395
22.) PSP - Monster Hunter Portable (PSP The Best) - 7,556 | 38,658
23.) PS2 - Summer
24.) NDS - Kirarin Star Revolution Kirakira Idol Audition
25.) NDS - Atsumare! Power Pro Kun no DS Koushien - 7,112 | 57,817
26.) GBA - Rhythm Tengoku
27.) NDS - Minna no DS Seminar Kanpeki Kanji - 6,775 | 57,995
28.) PS2 - Battle Stadium DON
29.) NDS - Mushiking Greatest Champion e-no Michi 2
30.) NDS - Pok

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Laurelin on 30.08.2006 at 12:35#1

It's good to see a wonderful looking game like FFIII selling so well, but i'm relieved that Rune Factory is selling wonderful too. I think it's wonderful looking game. Or so it seems. it's a bit away from the main stream you know (yes, it's Harvest Moon, but it's an RPG)...

I find your lack of faith disturbing!

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Crazylurch on 30.08.2006 at 12:42#2

Always glad to see RPGs doing so well Smilie

Woooooooo!!!

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The Croft on 30.08.2006 at 12:59#3

I am very glad that the Rune Factory got some deserved sales, many reviews have stated that it is just as good as FF3, although all in all brilliant for all 3 games thought Mario would maybe be around 80k but who we kidding it will crack 3m next week, something nearly all FF could only dream of

( Edited on 30.08.2006 13:00 by Mr.Ashcroft )

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The Croft on 30.08.2006 at 13:41#4

The top 8 are pretty much confirmed and let's just hope that one of the following DS games can fill in the last two places, to make a Nintendo clean, or even a DS clean sweep.

Go Nintendo!!!!

1. NDS Final Fantasy III - 503,051 / NEW
2. NDS NEW Super Mario Bros. - 65,556 / 2,901,264
3. NDS Rune Factory New Harvest Moon - 42.210 / NEW
4. NDS Brain Age 2 - 41,784 / 3,073,195
5. NDS Cooking Navi - 37,326 / 384,045
6. NDS Tamagotch 2 - 30,504 / 430,933
7. NDS Mario Basketball 3on3 - 30,355 / 233,762
8. NDS Animal Crossing WW - 30,023 / 3,149,131
9.
10.

... #9/10:

Tetris (last week: 26,800)
and/or
Brain Age (last week: 25,100)
and/or
Mario Kart DS (last week: 21,800)

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teh_gam3r on 30.08.2006 at 13:57#5

Top 8 DS titles jeeze Nintendo are domanating they just can't seem to put a foot wrong at the moment. I think Square Enix will be happy with how many copy's were sold, I can't wait to see how many DS/Lites were sold and with pokemon on the way it looks like this has been Nintendo's year.

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The Croft on 30.08.2006 at 14:00#6

It would be brilliant to come Christmas see a top 10 filled with nothing but DS and Wii titles.

As for this week's chart, i guarantee some PS2 game will end up spoiling the complete chart domination

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sbspfan101 on 30.08.2006 at 14:39#7

Oh ff3 did very nice. Could we see more FF games on the ds i sure hope so maybe FF7 maybe. I cant wait for the game to come out in the US so i can get it. But another week of ds domiance super.

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pitendo on 30.08.2006 at 18:47#8

come on square..give us more ds love Smilie

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Adam Riley on 30.08.2006 at 18:57#9

*Looks at comments* Damn you Ashcroft Smilie

Smilie

Anyway, I'm seriously hoping Tingle and the Mech game do well next week as well. Also, Square Enix has DQM: Joker and the Chocobo game in the pipeline...plus the distant Crystal Chronicles. But what about other non-DQ/FF franchises? Another Mana title? Working with Nintendo on Super Mario RPG 2? I'd love to see Chrono return...

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jesusraz said:
*Looks at comments* Damn you Ashcroft Anyway, Im seriously hoping Tingle and the Mech game do well next week as well. Also, Square Enix has DQM: Joker and the Chocobo game in the pipeline...plus the distant Crystal Chronicles. But what about other non-DQ/FF franchises? Another Mana title? Working with Nintendo on Super Mario RPG 2? Id love to see Chrono return...

Games I get excited by the most these days are new IP's. So I'd rather have that than a sequel to one of those games in franchises you mentioned.
Of course, those new games do have to be excellent enough for me to warrant a purchase. I'm really hoping Contact will be fantastic, but the video's I saw of the battles in that game didn't exactly inspire me to make a trip to the gamestore in the coming months.(I have no idea when it will be released here actually) Smilie

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Adam Riley on 30.08.2006 at 19:38#11

Contact comes out in Europe during October. It's highly rated, but apparently battles do indeed become tiring in places.

As for Square Enix, I'm hoping they do new stuff as well, to be honest - like Treasure Hunter G, Bahamut Lagoon, Romancing SaGa and Rudra's Treasure on the SNES (Square) and Terranigma, Illusion of Gaia/Time, Robotrek and Actraiser (again SNES, but from Enix).

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The Croft on 30.08.2006 at 23:04#12

jesusraz said:
*Looks at comments* Damn you Ashcroft Anyway, Im seriously hoping Tingle and the Mech game do well next week as well. Also, Square Enix has DQM: Joker and the Chocobo game in the pipeline...plus the distant Crystal Chronicles. But what about other non-DQ/FF franchises? Another Mana title? Working with Nintendo on Super Mario RPG 2? Id love to see Chrono return...

Steals Raz's thunder Smilie

There is some debate as to where or not these numbers are true, at least over at neogaf, 163k seems low considering Nintendo did withhold stock last week for FF3 and the DSlite has sold more than this with there being no releases, still suspect about these numbers

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Adam Riley on 31.08.2006 at 19:47#13

Seeing Rune Factory up there at No.3 gives me a good feeling about how well Luminous Arc will do as well...

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amtrid on 01.09.2006 at 10:16#14

wow i am amazed that they own the top ten. that is a stunning performance no matter who you are.

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The Croft on 01.09.2006 at 12:07#15

DS should be remaned the donimating system

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Adam Riley on 03.09.2006 at 09:54#16

By the way, it may look like a major drop for Rhythm Tengoku out of the Top Ten from last week, but it's because of stock shortages. Nintendo SERIOUSLY underestimated the demand for the game...

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