Japanese Sales | Shortages Hurt Nintendo et al

By Adam Riley 11.09.2006 17

Below is the data released by Media Create for last week in Japan. Try to spot the odd-one-out on in the software chart!

Software - This Week | Total Sales

1.) Phantasy Star Universe (PS2, Sega) - 120,202 | NEW
2.) New Super Mario Bros (NDS, Nintendo) - 72,763 | 2,974,027
3.) Brain Age 2 (NDS, Nintendo) - 46,662 | 3,119,857
4.) Final Fantasy III (NDS, Square Enix) - 45,949 | 549,001 [ 99% of shipment sold out! ]
5.) Tingle RPG (NDS, Nintendo) - 45,496 | NEW
6.) Cooking Navi (NDS, Nintendo) - 35,689 | 419,733
7.) Mario Basketball (NDS, Square Enix) - 34,001 | 267,763
8.) Animal Crossing (NDS, Nintendo) - 32,605 | 3,181,735
9.) Rhythm Tengoku (GBA, Nintendo) - 28,361 | 123,432
10.) Tamagotchi 2 (NDS, Bandai Namco) - 27,540 | 458,474

11.) Brain Age
12.) PSP - VALHALLA KNIGHTS
13.) Eve ~new generation~
14.) English Training DS
15.) Mario Kart DS
16.) Kamiwaza
17.) Tetris DS
18.) NDS - Chousojuu Meka MG
19.) GuitarFreaks & DrumMania MASTERPIECE SILVER
20.) Rune Factory Shin Bokujou Monogatari
21.) Jissen Pachislot! Hokuto no Ken SE
22.) Kokoro wo Yasumeru Otona no Nurie DS
23.) Daito Pachislot Simulator Hihouden
24.) PSP - SD Gundam G Generation Portable
25.) Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 13
26.) Minna no Seminar Kanpeki Kanji
27.) Digimon Story
28.) Monster Hunter Portable
29.) Big Brain Academy
30.) Melty Blood Act Cadenza


Hardware - This Week | Last Week | Total 2006 Sales

1.) Nintendo DS Lite - 228,939 | 163,274 | 4,196,826
2.) PlayStation Portable - 27,499 | 29,945 | 1,256,343
3.) PlayStation 2 - 22,703 | 21,829 | 980,143
4.) Game Boy Advance SP - 2,751 | 2,719 | 191,952
5.) Game Boy micro - 1,791 | 1,819 | 119,351

6.) Xbox 360 - 1,250 | 1,197 | 69,927
7.) GameCube - 855 | 837 | 63,971
8.) Nintendo DS - 320 | 410 | 953,279
9.) Game Boy Advance - 22 | 14 | 3,035

10.) Xbox - 0 | 12 | 1,649

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Squarenix needs to get some more ffIII copies out in japan it could have sold a million by now if they had enough out there goodness. But yet another week of the ds domanatin the charts with just one none nintendo game makin it and even a gba game this week insane. I wonder oh many ds lites will be sold by the end of the year. I rember when it was xmas and the orginal ds was sellin like 600k every week i think i lite will be insane come taht time. Im guessin like 8million for the year.

Square-Enix did not anticipate sales for Final Fantasy III being this high so soon.

Nintendo and Square-Enix will correct this problem quickly.

No surprise to see PSO:U nabbing the top spot...

*eagerly awaits EU launch*

look, no Xbox sold this week. that's poor! *eg*

I find your lack of faith disturbing!

I love to live in Japan the amount of Triple A titles out there already for the DS is amazing.

Solid week for Tingle and not so good for Mecha Robot game, all in all another week of Nintendo domination


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Nice to see the DS smashing the 4 million barrier with ease, along with outselling every other console by nearly 10:1!

10.) Xbox - 0

Smilie

Jeez.. the xbox thing suprises me.. i mean.. you'd have thought at least ONE.. how come the ps2 is still selling nearly 30,000?... i almost choked on my olive when i saw the xbox figure

PSU, is that online?

99% sold out? Thats mad! I'm sure there looking to get as much press as possible about this title and this'll make the Japanesse TV! Hopefully they'll get shipments back out again soon.

Chewie the xbox has sold nothing twice or it could be three times you could just imagine MS Japan saying "it looks like japanese are now embracing the 360."

By the christmas week i guarantee a Nintendo top 10 with the DS and Wii games


Mike Gee of iZINE said, "...The Verve, as he [Richard Ashcroft] promised, had become the greatest band in the world. Most of the critics agreed with him. Most paid due homage. The Verve were no longer the question mark or the clich�. They were the statement and the definition."

PSU is indeed online, but won't be compatible with the servers until sometime in October! Smilie

Great to see Tingle so high, but disappointing that Rune Factory fell so much and Square Enix is struggling to order enough DS carts for FFIII (probably due to Nintendo stock-piling for the launch of Pok

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Hmm, Have not been too hot on this so i guess that would be why.. but still.. i wonder how much they are over there?

How much a copy of FFIII is? Or the manufacturing cartridges? FFIII costs something like 5,900 Yen, which is about $35 or something like that.

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(probably due to Nintendo stock-piling for the launch of Pok

OH NOES!!! Smilie

Square were worried NINTENDO wouldn't stock enough DS'S Smilie

That's actually pretty cool, I sure hope they restock soon, it seems to be bombing!

EDIT: JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!! SmilieSmilieSmilie

I only just noticed the XBOX sales! That CAN'T BE RIGHT!! SmilieSmilieSmilie

Surely that has to be WORSE than any week in the GameCube's history! Probably even Nintendo's! Smilie

Ohh well, it looks like the Japs are warming up to the 360 a bit, which is good Smilie

EDIT: Also seemed to nitce that putting DS & DSL's sales together reveals DS has sold 5,000,000 this year! Whilst PSP has yet to sell 2,000,000 Smilie

( Edited on 11.09.2006 20:09 by Sought The Poltercow )

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Sought The Poltercow said:JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!!

Language!
Smilie

The DS(original) and PSP are around the same in terms of sales but i ain't including the DSlite 8million system before the year's end easy maybe 9m


Mike Gee of iZINE said, "...The Verve, as he [Richard Ashcroft] promised, had become the greatest band in the world. Most of the critics agreed with him. Most paid due homage. The Verve were no longer the question mark or the clich�. They were the statement and the definition."

Mr.Ashcroft said:
The DS(original) and PSP are around the same in terms of sales but i aint including the DSlite 8million system before the years end easyp maybe 9m

No Smilie

I think you forget how SOON the end of the year is Smilie

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