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04.06.2007

The latest Most Wanted charts have filtered in from Japanese magazine Famitsu, revealing Dragon Quest IX (DS) still sitting firmly at the top spot and some positive reception for upcoming DS/Wii titles.

Position	Title	Format	Publisher
1. (1 / 1)	Dragon Quest IX	NDS	Square Enix	2.178
2. (2 / 2)	Final Fantasy XIII	PS3	Square Enix	1.803
3. (3 / 3)	Biohazard 5	PS3	Capcom	1.253
4. (4 / 4)	Metal Gear Solid 4	PS3	Konami	1.030
5. (5 / 5)	Monster Hunter 3	PS3	Capcom	1.026
6. (6 / 7)	Zelda no Densetsu: Phantom Hourglass	NDS	Nintendo	823
7. (7 / 9)	Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors	Wii	Square Enix	798
8. (8 / 8)	Super Robot Taisen: Original Generations	PS2	Banpresto	721
9. (11/13)	Super Smash Bros. Brawl	Wii	Nintendo	632
10. (12/10)	Lost Odyssey	Xbox 360	Microsoft	559
11. (9 /12)	Everybody's Golf 5	PS3	Sony	553
12. (13/15)	Doubutsu no Mori [Animal Crossing]	Wii	Nintendo	547
13. (10/14)	Devil May Cry 4	PS3	Capcom	451
14. (16/17)	Crisis Core Final Fantasy VII	PSP	Square Enix	422
15. (17/21)	Subarashiki Kono Sekai: It's a Wonderful World	NDS	Square Enix	404
16. (14/16)	Final Fantasy Versus XIII	PS3	Square Enix	396
17. (15/18)	Super Mario Galaxy	Wii	Nintendo	394
18. (18/19)	Gran Turismo 5	PS3	Sony	384
19. (19/23)	Trusty Bell: Chopin no Yume	Xbox 360	Bandai Namco	360
20. (22/24)	Halo 3	Xbox 360	Microsoft	335

Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (DS) joins Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors (Wii) in 6 and 7th position up from 7 and 9 respectively. Recent updates to the official website for Super Smash Bros. Brawl has pumped the upcoming Nintendo all-star package up 2 positions to 11, Animal Crossing at 13. It's a Wonderful World jumps a staggering 4 places in at 17, most likely due its recent unveling, and finally Super Mario Galaxy sits firmly at 15.

Update: Total sales from top selling Wii/DS titles have been published for your chart addictions:

Title	Release (JP)	Units Sold
Super Paper Mario (Wii, Nintendo)	4/19/07	378,867
Final Fantasy XII Revenant Wings (NDS, Square Enix)	4/26/07	459,009
Kotoba no Puzzle: Mojipittan DS (NDS, Bandai Namco)	03/15/07	277,181
English Training (NDS, Nintendo)	01/26/06	1,785,517
Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: MiniMini Daikoushin! (NDS, Nintendo)	04/12/07	229,876
Animal Crossing: Wild World (NDS, Nintendo)	11/23/05	4,100,157
Gyakuten Saiban 4 [Phoenix Wright] (NDS, Capcom)	04/12/07	406,514

Thanks to GameFront for the statistics.

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Zapp 04.06.2007#1

WOW Mario Galaxy is pretty low, good to see DQ Swords has moved up.

I see all these people insulting the Nintendo corporation because of the lack of mature content. Yet there is something about Nintendo (at least their games) that strikes a certain unadulterated feeling of joy!!! Pokemon Y - 1048-9263-5562

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J4K 04.06.2007#2

The four out of five for the PS3 is worrying. I suppose it shows you can not call the PS3 a flop until you see how it performs when these titles are released.

Mario Galaxy is also surprisingly low. Also interesting to see Halo 3 even made the list. Smilie

meeto_0 04.06.2007#3

This is why the big 3 (japanese software companies) are gay. Square knows what will sell a console, did the spin of to FF12 on DS come close to the PS2 title, NO. The instal base was there for a few million units to be sold. Western companies are scrambling to work on the Wii but I don't feel like they are. They will put titles on it but nothing big or costly to make. Thats why chronicles will make it in time for this year but RE5 wont.

meeto_0 04.06.2007#4

I am shocked by Galaxies though. The Japanese arent so forgiving of a weak entry in a series and sunshine was painfully poor. Piss poor to be honest. But smash was the only one to sell a million so expect SSBB to fly high. The gay official website isnt helping. By the time any new interesting info is released on it the game will be out.

( Edited on 04.06.2007 10:02 by meeto_0 )

d.v.n.e 04.06.2007#5

I cant wait till next year when the ps3 shows what it can do.Theres going to be some great third party games for it.The japs will always love the playstation

ULTIMATE WII GAMER!!!

tiamat1990 04.06.2007#6

Holy crap!! I can't believe Halo 3 is in there! My my Japan sure is changing...

Megadanxzero 04.06.2007#7

Final Fantasy and Metal Gear Solid over Devil May Cry and Smash Bros?

Japanese people are weird...

Still a proud member of the 'omfg amazing water in games' society

Satoshi 04.06.2007#8

No its only famitsu readers who actually reply to these surveys that are wierd.

Avoid Games Like the Plague, productivity++

James2t3 04.06.2007#9

Yeah i'd say it's pretty much the hardcore crowd that has taken the survey because you just know that animal crossing Wii is just gonna wipe the floor with everything apart from maby Dragon Quest 9 on that list.

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jesusraz 05.06.2007#10

Famitsu gets respect for being the most popular and recognised Japanese gaming publication...HOWEVER, it's core readership does not totally influence the sales of games (not the sector that vote in this poll anyway, from past trends).

Oh, and its review scores basically come from company bribes! Smilie