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    Nintendo's Wii Passes 5 Million, PSP Over 8 Mil in Japan

    on 01.02.2008 at 22:50 User Icon Posted by Adam Riley (jesusraz) Number of Comments Comments: 7 Number of Reads Reads: 2298
    Tag Tags: Nintendo DS, Wii Fit, Japan, Media Create, Charts
    The latest Japanese sales show Wii Fit continuing its dominance of the chart over there, ruling over the rest of the listings, including the new edition of Pro Evolution Soccer / Winning Eleven on the PSP. Check out the early Top 50 below, plus hardware from Media Create:

    Media Create Top 50:
    21st-26th January, 2008


    PositionTitle/System/PublisherSales (Plus Total Where Available & Commentary)
    1.)Wii Fit (Wii, Nintendo)90,000 | 1,283,000
    2.)World Soccer Winning Eleven: Ubiquitous Evolution 2008 (PSP, Konami)77,000 | NEW
    3.)Lucky Star: Misasagi Sakura Gakuen Sakura Fuji Festival (PS2, Kadokawa Shoten)72,000 | NEW
    4.)Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games (NDS, Nintendo)50,000 | 140,000
    5.)Wii Sports (Wii, Nintendo)26,000 | 2,714,000
    6.)Mario Party DS (NDS, Nintendo)22,000 | 1,581,000
    7.)Monster Hunter Portable 2nd (PSP, Capcom)21,000 | 1,555,000
    8.)Doraemon Baseball: Dramatic Stadium (NDS, Bandai-Namco)21,000 | 138,000
    9.)Yggdra Union (PSP, Sting)17,000 | NEW
    10.)Professor Layton and the Devil's Box (NDS, Level 5)15,000 | 746,000
    11.)Final Fantasy IV (NDS, Square-Enix)Down from No.7 and nearing the 600,000 mark now
    12.)Prince of Tennis: Driving Smash! Side King (NDS, Konami)New entry, with around 12,000 sales according to Famitsu
    13.)Dragon Quest IV (NDS, Square-Enix)Down from No.9, slowing working its way up to the 1.2 million mark and closing in on Dragon Quest Monsters' total
    14.)Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games (Wii, Nintendo)Sliding from No.8 and nearing the half million point
    15.)Mario Kart DS (NDS, Nintendo)Slipping four places, but considering this stuck around for a year longer than expected, and is now at over 2.8 million, it would not be surprising to see it around for another year
    16.)Wii Play (Wii, Nintendo)Sliding four
    17.)Super Mario Galaxy (Wii, Nintendo)Dropping hard, down seven, but will hopefully get a boost from Smash Bros. because as of now it still needs to rake in about 150,000 more sales to hit a million
    18.)Professor Layton and the Curious Village (Level 5)Down four, but still impressively high for such an old game now, at over 820,000 sales now, just how high can it go?
    19.)Mario Party 8 (Wii, Nintendo)Back down from No.13, and at nearly 1.2 million it is the second best selling in the series, behind the DS edition
    20.)Drum Master DS (NDS, Bandai-Namco)Re-entering yet again and you have to wonder if this will now be able to stick around in the charts until its sequel hits later this year
    21.)Powerful Pro-kun Pocket 10 (NDS, Konami)Back up four and showing that 3rd Party games are starting to show better sales longevity than ever before, with sales nearing 225,000
    22.)Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PS3, Activision)Down six and over 65,000 units according to Famitsu
    23.)Kanji Brain Test 2.5M (NDS, IE Institute)Sliding four spots
    24.)New Super Mario Bros. (NDS, Nintendo)Hanging on still after breaking the 5 million barrier
    25.)Animal Crossing: Wild World (NDS, Nintendo)Down seven after a brief resurgence and nearing the 4.6 million mark
    26.)Rune Factory 2 (NDS, Marvelous Entertainment)Down from No.17 and unless it magically bounces back up soon, this will struggle to match its predecessor's sales despite starting far stronger
    27.)Yakuza 2 (PS2, Sega)Moving back up six
    28.)World Soccer Winning Eleven 2008 (PS2, Konami)Down five places, amassing 612,000 over a considerable amount of time
    29.)DS Literature Collection (NDS, Nintendo)Slipping five spots for this book collection that is currently listed on Nintendo Europe's Press website
    30.)My Housekeeping Diary (NDS, Nintendo)Dipping two places, but impressing a lot by creeping over a total of 410,000
    31.)More Brain Training (NDS, Nintendo)Down four places, and over 4.8 million
    32.)Drift Nights: Juiced 2 (PS3, THQ Japan)New entry, and the last ever Juiced game since THQ axed the franchise
    33.)Mario Strikers Charged (Wii, Nintendo)Back down fast, falling from No.22
    34.)Tales of Innocence (NDS, Bandai-Namco)Sadly this finally starts to fall, down eight places - but can it rebound due to the Tales PS2 release this coming week?
    35.)More English Training (NDS, Nintendo)Holding on for another week at the same position
    36.)World Soccer Winning Eleven 2008 (PS3, Konami)Falling five
    37.)Hot Shots Golf Portable 2 (PSP, Sony)Up one place, creeping over the 210,000 mark
    38.)Nep League DS (NDS, Jaleco)Moving back up one
    39.)Sight Training (NDS, Nintendo)Slipping three and edging its way to the 800,000 mark
    40.)Kanji Test 2 (NDS, Rocket Company)Falling six spots
    41.)Exit DS (NDS, Taito)New entry with around 5,500 sales according to Famitsu
    42.)Star Ocean 1: First Departure (PSP, Square-Enix)Falling quickly now as it reaches the extent of its first shipment, down from No.21
    43.)Cute Kitten DS (NDS, MTO)New entry
    44.)Haruhi Suzumiya's Promise (PSP, Bandai-Namco)Falling from No.32
    45.)Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles (Wii, Capcom)Slipping another four and unless Link's Crossbow Training helps this back up, it has likely seen its last bit of chart activity
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    Galaxy should definitely benefit from Brawls release, if Brawl ends up being the game to tempt more of the Hardcore gamers over to Wii. The fanbase seems to be stacked more on the casual side at the 'mo.Smilie

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    With the "shortages", brawl will probably have a good first week then terrible for the next hundred weeks.Smilie

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    It's sounding more and more like it isn't so much 'shortages' as such, more a delay of all the stock...hopefully, anyway! Smilie

    I'm really impressed how long FFIV and DQIV have been holding on. Hopefully FFIV can reach something like 750,000 in its lifetime, which will be a massive achievement given the amount of times it's been remade in the past decade Smilie


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    It truly is quite astonishing how much the DS has sold.

    I look forward to next week's charts though, to see how much Brawl had an impact on Wii sales.
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    Considering Winning Eleven/Pro Ev Soccer did FAR better on PSP this year than last, it'll be interesting to see how the Wii version fares in the near future...


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    4.) Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games (NDS, Nintendo)
    6.) Mario Party DS (NDS, Nintendo)
    14.) Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games (Wii, Nintendo)
    15.) Mario Kart DS (NDS, Nintendo)
    17.) Super Mario Galaxy (Wii, Nintendo)

    This really sucks...Mario Galaxy is such a good game...yet its being beaten by 3 not-so-great mario games and a mario game thats 2 years old...
    Most games are a waste of time.
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    Mario Galaxy wasnt that great and I probably preffered MKDS over it nyway... (online play Smilie) this is from a guy who 120'd it and 60 as Luigi. I got bored and when I played Mario 64, I comparde after getting 120 on that and 64 wins!
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