Update - The full Media Create Top 50 software for the week has now been released, along with the hardware data. Check out the details below:

Media Create Top 50:
17th-23rd March, 2008

Position	Title/System/Publisher	Sales (Plus Total Where Available & Commentary)
1.)	Pok?n Ranger: Batonnage (NDS, The Pok?n Company)	241,663 | NEW
2.)	Deca Sporta (Wii, Hudson)	65,359 | NEW
3.)	Armored Core for Answer (PS3, From Software)	54,022 | NEW
4.)	SimCity DS 2: From the Past to the Future (NDS, EA)	49,018 | NEW
5.)	Wii Fit (Wii, Nintendo)	48,459 | 1,752,000
6.)	Tales of Rebirth (PSP, Bandai-Namco)	46,719 | NEW
7.)	Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii, Nintendo)	41,070 | 1,490,000
8.)	Crayon Shin-chan: Arashi wo Yobu Cinema Land (NDS, Banpresto)	34,936 | NEW
9.)	DS Beautiful Letter Training (NDS, Nintendo)	34,859 | 101,000
10.)	Time Hollow: Seeking the Lost Past (NDS, Konami)	34,268 | NEW
11.)	Dramatic Dungeon: Sakura Wars (NDS, Sega)	New entry with around 34,000 sales
12.)	Echochrome (PSP, Sony)	New entry, selling around 25,000 units according to Famitsu
13.)	Armored Core for Answer (360, From Software)	New entry, again with about 25,000 sales
14.)	Yakuza 3: Kenzan! (PS3, Sega)	Quickly down from No.2 due to all the activity this week, 19,000 | 239,000
15.)	Wii Sports (Wii, Nintendo)	Down from No.8 to it lowest position of the year, 14,000 | 2,827,000
16.)	Gundam Musou Special (PS2, Bandai-Namco)	Down from No.5, 16,000 | 248,000
17.)	Super Dodge Ball (NDS, ArcSystemWorks)	14,000 | NEW
18.)	Wii Play (Wii, Nintendo)	Down eight places
19.)	The House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return (Wii, Sega)	14,000 | NEW and a strong start for this regurgitated duo package. The question remains whether it can hold on as long as Ghost Squad did, though
20.)	Army of Two (360, EA)	New entry
21.)	Mario Kart DS (NDS, Nintendo)	Back up one and over the 2.9 million mark now
22.)	Army of Two (PS3, EA)	11,000 | NEW
23.)	Harvest Moon: Shining Sun and Friends (NDS, Marvelous Entertainment)	Down from No.9, not performing quite as well as its predecessor, but still strong for the series in general
24.)	Mario Party DS (NDS, Nintendo)	Sliding four spots and well over 1.6 million now
25.)	Kekkaishi: Kubourou Shuurai (NDS, Bandai-Namco)	9,900 | NEW
26.)	Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games (NDS, Nintendo)	Down five places and only just over 272,000 units in total now
27.)	Everyone's General Knowledge Training TV (Wii, Nintendo)	Down thirteen, 8,100 | 32,000, a massive under-achiever
28.)	Musou Orochi (PSP, Koei)	Quickly down from No.12
29.)	Shugo Chara! Three Eggs and the Joker in Love (NDS, Konami)	Falling hard and fast, down from last week's d?t position of No.6
30.)	Drum Master DS (NDS, Bandai-Namco)	Down six places
31.)	New Super Mario Bros. (NDS, Nintendo)	Sliding five places
32.)	Doraemon: Nobita and the Green Giant DS (NDS, Sega)	Down quickly from No.17 and nowhere near as strong as the recent Doraemon Baseball game from Bandai Namco
33.)	Rosario and the Vampire: Miss Youkai Gakuen of the Star Festival (NDS, Capcom)	7,900 | NEW
34.)	Soma Bringer (NDS, Nintendo)	Falling from No.15 as interest begins to fade in this excellent action RPG
35.)	Monster Hunter Portable 2nd (PSP, Capcom)	Down from No.16 now as Monster Hunter 2nd G has just been released to record PSP first day sales (~670,000 in one day!)
36.)	Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword (NDS, Tecmo)	6,100 | NEW, which even though Ninja Gaiden is not popular in Japan is rather disappointing given the wider DS userbase
37.)	Daito Giken Official Pachislo Simulator: New Yoshimune (PS2, Paon)	Quickly down from No.7 in its second week
38.)	Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (Wii, Nintendo)	Falling quickly from No.11 after two strong weeks
39.)	Petit Eva (NDS, Bandai-Namco)	4,300 | NEW
40.)	Animal Crossing Wild World (NDS, Nintendo)	Down eight places
41.)	Winning Eleven Play Maker 2008 (Wii, Konami)	Slipping from No.28, but selling around 100,000 when many expected far lower
42.)	Family Ski (Wii, Bandai-Namco)	Falling from No.29 after a strong Top 20 performance
43.)	Etrian Odyssey II: The Royal Grail (NDS, Atlus)	Plummeting down from No.23 now after easily beating sales of the first game
44.)	Kanji Brain Test 2.5M (NDS, IE Institute)	Sliding a further five
45.)	Mario Strikers Charged (Wii, Nintendo)	Back in once again
46.)	Yakuza 2 (PS2, Sega)	Back down from No.31
47.)	Mario Party 8 (Wii, Nintendo)	Sliding six
48.)	World Soccer Winning Eleven 2008 (PSP, Konami)	Down from No.34
49.)	Need for Speed: Pro Street (PSP, EA)	4,800 | NEW
50.)	Super Mario Galaxy (Wii, Nintendo)	Down seven places and likely to disappear next week unless it gets a stay of execution
XX.)	Bangai-O Spirits (NDS)	3,200 | NEW
XX.)	Need for Speed ProStreet (360)	2,200 | NEW
XX.)	YS I & II (NDS)	2,000 | NEW
XX.)	Blazing Angels 2 (PS3)	1,300 | NEW
XX.)	Dekotora Black (NDS)	1,200 | NEW
XX.)	Blazing Angels 2 (360)	1,100 | NEW
XX.)	Kachou Shima Kousaku (NDS)	1,000 | NEW
XX.)	Zoo Tycoon 2 (NDS)	540 | NEW
XX.)	Spider-Man 3 (NDS)	520 | NEW

Media Create Hardware Chart

Format	This Week	Last Week	2008 Sales	Lifetime Sales
Nintendo DS	65,055	53,266	991,232	22,164,283
Wii	62,404	55,845	1,006,658	5,622,818
PlayStation Portable	59,833	57,651	978,830	8,580,424
PlayStation 3	12,874	14,934	335,384	1,977,060
PlayStation 2	9,990	9,930	156,800	21,083,837
Xbox 360	1,407	1,744	45,499	552,840

Stick around for more Japanese chart updates...

Original Story - The first day sales have been collated from Japanese blogger sinobi, showing some shocking results. Pok?n Ranger may have been the big release of the holiday period in Japan, garnering strong first day sales as expected, but Hudson's Deca Sports on Wii starts surprisingly strong as well, whilst Ninja Gaiden disappoints terribly. Even though the franchise is not that popular in Japan it was thought the DS would expand the audience. Unless it opens up and sells more by the time the full chart is released on Wednesday, it could prove to be a major flop and will rely on its Western release (yes, it has been confirmed for Europe) to boost sales.

Check out all the sales below:

• Pok?n Ranger: Batonnage (NDS) - 127,000, which is a stronger start than the first Ranger game


• Armored Core: For Answer (PS3) - 44,000


• Tales of Rebirth (PSP) - 38,000


• Deca Sporta: Wii de Sports 10 Shumoku! (Wii) - 30,000, proving Third Parties can have big hits on Wii after all!


• Sakura Taisen: Kimi Arugatame (NDS) - 27,000


• SimCity DS 2: Kodai kara Mirai e Tsuduku Machi (NDS) - 26,000 is a great start after the poor sales of Theme Park and Populous DS


• Crayon Shin-Chan: Arashi o Yobu Cinema Land: Kachinko Gachinko Daikatsugeki! (NDS) - 19,000


• Mugen Kairou (echochrome) (PSP) - 16,000


• Armored Core: For Answer (360) - 16,000


• Time Hollow: Ubawareta Kako o Motomete (NDS) - 14,000 for Konami's answer to Capcom's Phoenix Wright seems rather low, but this might be a slow burner


• Chou Nekketsu Koukou Kunio-Kun Dodge Ball Bu (NDS) - 10,000


• Kekkaishi: Kokubourou Shuurai (NDS) - 8,000 (roughly 20% sell-through of initial stock)


• Army of Two (360) - 8,000


• Army of Two (PS3) - 6,000


• Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword (NDS) - 4,000 and far lower than many expected considering the status of this game


• Bangai-O Spirits (NDS) - 3,000 and whilst seemingly low, the initial shipment was less than 10,000 units!

Stick around for the full week's sales on Wednesday...