Let's face it: the Japanese sales numbers for the week of 1/21 are just foreplay. What we really want to know is how Super Smash Bros. Brawl did, although rumors are coming in that the game sold a whopping 500,000 copies in its first day. All this hype even catapulted the Wii above the DS in hardware sales last week, according to the numbers released by Famitsu. We think the Wii will hold the top spot in Japan for at least another few weeks, while it basks in Brawl's glory. The Wii may have made a stir in the hardware charts, but all's boring on the software front. Wii Fit shows us its well-toned legs by remaining at the number one spot, and Super Mario Galaxy has fallen out of the top ten once again. Wii Play also slipped a bit, losing some of its former dominance.
To see the Japanese hardware and software figures for last week, look no further than after the break.
Hardware:
- Wii: 79,000
- DS: 74,000
- PSP: 61,000
- PS3: 29,000
- PS2: 11,000
- Xbox 360: 4,200
- Wii Fit (Wii) --- 96,000 (1,209,000)
- Winning Eleven 2008 (PSP) --- 70,000
- Lucky Star (PS2) --- 61,000
- Mario & Sonic at the Olympics DS (DS) --- 54,000 (145,000)
- Wii Sports (Wii) --- 28,000 (2,692,000)
- Mario Party DS (DS) --- 26,000 (1,557,000)
- Yggrda Union (PSP) --- 22,000
- Doraemon Baseball (DS) --- 22,000 (141,000)
- Monster Hunter Portable 2 (PSP) --- 15,000 (1,584,000)
- Wii Play (Wii) --- 14,000 (2,153,000)
- Mario & Sonic at the Olympics (Wii) --- 13,000 (488,000)
- Mario Kart DS (DS) --- 13,000 (2,809,000)
- Professor Layton 2 (DS) --- 13,000 (727,000)
- Tennis no Oujisama: Driving Smash! Side King (DS) ---12,000
- Mario Party 8 (Wii) --- 9,400 (1,163,000)
- Super Mario Galaxy (Wii) --- 9,100 (853,000)
- Ryu ga Gotoku 2 (The Best!) (PS2) --- 8,500 (111,000)
- Professor Layton (DS) --- 8,500 (821,000)
- Dragon Quest IV (DS) --- 8,000 (1,158,000)
- Minna no Golf Portable 2 (PSP) --- 8,000 (210,000)
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
2-01-2008 @ 4:34PM
racecar said...
*sigh* Looking at these numbers just makes me realize how much third parties are not doing anything worthwhile on the Wii. We have Mario and Sonic by Sega up there, but half of the characters are Nintendo-owned. Maybe it's not as much the developers' fault as it is the taste of consumers who are looking at Wii games. I'm kind of interested in what the ratio is between casual and hardcore gamers on the Wii. Maybe that will help determine if that's what is affecting poor sales on third party stuff or if shovelware really is the problem. Hmmm.....
-racecar
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2-01-2008 @ 5:15PM
Adv2k1 said...
LOL at the picture.
Japan is crazy so sales don't matter
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