Another Week in Japan: Hardware and software numbers 4/21-4/27

Posted May 2nd 2008 5:00PM by Candace Savino
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Mario Kart Wii continues to top the charts in Japan, but a lot of movement happened with the Wii's other software. Because a bunch of new games came out last week, Wii Sports, Deca Sports, and Super Smash Bros. Brawl were all knocked out of the top ten. We know that Wii Sports will return to top ten fame soon enough, since it always does, but we'll be interested to see whether the other two titles can pull that off as well.

On the hardware side of things, the Wii got sandwiched by the two portables as it jumped up into second place:

PSP: 92,411
Wii: 48,796
Nintendo DS: 42,435
PlayStation 3: 9,107
PlayStation 2: 7,108
Xbox 360: 1,283

To see the software sales, just bring your super smooth moves past the break.

Software:

01.(01) [Wii] Mario Kart Wii --- 151,918 (947,000)
02.(02) [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G --- 92,656 (1,807,000)
03.(__) [PS3] Valkyria Chronicles --- 77,267 (New)
04.(__) [NDS] Taiko Drum Master DS: Seven Island Adventure --- 55,950 (New)
05.(__) [NDS] Summon Night --- 37,856 (New)
06.(04) [Wii] Wii Fit --- 36,851 (1,934,000)
07.(03) [NDS] We're Fossil Diggers --- 22,319 (58,000)
08.(06) [NDS] Pokémon Ranger: Batonnage --- 19,553 (477,000)
09.(07) [NDS] DS Beautiful Letter Training --- 17,879 (167,000)
10.(05) [PS2] Musou Orochi: The Evil King Returns --- 14,897 (322,000)

11.(__) [360] Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2
12.(__) [NDS] Naruto: Shippuuden Shinobi Retsuden II
13.(08) [Wii] Deca Sports
14.(10) [Wii] Wii Sports
15.(09) [Wii] Super Smash Bros. Brawl
16.(__) [PSP] Vantage Master Portable
17.(12) [Wii] Wii Play
18.(14) [NDS] Mario Kart DS
19.(__) [NDS] Detective Saburou Jinguuji DS: Inextinguishable Heart
20.(__) [NDS] Yatterman DS: Surprising, Startling Battle
21.(11) [PS2] Pro Baseball Spirits 5
22.(16) [NDS] Sim City DS 2: From the Past to the Future
23.(__) [PS2] H2O Plus
24.(__) [PS2] Prism Ark: Awake
25.(15) [PSP] Star Ocean 2: Second Evolution
26.(__) [360] Frontlines: Fuel of War
27.(__) [NDS] Phoenix Wright 4
28.(13) [NDS] Tottado! Yowiko's Deserted Island Life
29.(__) [PS2] Edel Blume
30.(18) [NDS] Crayon Shin-chan: Arashi wo Yobu Cinema Land

If any you analyst wannabes out there want to check out the hardware and software numbers for previous weeks in Japan, click on this blue text.

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