Japan chart: Monster Hunter Tri displaced

By Robert Purchese Published 14 August, 2009

Wii exclusive not gripping the nation.

Monster Hunter Tri has been knocked off the Japanese chart pedestal by PS2 newcomer SD Gundam G Generation Wars, which posts a winning score of 175,000 sales.

Second-week sales for Capcom's Wii exclusive are an ordinary 137,000 units, according to Media Create data. That takes lifetime Monster Hunter Tri sales to 657,000 units.

That's a drop in the ocean when compared to third-place Dragon Quest IX, which breaks 3.5m sales after a month on the shelves. Both games, incidentally, earned full marks from ruling regional magazine Famitsu.

There are five other new entries in the top 10 alone this week, ending 9th August: Tales of VS. (PSP) at four, Kamen Rider: Climax Heroes (PS2) at seven, SD Gundam G Generation Wars (Wii) at eight, Color Changing Tingle's Balloon Trip of Love (DS) at nine and J-League Winning Eleven 2009: Club Championship (PS2) at 10.

Xbox 360 role-playing game Magna Carta 2 just missed a top-flight debut to finish at 11, while the Eastern release of Red Faction: Guerrilla failed to dent to running order, as PS3 and 360 versions enter at 29 and 30 respectively.

Hardware sales are dominated by Nintendo, as DS Lite and DSi combine to shift 78,735 units and Wii sells 47,140 units. The PSP, with 33,893 sales, is the only significant other.

Interestingly, the PS3 only very marginally beat Xbox 360 this week, selling 390 more consoles (5826 - 5436). The PS2 finishes bottom of the pile with 4601, despite a strong representation in the software chart.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (12) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • jonthepymm #1 3 years ago

    PS2 games topping the chart still? I weep.

  • miiiguel #2 3 years ago

    No "HD" games in the top 10.
    We care a lot...

  • Alterego-X #3 3 years ago

    HD GAMING IS DOOMED!
    Edited by 1 at 14/08/09 @ 18:26

  • KDR_11k #4 3 years ago

    By the way, that sales drop-off after the first week MH3 experienced is normal and apparently the same percentage all previous MH games had. It outsold all the PS2 versions (with a smaller userbase) but didn't reach the PSP ones. Considering MH only really became a juggernaut with the PSP releases that's hardly surprising, it seems to be a game people want to play on a handheld. Supposedly the Japanese use local multiplayer a lot.

    Also hooray for Tingle.
    Edited by 1 at 14/08/09 @ 16:37

  • Golgo #5 3 years ago

    @jonthepymm: weep for joy, I presume?

  • dominalien #6 3 years ago

    Nintendo was so, so, so, so right in not rushing into the whole HD gaming debacle (even if I don't own a Wii and don't intend to). I'll take a good looking SD resolution PS2 game any day over sub-HD crap on my PS3 (I'm looking at you, Bioshock: you played well, but God of War 2 looks better than you).

  • makeamazing #7 3 years ago

    According to another site (cannot remember which), they say there is currently very limited stock of the PS3 in Japan, apparently in readyness for the Slim, so that might equate to the lack of sales... but then i could be wrong :D

  • patchbox360 #8 3 years ago

    whats a ps2?????

  • Slipstream #9 3 years ago

    PS2 games topping the chart still? I weep.

    Tears of joy?
    It takes a dedication and conviction to maintain development on a last gen console. PS2 as far as I'm concerned, is still head shoulders above current gen when it comes to the entertainment factor of its games.

  • Pirotic #10 3 years ago

    Lack of foresight on capcoms behalf, they ditched PS3 development and shifted it to the Wii when they saw the original sales boom, and now the PS3 is gaining ground and the Wii bubble has seemingly burst with sales rapidly dropping month by month, it finally gets released on the latter.

    Maybe I'm just bitter because I'd of rather of had the PS3 version.

  • samaran #11 3 years ago

    i picked up monster hunter 3 a couple weeks back for 3000 yen (about 20 quid) from bic camera, which is sort of like john lewis but not shit. the game is huge here, but i don't think it'll catch on much further because the whole appeal of the series is getting together with your friends in the same room/park/train carriage.

    the game is selling exponentially better than it would have on PS3, though, so let's not get ahead of ourselves
    Edited by 1 at 17/08/09 @ 07:03

  • Stompy #12 3 years ago

    "Maybe I'm just bitter because I'd of rather of had the PS3 version."

    Hahaha.