Japanese charts: Afrika riding high
Safari so good for PS3 animal-photo game.
Afrika almost became king of the Japanese chart-jungle this week, but was beaten to the throne by quirky DS music game Rhythm Tengoku Gold (Rhythm Heaven here).
Quite soundly beaten, actually, excusing the pun; Rhythm Tengoku Gold had 76,000 sales to 38,000 of Afrika, according to Media Create data translated by NeoGAF members.
Ellie, incidentally, is embarking on her imported Afrika adventure as we speak. Remember: the game will only be released in Japan; such is the circle of life.
Rather close to the wilderness adventure was J-League Winning Eleven 2008 Club Championship (a Pro Evolution Soccer release) on PS2, which also had 38,000 sales.
Following was PSP game Fate/Tiger Colosseum Upper by Capcom at four, Wii Fit at five, and DS RPG Inazuma Eleven at six.
Freshly-released Battlefield: Bad Company on PS3 surprisingly took seven, Dragon Quest V for DS was at eight, Phantasy Star Portable for PSP held nine and Mario Kart Wii rounded the table off at 10.
Too Human made a little splash, entering the charts 17.
The hardware chart is unsurprisingly dominated by DS with 58,000 units sold, according to Famitsu figures, followed by handheld rival PSP selling 43,000 units.
The Wii had the best of the console battle but posted depleted numbers of 24,000 units, which made the PS3 with 11,000 units none too far away.
PS2 kept up steady but declining sales of 9100 units, while Xbox 360 shifted just 3100 units.
Software
- Rhythm Tengoku Gold (DS) - 76,000 (lifetime: 612,000)
- Afrika (PS3) - 38,000 (new entry)
- J-League Winning Eleven 2008 Club Championship (PS2) - 38,000 (lifetime: 117,000)
- Fate/Tiger Colosseum Upper (PSP) - 34,000 (new entry)
- Wii Fit (Wii) - 31,000 (lifetime: 2,578,000)
- Inazuma Eleven (DS) - 29,000 (lifetime: 71,000)
- Battlefield: Bad Company (PS3) - 26,000 (new entry)
- Dragon Quest V (DS) - 23,000 (lifetime: 1,148,000)
- Phantasy Star Portable (PSP) - 23,000 (lifetime: 618,000)
- Mario Kart Wii (Wii) - 23,000 (lifetime: 1,734,000)
Hardware
- DS - 58,000
- PSP - 43,000
- Wii - 24,000
- PS3 - 11,000
- PS2 - 9100
- 360 - 3100
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Depends if she's busy, she may have to go and meet here mum in which case the game must be shit
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She`ll start Afrika with " I have a love hate relationship with animals...." blah blah blah...no real information about the game, lots on how bad i am at it... 7/10
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Is it because its a shock hit for a non traditional game or because of another less opaque reason? (sony luvin?)
Surely the headline should have been related to the success of the more popular nintendo title?
anyway, too late now...
and stop whinging about reviewers you lot at the back! could be worse, could be the Kikizo's Haze review.... heh heh, legendary
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Is it because its a shock hit for a non traditional game or because of another less opaque reason? (sony luvin?)
Dude, they are doing the japanese charts every week. The most noteworthy thing about it is that a PS3 exclusive made it to number 2, which is statisically improbable due to the relatively low saturation of PS3's in Japan. Also, Africa is a game a few people in the occident are rather interested in; I hope it will do very well in Japan and be launched in Europe too as a result of it. Seems like a very family friendly game, we need more of those.
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It does look nice - would be interested in it myself - but can see from gameplay vids why they think it might not appeal to western gamers. Then again the PS3 could do with more exclusive good looking content. I'll be looking to import if they do an English language Asian version.
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"Oh, the Japanese will never understand our title, we won't even bother releasing it over there."