New PSP games top Japanese charts

By Robert Purchese Published 6 February, 2009

But DS still king of the hill.

Games for PSP have stolen the show this week in the Japanese sales charts.

New entry Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 2 takes the top spot, nearly doubling the sales of Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 on PSP at two. The PS2 entry for the football series sells around 1000 less to take three.

The DS leads hardware sales, though - although the gap between the handhelds closes every week. Helping the Nintendo cause this week is Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time on DS and Wii, which takes spaces five and seven, respectively.

Elsewhere there's little change. In total, DS counts 20 software entries, Wii has 10, PSP has seven, PS3 has six, PS2 has five and Xbox 360 has two.

This Week Last Week Title Platform Weekly Sales Lifetime Sales
1 New entry Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 2 PSP 212,765 212,765
2 New entry Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 PSP 109,492 109,492
3 New entry Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 PS2 108,189 108,189
4 New entry Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time DS 101,718 101,718
5 5 Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (PSP the Best) PSP 22,818 380,000
6 3 Taiko: Drum Master Wii Wii 22,600 339,000
7 New entry Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time Wii 21,721 21,721
8 1 New Control Play! Mario Power Tennis Wii 20,447 108,000
9 6 Rhythm Tengoku Gold DS 20,130 1,634,000
10 7 Wii Fit Wii 19,087 3,215,000
Platform This Week Last Week This Year Lifetime
Nintendo DS 70,760 65,294 555,162 25,674,805
PlayStation Portable 44,135 38,280 348,412 11,706,576
Nintendo Wii 23,278 26,770 243,589 7,722,490
PlayStation 3 17,405 17,708 144,601 2,767,029
Xbox 360 8107 7663 55,594 886,134
PlayStation 2 5334 5007 35,347 21,434,871
Platform This Week Last Week This Year Lifetime
Nintendo DSi 55,613 51,618 1,123,665 1,661,842
Nintendo DS Lite 15,147 13,676 269,194 17,445,455
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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 (15) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • jonsaan #1 3 years ago

    But the psp is dead and has no games ;)

  • Fodder #2 3 years ago

    "the gap between the handhelds closes every week"

    You're just doing this on purpose now, aren't you?

  • Triggerhappytel #3 3 years ago

    But, despite the facts, will it ever be acceptable to say the PSP has done pretty well this generation? It has nearly a third of the handheld hardware market, which is pretty impressive against Nintendo's unflinching dominance in the market for 20 years.

    I just hope Sony pledges more consistent first and third party support to the PSP2.

  • aliki #4 3 years ago

    The YTD DS sales don't add up.

  • penhalion #5 3 years ago

    Given there are only two choices in the handheld market. Why is everyone trying to analyse it to hell. The psp has a better graphical display. Add touchscreen to it and Sony would have a ds killer hands down.

  • Thunderbolt #6 3 years ago

    penhalion,

    But like Yoda said to Luke - There is another...

    You seem to forget that that iphone/mobile gaming is on the ascendency which makes for a 3rd choice

    'Add touchscreen to it and Sony would have a ds killer hands down. '

    Sonys solution to most things is to add features that always neccesary in the minds of the consumers. Painful lessons have learnt this gen in both the PSP and PS3, which are both feature-rich but their rivals have done suprisingly well.

    The PSP desperately needs third-party support in the west.

    And to dropping the UMD.

  • Feanor #7 3 years ago

    Why did it take so long for PES 2009 to come out in Japan?

  • CitizenGeek #8 3 years ago

    Will the Monster Hunter 2nd game on PSP ever stop selling? :o

  • LazyDan #9 3 years ago

    The touch screen isn't the only reason the DS has trounced the PSP, so no a PSP with touch screen wouldn't necessarily be a DS killer.

    Form factor/weight, battery life, reliability, graphics, quality and quantity of games then most importantly price all affect the desirability of a handheld gaming device, and the DS trounces the PSP in all of those aspects apart from graphics. Quality of games is a point neither side can claim to win, because that's entirely a matter of opinion - in mine, the DS wins again.

    It's been proven time and time again that weeks where the PSP sits on top in Japan are because of a release that Japanese people generally go nuts for (i.e JRPGs) and are nothing more than blips, so this news isn't anything to get excited over really.

  • penhalion #10 3 years ago

    @Lazy Dan

    I'm simply going on what I would buy and not trying to analyse the hell out of things. If there was a PSP that could run a lot of the DS touch screen style games as well as the superior graphical and 3d games of a standard PSP, then I'd rush out and buy it.

    As for the iphone (which someone mentioned), without proper controls, it's very limited in what it can do.

  • Widge #11 3 years ago

    Considering Nintendo's mass destruction of just about everything in the handheld arena, the PSP is doing rather well.

    Oh and Final Fantasy Dissidia would be a fighting game shaped blip.
    Edited by 1 at 06/02/09 @ 16:57

  • kwesleyb #12 3 years ago

    Wii Fit, read in the paper totay that pensioners will be getting wii fits as a free prescription so they can learn not to fall over...

    Ahh whats the world coming to.

  • canIdoyabombsforya #13 3 years ago

    "Given there are only two choices in the handheld market. Why is everyone trying to analyse it to hell. The psp has a better graphical display. Add touchscreen to it and Sony would have a ds killer hands down"

    But you and others were already saying it was a DS killer on launch. Back then DS had the piss ripped out of it by 'grown up gamers' perhaps why the debate continues.
    It was designed to be a DS killer, but its not about the hardware as Sony should only know too well from the PS2 being the weakest hardware last gen, but still succesful.
    So touch screen will now make it a DS killer will it, what next? Two screens?

  • [TR] #14 3 years ago

    One thing I didn't know is that the 360 hasn't even sold 1m units in Japan. Or is that number wrong?
    Regardless of its poor performance over there I thought it would have something between 1.5m and 2m. Less than 1m is really bad.

  • konnsky #15 3 years ago

    "I want to be king of the hill, top of the heap.."