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Nintendo systems are winning Japan once more after a greedy Christmas period.
The DS is streets ahead of competition for the week ending 11th January, but down by over 100,000 sales from last week. Only three games for the handheld populate the top ten, but a further 20 are counted in the overall top 50.
The best-sellers this week are on PSP, which finishes second in the hardware chart. Action spin-off Dissidia: Final Fantasy leads the way, followed by the budget version of Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G. Seven PSP titles in all are in the top 50.
At third, unsurprisingly, is the Wii, which counts platform stalwarts Wii Fit and Mario Kart Wii among the top ten. Wii Music, incidentally, is down at 37. In total, 13 Wii games litter the top 50.
The PS3 continues to gain momentum and finishes at four, as JRPG White Knight Chronicles sits at six in the software stakes, followed by Gran Turismo 5 Prologue Spec III at seven. A further three PS3 games place outside the top ten.
Xbox 360 finishes with under half the PS3 weekly sales, and has no games in the top 50.
Hobbling OAP PS2 finishes last, meanwhile, but manages a top ten entry with a Limited Edition of Gundam Musou 2, and some unpronounceable game at 49.
Various tables, courtesy of Media Create and NeoGAF (we'd marry you if we could) are below.
| Position | Title | Platform | This Week | Lifetime |
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| 1 | Dissidia: Final Fantasy | PSP | 49,000 | 818,000 |
| 2 | Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (PSP the Best) | PSP | 34,000 | 305,000 |
| 3 | Rhythm Tengoku Gold | DS | 33,000 | 1,568,000 |
| 4 | Wii Fit | Wii | 29,000 | 3,155,000 |
| 5 | Wagamama Fashion: Girl's Mode | DS | 29,000 | 644,000 |
| 6 | White Knight Chronicles | PS3 | 26,000 | 304,000 |
| 7 | Gran Turismo 5 Prologue Spec III | PS3 | 25,000 | 292,000 |
| 8 | Gundam Musou 2 (Limited Edition) | PS2 | 25,000 | 225,000 |
| 9 | Kirby Super Star Ultra | DS | 23,000 | 1,021,000 |
| 10 | Mario Kart Wii | Wii | 21,000 | 2,155,000 |
| Platform | This Week | Last Week | This Year | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nintendo DS | 101,630 | 230,678 | 332,308 | 25,451,951 |
| PlayStation Portable | 60,495 | 157,088 | 271,583 | 11,575,747 |
| Nintendo Wii | 41,243 | 119,965 | 161,208 | 7,640,109 |
| PlayStation 3 | 28,144 | 60,654 | 88,798 | 2,711,226 |
| Xbox 360 | 10,554 | 19,964 | 30,248 | 860,788 |
| PlayStation 2 | 6,628 | 12,548 | 19,176 | 21,418,700 |
| Platform | This Week | Last Week | This Year | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nintendo DSi | 78,201 | 182,518 | 78,201 | 916,771 |
| Nintendo DS Lite | 23,429 | 48,160 | 23,429 | 17,374,394 |
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YobRenoops
16/01/09 @ 12:39
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I wish we could get World Wide LTD figures for all the consoles. I'm fed up with this Japan, US, EU split.
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Eighthours
16/01/09 @ 13:19
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I didn't think you could still get the original DS as opposed to the DS Lite, and who would have possibly thought that they would have sold 5x as many old DS's this week compared to DS Lites.
I hope I'm not falling into a carefully laid trap here when I say that the Nintendo DS total is the Lites + the DSIs. |
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Doctor_What
16/01/09 @ 13:25
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Nearly 3:1 for Sony:MS? Ouch. Still, that's considerably smaller figures than in the rest of the world for MS. I had wondered if the RPG fix that the 360 has been getting would improve their stakes, along with the price drop, but it looks like that was only a very short-lived perk.
Anyway, not all 360 RPGs suck: I still enjoy Lost Odyssey. It's old fashioned, but it's still pretty enjoyable. |
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Vice.Destroyer
16/01/09 @ 13:58
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Ampland.com is not a true reflection of the size of japanese women.
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IronCladChicken
16/01/09 @ 15:25
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@Razz - Are the DSi's any good? I was thinking about grabbing one myself (mainly for the larger screens) but I wasn't sure if it was worth spending the extra cash?
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@ retriba
So going by your proposed strategy for MS, Sony should pretty much pull the PS3 from the store shelves because they've gone from 1st to dead last in every country but 1? Sometimes things happen overnight and sometimes they don't. To just give up though when you're at least making SOME headway? Nonsense. |
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GamesConnoisseur
16/01/09 @ 23:15
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What was the install base of PS2 vs Xbox? Mere 3 to 1?
This answered the question if MS made progress and/or Sony losing their once unquestionable dominance. Never expected X360 to take the crown or better PS3/Wii but MS looked for an improvement from the last gen. |
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agentk1986
19/01/09 @ 21:18
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The Xbox 360 still has a majority of their games that cater to a western audience, even though a better market stragety was planned for Japan at launch to improve over the Xbox debacle. How many of those Japanese specific games are exclusive to the 360?
What happened to the simple reasoning that Japanese consumers will always go for a Japanese product first. That was all I heard last gen from fanboys. |
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EvilBob_leeds
02/03/09 @ 13:13
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MS have gained a bit of market traction in Japan with the 360, but they paid a lot of money for it. The big question is how much they paid out for the exclusive JRPG titles, and how many consoles they'd have shifted otherwise. If you've cashed out (for example, I don't have the figures, but I would be interested to see them) $20 million a pop for Blue dragon and Lost planet, and they've help you shift 400,000 consoles, then you're paying $100 per console shifted. Will those customers be back next generation? Do those customers play on their 360s on a regular basis? The fact that the 360 has shifted 800,000 units and can't get a single game in the top 50 suggests that they've been bought for the exclusives and then left to rot.
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