Sony platforms dominate Japan chart
And Warriors Orochi Z ends Resi 5 reign.
Sony platforms take the winners rose in Japan this week as PSP outsells DS and PS3 performs better than Wii.
Games for the Sony machines also bossed the top ten: PS3 and PSP combined three placements each to fill six of the spaces, leaving room for just three DS entries and one Wii title.
PS3 game Warriors Orochi Z debuts at the top of the software chart this week, knocking Resident Evil 5 on PS3 - last week's leader - to two. The Xbox 360 version of Resident Evil 5 lingers at 13.
Other new entries this week include New Control Play! Pikmin 2 for Wii, which arrives at six, and acclaimed first-party PSP game Resistance: Retribution at 10.
In total, DS counts 22 top 50 titles, Wii has nine, PSP claims six, PS2 and PS3 notch up five, and Xbox 360 tails with three.
| This Week | Last Week | Title | Platform | Weekly Sales | Lifetime Sales |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New entry | Warriors Orochi Z | PS3 | 112,283 | 112,283 |
| 2 | 1 | Resident Evil 5 | PS3 | 61,483 | 381,000 |
| 3 | New entry | Rittai Picross 3D | DS | 38,056 | 38,056 |
| 4 | 6 | Mario & Luigi RPG 3 | DS | 37,907 | 389,000 |
| 5 | 4 | Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce | PSP | 33,255 | 316,000 |
| 6 | New entry | New Control Play! Pikmin 2 | Wii | 28,706 | 28,706 |
| 7 | 5 | Yakuza 3 | PS3 | 23,815 | 449,000 |
| 8 | 2 | 7th Dragon | DS | 22,341 | 102,000 |
| 9 | 9 | Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (PSP the Best) | PSP | 16,209 | 484,000 |
| 10 | New entry | Resistance Retribution | Wii | 15,651 | 15,651 |
| Platform | This Week | Last Week | This Year | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PlayStation Portable | 43,463 | 59,568 | 579,953 | 11,943,972 |
| Nintendo DS | 39,135 | 43,342 | 861,894 | 25,981,537 |
| PlayStation 3 | 28,014 | 39,835 | 299,850 | 2,922,278 |
| Nintendo Wii | 17,941 | 16,560 | 354,367 | 7,833,268 |
| Xbox 360 | 8378 | 14,994 | 134,239 | 964,779 |
| PlayStation 2 | 4844 | 4954 | 65,694 | 21,465,218 |
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That's a great top 10 though, I wouldn't mind playing any of them.
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Gamers all over the world have always loved crap.
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Also Resistance Retribution isn't on the Wii.
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Fantastic sales for Sony all round. Almost double the sales of the wii two weeks running.
So it really is about the games after all. Who would have thunk it?
I thought the White Knight or whatever it's called would still be in the list tho.
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I hope they are realising though that they need more Japan-centric games. Stuff like inFamous and Killzone 2 just won't appeal to them; and it doesn't seem as though they have that many big in-house Japanese projects in development just yet (at least, that they've announced).
Time for The Legend of Dragoon 2?!
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We need Koei to buy out our pastures. They'll fix the milk shortage.
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Gotta respect the Japanese, at least they know an unreliable, piece of shit cruddy console when they see one.
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I can appreciate people wanting to stand up for their platform of choice, but you have to accept that sometimes a win "for the other side" is a good thing.
Sony fans in particular should appreciate MS contributions in the online space. PSN would not be improving at the rate it has done without a rival platform setting the bar so high.
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