Japan's Top 30 Software Titles - Week ending Feb 25, 2007

[imdaly]

Just saw this, and after seeing "Virtua Fighter 5" for PS3 at #1 two weeks ago and dropping to #25 last week, I was curious to see how well it would place in it's third week.

Well here we are with the 30 Best-Selling Games in Japan of this past week:

01. (PSP) Monster Hunter Portable 2nd - 705,281 / NEW
02. (PS2) Higurashi no Naku Koro ni - 80,002 / NEW
03. (WII) Fire Emblem: Goddess of the Dawn - 75,359 / NEW
04. (NDS) SimCity DS - 50,826 / NEW
05. (NDS) Prof. Layton and the Mysterious Village - 49,979 / 186,716
06. (WII) Wii Sports - 47,053 / 1,090,736
07. (WII) Naruto: Shippuuden Gekitou Ninja Taisen! EX - 45,792 / NEW
08. (NDS) Dragon Quest Monsters Joker - 40,507 / 1,174,576
09. (WII) Wii Play - 35,811 / 944,586
10. (NDS) Picross DS - 26,693 / 183,357

11. (PS2) Lupin the 3rd: Death for Lupin from Love of Money
12. (NDS) More Brain Age
13. (NDS) New Super Mario Bros.
14. (NDS) Hotel Dusk: Room 215
15. (NDS) Animal Crossing Wild World
16. (NDS) Keroro Gunsou Enshuu da yo! Zen-in Shuugou Part 2
17. (NDS) Wario: Master of Disguise
18. (NDS) Harvest Moon: The Island I Grew Up On
19. (NDS) Common Knowledge Training
20. (NDS) Mario Kart DS
21. (360) Crackdown
22. (NDS) Death Note
23. (NDS) Brain Age
24. (PS2) Soul Cradle: Sekai wo Kurau Mono
25. (PSP) Tales of Destiny 2
26. (NDS) Pokémon Diamond
27. (NDS) English Training
28. (NDS) Kanji Brain Test 2M
29. (NDS) Bleach DS 2nd: Kokui Hirameku Requiem
30. (PS2) Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

Systems Represented in Top 10:
NDS - 4
Wii - 4
PS2 - 1
PSP - 1
XBOX 360 - 0
PS3 - 0

Systems Represented in Top 30:
NDS - 19!!!
Wii - 4
PS2 - 4
PSP - 2
XBOX 360 - 1
PS3 - 0


Interesting Obvervations:
- Complete Absense of PS3. In 2 short weeks (nearly only 1), "Virtua Fighter 5" has gone from #1 to dropping off the Top 30.
- XBOX 360 actually MAKES the chart, with "Crackdown", an Shooter, hitting #21! Sure, at first sight this may not seem like much, but ANY time an XBOX/XBOX360 game sells in Japan is news. When's the last time we've seen a Shooter on a Microsoft system hit any charts in Japan?
- Nintendo OWNS Japan. 8 of the Top 10 and 23 of the Top 30! Holy crap!!
- A PSP game hits #1?!?! I'll have my eyes out to see how well it stays up there next week.



Your thoughts?

 

[TheGrayGhost]

PSP on top is surprising; PS2 I can understand, but not PSP.

 

[SLYspyder]

thanks for the info.

Nintendo is surely dominating this generation. and they have only released one of their big hitting games.

 

[blind_fury]

The Japanese have hot women but their tastes in video games suck.

 

[SLYspyder]

The Japanese have hot women but their tastes in video games suck.

hot women? hmmmm, from my experience, most guys have them at the bottom of their list....

 

[Electro UK]

San Andreas is on there? ****ing hell, those games just really arn't THAT good.

 

[Spidey17]

They are indeed. And asian women are hot, but they're not above any other women.