|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese sales data: Wii surpasses 2 millionFriday 13 Apr 2007 According to Japanese video game sales tracking company, Media Create, the Wii’s life to date sales has surpassed 2 million units in Japan during the week of 2nd to 8th of April. The console is currently holding steady at around 50 thousand units sold per week, and is still said to be supply constrained. Nintendo have recently increased production capacity for the console which could see even more units being sold every week. Currently the console is generating these sales on the back of solid Wii Sports and Wii Play sales, while some potentially big sellers in Super Paper Mario and Big Brain Academy Wii are to be released over the next three weeks.
The Nintendo DS also reached a milestone in the week, it has now surpassed 16 million units sold in Japan. It’s sales jumped up to 110935 from 80012 last week, more than likely due to a larger shipment of the handhelds from Nintendo. The PSP has slowly been dropping back to its previous base sales after the big sales spike caused by Monster Hunter Portable 2nd, and sold 31503 units this week. The PS3 is still struggling without any large new games released and could only manage 14520, just a few hundred more than the PS2 at 14234. This week sees the release of Capcom’s Gyakuten Saiban 4 (the fourth installment of the Phoenix Wright series as it is known in English) on DS, which is likely to see high sales, as well as Nintendo’s Mario vs Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis on the DS. Grim Grimoire, a real time strategy game for the PS2 is also seeing a release this week by Nippon Icchi Software. Some notable releases for next week, the 19th of April, are: Persona 3: Fes (PS2) by Atlus, The King of Fighters Nests (PS2) by SNK Playmore, Final Fantasy Anniversary Edition (PSP) by Square Enix, Super Paper Mario (Wii) by Nintendo and 42 All-time Classics/Clubhouse Games (Wifi Edition) for the DS by Nintendo. Hardware Chart
Software Chart
Upcoming Titles
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
On the sofware top 10 there were three new entries: a new Naruto game on the Playstation 2 by Bandai-Namco entered in first place with 75453 copies sold; Gundam SEED Alliance vs ZAFT Portable for the PSP, also by Bandai-Namco, entered at number 2 with 58751 copies sold, and another PSP game in the form of Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball Portable 2 by Konami entered at position 8 with 29944 copies sold.
Recent chart stalwarts Yoshi’s Island DS and Prof. Layton and the Mysterious Village kept their places in the chart at positions 3 and 10 respectively, while Wii Sports continues to sell consistently and at a very high ratio to the Wii itself. In total almost 2 out of every 3 Wii purchasers have also purchased Wii Sports. Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix+ (PS2), Musou Orochi (PS2) and Pro Baseball Spirits 4 also all manage to keep their place in the chart from last week.
|
LATEST HEADLINES
|
