Koei’s new PS2 title, Musou Orochi, took home the winners trophy in the weekly Japanese video game sales competition according to tracking firm Media Create. In the week of 19th to 25th March, the game, which is sort of a mix of Koei’s popular Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors series, sold through 406 247 copies, well ahead of the competition.

Also new on the software chart was the latest Dragon Ball Z game from Bandai-Namco on the Nintendo DS coming in at 3rd place with 65 203 sales, and a crayon drawing game from Banpresto at number 7 with 38 413. Yoshi’s Island DS continues it’s great run so far with another 100 thousand copies, and recent chart residents Wii Sports, Wii Play, Monster Hunter Portable 2nd and Prof Layton and the Mysterious Village continue to put up consistent numbers.

Hardware Numbers

The hardware numbers continue to follow the pattern established recently, with the DS and Wii outselling their competitors by over three to one. Both the DS and Wii were up this week with 130 684 and 75 571 units sold respectively, while the PSP and PS3 kept up a simliar pace to last week with 41 546 and 30 459 units sold. The Xbox 360 had a slight bump up to 3492 from 2910 due to the release of Sega’s Armored Core 4.

Next Week

Next week sees the release of More English Training (NDS) from Nintendo (the previous one has sold over a million copies), as well as new Digimon and Tamagotchi games on the DS from Bandai-Namco, and Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Mix+ on PS2 from Square Enix. Also being released is Sega’s Fist of the North Star on PS2, the next installment of Koei’s horse racing series, Winning Post 7 Maximum 2007 on PS2 and PS3, and Konami’s Pro Baseball Spirits 4 on PS2 and PS3.

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