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Australian and Japanese Sales Charts

14th December 2004, 12:31pm
First, Australia. No surprises here. The top 10 is dominated by PS2 and Xbox. No Nintendo in sight.



SOURCE: GFK.com.au

Now for some international news. Here are the Japanese Sales for Hardware and Software. It's easy to see how popular the Nintendo DS is in Japan. It's also interesting to see how poorly the Xbox is doing over there. The Gamecube has sold about 12 times more units this year!

Software
(Position/Platform/Title/Developer/This Week/2004 Total)

1 PS2/ Dragon Quest VIII/ Square Enix/ 476,281/ 2,643,353
2 DS/ Super Mario 64 DS/ Nintendo/ 151,373/ new
3 DS/ Sawaru Made in Wario/ Nintendo/ 148,825/ new
4 DS/ Pokemon Dash/ Pokemon/ 56,337/ new
5 DS/ Daigasso! Band Brothers/ Nintendo/ 33,911/ new
6 GBA/ Power Pro Kun Pocket 7/ Konami/ 30,410/ new
7 GC/ Mario Party 6/ Nintendo/ 29,959/ 178,352
8 DS/ Kime no Tame Nara Kimi Shineru/ Sega/ 27,250/ new
9 DS/ Chokkan Hitofude/ Nintendo/ 25,415/ new
10 GC/ NARUTO: Gekitou Ninja Taisen! 3/ Tomy/ 22,799/ 183,834

Hardware
(Position/Platform/This Week/Last Week/2004 Total)

1 Nintendo DS/ 468 883/ new/ 468,883
2 PlayStation 2/ 93,829/ 108,148/ 2,292 239
3 Game Boy Advance SP/ 27,313/ 31,198/ 2,211 510
4 GameCube/ 5,465/ 6,107/ 533,178
5 Game Boy Advance/ 822/ 785/ 191,981
6 Xbox/ 621/ 669/ 35,495
7 Swan Crystal/ 44/ 38/ 7,274
8 PSone/ 40/ 30/ 13,864

SOURCE: M-Create.com
by Nick Schaedel