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Japanese Sales Charts - Week Ending 12/12/04

20th December 2004, 11:47am
Software:
(System/ Title/ Sold This Week/ 2004 Total)

1 PS2/ Dragon Quest VIII/ 203,618/ 2,846,971
2 PS2/ Daito Giken Koushiki Pachi-Slot Simulator Yoshimune/ 188,927/ 188,927
3 PS2/ Mobile Suit Gundam vs Z Gundam/ 183,583/ 183,583
4 PSP/ Minna no GOLF Portable/ 65,900/ 65,900
5 GBA/ RockMan EXE 5 Team of Blues/ 64,860/ 64,860
6 PSP/ Ridge Racers/ 60,624/ 60,624
7 DS/ Sawaru Made in Wario/ 58,083/ 206,908
8 DS/ Super Mario 64 DS/ 54,829/ 206,202
9 PS2/ FIFA Total Football/ 2 53,617/ 53,617
10 GC/ Mario Party 6/ 39,231/ 217,583

Hardware:
(System/ Sold This Week/ Sold Last Week/ 2004 Total)

NDS/ 198,892/ 468,883/ 667,775
PSP/ 160,019/ 0/ 160,019
PS2/ 98,323/ 93,829/ 2,390,562
GBASP/ 48,912/ 27,313/ 2,260,422
GC/ 25,359/ 5,465/ 558,537
GBA/ 897/ 822/ 192,878
Xbox/ 385/ 621/ 35,880
SC/ 44/ 44/ 7,318
PSone/ 35/ 40/ 13,899

SOURCE: M-Create.com

The Nintendo DS is really caning the PSP in Japan. It sold more in its second week than the PSP did in its first. This says a lot about the Japanese market - quirky, out there, innovative stuff sells well. On the other hand, Sony did apparently shipped a lot less units of the PSP, so maybe we'll see a resurge of sales if they gets some more units over there. Sony has also commented that they will be focussing more on the PS2 than the PSP, so I guess we'll have to see how it turns out.

Stay tuned for Australian charts.
by Nick Schaedel