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Japanese Charts - Week Ending 26/12/04

2nd January 2005, 5:11pm
Software:
(System/ Title/ This Week/ 2004 Total)

1 PS2/ Dragon Quest & Final Fantasy in Itadaki Street Special/ 201,005/ 201,005
2 DS/ Super Mario 64 DS/ 150,550/ 416,125
3 GC/ Mario Party 6/ 138,124/ 416,563
4 GBA/ Yoshi no Banyuuin Ryoku/ 112,663/ 161,344
5 PS2/ Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater/ Konami/ 110,438/ 658,624
6 GC/ Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat/ 107,467/ N/A (Last Week's Data Unavailable)
7 DS/ Sawaru Made in Wario/ 106,861/ 377,243
8 GBA/ Rockman EXE 5 Blue Team/ 105,104/ 105,104
9 PS2/ Dragon Quest VIII/ 104,211/ 3,103,477
10 GBA/ Konjiki no Gashbell! Unare Yujou no Dengeki 2/ 102,210/ 102,210

Hardware:
(System/ This Week/ 2004 Total)

DS/ 396,674/ 1,286,07
GBASP/ 190,268/ 2,530,961
PS2/ 188,134/ 2,691,666
GC/ 108,311/ 696,839
PSP/ 107,217/ 352,295
GBA/ 3,877/ 198,025
Xbox/ 704/ 37,083
PSone/ 90/ 14,029
SC/ 76/ 7464

The lack of PSP units in Japan seems to have resulted in strong sales for its competitor - the Nintendo DS. The GBA SP is still ploughing on, and there's not much change to the way the console sales are looking. I do find the sales of the Xbox funny, though.

SOURCE: M-Create.com
by Nick Schaedel