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Japanese Sales Charts - Week Ending 2/1/05

10th January 2005, 12:36pm
It's that time again! The final Japanese charts for 2004!

Software:
(Platform/ Title/ Publisher/ This week/ 2004 total)

1 PS2/ Gran Turismo 4/ SCE/ 634,769/ 634,769
2 DS/ Super Mario 64 DS/ Nintendo/ 108,937/ 525,062
3 DS/ Sawaru Made in Wario/ Nintendo/ 101,075/ 478,318
4 PS2/ To Heart 2/ Aquaplus/ 86,485/ 86,485
5 PS2/ METAL GEAR SOLID 3 SNAKE EATER/ Konami/ 71,723/ 730,347
6 PS2/ Dragon Quest VIII: Sora to Umi to Daichi to Norowareshi Himegimi/ Square Enix/ 71,019/ 3,174,496
7 GC/ Mario Party 6/ Nintendo/ 52,366/ 468,929
8 GBA/ Rockman EXE 5 Team of Blues/ Capcom/ 49,658/ New Entry - no previous totals
9 DS/ Pokemon Dash/ Nintendo/ 48,056/ New Entry - no previous totals
10/ PS2/ Dragon Quest & Final Fantasy in Itadaki Street Special Square Enix/ 40,877/ 241,822

Hardware:
(Platform/ This week/ Last week/ 2004 total)

1 Nintendo DS/ 209,522/ 396,674/ 1,495,596
2 PlayStation 2/ 207,108/ 188,134/ 2,898,774
3 PSP/ 129,957/ 107,217/ 482,252
4 GameBoy Advance SP/ 116,801/ 190,268/ 2,647,762
5 GameCube/ 29,802/ 108,311/ 726,640
6 Gameboy Advance/ 2,653/ 3,877/ 200,678
7 Xbox/ 899/ 704/ 37,982
8 PSone/ 134/ 90/ 14,163
9 Swan Crystal/ 76/ 76/ 7,540

The Nintendo DS is still way out in front. It's interesting to see PSP sales are behind, of all things, its brother - the PS2. And the PS2 has been out much longer, too.

SOURCE: M-Create.com
by Nick Schaedel