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Japanese Sales Charts - Week Ending 30/1/05

6th February 2005, 3:49pm
Software:
(Rank/ System/ Title/ Category/ Developer/ Sold This Week/ Sold Total)

1/ PS2/ Another Century's Episode/ ACT/ Banpresto/ 180,885/ 180,885
2/ PS2/ Radiata Stories/ RPG/ Square Enix/ 174,281/ 174,281
3/ GC/ Resident Evil 4/ ADV/ Capcom/ 142,025/ 142,025
4/ DS/ Yoshi Touch & Go/ ACT/ Nintendo/ 63,733/ 63,733
5/ PS2/ Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner 2/ RPG /Atlus/ 51,246/ 51,246
6/ PS2/ Death by Degrees/ ACT/ Namco/ 36,68/3 36,683
7/ PS2/ Monster Hunter G/ ACT/ Capcom/ 26,206/ 154,052
8/ PS2/ Gran Turismo 4 (incl. Limited Edition and Version with PS2)/ RCE/ SCE/ 23,524/ 907,919
9/ DS/ Wario Ware: Touched!/ ETC/ Nintendo/ 22,817/ 628,591
10/ DS/ Super Mario 64 DS/ ACT/ Nintendo/ 19,824/ 638,601

Hardware:
(Rank/ System/ Sold This Week/ 2005 Total)

1/ PSP/ 74,405/ 267,602
2/ PS2/ 58,673/ 305,285
3/ DS/ 43,226/ 249,922
4/ GBASP/ 11,589/ 114,046
5/ GC/ 8,214/ 40,751
6/ Xbox/ 467/ 2,650
7/ GBA/ 399/ 3,038

The PSP eclipses total 2005 sales of the DS, which holds a steady 3 positions in the top ten software sales. Resident Evil 4 is just as well-received in Japan as it is in America, even with the toned down violence.

SOURCE: M-Create.com
by Nick Schaedel