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Japanese Sales Charts - Week Ending 26/6/05

2nd July 2005, 2:28pm
What's happening in the land of the rising sun?

Software:
(Rank, Platform, TItle, Developer, This Week, Last Week)

1. GBA Mushiking: Greatest Champion no Michi - Sega - 208,000 (NEW)
2. NDS Nou wo Kitaeru Otona no DS Training - Nintendo - 32,000 (219,000)
3. PS2 Zill O'll infinite - Koei - 31,000 (NEW)
4. NGC Chibi Robo! - Nintendo - 29,000 (NEW)
5. PS2 Drag-on Dragoon 2 - Square Enix - 27,000 (153,000)
6. PS2 Rakushou! Pachislot 3 - Tecmo - 25,000 (NEW)
7. PSP Coded Arms - Konami - 14,000 (NEW)
8. PS2 FutaKoi Alternative - Marvellous Interactive - 13,000 (NEW)
9. NDS Famicom Wars DS - Nintendo - 12,000 (NEW)
10. PS2 Kenka Banchou - Spike - 12,000 (72,000)

Hardware:
(Platform, This Week, Annual)

1. Nintendo DS: 32,789 (Annual: 1,036,367)
2. PlayStation 2: 28,515 (Annual: 1,070,062)
3. Game Boy Advance SP: 21,904 (Annual: 378,243)
4. PlayStation Portable: 20,862 (Annual: 1,062,409)
5. GameCube: 2,649 (Annual: 122,351)
6. Game Boy Advance: 452 (Annual: 13,456)
7. Xbox: 184 (Annual: 8,213)

I don't get why the Japanese are so opposed to the Xbox.