April 17^th, 2003 (12:00am) - MediaCreate has updated with the latest Japanese hardware and software sales charts for the week of April 7th to the 13th. The charts are once again being dominated by both the Game Boy and PlayStation brand names, which seems to have the whole town on lockdown (Sorry, I was watching Half Baked last night), with the PS2 selling 44,000 pieces for the week, the Game Boy Advance with 12,000, and the GBA SP selling a whopping 57,000 pieces. On the Software front, Bandai’s .Hack Vol. 4 for the PS2 made an impressive debut at the number one spot, as did other titles such as Enix’s Dragon Quest Caravan Heart and Eighting’s (of Bloody Roar fame) Naruto for the Nintendo GameCube which debut in the number 4 spot.

*Second number is the amount of pieces sold since the end of December 2002…

Hardware Sales:

1. Game Boy Advance SP (Nintendo) 57,000 / 718,500
2. Playstation 2 (Sony) 44,000 / 1,025,600
3. Game Boy Advance (Nintendo) 12,000 / 805,300
4. GameCube (Nintendo) 7,700 / 235,600
5. PS One (Sony) 1,200 / 34,000
6. Xbox (Microsoft) 1,100 / 49,900
7. WonderSwan Crystal (Bandai) 530 / 18,900

Software Sales:

1. PS2 .Hack Vol 4 (Bandai) 77,100 / 77,100
2. GBA Dragon Quest Caravan Heart (Enix) 54,300/ 373,700
3. PS2 Fierce Fighting Pro Baseball (Sega) 49,600 / 128,400
4. GCN Naruto (Tommy) 41,600 / 41,600
5. GBA Made In Wario (Nintendo) 39,500 / 210,000
6. PS2 Super Robot Great Wars Alpha 2 (Banpresto) 30,900 / 413,700
7. PS2 Final Fantasy X-2 (Square) 27,300 / 1,876,900
8. PS2 Taiko no Tatsujin (Namco) 26,300 / 195,100
9. PS2 Dynasty Warriors 4 (Koei) 16,400 / 1,014,700
10. PS2 Do Don Pachi Daioujou (Akira) 15,100 / 15,100