August 14^th, 2003 (12:00am) - Plenty of new releases made their debut on the latest software charts in Japan, but all paled in comparison to the sales of Winning Eleven 7 and Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles. Konami’s Winning Eleven franchise has always been huge in Japan so that’s no surprise. As for the GameCube’s Crystal Chronicles, the game had a strong debut selling 194,100 in its first week, which is extremely good for a GameCube title; yet poor for one featuring the Final Fantasy name on it (FFX and X2 sold millions each in less than a week).

Software:

1. PS2 Winning Eleven 7 - Konami - 642,400 - new
2. GC Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles - Nintendo - 194,100 - new
3. PS2 Summon Night 3 - Banpresto - 156,300 - new
4. GBA Super Robot Wars D - Banpresto - 113,600 - new
5. GBA Pokemon Pinball Ruby & Sapphire - Nintendo - 38,400 - 77,800
6. GBA Duel Masters - Takara - 35,800 - new
7. PS2 Powerful Pro Baseball 10 - Konami - 31,300 - 392,700
8. PS2 Gundam Seed - Bandai - 29,400 - 165,900
9. GBA Super Mario Advance 4 - Nintendo - 28,500 - 248,000
10. GC Kirby’s Airride - Nintendo - 27,700 - 208,200

Hardware sales seem to always follow a similar trend every week. However, whenever there’s a big release for the GameCube, sales of Nintendo’s home platform seem to double, as was the case this time.

Hardware:

PlayStation 2 - 46,300 (1,825,700)
GBA SP - 44,500 (1,436,000)
GameCube - 23,800 (408,500)
GBA - 14,700 (985,700)
PlayStation One - 800 (51,300)
XBOX - 580 (70,500)
WonderSwan Crystal - 450 (27,900)
WonderSwan Color - 170 (14,400)