December 10th, 2004 (2:20am) - The latest Media Create weekly sales charts show us that Square Enix’s Dragon Quest VII continues to be the nation’s most popular game title, however, thanks to the release of Nintendo’s dual screened handheld, the Nintendo DS, many of the platform’s launch titles have made it onto the list, with a port of Super Mario 64 selling through 150,000 units.
Here are the Top 10 Japanese game titles for the week of Nov. 29 - Dec. 5, 2004:
Game Title, (Platform, Publisher) -Units Sold During the Week/Annual Sales Total1. Dragon Quest VIII (PS2, Square Enix) - 476,281/2,643,353
2. Super Mario 64 DS (NDS, Nintendo) - 151,373 (new)
3. Sawaru Made in Wario (NDS, Nintendo) - 148, 825 (new)
4. Pokemon Dash (NDS, Nintendo) - 56, 337 (new)
5. Jam with the Band (NDS, Nintendo) - 33,911 (new)
6. Power Pro Kun Pocket 7 (GBA, Konami) - 30,410
7. Mario Party 6 (GCN, Nintendo) - 29,959/178,352
8. Feel the Magic XX/XY (NDS, Sega) - 27,250 (new)
9. Chokkan Hitofude (NDS, Nintendo) - 25,415 (new)
10. Naruto: Gekitou Ninja Taisen 3 (GCN, Tomy) - 22,799/183,834
The hardware side of things shows us that the Nintendo DS made a successful launch in Japan with over 450,000 units of the handheld sold in its debut week. Aside from this new entry, the hardware sales charts haven’t undergone much of a change, with the PlayStation 2 continuing to be the best selling home platform.
Here are the Hardware sales for the week of Nov. 29 - Dec. 5, 2004:
System - Sales this week - Total this year
Nintendo DS - 468,883 - 468,883
PlayStation 2 - 93,829 - 2,292,239
Game Boy Advance SP - 27,313 - 2, 211, 510
GameCube - 5, 465 - 533,178
Game Boy Advance - 822 - 191,981
Xbox - 621 - 35, 495
Swan Crystal - 44 - 7,274
PSone - 40 - 13,864
Note: The number of annual total sales are the total from December 30, 2003.
Click here for the previous sales charts.
