December 17th, 2004 (9:12pm) - The latest Media Create weekly sales charts show us that Square Enix’s Dragon Quest VIII continues to be the nation’s most popular game title. Making their debut this week are a number of PSP games including Everybody’s Golf and Ridge Racers
Here are the Top 10 Japanese game titles for the week of Dec. 6 - Dec. 12., 2004:
Game Title, (Platform, Publisher) -Units Sold During the Week/Annual Sales Total1. Dragon Quest VIII (PS2, Square Enix) - 203,618/476,281
2. Daito Giken Koushiki Pachi-Slot Simulator Yoshimune (PS2, Daito) - 188,927 (new)
3. Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam vs Z Gundam (PS2, Bandai) - 183,583 (new)
4. Everybody’s Golf (PSP, Sony) - 65,900 (new)
5. Mega Man EXE 5(GBA, Capcom) - 64,860 (new)
6. Ridge Racers (PSP, Namco) - 60,624 (new)
7. WarioWare Touched! (NDS, Nintendo) - 58,083/148, 825
8. Super Mario 64 DS (NDS, Nintendo) - 54,829/151,373
9. FIFA Soccer 2005 (PS2, EA) - 53, 617 (new)
10. Mario Party 6 (GCN, Nintendo) - 39,231/29,959
The PlayStation Portable has finally made its debut in the land of the rising sun and it has met a very successful one that saw lines outside of Japanese electronics stores reach incredible lengths, comprised of thousands of consumers. Although, despite the PSP’s debut, the Nintendo DS still managed to sell the most pieces of hardware across any platform with 198,892 units sold.
Here are the Hardware sales for the week of Dec. 6 - Dec. 12., 2004:
System - Sales this week - Total this yearNintendo DS - 198,892 - 667,775
PSP - 160,019 - 160,019
PlayStation 2 - 98,323 - 2,390,562
Game Boy Advance SP - 48,912 - 2, 260,422
GameCube - 25,359 - 558,537
Game Boy Advance - 897 - 192,872
Xbox - 385 - 35, 880
Swan Crystal - 44 - 7,318
PSone - 35 - 13,899
Note: The number of annual total sales are the total from December 30, 2003.
Click here for the previous sales charts.
