January 28th, 2005 (1:13pm) - Software
A handful of new releases invaded Japanese retailers this week and topping off the sales charts is Capcom’s Monster Hunter G for the PS2.
Here are the Top 10 Japanese game titles for the week of Jan. 17 - Jan. 23, 2005:
Game Title, (Platform, Publisher) - Units Sold During the Week - Total Sales
1. Monster Hunter G (PS2, Capcom) - 127,846 - new
2. Fuun Bakumatsuden (PS2, Genki) - 51,880 - new
3. Gran Turismo 4 (PS2, SCE) - 41,045 - 884,385
4. WarioWare Touched! (NDS, Nintendo) - 30,675 - 605,744
5. Mario Party Advance (GBA, Nintendo) - 29,669 - 97,596
6. Mehou Sensei Negima! (PS2, Konami) - 26,712 - new
7. Super Mario 64 DS (NDS, Nintendo) - 24,946 - 618,777
8. Minna no Golf Portable (PSP, SCE) - 20,012 - n/a
9. Shin Sangoku Musou (PS2, Koei) - 17,149 - n/a
10. Shinseiki Evangelion (PS2) - 16,001 - n/a
Hardware
For the second week in a row the PSP has outsold Nintendo’s dual-screened handheld. Not only this, but the PSP has topped this week’s PS2 hardware sales. While Nintendo president Satoru Iwata believes that consumers won’t want to play games on PSP systems, consumers are proving him dead wrong.
Here are the Hardware sales for the week of Jan. 17 - Jan. 23, 2005:
System - Sales this week - Total this year
PlayStation Portable - 66,543 - 183,028
PlayStation 2 - 56,374 - 255,781
Nintendo DS - 44,608 - 206,696
Game Boy Advance SP - 13,317 - 102,457
GameCube - 5,359 - 32,537
Xbox - 498 - 2,183
Game Boy Advance - 332 - 2,639
Note: The number of annual total sales are the total from December 30, 2004
Click here for the previous sales charts.
