February 26th, 2005 (2:51am) - Software
Software for the PlayStation 2 dominates the Media Create sales charts for the week of February 14th as Devil May Cry 3 makes its debut in the number one spot with last week’s chart topper, Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 3, tailing it in second place as it breaks half a million units sold. Unfortunately, the GameCube’s Resident Evil 4 has dropped out of the top ten, while the high profile Gran Turismo 4 gets a few inches closer to selling one million units in Japan alone.
Here are the Top 10 Japanese game titles for the week of Feb. 14 - Feb. 20, 2005:
Game Title, (Platform, Publisher) - Units Sold During the Week - Total Sales
1. Devil May Cry 3 (PS2, Capcom) - 194,530 - new
2. Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 3 (PS2, Bandai) - 90,911 - 517,807
3. Rumble Roses (PS2, Konami) - 73,935 - new
4. D1 Grand Prix (PS2, Yukes) - 26,286 - new
5. Gladiator: Road to Freedom (PS2, Ertain) - 14,336 - new
6. Gran Turismo 4 (PS2, SCE) - 12,863 - 956,680
7. Popolocrois Monotagari: Pietoro Ouji no Bouken (PS2, SCE) - 11,945 - 45,715
8. Yoshi’s Touch & Go! (NDS, Nintendo) - 11,591 - 120,669
9. Shinseki Yusha Daisen (NDS, Atlus) - 10,487 - new
10. Minna no Golf Portable (PS2, SCE) - 10,353 - n/a
Hardware
After tailing the PSP for a few weeks, the PlayStation 2 has finally jumped back to the top of the sales charts, however for the sixth week in a row, the PSP has outsold Nintendo’s DS. Is this a sign of Sony’s coming handheld dominance? Or is it a sign of Nintendo’s poor marketing and release date scheduling? You make the decision.
Here are the Hardware sales for the week of Feb. 14 - Feb. 20, 2005:
System - Sales this week - Total this year
1. PlayStation 2 - 38,954 - 432,091
2. PlayStation Portable - 38,314 - 400,669
3. Nintendo DS - 22,363 - 328,042
4. Game Boy Advance SP - 10,849 - 148,726
5. GameCube 3,256 - 55,428
6. Game Boy Advance - 399 - 4,421
7. Xbox - 295 - 3,595
Note: The number of annual total sales are the total from December 30, 2004
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