April 1^st, 2005 (1:35am) - The latest Media Create software and hardware sales charts from Japan are in and after weeks straight of being outsold by Sony’s PSP, the Nintendo DS has topped the charts for the week of Mar. 21 - 27. This jump in Nintendo DS hardware sales is the result of the Nintendo releasing three new colors of the dual-screened handheld.

Top 10 Japanese game titles for the week of Mar. 21 - Mar. 27, 2005:
Game Title, (Platform, Publisher) - Units Sold During the Week (Approx.) - Total Sales (Approx.)
1. Winning Eleven 8 LE (PS2, Konami) - 238,000 - new
2. Wild Arms: The 4th Detonator (PS2, SCE) - 131,000 - new
3. Touch! Kirby (NDS, Nintendo) - 75,000 - new
4. Shining Force Neo (PS2, Sega) - 63,000 - new
5. Bleach: Heat the Soul (PSP, SCE) - 37,000 - new
6. Egg Monster Hero (NDS, Square Enix) 31,000 - new
7. Dynasty Warriors 5 (PS2, Koei) - 26,000 - 825,000
8. Phantom Kingdom (PS2, Nippon Ichi) - 17,000 - 90,000
9. Harvest Moon (NDS, Marvelous) - 17,000 - 45,000
10. Donkey Konga 3 (GCN, Nintendo) - 16,000 - 53,000

Hardware sales for the week of Mar. 21 - Mar. 27, 2005:

System - Sales this week
1. Nintendo DS - 55,825
2. PlayStation Portable - 43,043
3. PlayStation 2 - 40,043
4. Game Boy Advance SP - 14,904
5. GameCube - 4,568
6. Game Boy Advance - 653
7. Xbox - 406

Note: The number of annual total sales are the total from December 30, 2004