April 8^th, 2005 (1:45pm) - Make its debut in the No. 1 spot this week is Namco’s critically acclaimed Tekken 5. Of course, games like Touch! Kirby for the Nintendo DS and Winning Eleven 8 are also performing well on the charts, showing some legs and possible staying on these Media Create charts for a few more weeks.

On the hardware front, while the PS2 tops the charts, the Nintendo DS once again outsold the PSP. As we mentioned last week, this jump in Nintendo DS sales is the result of the new colors of the hardware released in Japan. Sales of Nintendo’s dual-screened handheld are expected to increase significantly when Nintendo releases Nintendogs for the platform.

Top 10 Japanese game titles for the week of Mar. 28 - Apr. 3, 2005:
Game Title, (Platform, Publisher) - Units Sold During the Week (Approx.) - Total Sales (Approx.)
1. Tekken 5 (PS2, Namco) - 174,000 - new
2. Winning Eleven 8 Liveware Evolution (PS2, Konami) - 67,000 - 305,000
3. Touch! Kirby (NDS, Nintendo) - 33,000 - 108,000
4. Wild Arms: 4th Detonator (PS2, SCE) - 27,000 - 158,000
5. Shining Force Neo (PS2, Sega) - 18,000 - 81,000
6. Memories Off After Rain Vol. 3 (PS2, Kid) - 18,000 - new
7. Dynasty Warriors 5 (PS2, Koei) - 17,000 - 842,000
8. Mega Man EXE 5 (GBA, Capcom) - 12,000 - 142,000
9. Egg Monster Hero - (NDS, Square Enix) - 12,000 - 43,000
10. Bleach: Heat the Soul (PSP, SCE) - 10,000 - 47,000

Hardware sales for the week of Mar. 28 - Apr. 3, 2005:
System - Sales this week
1. PlayStation 2 - 44,117
2. Nintendo DS - 43,023
3. PlayStation Portable - 33,911
4. Game Boy Advance SP - 17,710
5. GameCube - 3,754
6. Game Boy Advance - 1,074
7. Xbox - 335
Note: The number of annual total sales are the total from December 30, 2004

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