April 15^th, 2005 (9:10pm) - The latest Media Create sales charts are out and they’re showing a total drop in sales in regards to both hardware and software sales. Some new games release for the PS2 top the charts with Mobile Suit Gundam : 1 Year War in the No. 1 spot. On the hardware side of things, the PS2 is still in its dominating form, while the Nintendo DS slightly outsells the PSP for the third week in a row.

Top 10 Japanese game titles for the week of Apr. 4 - Apr. 10, 2005:

Game Title, (Platform, Publisher) - Units Sold During the Week (Approx.) - Total Sales (Approx.)
1. Mobile Suit Gundam: 1 Year War (PS2, Bandai) - 159,000 - new
2. Saint Seiya (PS2, Bandai) - 89,000 - new
3. Pro Baseball Spirits (PS2, Konami) - 55,000 - new
4. Tekken 5 (PS2, Namco) - 44,000 - 218,000
5. Winning Eleven 8 LE (PS2, Konami) - 24,000 - 330,000
6. Kirby: Canvas Curse (NDS, Nintendo) - 20,000 - 128,000
7. Bladrforce Exe (PS2, Alcehmist) - 12,000 - new
8. Wild Arms: 4th Detonator (PS2, SCE) - 10,000 - 169,000
9. Yamato (PS2, Bandai) - 9,000 - new
10. WRC4 (PS2, Spike) - 9,000 - new

Hardware sales for the week of Apr. 4 - Apr. 10, 2005:
System - Sales this week
1. PlayStation 2 - 37,970
2. Nintendo DS - 30,028
3. PlayStation Portable - 28,848
4. Game Boy Advance SP - 13,693
5. GameCube - 3,406
6. Game Boy Advance - 347
7. Xbox - 315

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

Click here for the previous sales charts.