May 11th, 2005 (9:26pm) - Many of the games that appeared on the previous Media Create software sales chart are still topping the charts this week as all three versions of Nintendogs, Gundam, Naruto, and Fire Emblem all continue to sell strongly for the week of April 25th. While the hardware sales of the Nintendo DS may have dropped slightly from the previous week, it still outsold the competition by a good amount.
Top 10 Japanese game titles for the week of Apr. 25 - May 1, 2005:
Game Title, (Platform, Publisher) - Units Sold During the Week - Total Sales
1. Mobile Suit Gundam: One Year War (PS2, Bandai) - 33,906 - 268,238
2. Naruto 3 (NDS, Tomy) - 32,958 - 117,153
3. Romancing SaGa Minstrel Song (PS2, Square Enix) - 31,037 - 247,941
4. Nintendogs: Shiba & Friends (NDS, Nintendo) - 30,463 - 113,048
5. Baseball Live 2005 (PS2, Namco) - 24,154 - 68,006
6. Fire Emblem: Trail of Blue Flame (GCN, Nintendo) - 22,221 - 124,294
7. Nintendogs: Dachs & Friends (NDS, Nintendo) - 19,971 - 72,234
8. Nintendogs: Chahuahua & Friends (NDS, Nintendo) - 18,483 - 64,309
9. Rave Buster Darkness Centure (PS2, Bandai) - 16,581 - new
10. Spectral Force Chronicles (PS2, Idea Factory) - 12,285 - new
Hardware sales for the week of Apr. 25 - May 1, 2005:
System - Sales this week - Sales this Year - Life-to-Date (If applicable)
1. Nintendo DS - 64,247 - 739,557 - 2,236,153
2. PlayStation 2 - 40,471 - 828,824
3. PlayStation Portable - 38,778 - 796,654 - 1,268,906
4. Game Boy Advance SP - 14,616 - 280,128
5. GameCube - 6,125 - 99,574
6. Game Boy Advance - 448 - 9,594
7. Xbox - 271 - 6,360
Note: The number of annual total sales are the total from December 30, 2004
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