June 18th, 2005 (2:10am) - According to the latest Media Create charts, ever since the release of Nintendogs, the Nintendo DS has been selling strongly, with other "non-games" such as Brain Training for Adults still going strong on the charts. Surprisingly, Brain Training for Adults sold better this week than it had the previous one, proving that the Nintendo DS is indeed providing news types of game experiences.
A good amount of new releases for the PS2 flooded the charts for the week, however, only time will tell if whether or not these games have enough appeal to stay on the charts for the next week or two.
On the hardware side of things, things haven’t changed much over the previous weeks. The Nintendo DS is topping hardware sales and followed the by Sony’s PS2 and PSP.
The past few weeks have shown a significant drop in PSP sales, most likely due to a lack of compelling software being released for the platform. Hopefully, sales of the console will improve once games are released that appeal to the Japanese audience.
Top 10 Japanese game titles for the week of June. 6 - June 12, 2005:
Game Title, (Platform, Publisher) - Units Sold During the Week (Approx.) - Total Sales (Approx.)
1. Metal Saga (PS2, Success) - 63,000 - new
2. Kenka Bancho (PS2, Spike) - 39,000 - new
3. Soccer Life 2 (PS2, Banpresto) - 36,000 - new
4. Brain Training for Adults (NDS, Nintendo) - 33,000 - 153,000
5. Mahou Sensei Negima! (GBA, Marvellous) - 24,000 - new
6. Berwick Saga (PS2, Enterbrain) - 11,000 - 121,000
7. Namco X Capcom (PS2, Capcom) - 11,000 - new
8. Nintendogs: Shiba & Friends (NDS, Nintendo) - 10,000 -197,000
10. Shojo Gikeiden 2 (PS2, Wellmade) - 9,000 - new
Hardware sales for the week of June. 6 - June 12, 2005:
System - Sales this week - Sales this Year - Life-to-Date (If applicable)
1. Nintendo DS - 32,765 - 34,939 - 972,175 - 2,467,771
2. PlayStation 2 - 27,741
3. PlayStation Portable - 21,476 - 23,225 - 937,013 - 1,419,265
4. Game Boy Advance SP - 8,522
5. GameCube - 2,558
6. Game Boy Advance - 623
7. Xbox - 131
Note: The number of annual total sales are the total from December 30, 2004
