July 1st, 2005 (3:25pm) - This weeks latest Media Create sales charts show that Sega’s Pokemon-inspired Mushiking: Greatest Champion no Michi topped the sales with a strong debut with over 200,000 units of the game sold. Following Mushiking is Nintendo’s Adult Brain Training for the Nintendo DS, a game which has surprisingly sold strongly since it’s debut almost a month ago. The rest of the chart is comprised of more new releases, including Coded Arms from Konami for the PSP.
On the hardware side of things, Mushiking’s debut cause a surge in Game Boy Advance SP sales as it not only doubled in sales from the previous week, but even outsold Sony’s more powerful handheld, the PSP. Once again, the Nintendo DS is Japan’s best selling piece of videogame machinery for the week.
Top 10 Japanese game titles for the week of June 20 - June 26, 2005:
Game Title, (Platform, Publisher) - Units Sold During the Week (Approx.) - Total Sales (Approx.)
1. Mushiking: Greatest Champion no Michi (GBA, Sega) - 208,000 - new
2. Brain Training for Adults DS (NDS, Nintendo) - 32,000 - 219,000
3. Zill O’ll Infinite (PS2, Koei) - 31,000 - new
4. Chibi Robo! (GCN, Nintendo) - 29,000 - new
5. Drag-on-Dragoon 2 (PS2, Square Enix) - 27,000 - new
6. Rakushou! Pachislot 3 (PS2, Tecmo) - 25,000 - new
7. Coded Arms (PSP, Konami) - 14,000 - new
8. FutaKoi Alternative (PS2, Marvellous Interactive) - 13,000 - new
9. Famicom Wars DS (NDS, Nintendo) - 12,000 - new
10. Kenka Banchou (PS2, Spike) - 12,000 - 72,000
Hardware sales for the week of June 20 - June 26, 2005:
System - Sales this week - Sales Last Week - Sales this Year - Life-to-Date (If applicable)
1. Nintendo DS - 32,789 - 31,376 - 1,035,367 - 2,531,963
2. PlayStation 2 - 28,515 - 25,526 - 1,070,062
3. Game Boy Advance SP - 21,904 - 9,727 - 379,333
4. PlayStation Portable - 20,862 - 20,416 - 988,170 - 1,461,464
5. GameCube - 2,649 - 2,183 - 122,421
6. Game Boy Advance - 452 - 475 - 13,426
7. Xbox - 184 - 150 - 7,825
Note: The number of annual total sales are the total from December 30, 2004
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