July 16th, 2005 (3:18pm) - Once again, a horde of new releases have invaded Japan’s latest weekly software sales charts, with Sega’s Sakura Taisen V topping off the charts with over 110,000 units sold. Following it is the Nintendo DS’ Yawaraka Atamajuku, which once again finds itself in the No. 2 spot, but surprisingly the game has actually sold more than the previous week with approx. 75,000 units sold. Like its Adult Brain Training predecessor, Yawaraka Atamajuku is expected to become one of the Nintendo DS’ fastest and best selling games.
On the hardware side of things, the Nintendo DS tops out with over 41,000 units sold, the highest weekly amount the handheld has managed to sell since the release of Nintendogs. However, the interesting detail is that there were no new releases for the Nintendo DS this week, but sales for the handheld still managed reach a high note for the week. All other platforms saw a slight slump in sales compared to the previous week.
Top 10 Japanese game titles for the week of July 4 - July 10, 2005:
Game Title, (Platform, Publisher) - Units Sold During the Week (Approx.) - Total Sales (Approx.)
1. Sakura Taisen V (PS2, Sega) - 111, 771 - new
2. Yawaraka Atamajuku (NDS, Nintendo) - 75,156 -147,812
3. Minna Daisuki Katamari Damacy (PS2, Namco) - 61,455 - new
4, Musashiden II (PS2, Square Enix) - 57,916 - new
5. Mushiking (GBA, Sega) - 41,370 - 308,521
6. Gundam True Odyssey (PS2, Bandai) - 37,653 - 123,643
7. Otona no DS Training (NDS, Nintendo) - 28,792 - 274,939
8. Kenranbutosai (PS2, Sony) - 27,928 - new
9. Genji (PS2, SCE) - 24,156 - 94,239
10. Star Wars Episode III (PS2, Electronic Arts - approx. 20,000 - new
Hardware sales for the week of July 4 - July 10, 2005:
System - Sales this week - Sales Last Week - Sales this Year - Life-to-Date (If applicable)
1. Nintendo DS - 41, 503 - 35,083 - 1,111,953 - 2,608,549
2. PlayStation 2 - 28,711 - 29,992 - 1,128,765
3. PlayStation Portable - 20,390 - 21,901 - 1,030,461 - 1,481,854
4. Game Boy Advance SP - 11,176 - 12,509 - 403,018
5. GameCube - 2,273 - 2,602 - 127,296
6. Game Boy Advance - 289 - 310 - 14,025
7. Xbox - 179 - 182 - 8,186
Note: The number of annual total sales are the total from December 30, 2004
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