The week Mario and friends smashed The Devil and made him cry. http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/newsArt.cfm?artid=15251 Incredibly, there were six new non-Nintendo entries this week - even one on the Xbox 360. In fact, this week there are only three Nintendo games in the top ten, which is quite a change of pace from the norm.
Of course the front-runner was Nintendo’s hotly-anticipated mascot brawler Super Smash Bros. Brawl, which sold an astounding 820,000 copies in just three days. It will no doubt pass the one million mark next week, much faster than even Wii Fit. It should also be noted that it sold precisely four times as many copies as the second-place PS3 version of Devil May Cry 4, one of the biggest releases on Sony’s platform this year.
Sales / Total Sales
01. [Wii] Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Nintendo) – 820,000 / (New Entry)
02. [PS3] Devil May Cry 4 (Capcom) – 205,000 / (New Entry)
03. [PS2] Tales of Destiny: Director’s Cut (Bandai-Namco) – 117,000 / (New Entry)
04. [PS2] Haruhi Suzumiya’s Wonderment (Banpresto) – 114,000 / (New Entry)
05. [Wii] Wii Fit (Nintendo) – 73,000 / 1,356,000)
06. [PS3] Disgaea 3 (Nippon Ichi Software) – 55,000 / (New Entry)
07. [360] Devil May Cry 4 (Capcom) – 40,000 / (New Entry)
08. [NDS] Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games (Nintendo) – 34,000 / 175,000)
09. [PS3] Assassin’s Creed (Ubisoft) – 28,000 / (New Entry)
10. [PSP] World Soccer Winning Eleven (Konami) – 26,000 / 102,000)
The effects of Super Smash Bros. Brawl were also felt in hardware sales. Wii sales rose to almost 100,000 for the week, beating out the DS and PSP with ease.
Weekly Hardware Sales
Wii - 94,473?
PSP - 72,528?
DS Lite - 67,472
PS3 - 41,796
PS2 - 12,115?
Xbox 360 - 6,060
Topic: Japanese Weekly Software and Hardware Charts for Jan. 28-Feb. 3 (Read 3010 times)
