Is there room for two mat-based exercise games?
There are two mat-based exercise games on the Wii in the charts this week. Bandai-Namoo’s Family Trainer game comes packaged with its own mat for 7,100 Yen (about $70) making it slightly cheaper than Wii Fit at 8,800 Yen. (about $80) It still has quite a way to go in terms of sales however, seeing a relatively modest first week sell through.
Monster Hunter Portable is within touching distance of Wii Fit, behind by just 13,000 units.
Nintendo’s own Beautiful Character Training, which includes a stylus in the shape of a calligraphy brush, makes another re-entry into the top 10, proving that pretty much all Nintendo casual games sell well - eventually.
Sega must be pleased with Shiren the Wanderer’s entry at No.2, only beaten out by the latest DBZ : Burst Limit game on Playstation 3.
Software Weekly Sales June 2 - 8 / Lifetime Sales
01. [PS3] Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit (Bandai-Namco) - 92,298 / New Entry
02. [WII] Mysterious Dungeon: Fuurai no Shiren 3 (Sega) - 59,283 / New Entry
03. [PSP] Powerful Pro Baseball Portable 3 (Konami) - 42,673 / 159,000
04. [WII] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo) - 38,856 / 1,406,000
05. [NDS] DS Misa Yamamura Suspense: Kyoto Murder Files - 38,122 / New Entry
06. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (Capcom) - 35,185 / 2,177,000
07. [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo) - 33,595 / 2,190,000
08. [360] Ninja Gaiden 2 (Tecmo) - 24,570 / New Entry
09. [WII] Family Trainer (Bandai-Namco) - 15,405 / 59,000
10. [NDS] DS Beautiful Letter Training (Nintendo) - 15,391 / 267,000
This week we have the lifetime total sales for hardware in Japan. It shows the PSP is still selling very well compared to the Wii, although it is somewhat behind its portable rival the Nintendo DS in terms of total sales.
We can also see just how much the DS has broken the PS2 hardware sales records, and with sales still relatively high it may even reach the 23 million mark before 2009.
Hardware Weekly Sales June 2 – 8 / Lifetime Sales
1. PSP - 62,016 - 9,554,668
2. Wii - 44,639 - 6,180,489
3. NDS - 35,020 - 22,661,987
4. PS3 - 10,856 - 2,079,374
5. PS2 - 6,279 - 21,169,002
6. 360 - 2,280 - 570,028
