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Japanese Weekly Software and Hardware Charts for June 23-29

by James Charlton - July 7, 2008, 3:19 pm EDT
Total comments: 5 Source: Media Create

Wii Fit outruns Solid Snake in only his second week on the charts.

Four new entries were made by Nintendo games last week including the top three best sellers. Nintendo's sequel to its music creation game, Band Bros DX made a bold entry at No.3. Meanwhile, proving that a good horse simulator can always sell well, Enterbrain's Derby Stallion dominated everything this week.

Most surprising of all is how quickly the Playstation 3's flagship title has slipped down the charts, Metal Gear Solid 4 couldn’t even beat out the months old Wii Fit. It is a fair comparison as both titles have a high-end price tag of 8,800 Yen (about $80 US).

  1. [DS] Derby Stallion DS (Enterbrain) – 148,000 / New Entry
  2. [Wii] Tales of Symphonia: Ratatosk no Kishi (Namco) – 137,000 / New Entry
  3. [DS] Daigasso! Band Brothers DX (Nintendo) – 120,000 / New Entry
  4. [PS2] Hisshou Pachinko (D3 Publisher) – 55,000 / New Entry
  5. [DS] Higurashi no Nakukoru ni Kizuna (Alchemist) – 42.000 / New Entry
  6. [Wii] Wii Fit (Nintendo) – 34,000 / 2,292,000
  7. [PS3] Metal Gear Solid 4 (Konami) – 34,000 / 566,000
  8. [Wii] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo) – 31,000 /1,508,000
  9. [Wii] Super Mario Stadium: Family Baseball (Nintendo) – 31,000 / 89,000
  10. [360] Mobile Suit Gundam: Operation: Troy (Bandai) – 28,000 / 28,000

In hardware the Sony PSP handheld continues to dominate, beating the Nintendo DS by a clear 10,000 units.

As per usual, the Wii is outselling the PlayStation 3 at a ratio of 2:1. Total Sony hardware is behind total Nintendo hardware by about 10,000 units.

  1. PSP – 58,861
  2. DS – 48,884
  3. Wii – 48,480
  4. PS3 – 17,973
  5. PS2 – 7,673
  6. 360 – 5,104

Talkback

I'm STILL waiting for a good derby racing arcade-style game to make it to the Wii.

KDR_11kJuly 08, 2008

I guess all that bling doesn't help MGS4 swim in the Blue Ocean, eh?

NinGurl69 *hugglesJuly 08, 2008

Hardcore games only float in a sea of brown.

Tales has gone casual, confirmed.

Impressive sales numbers for Tales, actually... I think?

Nick DiMolaNick DiMola, Staff AlumnusJuly 08, 2008

Ooo Band Bros DX is out! If Nintendo doesn't say anything about a US release at E3 I'll have to import that.

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