Professor Layton's sequel beats Animal Crossing's same-quel. http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/newsArt.cfm?artid=17302 The third game in the popular Professor Layton series has yet to be released outside of Japan, but if sales here are anything to go by it should prove popular when it finally does. Selling almost 350,000 copies in one week, it beat out the annualised soccer game Wining Eleven to the top spot.
Animal Crossing (known as Animal Forest in Japan) is Nintendo's only first party title for the Wii this Christmas holiday and has racked up another hundred thousand units this week.
Nintendo has several Animal Crossing commercials running on Japanese TV currently, mostly focusing on the bundled Wii Speak accessory.
The highest Wii branded software is Wii Fit at No.17, so Japanese shoppers appear to choosing Animal Crossing with their Wii consoles this Christmas.
Weekly Sales / Total Sales
01. [NDS] Professor Layton and the Last Time Travel (Level 5) 347,360 / New Entry
02. [PS3] Winning 11 2009 (Konami) 168,405 / New Entry
03. [WII] Animal Crossing: City Folk (Nintendo) 108,547 / 413,727
04. [NDS] Chrono Trigger DS (Square Enix) 80,157 / 351,025
05. [PSP] Yu-Gi-Oh Tag Force 3 (Konami) 64,179 / New Entry
06. [PSP] Gundam vs. Gundam (Namco Bandai) 56,557 / 323,489
07. [NDS] Hoshi no Kirby: Ultra Super Deluxe (Nintendo) 56,176 / 474,749
08. [PSP] Silent Hill 3 (Spike) 53,966 / New Entry
09. [PSP] Musou Orochi: Maou Sairin (KOEI) 45,809 / New Entry
10. [PSP] Higurashi Daybreak (Alchemist) 32,639 / New Entry
The camera-enabled Nintendo DSi is hanging on to its No.1 position again this week, keeping back it's biggest rival, the Sony PSP.
Meanwhile the Xbox 360 beat the PlayStation 2 this week despite not having a game in the top 20. The highest-ranking game for Microsoft's console is Last Remnant at No.23.
01. DSi - 87,185
02. PSP - 55,090
03. Wii - 49,848
04. PS3 - 34,978
05. DS Lite - 26,851
06. Xbox 360 - 11,423
07. PS2 - 5,628
Topic: Japanese Weekly Software and Hardware Charts for Nov 24 – 30 (Read 1843 times)
