Topic: Japanese Weekly Software and Hardware Charts for Feb. 18-24

[famicomplicated]

Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Wii hardware top the charts yet again.
 http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/newsArt.cfm?artid=15449

 Nothing too surprising this week, as Super Smash Bros Brawl remains at the top position. The only new entry this week is Winning Eleven Play Maker 2008 on the Wii, which uses a new and unique control scheme.  If Konami’s new control method catches on, maybe the Wii will see more sports games have better  Wii controls in the future.    

  Sales / Total Sales    

01. [WII] Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Nintendo) – 78,000 / 1,291,000
 02. [NDS] Etrian Odyssey II: The Royal Grail (Atlus) – 69,000
 03. [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo) – 62,000 / 1,546,000
 04. [PSP] Musou Orochi (Koei) – 47,000
 05. [NDS] Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness (Marvelous) – 45,000
 06. [WII] Winning Eleven Play Maker 2008 (Konami) – 36,000 / New Entry
 07. [PS3] Lost Planet: Extreme Condition (Capcom) – 23,000
 08. [360] Bioshock (Spike) – 18,000
 09. [WII] Wii Sports (Nintendo) – 17,000 / 2,798,000
 10. [NDS] Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games (Nintendo) – 15,000 / 236,000
   

For hardware, this week saw the Wii at the top yet again, ahead of Sony’s PSP. It also saw the PlayStation 3 take a huge drop in sales, managing less than a quarter of Nintendo’s home console sales.    

  Weekly Hardware Sales
   

01 Wii - 63,504
 02 PSP - 53,373
 03 DS Lite - 50,151
 04 PS3 - 14,060
 05 PS2 - 9,634
 06 Xbox 360 - 2,001

[Kairon]

PS3 back down to regular levels in Japan eh? But what's this? A third party Wii game in the top 10!

[BlackNMild2k1]

06. [WII] Winning Eleven Play Maker 2008 (Konami) – 36,000 / New Entry

If that is the Real Time Sports soccer game, I hope it sells really well everywhere

[walkingdead2]

PS3 back down to regular levels in Japan eh? But what's this? A third party Wii game in the top 10!

there has been a few of them.  the problem is publishers spend about 25 bucks or so on marketing and development release the game... it sells poorly then they cry foul.  wtf.

[famicomplicated]

Down in my local game shop here in Tokyo, Winning Eleven is flying off the shelves....all 5 copies of the game were sold out! (joke)

I really hope it does well, Wii sports games need to get a whole lot better than they are now.

Could this point and click control style work in an American "Football" game?

I use the term football lightly, because - you know - they use their hands most of the time... 

[NWR_insanolord]

You use the term because it's the name of the game, it doesn't matter if it makes logical sense. It probably wouldn't work too well for American Football, but I think EA's got a great way of doing that already. It still needs some tweaking, but it's good. What I would would love to see is a hockey game with that method of control. That should work well since hockey and soccer have a lot of similarities.

[IceCold]

Hockey.

Please hockey.

[KDR_11k]

Hockey needs Wiimote controlled melee combat.