Topic: Japanese Weekly Software and Hardware Charts for June 2 - 8

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Is there room for two mat-based exercise games?
 http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/newsArt.cfm?artid=16148

 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

[KDR_11k]

That PSP really is weird...

[Michael8983]

The PSP is weird. I mean even Sony seemed to write it off as a failure not long ago (along with most gamers of the world) but it's had this uncanny resurgence of popularity in Japan even though the amount of games that have actually sold well on it could be counted on one hand. Nintendo should release a successor to or at least another revision of the DS to put an end to this non-sense already.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

PSP only serves a couple main purposes.

1.  It's a piracy machine
2.  It's a Monster Hunter machine

Since the software library doesn't sell, it's obviously not a Game Platform, it just happens to be hot hardware on a game sales chart.