Topic: Japanese Weekly Software Charts for March 10-16

[famicomplicated]

Super Smash Bros. Brawl gets pushed down by Beautiful Writing and Japanese gangsters.
 http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/newsArt.cfm?artid=15596

 This week shows yet again how strong the casual market is in Japan. Nintendo’s own calligraphy and Chinese character training game stormed right to the top, just ahead of the new PlayStation 3 Yakuza title.    

Wii Fit also continued to impress, heading slowly but surely towards the two million mark. Meanwhile, Wii Sports continues its phenomenal sales, which could make it seem like a system pack-in, despite it not being so in Japan.    

Metroid Prime 3, which made a bold entry at No. 5 last week, slipped to No. 11 this week. Even Everyone's General Knowledge Training TV slid way down to No. 14, despite it being predicted to be another big seller with the casual/family market.    

   

  Sales this week / Total sales to date    

01. [NDS] Beautiful Kanji Training (Nintendo) – 66,000 / New Entry
 02. [PS3] Yakuza 3: Kenzan! (Sega) – 46,000 / 227,000
 03. [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo) – 45,000 / 1,704,000
 04. [WII] Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Nintendo) – 41,000 / 1,449,000
 05. [PS2] Gundam Musou Special (Bandai-Namco) – 24,000 / 213,000
 06. [NDS] Shugo Character! The Three Eggs… (Konami) – 20,000 / New Entry
 07. [PS2] Daito Giken Koushi Pachislot Simulator… (Paon) – 18,000 / New Entry
 08. [WII] Wii Sports (Nintendo) – 17,000 / 2,855,000
 09. [NDS] Harvest Moon: Shining Sun and Friends (Marvelous) – 11,000 / 93,000
 10. [WII] Wii Play (Nintendo) – 11,000 / 2,271,000    

This week we have the year-to-date hardware sales and they show what a close race it is between the Nintendo DS, PlayStation Portable and the Wii.    

   

Hardware - This Week / Total 2008 Sales    

1. PSP - 57,651 / 918,997
 2. WII - 55,845 / 944,254
 3. NDS - 53,266 / 926,177
 4. PS3 - 14,934 / 322,510
 5. PS2 - 9,930 / 146,810
 6. Xbox 360 - 1,744  / 44,092

[Kairon]

03. [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo) – 45,000 / 1,704,000
 04. [WII] Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Nintendo) – 41,000 / 1,449,000

Wow, Smash brothers Brawl is selling below WiiFit. It may be that when all is said and done in the Japanese market, Wii Fit will have outsold Brawl?

[NWR_pap64]

*In before Pro/NinGurl64 or whatever he calls himself these days

Nintendo has successfully killed gaming...

[Enner]

Well, a million and a half units is nothing to snuff at either. That's probably a nice profit for Nintendo. If anything, it means that there is a healthy audience there for all sorts of games! Yay!

And whoa ho at Ryu ga Gotoku Kenzan! racking in sales. The Japanese takes kindly to playing as Miyamoto Musashi.

[famicomplicated]

Now both the US and Japan have sold 1.5 million for Brawl.

Just that the US took 3 days.....not 3 months!

[GoldenPhoenix]

Now both the US and Japan have sold 1.5 million for Brawl.

Just that the US took 3 days.....not 3 months!

It is just too bad that it has no chance of hitting 5 million because the fan base won't accept it

[Kairon]

Now both the US and Japan have sold 1.5 million for Brawl.

Just that the US took 3 days.....not 3 months!

It is just too bad that it has no chance of hitting 5 million because the fan base won't accept it

Europe will save us!