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As Japan moves toward its best week forvideogame sales, games with 'legs' continue to make their annualpilgrimage back to the top of the charts. See how your favorites didwithin.
Jacob Mazel
Summary:
After the fireworks last week, software sales havequieted down a bit in Japan for this week. However, volumes of softwaresold remain at near seasonal highs, and hardware sales continue toclimb. The preliminary data shows six games selling over 100,000 unitsthis week, though a few games could end up just under or just over the100,000 unit level as was the case last week in the final data.
Key Points:
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DSsoftware continues to sell well in Japan. In the preliminary data, 11of the games to chart were on the DS and roughly half the totalsoftware sales were on DS.
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A number of older games which help define the image of the platforms saw rising sales this week.
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Thepeak week for Japanese sales in the winter is still yet to come, so itis encouraging to see software sales remain over 1.5m units for the toptwenty games in a week where rates are still steady or increasing.
Understanding the Japanese Preview:
Rather than saying xgame for y platform sold between 20,000 and 28,000 units as in thepast, the preliminary data will be broken down into charts by platform.Within these charts, there will two additional categories besides therounded sales figure under ‘sales’. On the left will be ‘low end’depicting the lowest amount the title likely sold for the week, whileto the right will be ‘high end’ depicting the highest amount the titlelikely sold for the week. As always, this data is preliminary, andtherefore, not final, but it is based on a sample. The varying platformmarket share the sample represents is why consistent sellers like WiiFit do not always appear in the preliminary data. Sales for this report are for the week ending December 28, 2008.
Software by Platform Breakdown:
Wii Software – Three Wii games charted in thepreliminary data. The Animal Crossing sku without Wii Speak saw a bumpin sales. The game sold 189,000, and should approach 300,000 with theWii Speak sku included in the final data. Mario Kart Wii managed todouble its sales from the previous week, selling over 100,000 unitsthis week. The last title is the Wii-make of Pikmin, which sold nearly50,000 units this week. Expect Wii hardware sales to rise into the145,000 to 175,000 unit range.
Preliminary Top Twenty Wii Software
| Sales
| Low End
| High End
| Animal Crossing: City Folk (game sku only)
| | | | Mario Kart Wii
| | | | Wii-make Pikmin
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PS3 Software – White Knight Chronicles managed tosell 212,000 units in its debut for PS3. The only other PS3 title tochart was Gundam Musou 2 which debuted last week. White KnightChronicles managed to outsell the game by about 4:1. Expect PS3hardware sales to rise into the 50,000 to 60,000 unit range.
Preliminary Top Twenty PS3 Software
| Sales
| Low End
| High End
| White Knight Chronicles
| | | | Gundam Musou 2
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Xbox 360 Software – No Xbox 360 titles were in thepreliminary data. Expect Xbox 360 sales to remain in the 11,000 to16,000 unit range this week.
PS2 Software – Gundam Musou 2 sold another 40,000units on PS2 this week. The only other game for the platform to chartwas a Winter Sonata game at 25,000 units. Expect PS2 hardware sales toremain in the 8,000 to 12,000 unit range.
PSP Software – Final Fantasy: Dissdia dropped to138,000 units this week after debuting last week as the top seller.This time though, it was joined by another title in the preliminarydata. Monster Hunter Portable 2G (the re-released version) managed tosell about 55,000 units this week. Expect PSP hardware sales to dropslightly as disappearance of much of the Dissidia boost offsets theexpected holiday rise. PSP sales should be in the 100,000 to 140,000unit range for the week.
Preliminary Top Twenty PSP Software
| Sales
| Low End
| High End
| Final Fantasy Dissidia
| | | | Monster Hunter Portable 2G (Cheap Edition)
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DS Software – DS remains the go to platform forbig software sales in Japan at the moment. This week, the preliminarydata shows four DS games selling between 95,000 and 195,000 units.Kirby, Wagamama, Rhythm Heaven Gold, and others from both Nintendo andthird parties have seen significant boosts this week. New debutPhantasy Star Zero also managed to sell nearly 100,000 copies. Tales ofHearts, which debuted last week, had a sharp drop, but just about everyother DS title to chart this week has proven legs as a top sellingtitle. Expect DS hardware sales to remain in the 240,000 to 290,000unit range this week.
Preliminary Top Twenty DS Software
| Sales
| Low End
| High End
| Kirby Superstar Ultra
| | | | Wagamama Fashion: Gal's Mode
| | | | Phantasy Star Zero
| | | | Pokemon Platinum
| | | | Rhythm Heaven Gold
| | | | Momotaro Railway 20th Anniversary Edition
| | | | Tomgari Boushi to Mahou no 365 Days
| | | | Tales of Hearts
| | | | Powerful Pro Kun Pocket 11
| | | | Tamagotchi Kira Kira Omisecchi
| | | | Meccha Taiko Drum Master DS: Adventure in Seven Islands
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