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Pokemon Typing Game Tops Japanese Sales Chart

Pokemon Co. took the top spot in the Japanese software sales chart this week, with the debut of Battle & Get! Pokemon Typing DS on Nintendo DS, according to numbers released by tracking firm Media Create.
Pokemon Co. took the top spot in the Japanese software sales chart this week, with the debut of Battle & Get! Pokemon Typing DS on Nintendo DS. According to numbers released by tracking firm Media Create (as translated on the NeoGAF forums), last week's robot battler Dai-2-Ji Super Robot Wars Z: Hakai-hen dropped down from first to third place with 44,973 sales, while the Pokemon Typing game sold 59,363 units. PSP and PlayStation 3 title Pro Baseball Spirits 2011 continued to sell well, dropping only a couple of places to fourth and fifth for the respective platforms. Square Enix's Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 - Professional jumped up a place, selling 45,397 units to reach second place, but down 47 percent in sales from last week. Meanwhile, the chart also saw several other new entries, including SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs 4, which only managed to sell 12,613 units, and Otomedius X from Konami, which jumped in at number 10 with 10,502 sales. Other new additions also include Hudson's Original Story from Fairy Tail: Gekitotsu! Kardia Daiseidou, Prototype's Clannad and Bandai Namco's Detective Conan: Aoki Houseki no Rinbukyoku. Media Create's complete top 20 sales chart, covering boxed console games sold in Japan from April 18 through April 24, follows.
LWTWTitlePublisherPlatformWeekly Sales
NEW1Battle & Get! Pokemon Typing DSPokemon Co.NDS59,363
32Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 - ProfessionalSquare EnixNDS45,397
13Dai-2-Ji Super Robot Wars Z: Hakai-henBandai NamcoPSP44,973
44Pro Baseball Spirits 2011KonamiPSP27,931
25Pro Baseball Spirits 2011KonamiPS324,365
NEW6Detective Conan: Aoki Houseki no RinbukyokuNamcoNDS19,786
NEW7GachiTora! Abarenbou Kyoushi in High SchoolSpikePSP13,560
NEW8SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs 4SCEPS312,613
69Pilotwings ResortNintendo3DS10,675
NEW10Otomedius XKonami36010,502
511Persona 2: Innocent SinAtlasPSP10,400
NEW12Monster Hunter Frontier Online (Forward .1 Premium Package)Capcom36010,393
1313Monster Hunter Freedom 3CapcomPSP8,558
NEW14Original Story from Fairy Tail: Gekitotsu! Kardia DaiseidouHudsonNDS8,376
815Earth Defence Force 2 PortableDS PublisherPSP8,207
NEW16ClannadPrototypePS37,466
1217Final Fantasy IV: The Complete CollectionSquare EnixPSP7,369
1118Amagami (EBKore+)KadokawaPSP7,016
1619Wii PartyNintendoWii6,748
1520Nintendogs + Cats: French Bulldog / Shiba / Toy Poodle & New FriendsNintendo3DS6,303

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