Nintendo's Rhythm Heaven For Wii Tops Japanese Sales Chart

Rhythm Heaven for Nintendo's Wii -- the latest in a series of rhythm games that started in 2006 -- was the top-selling game in Japan last week, providing a rare boost for the aging console. In all the game sold 118,173 copies, according to figures provided by tracking firm Media Create (as translated on the NeoGAF forums), which may have contributed to a slight boost in Wii hardware sales, at 17,114 units from 14,237 the previous week. Capcom's Sengoku Basara: Chronicle Heroes, the latest in a Capcom's domestically popular series of action games that has spawned two series and an upcoming feature film, came in second place at 82,798. Marvelous and Grasshopper Manufacture's No More Heroes: Red Zone Edition for the PlayStation 3 premiered at number 3. Its 40,313 sales is a respectable figure, considering that the game -- a port of the 2007 Wii game No More Heroes -- is merely an enhanced version of last year's No More Heroes: Heroes' Paradise that adds a handful of new features and PlayStation Move motion control support. Premiering at number 8 is Atlus' Nora to Toki no Koubou: Kiri no Mori no Majo (roughly Nora and the Time Studio: The Witch of the Foggy Forest), an RPG for the Nintendo DS that is not currently scheduled for release outside of the region. The complete top twenty chart, which include the Japanese debuts of Western-focused titles Alice: Madness Returns and Sniper: Ghost Warrior, follows:

LW	TW	Title	Publisher	Platform	Weekly Sales
NEW	1	Rhythm Heaven	Nintendo	Wii	118,173
NEW	2	Sengoku Basara: Chronicle Heroes	Capcom	PSP	82,798
NEW	3	No More Heroes: Red Zone Edition	Marvelous	PS3	40,313
3	4	Inazuma Eleven Strikers	Level-5	Wii	36,555
1	5	Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2011	Konami	PS3	35,739
2	6	Tako no Tatsujin Portable DX	Bandai Namco	PSP	35,694
4	7	Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2011	Konami	PSP	27,158
NEW	8	Nora to Toki no Koubou: Kiri no Mori no Majo	Atlus	NDS	24,481
NEW	9	Alice: Madness Returns	Electronic Arts	PS3	19,994
9	10	Wii Sports Resort	Nintendo	Wii	18,666
5	11	Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary	Sega	NDS	14,877
10	12	Danbooru Senki	Level-5	PSP	12,098
12	13	Wii Play: Motion	Nintendo	Wii	11,817
8	14	The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D	Nintendo	3DS	11,273
11	15	Pokemon Black & White	Pokemon Co.	NDS	11,147
NEW	16	Sniper: Ghost Warrior	Ubisoft	PS3	10,772
NEW	17	Alice: Madness Returns	Electronic Arts	360	9,093
15	18	GoldenEye 007	Nintendo	Wii	8,920
6	19	StarFox 64	Nintendo	3DS	8,626
14	20	Steins;Gate	Kadokawa Shoten	PSP	7,576