Wii Fit Exercises Legs At Top Of Japanese Charts

Another strong week of sales in Japan has seen Wii Fit claim the number one spot in its second week, with Nintendo’s exercise themed hardware bundle proving an expected hit in its homeland. Three games sold over 100,000 units this week, with Wii Fit on 150,000, Mario Party DS rising up four places to number two with 107,000 units sold and Namco’s Tales of Innocence on Nintendo DS selling 104,000 units. The fourth highest new entry of the week was the latest game in the Hot Shots Golf/Everybody’s Golf series on PSP, which continues to one of the format’s biggest franchises with around 87,000 units sold in its first week. Also new at number seven is Mistwalker’s new role-playing game Lost Odyssey on the Xbox 360. The more adult themed adventure sold more than 25,000 less units than the opening week of Mistwalker’s Blue Dragon – which was released at almost exactly the same time last year. However, the 55,000 unit total was still well above average for an Xbox 360 release in Japan. The final new entry in the top ten was Konami’s baseball simulator Power Pro Kun Pocket 10 on Nintendo DS, with around 54,000 units sold. There were only two PlayStation 3 games in the top thirty with World Soccer Winning Eleven 2008 (aka Pro Evolution Soccer 2008) at number twenty-one and new entry Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune at number twenty-four.

TW	LW	Title	Publisher	Format	Weekly Sales
1	2	Wii Fit	Nintendo	Wii	150,000
2	6	Mario Party DS	Nintendo	DS	107,000
3	NE	Tales of Innocence	Namco Bandai	DS	104,000
4	NE	Minna no Golf Portable 2	Sony	PSP	87,000
5	1	Layton Kyouju to Akuma no Hako	Level-5	DS	76,000
6	4	Dragon Quest IV: Michibikareshi Monotachi	Square Enix	DS	63,000
7	NE	Lost Odyssey	Microsoft	360	55,000
8	NE	Power Pro Kun Pocket 10	Konami	DS	54,000
9	11	Super Mario Galaxy	Nintendo	Wii	45,000
10	9	Mario & Sonic at Bejing Olympics	Nintendo	Wii	45,000

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