Sponsored By

Another strong week of sales in the Japanese game charts has seen Wii Fit claim the number one spot in its second week with 150,000 units, with other strong performances from Mario Party DS and Tales of Innocence, as well as debuts fo

David Jenkins, Blogger

December 13, 2007

2 Min Read

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

Media Create Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved.

About the Author(s)

David Jenkins

Blogger

David Jenkins ([email protected]) is a freelance writer and journalist working in the UK. As well as being a regular news contributor to Gamasutra.com, he also writes for newsstand magazines Cube, Games TM and Edge, in addition to working for companies including BBC Worldwide, Disney, Amazon and Telewest.

Daily news, dev blogs, and stories from Game Developer straight to your inbox

You May Also Like