Sony Resurgent In Weakened Japanese Chart

After a significant period of domination by the Nintendo DS, the new weekly Japanese sales charts features a top ten dominated by titles for Sony formats. However, as Japan prepares for the Golden Week series of holidays at the end of the month, sales have been depressed across the board. The chart is led by the latest Naruto anime-licensed game on the PlayStation 2, Naruto Shippuuden: Narutimate Accel although it failed to debut with the minimum 100,000 unit sales expected of a number one title in Japan. The second highest selling game of the week is a PSP conversion of PlayStation 2 hit Mobile Suit Gundam Seed: Rengou vs. Z.A.F.T. , with almost 59,000 unit sales. The other new entry of the week is also a PSP title, and the second baseball title from Konami in the top ten. However, while Pro Baseball Spirits 4 on PlayStation 2 moved up three places to number four, the aforementioned Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball Portable 2 registered less than 30,000 sales. However, in the rest of the chart Nintendo remains dominant, with only one PlayStation 3 title in the top thirty (Pro Baseball Spirits 4 at number twenty-three), no Xbox 360 titles and only one additional PSP title (Monster Hunter Portable 2nd at number sixteen).

TW	LW	Title	Publisher	Format	Weekly Sales
1	NE	Naruto Shippuuden: Narutimate Accel	Bandai Namco	PS2	75,453
2	NE	Kidou Senshi Gundam Seed: Rengou vs. Z.A.F.T. Portable	Bandai Namco	PSP	58,751
3	5	Yoshi's Island DS	Nintendo	DS	47,566
4	7	Pro Yakyuu Spirits 4	Konami	PS2	40,891
5	2	Musou Orochi	Koei	PS2	36,168
6	3	Eigo ga Nigate na Otona no DS Training: Motto Eigo Duke	Nintendo	DS	34,933
7	9	Wii Sports	Nintendo	Wii	30,807
8	NE	Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu Portable 2	Konami	PSP	29,944
9	1	Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix +	Square Enix	PS2	29,638
10	12	Layton Kyouju no Fushigi na Machi	Level-5	DS	27,833

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