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New Super Mario Bros Dominates Japanese Chart Again

Nintendo has tightened its grip on the Japanese video game sales charts even further this week, with seven of the top ten titles being on the Nintendo DS and an eighth on...

David Jenkins, Blogger

August 25, 2006

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Nintendo has tightened its grip on the Japanese video game sales charts even further this week, with seven of the top ten titles being on the Nintendo DS and an eighth on the Game Boy Advance – all but one published by Nintendo themselves. Some of the titles crowding the top spots include new cooking simulator Shaberu! DS Oryouri Navi, the latest version of Tamagotchi Connection, and the ever-present Animal Crossing: Wild World. In fact, nineteen of the top thirty placed titles are also Nintendo DS games. Overall though, sales have slipped slightly again this week, with a paucity of new releases in advance of the release of Final Fantasy III next week. The only new title in the top ten is the latest in Daito Giken’s long running series of Pachi-Slot simulators, which follows the success of Sega’s Fist of the North Star license in previous weeks. Of greatest interest this week are the hardware figures, which have seen sales for the Nintendo DS slip by over 122,000 to just 75,207 units. Although stock of the console did appear to be improving last week, DS shortages have again become severe, leading to the drop. Sales for other formats remained static, with the PSP at 41,535 units and the PlayStation 2 on 26,833. The Game Boy Advance family of consoles sold 6,109 units, the Xbox 360 a still flaccid 1,493, and the GameCube 922.

TW

LW

Title

Publisher

Format

Weekly Sales

1

1

New Super Mario Bros.

Nintendo

DS

103,774

2

2

Tamagotchi no Puchi Puchi Omisecchi Gohi-Kini

Bandai

DS

65,554

3

5

Shaberu! DS Oryouri Navi

Nintendo

DS

55,759

4

4

Kahashima Ryuuta Kyouju Kanshuu: Motto Nouo Kitaeru Otona DS

Nintendo

DS

45,978

5

6

Oide yo Doubutsu no Mori

Nintendo

DS

41,813

6

NE

Daito Giken Koushiki Pachi-Slot Simulator: Hihouden

Daito

PS2

39,070

7

14

Rhythm Tengoku

Nintendo

GBA

29,911

8

18

Tetris DS

Nintendo

DS

26,791

9

8

SD Gundam G Generation Portable

Bandai

PSP

25,716

10

7

Kahashima Ryuuta Kyouju no Nouo Kitaeru Otona DS Training

Nintendo

DS

25,139

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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.

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