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Japanese Charts: Rhythm Heaven Enjoys Festive Number One

Nintendo’s Rhythm Heaven has finally reached number one in the Japanese sales charts, three weeks after its initial release. A number of other mainstream titles have also risen up the charts, thanks to a three-day family festival in the country.

David Jenkins, Blogger

August 21, 2008

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Nintendo’s Rhythm Tengoku Gold has reached number one in the Japanese sales charts, three weeks after its initial release. Although never falling out of the top three the game, which is to be released as Rhythm Heaven in the West, jumped to the number one spot during the Bon Festival period in Japan. Although not officially a public holiday, the three-day Buddhist festival is often treated as an opportunity for family reunions, and this is reflected in the charts with a number of mainstream titles re-entering the top ten and no new entries. Daigasso! Band Brothers DX moved up seven places to number seven, while fellow Nintendo DS music game Meccha! Taiko no Tatsujin DS gained 14 places to re-enter the top 10 at number eight. Konami’s baseball simulator Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 15 also rose two places to number nine, while Wario Land Shake moved up five places to number 10. Namco Bandai’s Tales of Vesperia on Xbox 360 fell seven places to number 11, doubtless hampered by the console running out of stock in Japan. The highest new entry of the week is PlayStation 2 visual novel Akane Iro ni Somaru Saka: Parareru from GN Software at number 27, the only other being the belated Japanese release of Sega’s Crazy Taxi: Fare Wars on PSP at number 29.

TW

LW

Title

Publisher

Format

Weekly Sales

1

3

Rhythm Tengoku Gold

Nintendo

DS

137,000

2

1

Phantasy Star Portable

Sega

PSP

74,000

3

5

Dragon Quest V: Tenkuu no Hanayome

Square Enix

DS

74,000

4

8

Wii Fit

Nintendo

Wii

47,000

5

9

Mario Kart Wii

Nintendo

Wii

36,000

6

2

Fire Emblem: Shin Ankoku Ryu to Hikari no Ken

Nintendo

DS

35,000

7

14

Daigasso! Band Brothers DX

Nintendo

DS

24,000

8

22

Meccha! Taiko no Tatsujin DS: 7-tsu no Shima no Daibouken

Namco Bandai

DS

20,000

9

11

Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 15

Konami

PS2

19,000

10

15

Wario Land Shake

Nintendo

Wii

18,000

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David Jenkins

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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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