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Japanese Sales Charts, Week Ending September 5th

Konami has maintained its iron grip on the top of the sales chart this week, with World Soccer Winning Eleven 8 switching back to the number one placing. Although ...

David Jenkins, Blogger

September 10, 2004

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Konami has maintained its iron grip on the top of the sales chart this week, with World Soccer Winning Eleven 8 switching back to the number one placing. Although it sold only 27,000 units during the time period, the game is well on course to become the most successful iteration of the franchise yet – which bodes well for Konami’s re-branding of the game as Pro Evolution Soccer 4 for the soccer-hungry European market. Sony’s unusual virtual pet/communication title Toro to Ippai is the highest new entry this mouth, but could only manage 19,000 unit sales. UbiSoft’s Prince of Persia: The Sands Of Time made a relatively strong impact, for a Western release, with around 14,000 units sold. For the fourth week in a row the Game Boy Advance led hardware sales, with a market share of 47.13 percent, followed by the PlayStation 2 at 43.87 percent, the GameCube at 8.37 percent and the Xbox at 0.44 percent.

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LW

Title

Publisher

Format

Release Date

1

2

World Soccer Winning Eleven 8

Konami

PS2

2004.08.05

2

1

Suikoden IV

Konami

PS2

2004.08.19

3

NE

Doko Demo Issyo: Toro to Ippai

SCE

PS2

2004.09.02

4

6

Famicom Mini: Super Mario Bros. 2

Nintendo

GBA

2004.08.10

5

4

Super Mario Ball

Nintendo

GBA

2004.08.26

6

9

Jissen Pachi-Slot Hisshouhou: Fist of the North Star

Sammy

PS2

2004.05.27

7

NE

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

SCE

PS2

2004.09.02

8

3

Full Metal Alchemist: Dream Carnival

Bandai

PS2

2004.08.26

9

8

Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 11

Konami

PS2

2004.07.15

10

RE

Densetsu no Stafi 3

Nintendo

GBA

2004.08.05

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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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