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Latest Japanese Sales Charts - Week Ending August 1

Video game sales have continued to improve this week in Japan, although they are still 9.33% below the weekly average. The highest new entry was Square Enix’s re-release ...

David Jenkins, Blogger

August 6, 2004

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Video game sales have continued to improve this week in Japan, although they are still 9.33% below the weekly average. The highest new entry was Square Enix’s re-release of the original two Final Fantasy games on the Game Boy Advance, with approximately 149,000 units sold. This was the only title to sell more than 100,000 this week, with anime license One Piece: Land Land selling around 49,000 units and role-playing game The Nightmare of Druaga about 43,000. In hardware sales the Game Boy Advance just slipped ahead with a 43.90% market share, followed by the PlayStation 2 at 43.54%, the GameCube at 11.96% and the Xbox at 0.41%.

TW

LW

Title

Publisher

Format

Release Date

1

NE

Final Fantasy I & II Advance

Square Enix

GBA

2004.07.29

2

1

Paper Mario RPG

Nintendo

GC

2004.07.22

3

NE

One Piece: Land Land

Bandai

PS2

2004.07.29

4

NE

The Nightmare of Druaga: Fushigi no Dungeon

Arika

PS2

2004.07.29

5

NE

Guilty Gear: Isuka

Sammy

PS2

2004.07.29

6

NE

Power Pro Kun Pocket 1+2

Konami

GBA

2004.07.29

7

3

Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 11

Konami

PS2

2004.07.15

8

2

Tenchu: Kurenai

From Software

PS2

2004.07.22

9

6

Taiko no Tatsujin: Atsumare! Matsuri Da!! Yondaime

Namco

PS2

2004.07.22

10

9

Pachinko Slot! Fist of the North Star

Sammy

PS2

2004.05.27

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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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