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The MotionPlus-enabled game Wii Sports Resort blasted out of the gates in Japan, selling 360,000 units in its opening week, according to tracking firm Media Create.

Kris Graft, Contributor

July 2, 2009

7 Min Read

Six new releases proliferated tracking firm Media Create's top 10 games in Japan for the week ended June 28, but it was Nintendo's Wii Sports Resort that was easily the runaway hit. The title, which includes various sports such as fencing, wakeboarding, and skydiving, sold 360,000 units during the week, capturing the top spot. The closest-selling game was last week's number one, Nintendo's Tomodachi Connection for DS, which sold 72,000 units this week. Wii Sports Resort utilizes the recently released Wii MotionPlus peripheral, a small attachment for the Wii Remote that improves the accuracy of motion control. Famitsu said this week that at 353,000 sold in its first four days at retail, it was the third-fastest selling Wii game in Japan, behind Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Mario Kart Wii. New games showing up in the top ten this week aside from Wii Sports Resort were Atelier Rorona: Alchemist of Arland for PSP, Ken to Mahou to Gakuen Mono 2 for PSP, the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of BlazBlue from Arc System Works, and Agarest Senki Zero for PS3. Games dropping out of the top 10 from last week were Wii Fit, Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth, Pokemon Platinum, Fate/Unlimited Codes Portable, and Koei's Shin Sangokumusou 5: Empires. Below are the Japanese sales charts for the week ended June 28:

LW

TW

Title

Publisher

Platform

Weekly Sales

NEW

1

Wii Sports Resort

Nintendo

Wii

360,000

1

2

Tomodachi Connection

Nintendo

DS

72,000

NEW

3

Atelier Rorona: Alchemist of Arland

Gust Corp.

PS3

43,000

NEW

4

Ken to Mahou to Gakuen Mono 2

Acquire

PSP

39,000

NEW

5

Blazblue

Arc System Works

PS3

34,000

NEW

6

Blazblue

Arc System Works

360

25,000

3

7

Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days

Square Enix

DS

22,000

NEW

8

Agarest Senki Zero

Compile Heart

PS3

15,000

5

9

Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (PSP the Best)

Capcom

PSP

13,000

4

10

Sloan to MacHale: Nazo No Monogatari

Level 5

DS

13,000

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Kris Graft is publisher at Game Developer.

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