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Japanese Software: Mario Wii Tops Charts As Change Comes To Top 10

To nobody's surprise, New Super Mario Bros. Wii topped the Japanese sales charts for the week that ended December 6, selling 953,000 amidst a chart featuring numerous sales debuts.
To nobody's surprise, New Super Mario Bros. Wii topped the Japanese sales charts for the week that ended December 6, selling 953,000 amidst a chart featuring numerous sales debuts. That figure is an all-time first-week Wii sales record for the nation, beating Nintendo's own previous high point of 816,000 for Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Along with Mario's latest outing, five other games made their sales debuts on the top 10 this week. The top four slots were all occupied by newcomers, knocking last week's reigning Professor Layton and the Flute of Malevolent Destiny down to number 5; its lifetime sales have nearly reached 400,000. Sega, Namco Bandai, and Koei took slots 2 through 4. The combined Nintendo DS juggernaut of Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver fell all the way from number 3 to number 8 this week, bringing its lifetime sales to 3.15 million. Perhaps surprising is the appearance of Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed II, the only non-Japanese-developed game to appear in the top 30. It sneaked in at number 10 with 49,000 sales. Below are the Japanese sales charts for the week ended November 29, 2009, according to tracking firm Media Create:
LW TW Title Publisher Platform Weekly Sales
NEW 1 New Super Mario Bros. Wii Nintendo Wii 953,000

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2 Phantasy Star Portable 2 Sega PSP 287,000

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3 Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam vs. Gundam Next Plus Namco Bandai PSP 223,000

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4 Sengoku Musou 3 Koei Wii 121,000

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5 Professor Layton and the Flute of Malevolent Destiny Level 5 NDS 85,000
2 6 Tomodachi Collection Nintendo NDS 75,000

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7 PokePark Wii: Pikachu no Daibouken Pokemon Co. Wii 64,000
3 8 Pokemon HeartGold/SoulSilver Pokemon Co. NDS 63,000
4 9 Wii Fit Plus Nintendo Wii 52,000

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10 Assassin's Creed II Ubisoft PS3 49,000

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