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The latest version of Konami's popular soccer franchise World Soccer Winning Eleven debuted at number one in Japan, as the previous week's top game, Bayonetta, dropped a several slots, according to Media Create.

Kris Graft, Contributor

November 16, 2009

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The latest version of Konami's popular soccer franchise World Soccer Winning Eleven debuted at number one in Japan, as the previous week's top game, Bayonetta, dropped down. The PlayStation 3 version of World Soccer Winning Eleven 2010 was number one for the week ended November 8, selling 218,000 units, according to Japanese tracking firm Media Create. The Xbox 360 version of the soccer game debuted at number 22. The previous week's number one, the PS3 version of Sega's Bayonetta, fell to number eight, selling 30,000 compared to 135,000 from its debut week. The game, developed by Madworld house Platinum Games, came out strong a week prior partly thanks to very strong reviews in Japanese press, most notably from the magazine Famitsu. Sega also released an Xbox 360 version of Bayonetta, which came in at number 15, down from last week's seventh place debut. Aside from World Soccer Winning Eleven 2010, there were other new games breaking the Japanese top 10, including the DS role-playing game Summon Night X: Tears Crown from Namco Bandai, and Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games, published in Japan by Nintendo. One notable new release that didn't break the top 10 in Japan is Sucker Punch's open world PS3 superhero game Infamous, which debuted at number 14. Games dropping out of the top 10 from last week include Namco Bandai's Tekken 6 and Super Robot Taisen NEO. Below are the top games for the week ended November 8:

LW

TW

Title

Publisher

Platform

Weekly Sales

NEW

1

World Soccer Winning Eleven 2010

Konami

PS3

218000

5

2

Pokemon Heart Gold/Soul Silver

Pokemon Co.

DS

74000

6

3

Wii Fit Plus

Nintendo

Wii

70000

8

4

Tomodachi Collection

Nintendo

DS

64000

4

5

Persona 3 Portable

Atlus

PSP

46000

9

6

Inazuma Eleven 2: Kyoui no Shinryakusha (Fire/Blizzard)

Level 5

DS

42000

2

7

Final Fantasy Gaiden: Four Warriors of Light

Square Enix

DS

35000

1

8

Bayonetta

Sega

PS3

29000

NEW

9

Summon Night X: Tears Crown

Namco Bandai

DS

24000

NEW

10

Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games

Sega

Wii

22000

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Kris Graft is publisher at Game Developer.

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