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Namco Bandai's manga based DS fighting game One Piece: Gigant Battle debuts on top of the Japanese sales charts this week, and Metroid: Other M sales take a sharp decline.

Tom Curtis, Blogger

September 16, 2010

2 Min Read

Namco Bandai's One Piece: Gigant Battle for Nintendo DS debuted on top of the Japanese retail game sales charts this week, outselling all other games by a wide margin. For the week ended September 12, the DS title sold 131,854 units, with the number two title, Capcom's Monster Hunter Diary: Pokapoka Ailu Village, immediately following with 55,569 units sold, announced tracking firm Media Create. One Piece: Gigant Battle is a fighting game based on the popular manga series One Piece, and features gameplay similar to that of Smash Bros. or the Japanese-only Jump Superstars, which also included characters from the One Piece manga. Nintendo's Metroid: Other M, which made its debut last week at number three, dropped to number five this week with just 11,239 units sold—only 24% of what it sold the previous week. Other new titles this week include Vitamin X: Evolution Plus and Sengoku Efuda Yuugi: Hototogisu Tairan for PSP, which landed at numbers eight and 10, respectively. Games that fell from the top 10 include Square-Enix's reprint of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and PSP fighting game Bleach: Heat the Soul 7. Yuke published UFC 2010 Undisputed 2010 made its debut this week, but failed to reach the top 10, landing at number 16.

LWTWTitlePublisherPlatformWeekly Sales

NEW

1

One Piece: Gigant Battle

Namco Bandai

DS

131,854

1

2

Monster Hunter Diary: Pokapoka Ailu Village

Capcom

PSP

55,569

2

3

Wii Party

Nintendo

Wii

44,908

4

4

Ace Combat X2: Joint Assault

Namco Bandai

PSP

12,667

3

5

Metroid: Other M

Nintendo

Wii

11,239

6

6

Super Mario Galaxy 2

Nintendo

Wii

9,827

7

7

Art Academy

Nintendo

DS

8,172

NEW

8

Vitamin X: Evolution Plus

D3 Publisher

PSP

7,975

8

9

Inazuma Eleven 3: World Challenge!! Spark / Bomber

Level 5

DS

7,640

NEW

10

Sengoku Efuda Yuugi: Hototogisu Tairan

Irem

PSP

7,407

About the Author(s)

Tom Curtis

Blogger

Tom Curtis is Associate Content Manager for Gamasutra and the UBM TechWeb Game Network. Prior to joining Gamasutra full-time, he served as the site's editorial intern while earning a degree in Media Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

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