Weekly Japanese Sales (Dec 19 – Dec 25, 2005)

Yes its that time again to delve into the mind of the Japanese Gamers Mind, Actually really were just looking at the Sales Charts. Remember the ones you care about are in Bold!

And I’m happy to report that several DS Games have broken some cool records. Before we break it down here is the charts…

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01. PS2 Kingdom Hearts II 727.591 727.591 (Square Enix)
02. NDS Animal Crossing: Wild World 416.132 1.177.108 (Nintendo)
03. NDS Mario Kart DS 302.742 667.799 (Nintendo)
04. PS2 Naruto: Narutimate Hero 3 216.966 216.966 (Bandai)
05. NDS Pokemon Mysterious Dungeon: Blue Rescue Force 157.786 511.704 (Nintendo)
06. GBA Pokemon Mysterious Dungeon: Red Rescue Force 156.430 512.054 (Nintendo)
07. NDS Tamagotchi no PuchiPuchi Omisecchi 156.181 721.104 (Bandai)
08. PS2 Metal Gear Solid 3 Substence 103.894 103.894 (Konami)
09. NGC Mario Party 7 100.130 319.650 (Nintendo)
10. NDS Brain Training 93.240 1.004.681 (Nintendo)

So what does this all mean? Animal Crossing for the Nintendo DS has sold over 400k this week and now surpasses the one million mark for lifetime sales(in little over a month), Mario Kart DS has sold over 300k this week and it now passes the 500k Mark for Lifetime to Date. Expect Animal Crossing to crack two million and Mario Kart to crack the million soon.

Pokemon is obviously not dead with both the “”Mysterious Dungeon”” spin off now passing the half a million sales (We’ll have review of these games soon), and also Brain Training cracking the million lifetime sales as well, and not forgetting the GameCube but Mario Party 7 has also scored well with 319k sold to date and coming in 9th.

Hardware Sales (Dec 12 – Dec 18, 2005)

DS – 597,628
PSP – 161,332
PS2 – 97,475
GC – 36,646
GBASP – 35,764
GBM – 19,261
Xbox360 – 5,674
GBA – 906
Xbox – 141

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Market Share (Dec 12 – Dec 18, 2005)
Added Tomorrow

PSP VS DS Year to Date/Lifetime to Date (Dec 12 – Dec 18, 2005)
DS – 3,761,175 / 5,256,771
PSP – 2,089,969 / 2,572,221
DS Lead – 1,671,206 / 2,684,550

Source: Media Create