Weekly Japanese Sales (May 1st – May 7th, 2006)

Yes it’s that time again to delve into the mind of the Japanese gamers. But really we’re just looking at this past weeks software and hardware sales charts. Charts for the period April 24th – April 30th that were previously unavailable due to Golden Week holidays in Japan have also been added. Remember the ones you care about are in Bold!

This Week: Tetris DS climbs to the top and DS hardware and software continue to dominate.

Click “”Continue Reading”” below to see the full charts!
Software Sales (May 1st – May 7th)

01. NDS – Tetris DS: 160,148 / 378,247
02. NDS – Brain Age 2: 112,392 / 2,164,256
03. PS2 – Winning Eleven 10: 100,860 / 561,409
04. NDS – Brain Age: 84,075 / 2,136,857
05. NDS – Animal Crossing: 83,564 / 2,645,481
06. NDS – Pokemon Ranger: 69,415 / 496,834
07. NDS – English Training: 59,614 / 998,343
08. NDS – Mario Kart DS: 37,037 / 1,353,596
09. GBA – Mother 3: 34,591 / 291,428
10. PS2 – Dragon Quest Youth Yangus & Fushi no Dungeon: 33,279 / 215,237

Hardware Sales (May 1st – May 7th)

DSL 161,010
PSP 37,946
PS2 32,030
DS 24,428
GBASP 7,144
GBM 3,830
Xbox360 2,019
GC 1,460
GBA 87
Xbox 44

Due to Golden Week in Japan the full sales data for the previous week was not available. Here are the full charts for that period.

Software Sales (April 24th – April 30th)

01. PS2 – Winning Eleven 10: 460,549 / NEW
02. NDS – Tetris DS: 218,099 / NEW
03. NDS – Brain training 2: 94,231 / 2,051,864
04. NDS – Brain training: 74,783 / 2,052,782
05. NDS – Animal Crossing: 56,860 / 2,561,916
06. PS2 – Dragon Quest Shonen Yangus: 54,456 / 181,958
07. NDS – English training: 52,258 / 938,729
08. GBA – Mother 3: 50,923 / 256,837
09. NDS – Naruto 4: 38,236 / NEW
10. NDS – Pokemon Ranger: 36,777 / 427,418

Hardware Sales (April 24th – April 30th)

DSL 225,835
DS 42,695
PSP 40,884
PS2 29,837
GBASP 8,225
GBM 5,034
Xbox360 2,845
GC 1,126
GBA 69
Xbox 29

Source: Media Create