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Japanese Weekly Software and Hardware Charts for March 24-30

by James Charlton - April 5, 2008, 10:28 am EDT
Total comments: 9 Source: Media Create

A different kind of Pocket Monster rips the charts wide open.

Merely two months ago Super Smash Bros. Brawl sold a mighty respectable 820,000 in its opening week. This week however saw a massive sell-through of the second most popular monster fighting game in Japan (after Pokemon) with Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G.

This shows that the defection of Monster Hunter 3 (currently in production) from PlayStation 3 to Wii, could turn out to be an important strategic move for Nintendo.

This week also saw Brawl finally hit the 1.5 million sales that North America managed in a fraction of the time.

01. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (Capcom) – 880,000 / New Entry

02. [NDS] Pokemon Ranger: Batonnage (Nintendo) – 106,000 / 348,000

03. [NDS] Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (Bandai) – 49,000 / New Entry

04. [Wii] Wii Fit (Nintendo) – 42,000 / 1,794,000

05. [PSP] Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion… (Namco) – 34,000 / New Entry

06. [Wii] Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Nintendo) – 34,000 / 1,524,000

07. [PS2] Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion… (Namco) – 30,000 / New Entry

08. [Wii] Deca Sports (Hudson) – 29,000 / 94,000

09. [NDS] SimCity DS 2: From the Past to the Future (EA) – 25,000 / 74,000

10. [NDS] Crayon Shin-chan: Arashi (Banpresto) – 19,000 / 54,000

Monster Hunter sales also affected hardware with PSP dominating this week, selling double that of the Nintendo DS.

PSP – 129,986

NDS – 58,916

Wii – 48,785

PS3 – 11,206

PS2 – 10,296

360 – 1,547

Talkback

EnnerApril 05, 2008

Monster Hunter has turned out to be quite a hit in Japan. Shame that I couldn't get into it, but maybe I'll try again some time later.

Will buy when on Nintendo system. &P

Deca Sports! Hang in there buddy!

KDR_11kApril 06, 2008

I wonder if Gundam 00 will consist of loooong "adventure game" sequences and short battles that end after two or three blows with one of the combatants running away...

GoldenPhoenixApril 06, 2008

4 to 1 now with Wii to PS3 ouch!

KDR_11kApril 06, 2008

Don't you mean Wii to PS3? The way you said it I thought the PS3 outsold the Wii.

Shift KeyApril 06, 2008

Still surprising to see Wii Fit sell better than Brawl

GoldenPhoenixApril 06, 2008

Quote from: KDR_11k

Don't you mean Wii to PS3? The way you said it I thought the PS3 outsold the Wii.

I have no idea what you are talking about. :P

NWR_pap64Pedro Hernandez, Contributing WriterApril 06, 2008

Quote from: Shift

Still surprising to see Wii Fit sell better than Brawl

That's because Wii Fit's online mode is lag free and is much better than Brawl's...

Wait...

Shift KeyApril 06, 2008

Quote from: pap64

Quote from: Shift

Still surprising to see Wii Fit sell better than Brawl

That's because Wii Fit's online mode is lag free and is much better than Brawl's...

Wait...

Care to translate this for those of us who don't speak moron?

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