Topic: Japanese Weekly Software and Hardware Charts for Jan. 14-20

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The week that had two Marios and two Sonics at the Olympic Games.
 http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/newsArt.cfm?artid=15192

 The DS version of the mascot-based Olympics game made a bold entry this week.  Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games almost reached the colossal weekly sales of Wii Fit.    

Wii Sports is also inching its way towards the three million mark, which indicates that a large proportion of the estimated 3.7 million Wii owners in Japan have a copy.    

Super Mario Galaxy, however, seems to be crawling its way towards the one million mark.  At this rate, it will take about three more months to reach that number.    

01. [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo) – 92,000 / 1,194,000
 02. [NDS] Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games (Nintendo) – 90,000 / New Entry
 03. [NDS] Mario Party DS (Nintendo) – 33,000 / 1,560,000
 04. [WII] Wii Sports (Nintendo) – 30,000 / 2,689,000
 05. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2nd (Capcom) – 24,000 / 1,534,000
 06. [NDS] Prof. Layton and Pandora’s Box (Level 5) – 22,000 / 730,000
 07. [NDS] Final Fantasy IV (Square Enix) – 22,000 / 559,000
 08. [WII] Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games (Nintendo) – 19,000 / 488,000
 09. [NDS] Dragon Quest IV (Square Enix) – 18,000 / 1,161,000
 10. [WII] Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo) – 16,000 / 835,000    

On the hardware side, Wii sales slowed down a little selling 81,638 during the week, just behind the DS Lite which sold 88,575.  The PSP also put up a good fight with 79,923, considerably better than the PlayStation 3, which sold 38,117.  The Xbox 360 sold just 4,552 units.