The week soon to be known as “The calm before the Brawl.”
Nothing too surprising this week. Wii Fit is still selling its $80 boxes at an incredible rate and Wii Sports is still going strong. There was, however, an unusual influx of PlayStation titles, including the latest version of the ever-popular soccer simulator Winning Eleven on PSP.
Monster Hunter Portable on PSP is almost neck and neck with Mario Party DS in terms of weekly and overall sales, jostling for the No.6 position.
Sales / Total Sales
01. Wii Fit (Wii) – 89,000 / 1,283,000
02. Winning Eleven: Ubiquitous Evolution 2008 (PSP) – 77,000 / New Entry
03. Lucky Star (PS2) – 72,000 / New Entry
04. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (DS) – 50,000 / 140,000
05. Wii Sports (Wii) – 26,000 / 2,714,000
06. Mario Party DS (DS) – 22,000 / 1,581,000
07. Monster Hunter Portable 2nd (PSP) – 21,000 / 1,555,000
08. Doraemon Baseball (DS) – 20,000 / 138,000
09. Yggdra Union (PSP) – 17,000 / New Entry
10. Professor Layton and the Devil's Box (DS) – 15,000 / 746,000
This is all insignificant however, to what will no doubt be unprecedented sales of Super Smash Bros. Brawl, which was released here in Japan on the 31st. Initial reports say all of the initial shipment was sold out within days. The lengths that the Tokyo branch of NWR had to go to in order to secure a copy is testament to how in demand the game was at launch.
On the hardware side of things, the Wii was lagging behind the PSP again this week, which is also reflected in the total-to-date sales of the system. Naturally the DS is the clear leader, and has already passed the half-million mark in 2008 alone.
Weekly Sales (Year-to-Date Sales)
1. DS – 79,370 (532,000)
2. PSP – 77,933 (472,000)
3. Wii – 74,544 (450,000)
4. PS3 – 34,363 (175,000)
5. PS2 – 11,364 (71,000)
6. Xbox 360 – 4,296 (23,000)
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