Something caused a Phoenix Wright sales revival, and we suspect it was the Gyakuten Meets Orchestra concert (which was also a Gyakuten Kenji hype event). Both the first and second Gyakuten Saiban games for the DS ended up in the top thirty this week.Newcomer We're Fossil Diggers (a second-party effort by RED Entertainment that actually sounds really fun, at least to the dinosaur lovers in us) deserves all the glory, though. Debuting at third place, this unique piece of software did rather well for itself in its first week.
Besides the same old games that have been showing up in the charts for the past few weeks, the other notable is Square-Enix's dull-sounding bookkeeping game. It seems like a rather niche title to end up in the top thirty, but who knows -- maybe a lot of Japanese folks are getting ready to take the Level 3 Bookkeeping exam. Or, maybe they just can't resist a game by the beloved Squeenix.
To see all the placings and numbers for yourselves, just click on past the break.
Hardware:
- PSP: 85,421
- Nintendo DS: 44,551
- Wii: 44,241
- PlayStation 3: 7,438
- PlayStation 2: 6,545
- Xbox 360: 1,076
02.(02) [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G --- 123,855 (1,714,000)
03.(__) [NDS] We're Fossil Diggers --- 35,363 (New)
04.(04) [WII] Wii Fit --- 32,445 (1,897,000)
05.(03) [PS2] Musou Orochi: The Evil King Returns --- 24,474 (308,000)
06.(05) [NDS] Pokémon Ranger: Batonnage --- 21,364 (457,000)
07.(13) [NDS] DS Beautiful Letter Training --- 15,254 (149,000)
08.(09) [WII] Deca Sports --- 14,161 (148,000)
09.(10) [WII] Super Smash Bros. Brawl --- 12,703 (1,575,000)
10.(14) [WII] Wii Sports --- 11,669 (2,924,000)
11.(07) [PS2] Pro Baseball Spirits 5
12.(15) [WII] Wii Play
13.(06) [NDS] Tottado! Yowiko's Deserted Island Life
14.(16) [NDS] Mario Kart DS
15.(08) [PSP] Star Ocean 2: Second Evolution
16.(12) [NDS] Sim City DS 2: From the Past to the Future
17.(11) [PS3] Pro Baseball Spirits 5
18.(17) [NDS] Crayon Shin-chan: Arashi wo Yobu Cinema Land
19.(20) [NDS] New Super Mario Bros.
20.(19) [NDS] Mario Party DS
21.(__) [NDS] Phoenix Wright: Gyakuten Revival
22.(23) [NDS] Kanji Brain Test 2.5M
23.(22) [NDS] Animal Crossing Wild World
24.(24) [NDS] Taiko Drum Master DS
25.(27) [NDS] Harvest Moon: Shining Sun and Friends
26.(__) [NDS] Phoenix Wright 2
27.(25) [NDS] Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games
28.(__) [NDS] DS Bookkeeping, Level 3
29.(21) [NDS] Mobile Suit Gundam 00
30.(31) [PSP] Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion: Lost Colors
[Via NeoGAF]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
4-25-2008 @ 4:22PM
Dig said...
That picture at the top of the post is too awesome.
I gotta know. Does anyone know where to get a complete/full-sized version of it?
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4-25-2008 @ 4:35PM
Candace Savino said...
I think these are as big as it gets, but I could be wrong:
http://www.court-records.net/arts/tanomi2.jpg
http://www.court-records.net/arts/tanomi1.jpg
4-25-2008 @ 5:33PM
Dig said...
Fantastic. Big thanks.
4-25-2008 @ 4:37PM
Fululian said...
Also, Gyakuten und Gyakuten 2 was on sale for, like 12 euros that week. This may have contributed considerably to the sales figures.
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4-25-2008 @ 5:01PM
Mad Martin Kinderhook said...
That picture is disturbing. They brought Manfred von Karma back from the dead just to play violin?
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4-25-2008 @ 5:13PM
Brian said...
PSP owns again
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4-25-2008 @ 9:42PM
Mad Martin Kinderhook said...
Way to try and assuage your insecurities about your chosen handheld gaming console by touting momentary success over a competitor that came about due to the rampant success of one game released in a distant nation that comes from a genre you would almost certainly describe as "gay".
4-26-2008 @ 2:36AM
Brian said...
I own both a DS lite and a PSP.
...and you were saying?
4-26-2008 @ 11:36AM
Mad Martin Kinderhook said...
You of all people should be disinterested who's "owning" who, then. Don't make comments bringing up this stupid rivalry, and nobody will assume you're a fanbot, it's pretty simple.
4-26-2008 @ 1:11PM
Brian said...
Actually I am most interested in these numbers. Before the slim PSP launched, Nintendo was flat out dominating the handheld market and there was a severe lack of competition. Only through Sony leading in sales will Nintendo be forced to innovate instead of sitting back and watching the sales rake in month after month.
4-27-2008 @ 5:15PM
WTFMAN said...
Mad Martin Kinderhook)
Please refrain from being such an ignorant jackass.
all Brian did was shrewdly observe that the PSP was once again dominating or owning the hardware sales chart. As a Nintendo fan, I see nothing wrong in what he said. Please keep your jackassery to yourself and next time you point something out, proof it before making a deuche out of yourself.
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