There's so much DS software love in the top ten that we don't know what to highlight! If pressed, though, we'll have to choose Densetsu no Stafi 5, because 1) Stafy is just the cutest and 2) it performed better than the rest. Band Brothers DX is inching toward 200,000 sales, though, and will probably hit that landmark next week.The other DS love goes to Hana Yori Dango: Koi Seyo Onago, an otome based on an anime/manga/j-drama. Although the chances of it happening are about ... zero ... we'd love to see that one localized, as Hana Yori Dango is one of our guilty pleasures. Last but not least, we'll mention the sometimes inappropriate Gegege no Kitarou, which debuted in ninth. (Oh yeah -- there's also Derby Stallion, but really.)
Software sales gave DS hardware a small boost, but Nintendo's handheld is still stuck behind the PSP:
- PSP: 56,998 (
559) - Nintendo DS: 48,540 (1,085)
- Wii: 41,768 (
2,757) - PlayStation 3: 12,458 (1,901)
- PlayStation 2: 10,405 (1,363)
- Xbox 360: 3,807 (969)
Software:
- [PS2] Persona 4 --- 193,000 (New)
- [WII] Wii Fit --- 30,000 (2,353,000)
- [NDS] Densetsu no Stafi 5 --- 29,000 (New)
- [WII] Mario Kart Wii --- 25,000 (1,560,000)
- [NDS] Band Brothers DX --- 23,000 (190,000)
- [WII] Biohazard Zero --- 21,000 (New)
- [NDS] Derby Stallion DS --- 20,000 (206,000)
- [NDS] Hana Yori Dango: Koi Seyo Onago --- 20,000 (New)
- [NDS] Gegege no Kitarou: Youkai Daigekisen --- 16,000 (New)
- [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G --- 16,000 (2,277,000)
If any of you analyst wannabes out there want to check out the hardware and software numbers for previous weeks in Japan, just click on this blue text. You might also want to broaden your regional horizons and look at the weekly European charts and monthly NPD.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
7-18-2008 @ 2:24PM
Hamster said...
The fact that the PSP has been sitting at the top of the Japanese hardware charts for months now was strangely absent from Nintendo's back-slapping, sales figures-obsessed conference....
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7-18-2008 @ 3:13PM
Sean jdahsdka said...
Holy smack @ Persona 4 being 6 times+ the second place sales.
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7-19-2008 @ 6:45AM
jgoreham said...
I don't know why they never translated the Stafi games for North America. I've got the first GBA game and it's lovely :)
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7-19-2008 @ 10:45AM
derek said...
yeah hamster and sony failed to mention that psp is 40 million behind the ds and about 14 million behind in japan and with games like FF5,DQ trilogy,pokemon platinum,and other little quirky games it is safe to say that psp might be in troble in its ONLY winning market over the DS so enjoy while you can.
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