Another Week in Japan: Hardware and software numbers 4/14-4/20

by Candace Savino { Apr 25th 2008 at 3:00PM }

The Wii had a good week in Japan, as far as sales are concerned. With Mario Kart Wii continuing to champion the cause, the little white console almost nabbed second place in hardware:

PSP: 85,421
Nintendo DS: 44,551
Wii: 44,241
PlayStation 3: 7,438
PlayStation 2: 6,545
Xbox 360: 1,076

Even in software, five of the top ten games were Wii titles. Wii Sports found its way back into the coveted ten once again, managing to coexist peacefully with Hudson's Deca Sports. Wii Play, meanwhile, performed the worst in relation to the rest of the Wii games in the top thirty, but still ended up in spot twelve.

Check after the break to see just how well Mario Kart Wii did last week in Japan.

Software:

01.(01) [WII] Mario Kart Wii --- 201,508 (795,000)
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]

Tags: brawl, deca-sporta, deca-sports, mario-kart, mario-kart-wii, smash-bros-brawl, ssbb, super-smash-bros-brawl, wii-fit, wii-play, wii-sports

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

TheWarlock @ Apr 25th 2008 3:14PM

Wii came, wii saw, WII CONQUERED!!! Go team Wii!
Mariokart pretty much slaughtered the rest of the software for that week.

Jove @ Apr 25th 2008 5:24PM

so how was the biggest xbox 360 game? they dont sell at all do they?

jpneiswi @ Apr 25th 2008 11:34PM

So, why do they still count Wii Sports as a game? I think that's kinda cheap, given that it's grouped with every wii sold.

BDR @ Apr 26th 2008 1:33AM

In Japan it's sold seperately

jpneiswi @ Apr 26th 2008 9:56AM

Ah, that makes a little more sense, but it's only like part of a game, I wouldn't consider it on the same level as Mario Kart or Zelda

Max Headroom @ Apr 26th 2008 12:34AM

Those console numbers are insane. Wii sold almost 6 to 1 over PS3.

The PSP on the other hand is doing crazy good. Is it really just Monster Hunter driving all those systems? I mean the DS has 18 games in the top 30, while the PSP has 3, but the PSP sold nearly twice as many systems.

This actually makes me that much more excited for Monster Hunter 3 on Wii.