Another Week in Japan: Hardware and software numbers 6/16-6/22

by Candace Savino { Jun 27th 2008 at 11:00AM }

Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Well, except for the PSP, that is. Sony's handheld is still as mighty as ever. Even so, the Wii toppled all the other home consoles once again last week, reclaiming its second-place spot:

The new Wii kid ~~on the block~~ in the charts is Mario Super Sluggers, which didn't sell as well as we thought it would, considering that it's a baseball game -- one published by Nintendo, no less. That's why we love Japanese sales so much, though. Just when we think we have the country all figured out, it goes and surprises us again.

Everything else Wii related is pretty much just business as usual, but check past the break to see where the games ranked in the top thirty and how much the top tenners sold.

Software:

01. [PSP] Super Robot Wars A Portable --- 102,000 (New)
02. [PS3] Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots --- 68,000 (533,000)
03. [WII] Super Mario Stadium Family Baseball --- 58,000 (New)
04. [PS2] Harulanaru Toki no Naka de 4 --- 55,000 (New)
05. [WII] Mario Kart Wii --- 33,000 (1,477,000)
06. [WII] Wii Fit --- 32,000 (2,258,000)
07. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G --- 21,000 (2,224,000)
08. [PSP] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 3 --- 19,000 (206,000)
09. [NDS] Beautiful Letter Training --- 18,000 (302,000)
10. [NDS] Let's Make a Pro Baseball Team! --- 11,000 (96,000)

11. [WII] Wii Sports
12. [NDS] DS Misa Yamamura Suspense: Kyoto Murder Files
13. [NDS] Taiko Drum Master DS: Seven Island Adventure
14. [NDS] Hisshou Pachinko Vol. 2: Evangelion
15. [PS3] Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit
16. [WII] Family Trainer
17. [WII] Wii Play
18. [WII] Mysterious Dungeon: Fuurai no Shiren 3
19. [NDS] Mario Kart DS
20. [PSP] Valhalla Knights 2
21. [NDS] We're Fossil Diggers
22. [NDS] Empty Space Training
23. [NDS] Pokémon Ranger: Batonnage
24. [NDS] Endless Frontier: Super Robot Wars OG Saga
25. [WII] Super Smash Bros. Brawl
26. [NDS] Puyo Puyo Special Price
27. [NDS] New Super Mario Bros.
28. [NDS] Pokemon Diamond
29. [WII] Link's Crossbow Training
30. [NDS] More TOEIC Test DS Training

[Via NeoGAF]

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.