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Nintendo sweeps Japanese sales charts


According to the latest Media Create charts, Nintendo platforms completely dominated the market last week in Japan, with all of the top ten games being Wii or DS releases. It may not have been the busiest week in terms of sales -- the best-selling game was the newly-released Taiko no Tatsujin Wii at 106,000 copies -- but that's still a pretty wacky achievement.

Of the ten games on the list, seven were published by Nintendo, and an eighth, Professor Layton and the Final Time Travel, is from a series published by Nintendo outside of Japan. The full top ten, including four Wii games, is after the break.



  1. Taiko no Tatsujin Wii (Namco Bandai, Wii): 106,000
  2. Animal Crossing: City Folk (Nintendo, Wii): 98,000
  3. Kirby Super Star Deluxe (Nintendo, DS): 94,000
  4. Wagamama Fashion: Girls Mode (Nintendo, DS): 63,000
  5. Penguin no Mondai: Saikyou Penguin Densetsu! (Konami, DS): 59,000
  6. Professor Layton and the Final Time Travel (Level-5, DS): 58,000
  7. Pokemon Platinum (Nintendo/The Pokemon Company, DS): 58,000
  8. Rhythm Tengoku Gold (Nintendo, DS): 45,000
  9. Wii Fit (Nintendo, Wii): 43,000
  10. Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo, Wii) 34,000
[Box via Dengeki]

Tags: bandai-namco, japan, mario-kart, media-create, taiko-no-tatsujin, wii-fit

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