Weeking ending 25 March 2007
Power of the Koei's Muso franchise is just too great to resist. First it was Gundam Musou on the PS3, this week, Musou Orochi made the top spot with 406,247 units sold. Different from Gundam Musou, Musou Orochi is on the PS2. Not a surprise, really, given that the PS2 is still doing quite OK by itself.
Second on the ladder is Yoshi's Island DS, after two weeks on the top spot, it has finally succumbed to the power of the swords. But it's not doing bad itself, with 100,812 units sold during the week. There's a good chance that it will go back to the top, once all the Muso fans bought their copy of Musou Orochi.
Third is the latest Dragon Ball Z game for the DS by Bandai Namco. Seriously, haven't the Japanese had enough of Dragon Ball yet? Maybe there is a new breed of Dragon Ball lovers out there.
Monster Hunter Portable 2nd on the PSP and Professor Layton on the DS is sitll doing the rounds in the top 10. Another new game on the top 10 is Crayon Shin-chan DS: Arashi wo Sakebunutte Crayon Daisakusen! at number 7. I love the Crayon Shin-chan anime. That kid is just so out of control.
After absent for so long on the chart, XBox360 finally showed its face on the top 50 with Amour Core 4 at 19. The last one was Blue Dragon, an RPG with character design by Toriyama Akira (the same guy who did Dragon Ball, Chrono Cross/Trigger and Dr. Slump). I doubt it will hold its position for very long. It will be lucky in it's still on teh top 50 in a fortnight's time.
Best selling games for each platform (that is on the chart) this week
DS - Yoshi's Island DS
PSP - Monster Hunter Portable 2nd
Wii - Wii Sports
PS2 - Musou Orochi
PS3 - Gundam Musou
XBox360 - Amour Core 4
Number of titles in the top 50 for each platform this week:
DS - 36
PS2 - 6
Wii - 4
PSP - 2
PS3 - 1
XBox360 - 1
Console War VII: Battle for Nippon
The battle front for Nippon has opened up even wider, with both DS and Wii sales up while PSP and PS3 down during the week. Not a good week for Sony, with lukewarm reception of the PS3 PAL launch and all. I guess they really bright it on themselves. They just don't know what the people want. Anyway, not going to dwell into Sony's dismay this week. Battle for Nippon is still very much the lopesided towards Nintendo at the moment. XBox360 went up by a little, probably due to the new release of Amour Core 4, but nothing special.
DSL - 130,549
Wii - 75,571
PSP - 41,456
PS3 - 20,459
PS2 - 16,961
XB360 - 3,492
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