Sales Chart JPN: PS2 is shining on top... literally, while PS3 sold less than 10,000

Week 14 - 20 May 2007

Last week saw yet another PS2 games taking the top honours, six months after the PS3 came out on the market. PS3 is definitely not getting any love at the moment. Anyway, PS2 is shining on top... literally. Sega's latest instalment in their Shining series, Shining Wind, sold 78,030 last week. 7,000 units behind it is a new game, Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan! 2 on the DS, selling closed to 71,000 units. It a sequel to Elite Beat Agents.

Number 3 is back to the PS2 again, with Odin Sphere (59,248), yet another new game. Looks like the PS2 still has the power to draw gamers in.

The top 3 spots have been taken by new games. So what happens to the old games? Well, Final Fantasy Tactics: The Lion War on the PSP is the best selling 'old' game, with close to 39,500. Still doing quite good. The other Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings on the DS is still around (23,904) at 6th place. Wii Sports is, as usual, leading the charge for the Wii at 5th place (27,788), splitting the two FF games. Another FF game, the Final Fantasy Anniversary, however, is somewhere at 31st last week, and continue to fall. Do Japanese games have no love for it, or did they all flock to FF Tactics?

Couple of usual suspects are still in the top 20, like More Brain Training, New Super Mario, Mario Kart, Wii Play, and Animal Crossing. Notice the trend here? Yeah, they are all on the Nintendo. Sony tends to stay around the middle-to-lower end. Monster Hunter Freedom 2nd at 23rd and Pro Baseball Spirit 4 at 34th.

Detective Conan, a very popular anime series in Japan, didn't fare too well on the Wii, though. It's at 36th, and unlikely to gain any higher place.

Best selling games for each platform (that is on the chart) this week

PS2 - Shining Winds
DS - Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan! 2
PSP - Final Fantasy Tactics: The Lion War
Wii - Wii Sports

Number of titles in the top 50 for each platform this week:

DS - 34
Wii - 7
PS2 - 5
PSP - 4

Console War VII: Battle for Nippon

Like I need to say this every week, Nintendo is still way ahead of everyone else. Let me rephase, DS is still way ahead of everyone else. It accounts for more than half of all gaming consoles sold last week. This situation has been going on for month after month after month, and looks like there is no end to it. Japanese people just love the DS. The way things are going, the DS will become the world best selling console, even surpassing the mighty PS2. But then we can't compare it like that, can we?

Well, let's look at the current-gen home console then. The Wii outsold the PS3 by 6 to 1. If you think PS3 can't get any worse, let last week's chart prove you wrong. Only 8,659 PS3 were sold last week. It's even worse than the week before. As I said, the PS3 is definitely not getting any love at the moment. With 2 games in the top3, PS2 still manages to get almost 11,000 new owners, 2,000 more than the PS3. Unbelievable.

DSL - 111,213
Wii - 52,193
PSP - 27,505
PS2 - 10,881
PS3 - 8,659
Xbox360 - 2,026

Market share this week

DSL vs PSP
80.17% vs 19.83%

Wii vs PS3 vs XBox 360
83.01% vs 13.77% vs 3.22%

Source: Media Create