Sales Chart JPN: Baseball hitting home runs

Week 16 July - 22 July 2007

What is with the baseball and the Japanese? There is not one, but two baseball games on the top 10 this week. Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 14 on the PS2 and the same game on the Wii has hit home run at 1st and 3rd place. Sales were 153,266 and 47,995 respectively.

Right between them is Dragon Quest: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors (53,097).
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass continues to swing that stylus sword around in 4th place (46,762), while Wii Sports yet again made up the top 5.

Other new titles in the top 10 includes Mushi King Super Collection (some bug catching game) and Naruto Shippuuden: Strongest Ninjas Unite 5: Decisive Battle at Dawn (what a long title).

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

DS - The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
PS2 - Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 14
Wii - Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball
PSP - Ratchet & Clank: Going Mobile
PS3 - My Summer Vacation 3

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

DS - 33
Wii - 8
PS2 - 7
PSP - 1
PS3 - 1

Console War VII: Battle for Nippon

More of the same, nothing really changed. DSL still selling more than everything else combined, and the PS2 is still selling more than PS3. Anything going to change next week? Don't bet on it.

DSL - 154,459
Wii - 86,786
PSP - 32,894
PS2 - 14,059
PS3 - 12,187
Xbox360 - 2,664

Market share this week

DSL vs PSP
82.44% vs 17.56%

Wii vs PS3 vs XBox 360
85.39% vs 11.99% vs 2.62%

Source: Media Create