Looks like Ashcraft (by way of Japanese bloggers) was wrong. Japan is kookoo for Virtua Fighter 5. The Sega fighter made its debut on the PLAYSTATION 3 recently, nabbing decent enough sales to land the number one spot for the week on the Japanese sales charts. Blockbuster? Nah, but not a bad debut for the arcade port.

Here are the top ten games sold in Japan for the week of February 5th to the 11th.

01. Virtua Fighter 5 (PS3) - 48,346 / new
02. Wii Sports (Wii) - 45,897 / 1,004,555
03. Wii Play (Wii) - 36,090 / 879,432
04. More Brain Age (DS) - 32,800 / 3,963,712
05. New Super Mario Bros. (DS) - 29,026 / 4,118,078
06. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PS2) - 27,519 / 304,113
07. Wario: Master of Disguise (DS) - 26,815 / 185,695
08. Harvest Moon: The Island I Grew Up On (DS) - 26,804 / 106,212
09. Luminous Arc (DS) - 25,676 / new
10. J-League Pro Soccer 5 (PS2) - 24,468 / 131,541

More sales after the jump!

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11. Animal Crossing: Wild World (DS)
12. Picross DS (DS)
13. Common Knowledge Training (DS)
14. Mario Kart DS (DS)
15. Brain Age (DS)
16. Pok mon Diamond (DS)
17. English Training (DS)
18. Kanji Brain Test 2M (DS)
19. Pok mon Pearl (DS)
20. Sangokushi Taisen DS (DS)

As always, more sales data, in hard to read kanji is at the link below. Michael McWhertor

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