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more about #mediacreate bobtheduck in Korea: Is the queen's blade game anything like the anime? Because the anime is basically hentai, and I was (and still am) under the impression Sony doesn't a... more » JoRo1986: Curious if this would have any impact on HDTV sales in Japan. I know they have been slow to jump on the HDTV train over there, but I wonder if seeing... more » Realmjumper: I'm pretty happy to see that. First Nintendo left the hardcore crowd when they went with the Wii. Secondly the Xbox 360 keeps failing. Go PS3! more » TVHead: For long I have watched the sales graphs in Japan posted on this site and for once I am a statistic... I bought the ps3 combo package (lightning editi... more » koldkalamity: Fucking love graphs, man, I'm tellin' ya'. One day, they should make a graph of a GRAPH! more » niyoko: Again the Xbox360 is never the best selling, but it hangs at a fairly steady number chart over chart. Over 8,000 is not to bad for the plucky little box. more » Dakobah: i wish this could be the box art for the US release more » breakblossom: Well, FF XIII is the reason I'm getting a PS3 so it makes sense to me. more » RicoTheSaboteur: That's actually, and by a huge margin, the biggest week ever for the PS3 in Japan. As a reminder, the launch week was 80'000 units and the slim launch... more » Rachel Fogg: I went to this page thinking it was about vXIII....then I read it. Well played McWhertor...well played. more » bakagaijin: While PS3 sales being over three times what they were last week is impressive, what's really impressive is the software sales. 1 out of every 3 PS3 ow... more » PeachPurin: PSP Go should be renamed to PSP Gone. more » Rachel Fogg: Wow, I really thought XIII would push more PS3 to Pac-man territory.... Good thing I didn't place any money on that bet. more » dracosummoner: Wow! Nice job to all comers, but I'm especially impressed with the total sales of HeartGold and SoulSilver thus far, even if they are two separate ga... more » (Starman) Zuul~!: Whenever I look at these charts, I tend to think of stuffed mouths and overbites. Like, Sony is trying to eat up Martha, but it just can't fit her in... more » jasonburnett: Whoo! Go Sony :) Glad to see my system getting some love... more » UsernameOfTheDead: Wow, the PSP Go looks to be Sony's Virtual Boy :) more » RawrSpoon: Damnit, I want Pokemon Heart Gold/Soul Silver already. I absolutely LOVED Gold/Silver because it had the longest campaign. It's just overall win. Bat... more » MariuszS: Really enjoying the game so far. It's definitely not without it's quirks but otherwise despite the linearity so far it's highly enjoyable. It's odd n... more » beril: FFXIII did a lot better than expected, though it's still the lowest selling mainline FF in about 15 years (no XI doesn't count). But the big winner is... more » -
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Big Final Fantasy XIII Sales Mean Big PS3 Sales In Japan
When you're selling over 1.5 million copies of Final Fantasy XIII to the Japanese game buying public, you're gonna sell some PlayStation 3s to go along with it. How many? More than triple what Sony sold the week before. More » -
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Final Fantasy XIII Versus The Competition, By The Numbers
Square Enix released Final Fantasy XIII last week, a release that, in its first four days, sold more than 1.5 million copies. But how did the competition fare with the Final Fantasy sales juggernaut vying for Japanese gamer's yen? More » -
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Wii Dominance Continues In Japan, PS3 Dominance Due Shortly
Continued strong sales of New Super Mario Bros. Wii means continued strong sales of the Wii. In fact, this week's sales are much better than the week prior, putting the Wii atop the Media Create chart with 135,000-plus sales. More » -
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New Super Mario Bros. Wii Holds Onto #1 In Japan
New Super Mario Bros. Wii continues its strong sales performance in Japan, moving the Wii game well past the million mark with another 431,000 copies sold. You know, maybe Nintendo should make *more* Mario games! More » -
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New Super Mario Bros. Helps Wii Reclaim Top Spot In Japan
After months of so-so weekly sales in Japan, the Wii returns to the top of the country's hardware sales charts, its best weekly tally since the release of Monster Hunter 3. Thank New Super Mario Bros. Wii for that! More » -
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New Super Mario Bros. Wii Leads The New Of The New
Nintendo released New Super Mario Bros. Wii in Japan last week, giving the console its biggest first-week software sales in the country to date, more than 950,000 copies sold, according to Media Create. More » -
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Nintendo DSi LL Has Strong Second Week, Wii Squeaks By PS3 In Japan
The bigger, larger and more enormous Nintendo DSi LL continued to outsell the competition in its second week on the market in Japan, another 67,000-plus hardware units sold. It's a stark contrast to competitor Sony's most recent PSP revision. More » -
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Professor Layton Schools Competitors On Sales, Nintendo Conquers Chart
Level 5's latest Professor Layton puzzle-adventure, Layton Kyouju to Majin no Fue, debuts at the top of Japan's video game software sales charts, another 300,000 Nintendo DS games added to the series' impressive sales. More » -
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Nintendo DSi LL Grabs XL Hardware Sales In Japan
The Nintendo DSi LL, having officially launched in Japan this past week, has outsold everything else to the tune of 100,000-plus units, adding a "wine red" slice to the weekly Japanese hardware chart. Welcome, wine red. More » -
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PlayStation Hardware Continues Pie Dominance In Japan
Avid readers of The Japanese Hardware Chart weekly updates won't be surprised—especially after reading about the PlayStation family's software dominance—that Sony hardware is selling better than the competition in Japan. No change this week. More » -
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Japan Still Loves Soccer, Favors PlayStation Games
Last week, Japan's video gaming populace snatched up enough copies of Konami soccer sim World Soccer Winning Eleven 2010 to put it in first place. This week, Sega's J-League Pro Soccer Club o Tsukurou! 6: Pride of J scores. More » -
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PlayStation 3 Is Japan's Bestselling Platform
Once again, Sony controls the majority of this week's Japanese hardware chart, thanks to the company's four platforms representing. Oh, and the fact that the PlayStation 3 is outselling everything else in Japan. More » -
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Konami Kicks Bayonetta Off Top Of Japan's Game Charts
Last week's queen of Japan's video game sales charts Bayonetta didn't have the legs to stay on top for very long. Konami's latest soccer game, World Soccer Winning Eleven 2010, is this week's new software champ. More » -
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PSPgo Gives PlayStation A Big Slice Of Japanese Hardware Pie
The Japanese release of Sony's PSPgo may have been low-key in terms of numbers, but we're only getting a look at one day of sales of the platform. It was enough to give Sony the upper hardware hand this week. More » -
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Bayonetta Brushes Back Pokemon, Tops Japan's Game Charts
PlatinumGames and Sega's Bayonetta kicked her way to the top of the Japanese game charts, moving nearly 200,000 copies during week one, making it the country's bestselling game. So long Pokemons! More » -
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DS Lite, Xbox 360 Only Positives In This Week's Japanese Hardware Chart
Hardware buying was down ever so slightly in Japan this week, with Media Create's sales figures showing the Wii bearing the brunt of that slowdown. Two consoles were up, however — the Nintendo DS Lite and Xbox 360. More » -
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Forza 3 Makes Inroads Into Japanese Game Chart
Forza Motorsport 3 gives the Xbox 360 a rare top ten placement on Media Create's weekly list of the bestselling games in Japan. It's one of a handful of new debuts that came nowhere near unseating Pokemon as software champ. More » -
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Nintendo DSi Leads Japan's Hardware Pack; PSP, PS3, Wii Tie
Technically, the PSP beat the PlayStation 3 which in turn beat the Wii (by a slimmer margin) in Japan this week, but sales of the three platforms were close enough, averaging around 30,000 units each. More » -
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Nathan Drake Charts Among Japan's Bestselling Games
Nathan Drake makes double the appearance on this week's list of the top thirty game in Japan, his two PlayStation 3 adventures selling well, but not nearly well enough to dethrone the Pokemons. More » -
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Wii, PS3 Sales In Dead Heat In Japan
This week's report from Japanese sales tracker Media Create shows that recent price drops on Nintendo's Wii and Sony's PlayStation 3 are having nearly equal impact on sales of each console, a slight edge going to the PS3. More » -
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Japan Snaps Up A Lot More Pokemon Heart & Soul
Nintendo shows this week's Japanese software chart its Pokemons, once again proudly displaying them atop Media Create's list of bestselling video games overseas. It's nearest competitor? Once again, Wii Fit Plus. More » -
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Wii, PSP Price Drops Invigorate Console Sales In Japan
Nintendo and Sony both issued hardware price drops in Japan, effective October 1, on the Wii and PSP-3000, respectively. The clear winner from those cuts? The PSP. More » -
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Wii Fit Plus Takes Japan by Storm
The release of Wii Fit Plus has been met with open arms in Japan. The newest Wii Balance Board-powered fitness game from the house of smiles sold more than 340,000 copies in its first week on sale. More » -
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Japan Console War Sees PS3 Sales Slim, Wii Sales Bottom Out
This week's Media Create hardware sales numbers are in, with the Nintendo DSi retaining its top spot on the charts, thanks to continued software sales of Tomodachi Collection and the latest Pokemon re-releases. More » -
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Japan Chooses Miis! Pokemon Is Defeated!
Who can dethrone Pokemons Heart Gold and Soul Silver in Japan? Only Tomodachi Collection, the Mii collecting game for the Nintendo DS that shipped in June, a title that led a slow week of releases that included Halo 3: ODST. More » -
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DSi, PS3 Battle For Hardware Championship In Japan (Spoiler: DSi Wins)
Thanks to continued sales of the latest pair of Pokemon games, the Nintendo DSi holds onto its top spot on Japanese hardware charts. Also holding strong? The PlayStation 3. More » -
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Tales Of Vesperia Just Can't Beat Those Pokemons In Japan
It was a big, big week for new software releases in Japan, with six new titles landing in the top ten. But nothing could dethrone last week's software co-champs, Pokemon Soul Silver and Pokemon Heart Gold. More » -
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Pokemon Fever Helps DSi Return To Hardware Dominance In Japan
The release of the newer, cheaper, more Gundam-filled PlayStation 3 gave Sony's console a massive boost in the hardware battle in Japan last week. This week, two chart topping Pokemon games give the DSi the number one spot. More » -
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Pokemon Silver & Gold Remakes Steal Gundam's Top Spot In Japan
Last week, Bandai's latest Gundam game for the PlayStation 3 took the top spot on Japan's list of bestselling games. Typically, that territory is saved for Nintendo DS and Wii games. Well, things are back to normal. More » -
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PS3 Slim Gets A Huge Slice Of Japan's Hardware Pie
PlayStation fans in Japan lined up to get their hands on the newer, slimmer, cheaper PS3. Over 150,000 of them invested in the revised PlayStation 3, leading to a giant red slice of Sony dominance at home. More » -
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New PS3 Helps Gundam Rocket To Top Of Japanese Game Charts
Thanks to a spike in Japanese PlayStation 3 sales, the platform claims the top spot in this week's Media Create software sales chart with Mobile Suit Gundam Senki Record U.C. 0081, one of two new PS3 games to chart highly. More » -
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Weekly Japanese Hardware Charts Say Sayonara To Old PS3
See that tiny little sliver of PlayStation 3 sales? Think of this week's barely perceptible performance from Sony's current-gen console the end of the chrysalis stage, set to burst forth in a beautiful butterfly of reinvigorated sales. More » -
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Nintendo Still Sitting Pretty Atop Japanese Game Charts
No new Japanese video game release can topple the Nintendo DS powerhouse that is Tomodachi Collection, the Mii collecting game that sits, once again, atop the weekly Media Create sales chart. It's certainly not for a lack of new releases... More » -
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Nintendo's Mii Collecting Game Still A Big Hit In Japan
When Nintendo describes its software as "evergreen," it means games like the Nintendo DS title Tomodachi Collection, which was released mid-June and sits atop this week's Japanese software sales chart. More » -
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DSi Honors Japanese Bestelling Hardware Tradition
Not much activity in the Japanese hardware market these days, as the Nintendo DSi remains atop Media Create's weekly sales chart, with the PlayStation 3 an understandably distant third. More » -
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DSi Reclaims #1 Spot In Japan, Hi-Def Console Sales Still Low
Last week's strong showing by the Wii doesn't repeat this week, as the Nintendo DSi rightfully reclaims its seat at the top of the Japanese hardware sales chart. Things quickly get ugly in the bottom half. More » -
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Japan Still Lovin' The PS2, Still Buyin' Gundam
The power of the PlayStation 2 and the appeal of Gundam is still strong in Japan. Or at least the fan base of each is, as PS2 software sits atop this week's weekly Japanese software sales chart. More » -
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Wii Has A Monster Week In Japan
Sales of the Nintendo Wii skyrocketed in Japan this week, nearly quadrupling its performance from the week prior, thanks to the release of a new, black version of the console and strong sales of Capcom's Monster Hunter 3. More » -
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Monster Hunter Slays Dragon Quest IX In Japanese Sales Chart
Who can end Dragon Quest IX's chart topping run in Japan? As expected, it's Monster Hunter 3, the Wii sequel to the bestselling slay and loot series that has seen monstrous success on the PSP. More »
