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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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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 »
