Japan Weekly Software Ranking (Aug 18 - Aug 24)

Football fever hits the charts this week with Konami’s J-League Winning Eleven 2008 Club Championship and Level 5’s Inazuma Eleven sold 80,000 and 40,000 copies respectively. Inazuma Eleven is especially interesting for me, and hope its release means White Knight Chronicles is next on Level 5’s list. For PSP, Phantasy Star Portable continues its charge towards besting the original Monster Hunter Portable’s sales with another 31,000 copies sold this week.

On to the hardware, expect some drop in sales for PSP after the PSP-3000 announcement last week. Sinobi also noted a lot more PSP in the used market and the system is no where to be seen in the Top 25 of Amazon Japan chart where it usually has a few colors sitting next to each other.

Next week we shall see if Fate/Tiger Colosseum Upper can make it to the charts, the previous game sold 50,000 copies in its first week. Afrika for PS3 seems to get plenty of attention in the Japanese forums and I’m eager to see the actual response.

Media Create

1 J-League Winning Eleven 2008 Club Championship PS2 Konami
2 (1) Rhythm Tengoku Gold NDS Nintendo
3 Inazuma Eleven NDS Level 5
4 (3) Dragon Quest V: Tenkuu No Hanayome NDS Square Enix
5 (2) Phantasy Star Portable PSP Sega
6 (4) Wii Fit Wii Nintendo
7 Harukanaru Toki no Naka de: Yumenoukihashi NDS Koei
8 Sigma Harmonics NDS Square Enix
9 (5) Mario Kart Wii Wii Nintendo
10 (7) Daigasso! Band Brothers DX NDS Nintendo

Updated every Thursday, full chart viewable here.

MediaWorks

1 J-League Winning Eleven 2008 Club Championship PS2 Konami
2 (1) Rhythm Tengoku Gold NDS Nintendo
3 Inazuma Eleven NDS Level 5
4 (2) Phantasy Star Portable PSP Sega
5 (3) Dragon Quest V: Tenkuu No Hanayome NDS Square Enix
6 Harukanaru Toki no Naka de: Yumenoukihashi NDS Koei
7 (4) Wii Fit Wii Nintendo
8 Sigma Harmonics NDS Square Enix
9 (6) Mario Kart Wii Wii Nintendo
10 (7) Daigasso! Band Brothers DX NDS Nintendo

Updated every Friday, full chart viewable here.

Enterbrain

1 J-League Winning Eleven 2008 Club Championship PS2 Konami
2 (1) Rhythm Tengoku Gold NDS Nintendo
3 Inazuma Eleven NDS Level 5
4 (2) Phantasy Star Portable PSP Sega
5 Harukanaru Toki no Naka de: Yumenoukihashi NDS Koei
6 (4) Wii Fit Wii Nintendo
7 (3) Dragon Quest V: Tenkuu No Hanayome NDS Square Enix
8 Sigma Harmonics NDS Square Enix
9 (7) Daigasso! Band Brothers DX NDS Nintendo
10 (6) Mario Kart Wii Wii Nintendo

Updated every Wednesday, chart in Japanese viewable here.

Amazon Japan

1 Super Robot Taisen Z [Special Edition] PS2 Banpresto
2 Rhythm Tengoku Gold NDS Nintendo
3 KORG DS-10 Synthesizer NDS AQ Interactive
4 Devil Summoner: Kuzunoha Raidou tai Abaddon Ou Plus PS2 Atlus
5 Quiz Magic Academy DS NDS Konami
6 Afrika PS3 SCEJ
7 Pokemon Platinum NDS Nintendo
8 World Destruction: Michibi Kareshi Ishi NDS Sega
9 Fate/Tiger Colosseum Upper (Megamori Box) PSP Capcom
10 R4 Revolution for DS NDS R4DS

Amazon Japan chart is updated hourly, the latest chart can be viewed here.

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Guides

Tokyo Game Show 2008

Yuusha no Kuse ni Namaikida or 2 (Rough) Guide

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Monster Hunter Portable 2nd Rookie Guide

Monster Hunter Portable 2nd

Getting ready for the most dangerous game on the PSP. A small guide to the fascinating world of Monster Hunter. Go

Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G Info Page

Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G

Go for G-Rank! Information and a little guide about Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G, the best selling PSP game in Japan. Go

Monster Hunter 3 (tri) Guide

Monster Hunter 3 (tri)

Excited for MH3? A little information about the game based on those Famitsu reports here. No, I don't have a Wii... yet :) Go

Buy games (Play-Asia.com)

Dissidia Final Fantasy (JP) $58.90
Dissidia Final Fantasy (Asia) $54.90
Dissidia Final Fantasy [20th Anniversary Limited Pack] (JP) $349.90
DJ Max Portable Emotional Sense - Clazziquai Edition (Korea) $49.90
DJ Max Portable Emotional Sense - Clazziquai Edition [Special Package] (Korea) $59.90
DJ Max Portable Emotional Sense - Black Square (Korea) $49.90
DJ Max Fever $44.90
Patapon 2 Donchaka♪ (JP) $48.90
LocoRoco 2 (Chinese/English Version) $42.90
Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (PSP the Best) (JP) $29.90
Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (PSP the Best) (Asia) $26.90
Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII $34.90
Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam vs. Gundam (JP) $48.90
Prinny: Ore ga Shujinkou de Iinsuka? (JP) $48.90
Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 $34.90
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX: Tag Force 3 (JP) $48.90

Buy games (YESASIA)

Dissidia Final Fantasy (JP) $61.99
Patapon 2 (Winter Gift Pack) (Game + Console) (JP) $305.99
Mobile Suit Gundam Gundam VS. Gundam Premium Pack (JP) $300.99
Hakuna Matata (aka Afrika) (English/Chinese Edition) (Asia) (PS3) $54.99

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