Japan Weekly Software Ranking (Dec 1 – Dec 7)

Level-5’s Layton Kyouju to Saigo no Jikan Ryokou kept its top position in the latest Japanese charts with a much lesser but still impressive sales of around 87,000 copies in its second week. Bandai’s Dragon Ball Z: Infinite World for the PS2 and Nintendo’s Animal Crossing: City Folk for the Wii are not far behind with 76,000 copies sold each.

After the excitement of last week, none of the PSP titles sold well enough to stay in the Top 10 although most of them still in the Top 20. Kenka Banchou 3: Zenkoku Seiha in particular, did well with more than 20,000 copies sold and 70,000 in total now. According to early numbers, LocoRoco 2, which is also available at the PSN, sold only about 5,000 copies in its first week. Not a good sign certainly but not unexpected really, the game doesn’t has anything that separate it from the first game greatly. I hope the team move on to create more creative IPs.

Media Create

1 (1) Layton Kyouju to Saigo no Jikan Ryokou DS Level-5
2 Dragon Ball Z: Infinite World PS2 Bandai Namco
3 (3) Animal Crossing: City Folk Wii Nintendo
4 (7) Hoshi no Kirby: Ultra Super Deluxe DS Nintendo
5 (2) World Soccer Winning Eleven 2009 PS3 Konami
6 (11) Wagamama Fashion Girls Mode DS Nintendo
7 (13) Pokemon Platinum DS Nintendo
8 428: Fuusa Sareta Shibuya de Wii Sega
9 Fallout 3 Xbox 360 Bethesda Softworks
10 (12) Rhythm Tengoku Gold DS Nintendo

Updated every Thursday, full chart viewable here.

MediaWorks

1 (1) Layton Kyouju to Saigo no Jikan Ryokou DS Level-5
2 (3) Animal Crossing: City Folk Wii Nintendo
3 Dragon Ball Z: Infinite World PS2 Bandai Namco
4 (6) Hoshi no Kirby: Ultra Super Deluxe DS Nintendo
5 (2) World Soccer Winning Eleven 2009 PS3 Konami
6 428: Fuusa Sareta Shibuya de Wii Sega
7 (10) Wagamama Fashion Girls Mode DS Nintendo
8 (17) Pokemon Platinum DS Nintendo
9 Fallout 3 Xbox 360 Bethesda Softworks
10 (4) Chrono Trigger DS Square Enix

Updated every Friday, full chart viewable here.

Enterbrain

1 (1) Layton Kyouju to Saigo no Jikan Ryokou DS Level-5
2 (3) Animal Crossing: City Folk Wii Nintendo
3 Dragon Ball Z: Infinite World PS2 Bandai Namco
4 (2) World Soccer Winning Eleven 2009 PS3 Konami
5 (8) Hoshi no Kirby: Ultra Super Deluxe DS Nintendo
6 (11) Wagamama Fashion Girls Mode DS Nintendo
7 428: Fuusa Sareta Shibuya de Wii Sega
8 Fallout 3 Xbox 360 Bethesda Softworks
9 (4) Chrono Trigger DS Square Enix
10 (13) Rhythm Tengoku Gold DS Nintendo

Updated every Wednesday, chart in Japanese viewable here.

Amazon Japan

1 Game Center CX: Arino no Chousenjou 2 DS Bandai
2 Star Ocean 4: The Last Hope [Special Edition] Xbox 360 Square Enix
3 Hoshi no Kirby: Ultra Super Deluxe DS Nintendo
4 Shirokishi Monogatari: Inishie no Kodou [Special Edition] PS3 SCEJ
5 Nintendo DSi White DS Nintendo
6 Dissidia Final Fantasy PSP Square Enix
7 Tales of Hearts (Anime Movie Edition) DS Namco
8 Wagamama Fashion Girls Mode DS Nintendo
9 Gundam Musou 2 PS3 Bandai
10 Nintendo DSi Black DS Nintendo

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

One Response to “Japan Weekly Software Ranking (Dec 1 – Dec 7)

  1. Jay-C

    i really really really really … hope that dissidia will do very very very very… well next week… i mean… c’mon seriously… if it doesnt do well (which it will) i am doubtful if there will be any great game for psp anymore… :(

    December 11th, 2008 at 10:06 pm

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