Japan Weekly Software Ranking (June 2 - June 8)

Dragon Ball Z Burst Limit is the best selling high profile launches last Thursday with more than 90,000 copies sold. Other big launches including Sega’s beautiful RPG Fushigi no Dungeon - Furai no Shiren 3: Karakuri Yashiki no Nemuri Hime for the Wii, Ninja Gaiden II for Xbox 360 and the second DS Yamamura Misa Suspense game, the first one did really well last October.

However, three PSP games manage to stay in the charts with Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu Portable 3 sold another 43,000 copies and Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G outselling Ninja Gaiden II. I’m very surprised at Valhalla Knights 2’s staying power as well, the game now sold 50,000 copies. Early hardware figures say PSP still the leader with 53,000 units sold but Wii is not far behind with around 40,000 units sold.

There will be no major PSP game release again this week, but all eyes will be on a little game called Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, which has just arrived on my table 10 minutes ago.

Media Create

1 Dragon Ball Z Burst Limit PS3 Namco Bandai
2 Fushigi no Dungeon - Furai no Shiren 3: Karakuri Yashiki no Nemuri Hime [Special Edition] Wii Sega
3 (1) Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu Portable 3 PSP Konami
4 (3) Mario Kart Wii Wii Nintendo
5 DS Yamamura Misa Suspense: Maiko Kogiku - Kisha Katherine - Sougiya Isa Akashi - Koto ni Maru Hana Sanrin: Kyoto Satujin Jinken File NDS Tecmo
6 (5) Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G PSP Capcom
7 (4) Wii Fit Wii Nintendo
8 Ninja Gaiden II Xbox 360 Tecmo
9 (6) Family Trainer: Athletic World (with Mat) Wii Namco Bandai Games
10 (12) DS Bimoji Training NDS Nintendo

Updated every Thursday, full chart viewable here.

MediaWorks

1 Dragon Ball Z Burst Limit PS3 Namco Bandai
2 Fushigi no Dungeon - Furai no Shiren 3: Karakuri Yashiki no Nemuri Hime [Special Edition] Wii Sega
3 (3) Mario Kart Wii Wii Nintendo
4 (1) Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu Portable 3 PSP Konami
5 (6) Wii Fit Wii Nintendo
6 (4) Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G PSP Capcom
7 DS Yamamura Misa Suspense: Maiko Kogiku - Kisha Katherine - Sougiya Isa Akashi - Koto ni Maru Hana Sanrin: Kyoto Satujin Jinken File NDS Tecmo
8 Ninja Gaiden II Xbox 360 Tecmo
9 (8) Valhalla Knights 2 PSP Marvelous Interactive
10 (7) Family Trainer: Athletic World (with Mat) Wii Namco Bandai Games

Updated every Friday, full chart viewable here.

Enterbrain

1 Dragon Ball Z Burst Limit PS3 Namco Bandai
2 Fushigi no Dungeon - Furai no Shiren 3: Karakuri Yashiki no Nemuri Hime [Special Edition] Wii Sega
3 (5) Wii Fit Wii Nintendo
4 (3) Mario Kart Wii Wii Nintendo
5 (1) Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu Portable 3 PSP Konami
6 DS Yamamura Misa Suspense: Maiko Kogiku - Kisha Katherine - Sougiya Isa Akashi - Koto ni Maru Hana Sanrin: Kyoto Satujin Jinken File NDS Tecmo
7 (6) Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G PSP Capcom
8 Ninja Gaiden II Xbox 360 Tecmo
9 (7) Family Trainer: Athletic World (with Mat) Wii Namco Bandai Games
10 (8) Valhalla Knights 2 PSP Marvelous Interactive

Updated every Wednesday, chart in Japanese viewable here.

Amazon Japan

1 Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots [Special Edition] PS3 Konami
2 Suzumiya Haruhi no Gekidou Wii Kadokawa Shoten
3 Tales of Vesperia [Special Edition] Xbox 360 Namco Bandai
4 PlayStation Portable Slim & Lite - Mint Green (PSP-2000MG) PSP Sony
5 Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots PS3 Konami
6 PlayStation Portable Slim & Lite - Ice Silver (PSP-2000IS) PSP Sony
7 Tales of Symphonia: Knight of Ratatosk (Special Edition) Wii Namco Bandai
8 Metal Gear Solid 2: Bande Dessinee DVD NA
9 PlayStation Portable Slim & Lite - Piano Black (PSP-2000PB) PSP Sony
10 PlayStation Portable Slim & Lite - Felicia Blue (PSP-2000FB) PSP Sony

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

One Response to “Japan Weekly Software Ranking (June 2 - June 8)

  1. Jay C

    I really wonder… why does PSP still sell so well in Japan even though there aren’t any GREAT games available in the near future :)

    June 12th, 2008 at 9:45 pm

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PSP Go (Japan, Black) TBA
PSP Go (Japan, White) TBA
Persona (with Bonus Full 2-Disc Soundtrack) $44.90
Tales of VS. (JP) $49.90
Monster Hunter Freedom Unite (Asia) $29.90
Dissidia Final Fantasy $44.90
Soul Calibur: Broken Destiny (Asia) $44.90
Bleach: Heat the Soul 6 (Asia) $48.90
Hatsune Miku: Project Diva (Asia, with figure) $49.90
Disgaea 2: Dark Hero Days $34.90
Gran Turismo $44.90
Queen's Blade: Spiral Chaos (JP) $58.90
Queen's Blade: Spiral Chaos (JP, Gekitou Pack) $119.90
Fate/Unlimited Codes Portable (JP) $52.90

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Tales of VS. (JP) $54.99
Bleach: Heat The Soul 6 (JP) $62.99
Fate/Unlimited Codes Portable (JP) $54.99
Hatsune Miku Project DIVA (JP) $67.99

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