Japan Weekly Software Ranking (June 30 - July 6)

After a slew of new titles last week, the charts are slowly going back to normal this week with the unique looking music game from Nintendo Daigasso! Band Brothers DX overtaking another DS title Derby Stallion DS as the top seller in Japan last week. Sega’s Initial D Extreme Stage for PS3 makes its debut at the 2nd spot with more than 40,000 copies on its so called limited marketing budget. Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G is in the charts again this week with another 18,000 new hunters.

We’ll see how this week’s PSP new releases do tomorrow as today is God of War: Chains of Olympus Japanese debut. Irem’s Poncotsu Roman Daikatsugeki Bumpy Trot: Vehicle Battle Tournament and Sunrise’s racer Shinseiki GPX Cyber Formula VS are the other two major PSP releases.

Media Create

1 (3) Daigasso! Band Brothers DX NDS Nintendo
2 Initial D Extreme Stage PS3 Sega
3 (1) Derby Stallion DS NDS Enterbrain
4 (6) Wii Fit Wii Nintendo
5 Nanashi no Game NDS Square Enix
6 (8) Mario Kart Wii Wii Nintendo
7 (2) Tales of Symphonia: Knight of Ratatosk Wii Namco Bandai
8 (9) Super Mario Stadium: Family Baseball Wii Nintendo
9 (7) Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots PS3 Konami
10 (17) Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G PSP Capcom

Updated every Thursday, full chart viewable here.

MediaWorks

1 (3) Daigasso! Band Brothers DX NDS Nintendo
2 Initial D Extreme Stage PS3 Sega
3 (1) Derby Stallion DS NDS Enterbrain
4 Nanashi no Game NDS Square Enix
5 (7) Wii Fit Wii Nintendo
6 (2) Tales of Symphonia: Knight of Ratatosk Wii Namco Bandai
7 (11) Mario Kart Wii Wii Nintendo
8 (15) Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G PSP Capcom
9 (6) Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots PS3 Konami
10 (10) Super Mario Stadium: Family Baseball Wii Nintendo

Updated every Friday, full chart viewable here.

Enterbrain

1 (3) Daigasso! Band Brothers DX NDS Nintendo
2 Initial D Extreme Stage PS3 Sega
3 (2) Derby Stallion DS NDS Enterbrain
4 Nanashi no Game NDS Square Enix
5 (7) Wii Fit Wii Nintendo
6 (1) Tales of Symphonia: Knight of Ratatosk Wii Namco Bandai
7 (12) Mario Kart Wii Wii Nintendo
8 (6) Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots PS3 Konami
9 (10) Super Mario Stadium: Family Baseball Wii Nintendo
10 (15) Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G PSP Capcom

Updated every Wednesday, chart in Japanese viewable here.

Amazon Japan

1 Dragon Quest V NDS Square Enix
2 Super Robot Taisen Z [Special Edition] PS2 Banpresto
3 PlayStation Portable Slim & Lite - Piano Black (PSP-2000PB) PSP Sony
4 Daigasso! Band Brothers DX NDS Nintendo
5 Tales of Vesperia [Special Edition] Xbox 360 Namco Bandai
6 Persona 4 PS2 Atlus
7 Phantasy Star Portable PSP Sega
8 Gundam Battle Universe PSP Namco Baindai
9 PlayStation Portable Slim & Lite - Felicia Blue (PSP-2000FB) PSP Sony
10 WanSeg TV Tuner DS NDS Nintendo

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

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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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