Nintendo's Rhythm Heaven For Wii Tops Japanese Sales Chart

Rhythm Heaven for Nintendo's Wii -- the latest in a series of rhythm games that started in 2006 -- was the top-selling game in Japan last week, providing a rare boost for the aging console. In all the game sold 118,173 copies, according to figures provided by tracking firm Media Create (as translated on the NeoGAF forums), which may have contributed to a slight boost in Wii hardware sales, at 17,114 units from 14,237 the previous week. Capcom's Sengoku Basara: Chronicle Heroes, the latest in a Capcom's domestically popular series of action games that has spawned two series and an upcoming feature film, came in second place at 82,798. Marvelous and Grasshopper Manufacture's No More Heroes: Red Zone Edition for the PlayStation 3 premiered at number 3. Its 40,313 sales is a respectable figure, considering that the game -- a port of the 2007 Wii game No More Heroes -- is merely an enhanced version of last year's No More Heroes: Heroes' Paradise that adds a handful of new features and PlayStation Move motion control support. Premiering at number 8 is Atlus' Nora to Toki no Koubou: Kiri no Mori no Majo (roughly Nora and the Time Studio: The Witch of the Foggy Forest), an RPG for the Nintendo DS that is not currently scheduled for release outside of the region. The complete top twenty chart, which include the Japanese debuts of Western-focused titles Alice: Madness Returns and Sniper: Ghost Warrior, follows: