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God Eater: Burst Tops Japanese Charts, Golden Sun Makes Top Five

Namco Bandai's God Eater: Burst topped the Japanese sales charts this week, and the latest entry in Nintendo's Golden Sun role-playing series made its debut on the DS.

Tom Curtis, Blogger

November 4, 2010

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Namco Bandai's God Eater: Burst for PSP debuted on top of the Japanese software sales charts this week, reports tracking firm Media Create. God Eater: Burst is the expansion to the original God Eater, which features beast slaying gameplay akin to Capcom's popular Monster Hunter franchise. This new version features additional missions, weapons, items, and monsters, and sold 263,150 units for the week ended October 31. Konami's World Soccer Winning Eleven 2011 debuted at number two with 215,227 units sold, followed by Super Mario All-Stars Limited Edition at number three. Golden Sun: Dark Dawn launched at number five this week, and is the first entry in the classic RPG series since its original pair of GameBoy Advance iterations. Action RPG Solatorobo: Sore kara Coda e from Namco Bandai debuted at number seven, and Microsoft and Lionhead Studios' Fable III hit number eight with 20,025 units sold. Titles falling from the top 10 this week include Vanquish, Lord of Arcana, Medal of Honor, and Beat Sketch!. Below are Media Create's top 10 sales chart for the week ended October 31, 2010.

LW

TW

Title

Publisher

Platform

Weekly Sales

NEW

1

God Eater: Burst

Namco Bandai

PSP

263,150

NEW

2

World Soccer Winning Eleven 2011

Konami

PS3

215,227

1

3

Super Mario Collection: Special Pack

Nintendo

Wii

119,227

2

4

Pokemon Black / White

Nintendo

DS

68,686

NEW

5

Golden Sun: Dark Dawn

Nintendo

DS

46,516

5

6

Kirby's Epic Yarn

Nintendo

Wii

25,257

NEW

7

Solatorobo: Sore kara Coda e

Namco Bandai

DS

21,915

NEW

8

Fable III

Microsoft

Xbox 360

20,025

3

9

Naruto Shippuden: Narutimate Storm 2

Namco Bandai

PS3

19,090

10

10

Wii Party

Nintendo

Wii

17,337

About the Author

Tom Curtis

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Tom Curtis is Associate Content Manager for Gamasutra and the UBM TechWeb Game Network. Prior to joining Gamasutra full-time, he served as the site's editorial intern while earning a degree in Media Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

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