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Japanese Charts: Dissidia Still Leads As Post-Holiday Sales Slow

It’s been a good week for Sony in the Japanese game software charts, with half the top 10 composed of PlayStation titles - including Dissidia: Final Fantasy on PSP and White Knight Chronicles on PlayStation 3 -- countdown inside...

David Jenkins, Blogger

January 15, 2009

2 Min Read
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With the Japanese New Year gift-giving season now over, sales for the week have predictably slowed – analogous to the first weeks after Christmas in the West. There are again no new entries, with limited movement in the chart overall. Square Enix’s Dissidia: Final Fantasy is once again the number one seller, with weekly sales of 49,000 units and lifetime sales-to-date of 819,000. The budget re-release of Capcom’s Monster Hunter Freedom Unite, also on PSP, moves up to number two, with overall sales of the game in Japan now well on their way towards 3 million units. Although overall sales are low, this has proven a good week for Sony. Fully half of the top 10 is composed of PlayStation titles, with White Knight Chronicles on PlayStation 3 holding steady at number six and Gran Turismo 5 Prologue: Spec III moving up four places to number 11. Namco Bandai and Koei co-production Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2 on PlayStation 2 also rises 11 places to number eight, with the PS3 version up five places to number 15.

TW

LW

Title

Publisher

Format

Weekly Sales

1

1

Dissidia: Final Fantasy

Square Enix

PSP

49,000

2

9

Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G

Capcom

PSP

34,000

3

2

Rhythm Tengoku Gold

Nintendo

DS

33,000

4

4

Wii Fit

Nintendo

Wii

30,000

5

7

Wagamama Fashion: Gals Mode

Nintendo

DS

29,000

6

6

Shirokishi Monogatari: Inishie no Kodou

Sony

PS3

26,000

7

11

Gran Turismo 5 Prologue: Spec III

Sony

PS3

25,000

8

19

Gundam Musou 2

Namco Bandai

PS2

25,000

9

3

Hoshi no Kirby: Ultra Super Deluxe

Nintendo

DS

23,000

10

8

Mario Kart Wii

Nintendo

Wii

22,000

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David Jenkins

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David Jenkins ([email protected]) is a freelance writer and journalist working in the UK. As well as being a regular news contributor to Gamasutra.com, he also writes for newsstand magazines Cube, Games TM and Edge, in addition to working for companies including BBC Worldwide, Disney, Amazon and Telewest.

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