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Japanese Sales Charts, Week Ending August 22

Konami has earned its third week at the top of the Japanese game sales charts, with role-playing game Suikoden IV replacing World Soccer Winning Eleven 8.

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David Jenkins, Blogger

August 27, 2004

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Konami has earned its third week at the top of the Japanese game sales charts, with role-playing game Suikoden IV replacing World Soccer Winning Eleven 8. Overall, though, the Japanese market is down 67.63% from last week, coinciding with the end of the Obon holiday period. But with sales at 82.03% of the weekly average, the drop is not entirely disastrous. Indeed, the total unit sales of 798,210 is well above the figure of 505,180 recorded at the same time last year, and the 565,847 recorded the year before that. The hardware market also fell by roughly the same percentage across the board, with the Game Boy Advance still dominating with a market share of 51.55%, compared to 38.11% for the PlayStation 2, 9.64% for the GameCube and 0.43% for the Xbox.

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Title

Publisher

Format

Release Date

1

NE

Suikoden IV

Konami

PS2

2004.08.19

2

1

World Soccer Winning Eleven 8

Konami

PS2

2004.08.05

3

NE

Summon Night: Craft Sword Monogatari 2

Banpresto

GBA

2004.08.19

4

5

Paper Mario RPG

Nintendo

GC

2004.07.22

5

2

Famicom Mini: Super Mario Bros. 2

Nintendo

GBA

2004.08.10

6

6

Densetsu no Stafi 3

Nintendo

GBA

2004.08.05

7

RE

Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 11

Konami

PS2

2004.07.15

8

NE

Gunslinger Girl Vol. 3

Marvelous Entertainment

PS2

2004.08.19

9

RE

Jissen Pachi-Slot Hisshouhou: Fist of the North Star

Sammy

PS2

2004.05.27

10

9

Final Fantasy I & II Advance

Square Enix

GBA

2004.07.29

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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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