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Japanese Sales Charts–Week Ending August 8

The Japanese market has continued its recovery with the first week of sales to record more than a million units of sales since May. World Soccer Winning Eleven 8 (...

David Jenkins, Blogger

August 13, 2004

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The Japanese market has continued its recovery with the first week of sales to record more than a million units of sales since May. World Soccer Winning Eleven 8 (aka Pro Evolution Soccer 4) lead sales with approximately 697,000 units in its first week. This represents a better performance than its immediate predecessor and could give confidence to Konami officials that their company will easily reach its sales target of 1.5 million units. Nintendo’s latest Legend of Stafi title–one of its few franchises not to be exported to the West–also did well with 42,000 units sold, although other new entries, including SOCOM II, fared less well. In hardware sales, PlayStation 2 surged ahead with a market share of 47.46 percent, followed by Game Boy Advance at 42.63 percent, GameCube at 9.46 percent, and Xbox at 0.29 percent.

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Title

Publisher

Format

Release Date

1

NE

World Soccer Winning Eleven 8

Konami

PS2

2004.08.05

2

NE

Densetsu no Stafi 3

Nintendo

GBA

2004.08.05

3

2

Paper Mario RPG

Nintendo

GC

2004.07.22

4

1

Final Fantasy I & II Advance

Square Enix

GBA

2004.07.29

5

7

Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 11

Konami

PS2

2004.07.15

6

10

Pachinko Slot! Fist of the North Star

Sammy

PS2

2004.05.27

7

9

Taiko no Tatsujin: Atsumare! Matsuri Da!! Yondaime

Namco

PS2

2004.07.22

8

6

Power Pro Kun Pocket 1+2

Konami

GBA

2004.07.29

9

NE

SOCOM II: U.S. Navy SEALs

SCE

PS2

2004.08.05

10

3

One Piece: Land Land

Bandai

PS2

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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