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Japanese Software: Namco Bandai's God Eater On Top In Japan

Namco Bandai's PSP adventure game God Eater has topped the weekly Japanese sales charts with 295,000 units sold, bumping down last week's leader, Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Reverie, to number two.

Kris Graft, Contributor

February 12, 2010

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Namco Bandai's PlayStation Portable adventure game God Eater topped the weekly Japanese sales charts for the week ended February 7, bumping down last week's leader, Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Reverie, to number two. Media-Create reported Friday that Namco Bandai's PSP adventure game God Eater sold 295,000 units for the week, debuting at number one. The game supports local four-player co-op, and is developed by Ape Escape Academy developer Shift. God Eater topped last week's number one, Square Enix's Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Reverie, a Nintendo DS remake of the 1995 Super Famicom original. This week, Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Reverie sold 190,000 units, down from the phenomenal 906,000 units sold a week ago. Aside from God Eater, two other new games broke into the top ten this week: Square Enix's PlayStation 3 game Star Ocean: The Last Hope -- International and the PSP game Pop'n Music Portable from Dance Dance Revolution Konami. Dropping out of the top 10 from last week were Namco's Ar tonelico III: Sekai Shuuen no Hikigane wa Shoujo no Uta ga Hajiku for PS3, Sega's Resonance of Fate for Xbox 360 and Valkyria Chronicles 2 for PSP, and Sony's MAG for PS3. Below are Media Create's Japanese sales charts for the week ended February 7:

LW

TW

Title

Publisher

Platform

Weekly Sales

NEW

1

God Eater

Namco Bandai

PSP

295,000

1

2

Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Reverie

Square Enix

DS

190,000

NEW

3

Star Ocean: The Last Hope – International

Square Enix

PS3

72,000

3

4

New Super Mario Bros. Wii

Nintendo

Wii

62,000

5

5

Friend Collection

Ninendo

DS

38,000

6

6

Wii Fit Plus

Nintendo

Wii

27,000

2

7

Resonance of Fate

Sega

PS3

25,000

NEW

8

Pop'n Music Portable

Konami

PSP

19,000

7

9

Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep

Square Enix

PSP

15,000

11

10

Wii Sports Resort

Nintendo

Wii

13,000

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Kris Graft is publisher at Game Developer.

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