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Latest Japanese Sales Charts - Week Ending April 18

The Japanese charts still seem to be suffering a late spring stupor with unit sales still only 51% of the weekly average.

Even though the latest Kirby title has gone str...

David Jenkins, Blogger

April 23, 2004

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The Japanese charts still seem to be suffering a late spring stupor with unit sales still only 51% of the weekly average. Even though the latest Kirby title has gone straight into number it sold only 189,000 units – 24,000 less than the last entry in the series. Likewise other new entries such as anime license Crayon Shin-chan and Crimson Sea 2 sold only 19,000 and 18,000 units, respectively. As a result hardware sales are largely identical to last week with the PlayStation 2 losing only a little of its lead with 48.59% of the market, followed by the Game Boy Advance at 44.25%, GameCube at 6.14%, Xbox at 0.52% and PS one at 0.32%.

TW

LW

Title

Publisher

Format

Release Date

1

NE

Hoshi no Kirby: Kagami no Daimeikyuu

Nintendo

GBA

2004.04.15

2

1

Dragon Warrior V

Square Enix

PS2

2004.03.25

3

NE

Crayon Shin-chan: Arashi wo Yobu Cinema Land no Dai Boken

Marvelous Entertainment

PS2

2004.04.08

4

2

Famicom Mini: Super Mario Bros.

Nintendo

GBA

2004.02.14

5

NE

Crimson Sea 2

Koei

PS2

2004.04.15

6

5

Pokémon Fire Red

The Pokémon Company

GBA

2004.01.29

7

7

Shin Sangoku Musou 3: Empires

Koei

PS2

2004.03.18

8

6

Nobunaga no Yabou: Tenka Sousei

Koei

PS2

2004.04.01

9

RE

Pro Baseball Spirits 2004

Konami

PS2

2004.03.25

10

8

Monster Hunter

Capcom

PS2

2004.03.11

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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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