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Latest Japanese Sales Charts - Week Ending January 18

The Japanese sales charts seem slowly to be turning back to normal after the excitement of the holiday season, with the charts again dominated by PlayStation 2 titles. Ho...

David Jenkins, Blogger

January 23, 2004

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The Japanese sales charts seem slowly to be turning back to normal after the excitement of the holiday season, with the charts again dominated by PlayStation 2 titles. However with a paucity of new releases, as with elsewhere in the world, overall sales have been low. Even those few new releases as there have been, have performed relatively weakly with the special edition of Konami’s Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner making less impact than was expected. In hardware sales things have also returned to a pre-Christmas norm with the PlayStation 2 leading the pack with a 45.90% market share, combined Game Boy Advance sales at 37.50%, GameCube at 14.90% (down significantly from 28.33% at the beginning of the month), Xbox at 0.95% and PS one at 0.48%.

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LW

Title

Publisher

Formats

Release Date

1

1

Gran Turismo 4: "Prologue"

SCE

PS2

2003.12.04

2

RE

Rockman.EXE 4: Blue Moon

SCE

GBA

2003.12.12

3

NE

Anubis: Zone of the Enders Special Edition

Nintendo

PS2

2004.01.15

4

2

Hot Shots Golf 4

SCE

PS2

2003.11.27

5

RE

Rockman.EXE 4: Red Sun

Namco

GBA

2003.12.12

6

6

Momotaro Railway 12

Hudson

PS2

2003.12.11

7

5

Taiko no Tatsujin: 3rd Generation

Namco

PS2

2003.10.30

8

RE

Naruto: Gekitou Ninja Taisen! 2

Tomy

GC

2003.12.25

9

3

Mario Kart: Double Dash!!

Nintendo

GC

2003.11.07

10

8

Full Metal Alchemist

Square Enix

PS2

2003.12.25

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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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