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Latest Japanese Sales Charts – Week Ending December 14

Japan has seen another extremely healthy week of sales, with some 1,919,000 units sold, representing 217% of the weekly average. Capcom have been the obvious winners this...

David Jenkins, Blogger

December 19, 2003

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Japan has seen another extremely healthy week of sales, with some 1,919,000 units sold, representing 217% of the weekly average. Capcom have been the obvious winners this week with Biohazard (aka Resident Evil) returning to its natural home on the PlayStation with the first, and critically acclaimed, online game in the series. The only title to eclipse this success has been Capcom’s own Rockman EXE 4 (to be known as Mega Man Battle Network 4 in the West), which if sales of both Pokémon-esque versions were combined would actually exceed Outbreak. In hardware sales the GameCube has continued its slow increase in market share, to the point where it has now out sold the Game Boy Advance SP. The market share now stands at 49.53% for the PlayStation 2, 26.14% for combined Game Boy Advance sales, 22.79% for GameCube and 1.13% for Xbox.

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Title

Publisher

Formats

Release Date

1

NE

Biohazard: Outbreak

Capcom

PS2

2003.12.11

2

NE

Rockman EXE 4: Blue Moon

Capcom

GBA

2003.12.12

3

NE

One Piece Grand Battle! 3

Bandai

PS2

2003.12.11

4

NE

Rockman EXE 4: Red Sun

Capcom

GBA

2003.12.12

5

NE

Momotaro Railway 12

Hudson

PS2

2003.12.11

6

2

Gran Turismo 4 Prologue

SCE

PS2

2003.12.04

7

3

Hot Shots Golf 4

SCE

PS2

2003.11.27

8

1

Mobile Suit Gundam Z: AEUG vs. Titans

Bandai

PS2

2003.12.04

9

NE

Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando

Sony

PS2

2003.12.11

10

NE

One Piece Grand Battle! 3

Bandai

GC

2003.12.11

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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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