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Latest Japanese Sales Charts – Week Ending October 19

If not for the release of the new GameCube version of, what will become, Wario Ware, Inc. the Japanese chart this week would have been utterly stagnant. Even so th...

David Jenkins, Blogger

October 27, 2003

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If not for the release of the new GameCube version of, what will become, Wario Ware, Inc. the Japanese chart this week would have been utterly stagnant. Even so the Nintendo game sold less than 100,000 units – the expected minimum for any number one title – and the bottom four games in the top ten all failed to sell more than 8,000 units. Hardware sales have shown some growth though, due to the GameCube’s price cut coming into effect. However the console has seen its market share merely return to the 15% mark, which it had been maintaining for the few week’s previous to the announced price drop. Although the cut was proportionally much less than in the US and Europe Nintendo executives will no doubt still be disappointed with the result.

TW

LW

Title

Publisher

Formats

Release Date

1

NE

Atsumare!! Made in Wario

Nintendo

GC

2003.10.17

2

1

Samurai Michi 2: Way of the Samurai 2

Spike

PS2

2003.10.09

3

2

Shin Sangoku Musou 3: Mushouden

Koei

PS2

2003.09.25

4

4

Grand Theft Auto III

Capcom

PS2

2003.09.25

5

3

Far East of Eden II: Manjimaru

Hudson

GC/PS2

2003.09.25

6

6

Legend of Stafi 2

Nintendo

GBA

2003.09.05

7

10

Drag-on Dragoon

Square Enix

PS2

2003.09.11

8

9

Mobile Suit Gundam: Encounters in Space

Bandai

PS2

2003.09.04

9

5

Jissen Pachi-Slot Hisshouhou! King Camel

Sammy

PS2

2003.10.02

10

RE

Zettai Zetsumei: Denja Rasuji-San

Kids Station

GBA

2003.09.26

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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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