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Third Week On Top For Smash Bros. In Japanese Charts

Nintendo’s Super Smash Bros. Brawl on Wii has continued to dominate sales in Japan for the third week, although the St Valentine’s Day holiday has also seen success for two of Japan’s most popular dating simulator franchises on the DS and PS2.

David Jenkins, Blogger

February 21, 2008

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Nintendo’s Super Smash Bros. Brawl on Wii has continued to dominate sales in Japan - with the mascot based fighting game remaining at the number one spot for the third week, with 142,000 unit sales and a lifetime total of over 1.2 million. With Wii Fit also continuing to sell strongly at number two, with a lifetime total of almost 1.5 million units, the highest new entry of the week is Konami’s Tokimeki Memorial: Girl's Side 2nd Season. The female-orientated dating sim for the Nintendo DS is an enhanced port of an earlier PlayStation 2 title and sold 56,000 units on its St Valentine’s Day debut. Also new at number four is Banpresto’s strategy role-playing game Poison Pink for the PlayStation 2, with 53,000 units sold. KimiKiss (ebKore+), from Famitsu publisher Enterbrain, is the third new entry at number five and a re-release of an earlier dating simulator with additional content relating to the subsequent anime and manga tie-ins. The final new entry of the week is the latest use of the Naruto anime license on the Nintendo DS, with the new action game selling only a modest 17,000 units in its first week.

TW

LW

Title

Publisher

Format

Weekly Sales

1

1

Dairantou Smash Brothers X

Nintendo

Wii

142,000

2

3

Wii Fit

Nintendo

Wii

63,000

3

NE

Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side 2nd Season

Konami

DS

56,000

4

NE

Poison Pink

Banpresto

PS2

53,000

5

NE

KimiKiss (ebKore+)

Enterbrain

PS2

34,000

6

6

Wii Sports

Nintendo

Wii

22,000

7

2

Kidou Senshi Gundam: Giren no Yabou - Axis no Kyoui

Namco Bandai

PSP

22,000

8

5

Mario & Sonic at Bejing Olympics

Nintendo

DS

21,000

9

4

Devil May Cry 4

Capcom

PS3

18,000

10

NE

Naruto Shippuden: Dairansen! Kage Bunsen Emaki

Takara Tomy

DS

17,000

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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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