14 DAY TRIAL // Media Create has released the Japanese hardware and software sale charts for the week that lasted from the 5th of July to the 11th of July. Nintendo is a clear winner in the part of the world as well, dominating both in terms of games and consoles sold. Two Nintendo products sit at the top of the lists, Nintendo DSi LL and Wii Party.
In terms of hardware the Nintendo DSi LL, the Japanese version of Nintendo DSi XL, is number one, even if it has registered a decrease in number of units sold in comparison with the week before from 32,661 to 28,916. The Nintendo Wii comes in at a close second place with 24,604 consoles sold, as opposed to the 21,965 it had sold in the seven days before. The PlayStation Portable came down one place to number three with 24,421 units sold, but keeps going strong, approximately maintaining the 24,684 sales figure it manage to achieve before the 5th of July. PlayStation 3 is the most successful next generation console in Japan, keeping to its fourth spot, while the Xbox 360 struggles selling only 5,688 units. The worst selling platform in Japan is the PlayStation Portable Go, with only 1,046 models sold in one week.
Nintendo's Wii Party entered the chart at number one, managing to move no less than 235,000 copies in only one week. Despite the stiff competition, the PlayStation 3 exclusive White Knight Chronicles: Awakening of Light and Darkness also sold a respectable number of discs in that week, that is 176,000. Last week's number one, Inazuma Eleven 3: World Challenge for the Nintendo DS, was not by far as successful in this one, selling only 98,000 as opposed to the staggering 505,161 figure it achieved before. The next two positions in the top ten chart are also Nintendo DS games, that is Harvest Moon, Twin Villages and Taiko Drum Master DS. Super Mario Galaxy 2 is still doing well on number six. Crackdown 2 is at number seven, a kind of a surprise given the Xbox 360's low popularity in Japan. The last three spots in the chart are occupied by Friend Collection and the PlayStation 3 and PSP versions of Winning Eleven 2010, the Japanese name for Pro Evolution Soccer 2010.