14 DAY TRIAL // Both the hardware and the videogame charts for Japan have seen shakeups, with Super Mario Galaxy 2 from Nintendo managing to regain the top spot and with the DSi LL handheld seeing its sales more than double in the country after its maker decided to cut its price. A DSi XL can now be bought for 18,000 yen, which is the equivalent of 175 dollars.
The DSi LL, a device that has a bigger screen than its Nintendo brothers have and offers a more comfortable gaming experience, managed to sell 30,183 units, which is quite an improvement over the 11,138 it managed during the previous seven days. The PlayStation Portable from Sony, a device that became accustomed to the top spot, is not in second, with sales going down slightly from 21,662 to 20,929. The Nintendo Wii home console is in third place, but also on a downward trend which was seen it go from 20,558 to 19,045, while the older DSi model is in fourth place, also seeing an important increase in sales to 18,214.
The PlayStation 3 is in fifth place, with sales of 17,175 units, followed by the DS Lite handheld model, the Xbox 360 home console from Microsoft, the PlayStation 2 and the PSP Go, which is again dead, last in the hardware chart.
Super Mario Galaxy 2 is again the bestselling videogame in Japan, in its third week on sale, managing to sell 53,000 copies. Second spot goes to a new entry, Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, from Capcom for the Nintendo DS, a game that managed to sell 24,000 units, while third spot going to new entry Art Academy from Nintendo, also for the DS platform, with sales of 21,000.
Former Nintendo’s number one Xenobalde for the Wii home console is now in fourth place with sales of 21,000, the same as Grand Theft Auto IV: Episodes from Liberty City.