10/1/06 Japan Weekly Sales Charts or "How Pokemon Rapes the Charts"

[FriskyTanuki]

http://www.vgcharts.org/japweekly.php?date=38991

Pos Name Console Publisher Week Weekly Total
1 Pokemon Diamond / Pearl DS Nintendo 1 1,651,000 1,651,000
2 hack G.U. Vol. 2 PS2 Bandai 1 122,750 122,750
3 Everybodys Tennis PS2 Sony 3 68,750 383,500
4 New Super Mario Bros DS Nintendo 19 60,500 3,320,000
5 Kanji Quiz DS DS Rocket Company 1 45,250 45,250
6 Brain Training 2 DS Nintendo 40 43,000 3,529,500
7 Final Fantasy III DS Square 6 39,250 755,250
8 Romance of the Three Kingdoms XI PS2 Koei 1 29,250 29,250
9 Animal Crossing: Wild World DS Nintendo 45 28,250 3,538,000
10 Brain Training DS Nintendo 72 25,000 3,043,500
11 Dead Rising X360 Capcom 1 20,750 20,750

As for the console sales charts:
http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/7186/oct1clb4.jpg

I know Pokemon always sells a lot, but it's 10 times the sales of the second place seller. It's also interesting that Dead Rising nearly cracked the top 10 on its debut.

[pop311]

Wow, that's a ucking shitload of Pokemon game sold in week 1

[daroga]

Wow... good for Nintendo, but Pokemon is something of which I've never, ever understood the attraction.

[RegalSin2020]

What New Pokemon game?


Dead Rising is a all out fun zombie war. Playing that game is like playing The Segata Sanshiro commercial in "House Of The Dead"

[MadFlava]

Wow, 3 PS2 games in a sea of DS dominance. Amazed to see Dead Rising at #11, that must mean there are more than 20,750 360 owners in Japan.

[SpazX]

It's amazing that the 360 still hasn't cracked 200,000 units sold after nearly a year. I think the Japanese would rather eat shit than buy a 360 (and then of course make a gameshow about it).

I've never played pokemon and always avoided it, how is it really? I'll have to try it sometime and just ignore the stigma.

[theinfamous]

Damn, The DS killed everything over there. Im moving to Okinawa next week. Looks like Im going to find some great 360 deals

[Vinny]

It's funny... I don't think the 360's had a single game in the top ten weekly software sales since it's release. Dead Rising is the closest one I've seen yet I think.

[botticus]

It's funny... I don't think the 360's had a single game in the top ten weekly software sales since it's release. Dead Rising is the closest one I've seen yet I think.It looks like they'd probably need 20% or more of 360 owners to buy the same game in the same week to break that barrier. That probably won't happen till Blue Dragon. The bundle won't hurt.

[Pc Lynet]

What New Pokemon game?


Dead Rising is a all out fun zombie war. Playing that game is like playing The Segata Sanshiro commercial in "House Of The Dead"

The new Pokemon game is Daimond and Pearl:D

You can buy it here from Play-Asia:
http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-19-49-en-15-Pokemon+DS.html

I am defintely going to get a copy, even do I don't know Japanese:lol:

[VanillaGorilla]

Kanji Quiz DS? What the hell? People in Japan are buying Spelling Test games?

[elwood731]

I've never played pokemon and always avoided it, how is it really? I'll have to try it sometime and just ignore the stigma.
I only ever played Yellow (I think). It wasn't nearly as bad as I expected, but neither was it exactly a great game in my eyes. Worth the experience to play once, but you really have to get into it to get the full experience I think, and I just never really did.

[asianxcore]

those Pokemon Pearl/Diamond sales numbers are crazy.