Another week in Japan sees another week of Nintendo titles completely dominate the software sales charts. The Wii edition of Resident Evil 4, has stormed straight to the top of the charts, settling for second position, whilst Nintendo's new title, Practice by Observing: DS Observation Training has reached the zenith. Rounding off the top three sees yet another Nintendo game, Moero! Nekketsu Rhythm Damashii: Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan 2. Seriously guys, out of the top ten, six of those games are DS titles and three represent the Wii, only one PS2 title (Guilty Gear XX Core), managed to squeeze in between the mighty N. Read on for the top-ten charts.
01./00. [NDS] Practice by Observing: DS Observation Training (Nintendo) - 94,834 / NEW
02./00. [WII] Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition (Capcom) - 43,771 / NEW
03./27. [NDS] Moero! Nekketsu Rhythm Damashii: Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan 2 (Nintendo) - 33,738 / 113,910
04./00. [PS2] Guilty Gear XX ^ Core (ArcSystemWorks) - 31,773 / NEW
05./04. [WII] Wii Sports (Nintendo) - 28,612 / 1,657,818
06./06. [NDS] More Brain Age (Nintendo) - 20,662 / 4,327,943
07./07. [NDS] New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo) - 19,907 / 4,500,164
08./10. [WII] Wii Play (Nintendo) - 19,718 / 1,356,002
09./09. [NDS] More English Training (Nintendo) - 18,885 / 256,091
10./17. [NDS] Momotarou Dentetsu DS: Tokyo & Japan (Hudson) - 16,395 / 186,924
Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.
Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.
They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.
they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.
Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted
Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments
LucasArts gave Jango Fett his own game in 2002, and it pulled Star Wars into a much dirtier, rougher, and more interesting corner of the galaxy.
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
would be good to see where trusty bell ends up next week or the week after.
43,771 sold in the first week for a relativly old port
As MS and Sony fight for the video game throne, Nintendo quietly steals the crown from under both their noses :D
Nintendo does not care what we flame on about.
They don't even read our crap. They simply sip on a fine of bottle champaign, while wiping there backsides with hundred dollar bills.
This generation, unlike the last is actually not that bad for PS3 in Japan.
Back last gen. there was GC and PS2 that was competing for some titles like jRPG and some J games we dont ever see here, and of course xbox is not even in the talk here,
This gen, xbox still not selling, the Wii is now a low tech system for those "quirky" quick games. Some good titles are coming out though.
That leaves one high tech system that developers who see game as a continous improvement woudl persue. That's the PS3. Good example is Square Enix's FF13 adn Versus, too advance to be ran on the Wii, so the only system left to develop for is PS3. At least initially in Japan the leading platform will be PS3, wheter it will be ported to xbox in the States is a different matter.
I am only referring to very Japan-centric games.