Thu, Nov 27, 2008 | 06:28 GMT
Japanese software sales, November 17-24
Animal Crossing: City Folk’s gone straight in at the top of the Japanese charts this week,, soundly beating off four other new releases, including Square’s Chrono Trigger reboot.
Last week’s data here. Thanks, Chart Get.
01. [WII] Animal Crossing: City Folk (Nintendo) 350,000 / NEW
02. [NDS] Chrono Trigger DS (Square Enix) 271,000 / NEW
03. [PSP] Gundam vs. Gundam (Namco Bandai) 267,000 / NEW
04. [360] The Last Remnant (Square Enix) 101,000 / NEW
05. [NDS] Saka DS: Touch and Go (SEGA) 72,000 / NEW
06. [NDS] Hoshi no Kirby: Ultra Super Deluxe (Nintendo) 55,000 / 418,000
07. [NDS] Wagamama Fashion Girls Mode (Nintendo) 25,000 / 209,000
08. [NDS] Rhythm Tengoku Gold (Nintendo) 25,000 / 1,184,000
09. [NDS] Pokémon Platinum (Pokémon) 24,000 / 1,941,000
10. [PS3] Way of the Samurai 3 (Spike) 20,000 / 100,000
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Posted in: Charts, Japan, Retail
Tags: japanese charts
9 comments
#1
Esha
27/11/08, 8:16 am
FAO Japan: This is why your market is in ruins, you have a game at #4 that even the most blind seem to be able to recognise as shit, and at #2 you have a bad port of an ancient 16-bit console game.
Those kinds of sales have to tell publishers over there that shit sells.
#2
Shatner
27/11/08, 8:23 am
/deep breath
Franchise,
Remake,
Licence
HOLY SHIT IT’S AN ORIGINAL GAME (of debatable quality)
Fuck knows,
Franchise,
Fuck knows,
Sequel,
Franchise,
Sequel
And that’s my in-depth chart analysis for this week.
Now, the weather with Sian.
#3
Gekidami
27/11/08, 8:24 am
The Japanese do indeed have a very… ‘Questionable’ taste in in games…
#4
Blerk
27/11/08, 8:25 am
Whoa. Big first week for Last Remnant. “Stick a SquareEnix label on it” appears to be the route to automatic sales success in Japan.
#5
Gekidami
27/11/08, 8:27 am
Last Remnant will be long gone by next week, replaced with -as Shatner points out-; a sequel to something or some cash-in on a licence.
#6
Spiral
27/11/08, 9:49 am
Esha: Is Chrono Trigger a bad port? The gama roundup I read suggested that most places thought it was pretty good.
#7
Blerk
27/11/08, 10:06 am
I’ve not heard the word ‘bad’ associated with it either. It’s Chrono Trigger, ffs. You’d have to do something monumentally awful to it to spoil it. It’s brilliant.
#8
Spiral
27/11/08, 12:39 pm
So you’d recommend getting it then?
#9
Blerk
27/11/08, 12:50 pm
It’s my favourite SNES-era RPG by a long way. And I didn’t play it until the PSOne era.