Media Create Japanese Software Sales: Jan 8th-14th

  Once again, by way of Media Create, we have obtained yet another chart of the 10 best selling games in Japan for the week of January 8th-14th. Little has changed; Nintendo continues to dominate, but Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops has climbed back into the top 10. Nintendo's Wii Sports is the best selling game of the week. Meanwhile Dragon Quest: Monsters Joker and Wii Play both pulled in very close sales. The unstoppable Pokemon games have finally began to lose some steam, with only Pokemon Diamond remaining in the top chart at #9, with Pearl sitting at #13. Below is the full top 10.

   1. (Wii, Nintendo) Wii Sports - 61,399 / 794,118

   2. (DS, Square Enix) Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker - 55,180 / 916,000

   3. (Wii, Nintendo) Wii Play - 54,578 / 719,089

   4. (DS, Nintendo) Common Knowledge Training - 35,819 / 1,098,912

   5. (DS, Nintendo) New Super Mario Brothers - 34,628 / 4,003,134

   6. (DS, Nintendo) More Brain Age - 32,865 / 3,838,652

   7. (DS, Nintendo) Animal Crossing Wild World - 32,864 / 3,876,696

   8. (PSP, Konami) Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops - 28,152 / 306,359

   9. (DS, Nintendo) Pokemon Diamond - 22,982 / 2,502,801

   10. (DS, Nintendo) Mario Kart DS - 22,640 / 1,997,233

1/18/2007 Arnold Katayev