Japanese Sales Data Get 12/28/2009 - 01/03/2010

With no new releases charting in Japan, it's another week for New Super Mario Bros. Wii to dominate the competition with another quarter million plus sold. What other Nintendo games are selling like gangbusters in Japan this week?
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The rest of the chart that isn't New Super Mario Bros. Wii looks like familiar stuff — Tomodachi Collection, Final Fantasy XIII, The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, Wii Fit Plus, et al. On a more exciting note, it looks like FFXIII will cross the 2 million sold mark in Japan before January ends, New Super Mario Bros. Wii passing 3 million, probably within the next five to ten minutes.

And look! It's the return of Animal Crossing DS and Wii Play to the top thirty bestselling games in Japan, according to Media Create! Those are some legs...

Anyway, here's the games that Japan snapped up for the week of December 28 to January 3, 2009. Hardware data to follow.. Also look forward to our year end totals due around the 14th of Jan.

01. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii) - 268,000 / 2,708,000
02. Tomodachi Collection (DS) - 186,000 / 2,502,000
03. The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks (DS) - 126,000 / 418,000
04. Final Fantasy XIII (PS3) - 112,000 / 1,802,000
05. Wii Fit Plus (Wii) - 105,000 / 1,421,000
06. Pokemon HeartGold / SoulSilver (DS) - 75,000 / 3,539,000
07. Inazuma Eleven 2: Fire / Blizzard (DS) - 69,000 / 976,000
08. Wii Sports Resort (Wii) - 68,000 / 1,636,000
09. Phantasy Star Portable 2 (PSP) - 44,000 / 506,000
10. Layton Kyouju to Majin no Fue (DS) - 43,000 / 602,000

11. Taiko no Tatsujin Wii Dodoon to 2 Yome! (Wii)
12. Momotarou Dentetsu 2010 Senkoku Ishin no Hero Daisyuugou ! No Ken (Wii)
13. Mario Kart Wii (Wii)
14. New Super Mario Bros. (DS)
15. World Soccer Winning Eleven 2010 (PSP)
16. PokePark Wii: Pikachu no Daibouken (Wii)
17. Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (the Best) (PSP)
18. Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam vs. Gundam Next Plus (PSP)
19. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games (DS)
20. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (PS3)
21. Sengoku Musou 3 (Wii)
22. Pen 1 Grand Prix: Penguin no Mondai Special (DS)
23. Wii Play (Wii)
24. Power Pro Kun Pocket 12 (DS)
25. Tamagotchi no Narikiri Channel (DS)
26. Naruto Shippuuden: Narutimate Accel 3 (PSP)
27. Dragon Quest IX (DS)
28. Animal Crossing: Wild World (DS)
29. Mario Kart DS (DS)
30. World Soccer Winning Eleven 2010 (PS2)

Media Create Weekly Software Sales [Gpara]

Japanese gamers rang in the New Year by buying more Wiis than any other console, giving Nintendo the biggest slice of the pie this past week. But the PlayStation family wasn't too far behind.

The PSP and PlayStation 3 were behind the Wii, but sales were better than healthy for Sony, with the PlayStation maker moving more than 100,000 units of each during the first week of 2010. The Nintendo DS family—DS Lite, DSi and DSi LL—combined to sell another 224,000 portables in Japan during the week of December 28 to January 3, 2009.

The Xbox 360 and PlayStation 2 showed up, both outselling the last place PSPgo. At least the digital download only PlayStation Portable moved more this week than it did last.