Japanese Charts - Week Ending Feb 28, 2010

Four new games arrived in Media Create's top 10 weekly sales rankings, including Spike's action game Kenka Bancho 4: Ichinen Sensou and Namco Bandai's Super Robot Taisen OG: Saga Endless Frontier Exceed.

The PSP action game Kenka Bancho 4: Ichinen Sensou debuted at the top spot, selling 72,000 units for the week ended February 28, Media Create said Thursday. The game took the lead from Capcom's Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition for PlayStation 3, which dropped from number one to three, selling 48,000 units this week.

Also new on the list at number two is Namco Bandai's DS RPG Super Robot Taisen OG: Saga Endless Frontier Exceed, which sold 65,000 units. Other new titles include Sony's Hot Shots Tennis Portable for PSP, which sold 45,000 units, and Spike's Shiren the Wanderer 4: Kami no Hitomi to Akuma no Heso for DS, which sold 41,000 units.

The game with the highest life-to-date sales is continual chart-maker New Super Mario Bros. Wii from Nintendo. The title, released in early December in Japan, sold 46,000 units, bringing lifetime sales to over 3.4 million units.

Titles falling off of the chart from last week were Sony and Quantic Dream's Heavy Rain, Konami's Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s World Championship 2010: Reverse of Arcadia, Square Enix's Star Ocean 4: The Last Hope – International, and Nintendo's Wii Sports Resort.

Below are Media Create's top 10 sales rankings for the week ended February 28, 2010:

LW     TW     Title     Publisher     Platform     Weekly Sales
N     1     Kenka Bancho 4: Ichinen Sensou     Spike     PSP     72,000
N     2     Super Robot Taisen OG: Saga Endless Frontier Exceed     Namco Bandai     DS     65,000
1     3     Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition     Capcom     PS3     48,000
3     4     New Super Mario Bros. Wii     Nintendo     Wii     46,000
2     5     God Eater     Namco Bandai     PSP     45,000
N     6     Hot Shots Tennis Portable     Sony     PSP     45,000
N     7     Shiren the Wanderer 4: Kami no Hitomi to Akuma no Heso     Spike     DS     41,000
5     8     Tomodachi Collection     Nintendo     DS     34,000
7     9     Wii Fit Plus     Nintendo     Wii     30,000
4     10 Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Reverie       Square Enix     DS     26,000

11. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kizuna: Dai Yon Kan - Kizuna
(DS)
12. Demon's Souls (the Best) (PS3)
13. Borderlands (Xbox 360)
14. Kiniro no Corda 3 (PSP)
15. Power Pro Success Legends (PSP)
16. Estpolis: The Lands Cursed by the Gods (DS)
17. BlazBlue Portable (PSP)
18. The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks (DS)
19. Monster Hunter 2nd G Portable (the Best) (PSP)
20. Espgaluda II: Black Label (Xbox 360)
21. Wii Sports Resort (Wii)
22. Star Ocean: The Last Hope International (PS3)
23. Katekyoo Hitman Reborn! Kizuna no Tag Battle (PSP)
24. Pokemon Heart Gold / Soul Silver (DS)
25. Daikaijuu Battle: Ultra Coliseum DX - Ultra Senshi
Daishuuketsu (Wii)
26. One Piece Unlimited Cruise: Episode 1 - Nami ni Yureru Hihou
(Minna no Susume Selection) (Wii)
27. New Super Mario Bros. (DS)
28. Kiniro no Corda 3 (PS2)
29. Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's World Championship 2010: Reverse of Arcadia (DS)
30. Inazuma Eleven 2: Fire / Blizzard (DS)

This week in the Hardware Sales Chart, Sony's PlayStation Portable is still the bestselling (and worst selling) piece of hardware in Japan, moving another 37,000 PSPs of standard variety and nearly another 1300 of the "go" variety.

The PSP secured the top spot on the hardware chart once again, in part thanks to the release of chart topper Kenka Bancho 4: Ichinen Sensou. Like previous weeks, the Wii was right behind it, with considerable distance between Nintendo's home console and Sony's PlayStation 3. The combined strength of the Wii and three flavors of the Nintendo DS give the house of Mario more pie than anyone else this week.