Official Japanese Software Charts: Week Ending 13th November 2005

This	Last	Title	Format	Publisher
01	NE	Mario Party 7	GCN	Nintendo
02	NE	Shinobido Imashime	PS2	Spike
03	02	Daredemo Asobi Taizen	NDS	Nintendo
04	01	Daito Giken Official Pachinko Slot Simulator: Osu! Bancho	PS2	Daito
05	NE	NBA Live 06	PS2	EA
06	05	DS Training For Adults: Work Your Brain	NDS	Nintendo
07	06	Tamagotchi Connection: Corner Shop!	NDS	Bandai
08	07	Gentle Brain Exercises	NDS	Nintendo
09	08	Brain Trainer Portable	PSP	SEGA
10	03	Beat Down: Fists of Vengeance	PS2	Capcom

Official Japanese Hardware Charts: Week Ending 13th November 2005

This	Last	Title	This Week	Last Week	Total 2005	Sold to Date
01	01	Nintendo DS	48,342	48,520	2,081,138	3,576,734
02	02	PlayStation Portable	31,078	29,395	1,569,430	2,026,582
03	03	PlayStation 2	19,277	22,030	1,610,081	N/A
04	04	Game Boy micro	9,151	9,349	337,190	337,190
05	05	Game Boy Advance SP	6,143	7,089	595,619	5,590,671
06	06	Nintendo GameCube	4,368	3,290	176,609	N/A
07	07	Game Boy Advance	227	284	22,366	N/A
08	08	Xbox	119	167	11,379	471,425

Hardware and software sales recorded and chart-compiled by Media Create.

The Software Charts

"What the heck?!," we hear you exclaim. Yes, Mario Party 7 has entered the Japanese charts at #1, showing the GameCube and the series itself still has legs. Whether it'll make even the UK top twenty is questionable.

So, what else do we have this week? Spike's Shinobido Imashime for PS2 enters at a respectable second, although selling about half of what Mario Party 7 mysteriously was able to manage. EA's NBA Live for PS2 makes its first week at number five, proving EA are slowly becoming more respected in the East. That's all for the chart-topping entries for this week!

As for the sliders, Nintendo's card game, Daredemo Asobi Taizen, shows to be quite popular, dropping from 2nd to 3rd, with Daito's sexy Asian women-involving PS2 Slot Simulator dropping from 1st to 4th. Brain Training (NDS), Tamagotchi (NDS), Gentle Brain Exercises (NDS) and Brain Trainer Portable (PSP) all drop a single place each, ranking in between 6th - 9th. Rounding off the chart is Capcom's Beat Down, tumbling from 3rd to 10th.


The Hardware Charts

There isn't really a tremendous lot to comment on this week. The consoles remain in their same positions, each selling more-or-less what they did the week before. GBA sales continue to very slowly fall, with the PSP and GameCube increasing by a small percentage. DS tops the chart yet again, for an unbeaten run of what must be almost half a year now. Microsoft must be rather nervous, preying the Xbox 360 sales figures don't drop below the embarrassing sub-100 figure, as it's getting dangerously close.

A milestone for this week; the PSP reaches 2,000,000 sold in Japan! However, its closest competition, the Nintendo DS (which launched barely a week before the PSP), last week reached its 3,500,000th sold unit, almost double of what the PSP has sold to date.

Less than a month until we find how the Xbox 360 will affect the chart!

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