Sales of the top 100 titles totaled 493,733 units. This is 55.70% of last week’s average and 63.88% of the weekly average. Sales fell well below last week’s figures, and this can be attributed to a decline in the number of customers accompanying the end of the summer vacation as well as a weak lineup of new titles. Total sales last year (Week 1, September) amounted to 429,461 units.
Only ten new titles took spots in the top 100, accounting for 11.42% of sales. This low ratio shows that the market was concentrated on existing titles. Not a single game in the Top 10 broke 100,000, and only one sold more than 50,000 (just slightly). Returning to the Top 10 are: Tales of Legendia (PS2), DS Training For Adults: Work Your Brain (DS), Gentle Brain Exercises (DS), Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny (PS2), Jump Super Stars (DS), Naruto: Uzumaki Ninden (PS2), World Soccer Winning Eleven 9 (PS2), King of Beetle Mushiking: Greatest Champion (GBA), and Winning Post 7 (PS2).
1. PS2 Tales of Legendia – 51,676
2. DS DS Training For Adults: Work Your Brain – 33,745
3. DS Gentle Brain Exercises – 31,445
4. PS2 Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny – 27,598
5. PSP Bleach: Heat the Soul 2 – 26,446
6. DS Jump Super Stars – 21,826
7. PS2 World Soccer Winning Eleven 9 – 20,821
8. PS2 Naruto: Uzumaki Ninden – 17,381
9. GBA King of Beetle Mushiking: Greatest Champion – 12,562
10. PS2 Winning Post 7 – 10,731
The Nintendo DS climbed a thousand units this week, with the PSP climbing two thousand and PS2 declining one thousand. Combined unit sales of the PSP and PS2 falls short of the Nintendo DS’ overall sales for the week. Combined unit sales of all Nintendo handhelds (GBA, GBA SP, DS) account for 57.69% of the overall hardware market, slightly down from last week.
1. DS – 58,579
2. PS2 – 26,282
3. PSP – 22,610
4. GBA SP – 11,081
5. GCN – 2,388
6. GBA – 538
7. Xbox – 198
