Sales of the top 100 titles totaled 398,273 units. This is 80.67% of last week’s figure and 52.24% of the weekly average, clear signs of a slowdown in the market. Together with the second and third week in May and first week in June, this is the fourth time this year that total weekly sales slipped below 400,000 units.
Fourteen new titles made the Top 100 rankings, accounting for 23.28% of sales. Not a single game in the Top 10 broke 100,000 this week, let alone 50,000. Returning from last week are DS Training For Adults: Work Your Brain (Nintendo DS), Gentle Brain Exercises (DS), Tales of Legendia (PS2), World Soccer Winning Eleven 9 (PS2), Jump Super Stars (DS), Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny (PS2), and Naruto: Uzumaki Ninden (PS2).
1. PS2 Fighting for One Piece – 32,011
2. DS DS Training For Adults: Work Your Brain – 27,765
3. DS Gentle Brain Exercises – 23,298
4. PS2 Tales of Legendia – 22,849
5. PS2 World Soccer Winning Eleven 9 – 16,430
6. DS Jump Super Stars – 15,478
7. PS2 Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny – 11,242
8. PS2 Kingdom Hearts: Final Mix – 10,741
9. PS2 Final Fantasy X – 9,565
10. PS2 Naruto: Uzumaki Ninden – 8,758
The Nintendo DS slid 11,000 units this week from last week. The slow decline in sales comes just weeks after the system had sold over 80,000 units. The PSP is still lingering in the low-20,000’s, with the PS2 in the mid-20,000’s. For the first time in weeks, combined unit sales of PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable outsell the Nintendo DS. Overall market share of Nintendo’s handhelds are approximately 53% of the total hardware market, roughly a five percentage point drop from last week.
1. DS – 47,239
2. PS2 – 26,156
3. PSP – 22,133
4. GBA SP – 8,997
5. GCN – 1,923
6. GBA – 506
7. Xbox – 118
