In the latest figures to come out of Japan
(yet to be translated into English, unfortunately), Square Enix's latest FFVII spinoff, Dirge of
Cerberus has dropped from its initial top spot to 7th place. During the first week of launch (January 23-29),
Cerberus scored an impressive 392,000 units in sales, but in the following week, ending February 5th, only
managed around 45,000 in units sold.Meanwhile, the Nintendo educational library continues its rise to power, with English Training DS and Brain Age 2, the former of which has sold nearly 350,000 units in the 2 weeks it has been available, claiming the top spot for last week. Coming in 2nd place (and 6th place the week prior), Brain Age 2 managed approximately 86,000 units in sales.
The top 10 titles for each week are still dominated by DS and Playstation 2 titles--in fact, not a single Xbox or Xbox 360 title broke into the top 50 in Japan for the week of January 30th - February 5th. Console sales also match software sales, with the 360 only pushing 2,194--58 more consoles than Nintendo GameCube, but about 23,000 less than top contenders PSP and DS. For the week ending January 29th, the DS claimed 60% of the market share, with the PSP trailing behind at 17%.
Also see:
Sales data for January 23 - January 29 (English)
Sales data for January 30 - February 5 (Japanese) (poor translation)
[Update: found a missing word, threw it up there to make the post look nice and...you know...comprehensible.]
