It's that time of the week again when we find out how the Wii and its games sold in Japan. While we really have no need to be worried about the hardware, certain unconfirmed numbers earlier this week did raise concerns about third-party software sales.
So, how did the fair Wii fare in the land of the rising sun this week? Regarding hardware sales, the Wii just barely eked out in front of the PSP to take second place with 168,000 units sold, jumping up over 50,000 units from last week. As for the software, there's some good and bad news. Check after the break to see the numbers.
Hardware:
- DS: 249,000
- Wii:168,000
- PSP: 158,000
- PS3: 53,000
- PS2: 21,000
- Xbox 360: 8,700
- Mario Party DS (DS) ---160,000 (763,000)
- Wii Fit (Wii) --- 120,000 (527,000)
- Gran Turismo 5 Prologue (PS3) --- 108,000
- Dragon Quest IV (DS) --- 78,000 (854,000)
- Professor Layton and Pandora's Box (DS) --- 73,000 (482,000)
- Super Mario Galaxy (Wii) --- 71,000 (571,000)
- Wii Sports (Wii) --- 68,000 (2.26 million)
- Wii Play (Wii) --- 67,000 (1.81 million)
- Mario & Sonic at Beijing Olympics (Wii) --- 58,000 (207,000)
- Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon (Wii) --- 44,000
The software numbers show that first-party games had a lot of success this week. Wii Fit fell back into the second place spot, while Super Mario Galaxy jumped up to sixth place. Meanwhile, Wii Sports, Wii Play, and Sega's Mario and Sonic all managed to find their way back into the top ten. Then, finally, at number ten, we have Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon, which sold 44,000 copies in its first week. While not great by any means, it's not too bad of a start for Square Enix's title, especially if the game proves to have legs.Unfortunately, things did not go as well for some of the other third-party releases this week. Here are the Wii games that bombed:
- NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams --- 17,000
- We Love Golf! --- 8,600
- Soul Calibur Legends --- 6,900
- Shikigami no Shiro 3 --- 970
[Via NeoGAF]
