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Japan Sales: Front Mission, Family Trainer & More

07.06.2008

The latest Media Create charts are now in, showing off the new releases across all formats. Of particular note is how Monolith Soft's new RPG, Endless Frontier: Super Robot Wars OG Saga, a cross-over project with Banpresto, similar to the Namco x Capcom RPG from the PlayStation 2, also by Monolith Soft, has managed to sell more in its first week than any previously developed games on Nintendo formats, including the likes of Soma Bringer on DS and the Baten Kaitos duo on GameCube! Bandai Namco's revival of the old NES Family Trainer Power Pad is new in at No.6 with a respectable 40,000+ sales and Square Enix's Front Mission 2089, a DS remake of the mobile phone entry into the mech series of Strategy RPGs, has started far stronger than its predecessor, entering at No.13 and reportedly selling through nearly 50% of its initial stock in its first week.

Check out the results below, as well as hardware numbers:

Media Create Top 50:
26th May-1st June, 2008

Position	Title/System/Publisher	Sales (Plus Total Where Available & Commentary)
1.)	Powerful Pro Baseball Portable 3 (PSP, Konami)	116,595 \| NEW
2.)	Endless Frontier: Super Robot Wars OG Saga (NDS, Bandai-Namco)	97,825 \| NEW
3.)	Mario Kart Wii (Wii, Nintendo)	50,172 \| 1,367,000
4.)	Wii Fit (Wii, Nintendo)	46,043 \| 2,156,000
5.)	Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (PSP, Capcom)	45,276 \| 2,142,000
6.)	Family Trainer (Wii, Bandai-Namco)	43,785 \| NEW
7.)	D.C. II: Da Capo II: Plus Situation (PS2, Kadokawa Shoten)	39,858 \| NEW
8.)	Valhalla Knights 2 (PSP, Marvelous Entertainment)	32,294 \| NEW
9.)	Mana Khemia 2: The Fallen School and the Alchemists (PS2, Gust)	26,431 \| NEW
10.)	Empty Space Training (NDS, Benesse)	25,408 \| NEW
11.)	Clannad (PSP, Prototype)	New entry
12.)	DS Beautiful Letter Training (NDS, Nintendo)	Down from No.6 in this busy week
13.)	Front Mission 2089: Border of Madness (NDS, Square-Enix)	New entry for this remake of the mobile phone game and proving to be a far stronger starter than the first DS game
14.)	Riddle Training (NDS, Benesse)	New entry
15.)	True Blood (PS2, Kadokawa Shoten)	New entry
16.)	Beatmania II DX 14 Gold (PS2, Konami)	New entry
17.)	Drum Master DS: Seven Island Adventure (NDS, Bandai-Namco)	Down from No.9 after a few strong weeks, but still tracking ahead of its predecessor at this stage in its retail life
18.)	Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 (PS3, Ubisoft)	New entry
19.)	Wii Sports (Wii, Nintendo)	Down seven places
20.)	Let's Make a Pro Baseball Team! (NDS, Sega)	All the way down from last week's No.1!
21.)	Lost Planet: Colonies (360, Capcom)	New entry
22.)	We're Fossil Diggers (NDS, Nintendo)	Down from No.13
23.)	Battalion Wars II (Wii, Nintendo)	Down from No.8 in its third week, but selling around 10,000 copies to bring it within touching distance of its GC precursor
24.)	Glory of Hercules: Proof of Spirit (NDS, Nintendo)	Quickly down from No.5 after just one week and somewhat of a disaster it seems for this impressive RPG
25.)	Link's Crossbow Training (Wii, Nintendo)	After a good start this falls from No.10 thanks to the slew of new releases
26.)	Wii Play (Wii, Nintendo)	Down a further seven spots
27.)	Pok�mon Ranger: Batonnage (NDS, The Pok�mon Company)	Struggling to beat the sales of the first game now, falling eleven places
28.)	Mario Kart DS (NDS, Nintendo)	Dropping ten
29.)	Tottado! Yowiko's Deserted Island Life (NDS, Bandai-Namco)	Sliding four
30.)	Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii, Nintendo)	Dropping nine places
31.)	Bleach: Heat the Soul 5 (PSP, Sony)	Dropping fast, down from No.11 in its third week
32.)	Deca Sporta (Wii, Hudson)	Down ten places
33.)	Musou Orochi: The Evil King Returns (PS2, Koei)	Falling from No.20
34.)	Turok (PS3, Touchstone)	New entry
35.)	Luminous Arc 2: Will (NDS, Marvelous Entertainment)	Down hard, falling from No.14
36.)	Fushigi Yuugi: Tale of the Vermillion Bird (PS2, Idea Factory)	New entry
37.)	Tea Dog's Room DS 3 (NDS, MTO)	Down a mighty twenty places
38.)	Night Flower Romanesque: Love and Sadness are Your Aria (PS2, Marvelous Entertainment)	New entry
39.)	Kanji Brain Test 2.5M (NDS, IE Institute)	Falling from No.28
40.)	New Super Mario Bros. (NDS, Nintendo)	Falling to its lowest position ever, down from No.26
41.)	Overlord (360, Microsoft)	New entry
42.)	SimCity DS 2: From the Past to the Future (NDS, EA)	Falling fast now, down from No.27
43.)	Valkyria Chronicles (PS3, Sega)	Plummeting from No.24
44.)	Animal Crossing Wild World (NDS, Nintendo)	Down twelve spots
45.)	Pok�mon Diamond (NDS, The Pok�mon Company)	Sliding nine
46.)	Professor Layton and Pandora's Box (NDS, Level 5)	Dropping back down from No.31
47.)	Mario Party DS (NDS, Nintendo)	Down from No.34
48.)	Alice Matic: Apocalypse (PS2, Russel)	New entry
49.)	Battle Fantasia (PS3, ArcSystemWorks)	New entry
50.)	Professor Layton and the Curious Village (NDS, Level 5)	Back down from No.29

Media Create Hardware Chart

Format	This Week	Last Week	2008 Sales	Lifetime Sales
PlayStation Portable	71,986	64,449	1,891,058	9,492,652
Wii	50,851	49,047	1,519,690	6,135,850
Nintendo DS	38,355	37,404	1,453,916	22,626,967
PlayStation 3	9,169	9,071	426,842	2,068,518
PlayStation 2	7,203	7,1892	235,686	21,162,723
Xbox 360	1,959	1,947	60,407	567,748

Stay tuned for another update next week...

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Zapp 07.06.2008#1

Monster Hunter has nearly caught Wii Fit sales... so imagine when Monster Hunter 3 will be released!! Smilie

I see all these people insulting the Nintendo corporation because of the lack of mature content. Yet there is something about Nintendo (at least their games) that strikes a certain unadulterated feeling of joy!!! Pokemon Y - 1048-9263-5562

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jesusraz 07.06.2008#2

Empty Space Training just reminds me of the Emperor's New Clothers Smilie

Glad Front Mission's doing alright this time round. With any luck it won't be long before S-E announces its localisation, and with its new process of almost simultaneous Western releases perhaps Europe won't miss out this time.