Nintendo Beaten by Final Fantasy PSP in Japan

This week's Media Create Top 50 chart shows Nintendo is kept off the top spot by Square Enix's latest PSP release, the highly anticipated melee brawler 'Dissidia: Final Fantasy', whilst Gundam Musou 2 on PS3 lands at No.2, just ahead of a resurgent Kirby on DS and Animal Crossing at No.4 on Wii. No.5 sees a New Entry for Tales of Hearts' anime edition, whilst its CG counterpart can only limp in at No.39 with just under 17,000 units. In total this is a far strong start than both Tales of the Tempest (83,298 first week, 205,541 lifetime) and Tales of Innocence (106,733 first week, 210,697 lifetime). According to Japanese blogger sinobi, 200,000 units of the anime version were shipped to retail, whilst 50,000 of the CG version were shipped out. In total Bandai Namco has previously stated it expects a lifetime sales total of 400,000 units before the end of this fiscal year (31st March).

Elsewhere, Girl's Mode is turning from sleeper hit into potential future million-seller candidate as it moves to No.6 with nearly 100,000 sales this week, Taiko no Tatsujin on Wii is nearly at the 200,000 mark in just its second week (BanNam expects 400,000 unit sales in total!), Konami's Suikoden spin-off 'Suikoden Tierkreis' enters at No.16, performing stronger than any other spin-off from the RPG series, Hudson's karaoke title 'JOYSOUND' marks a strong début at No.12 with around 73,000 sales (considering the online fees for new songs as well this looks to be a major money-spinner!) and Ragnarok Online DS impresses, landing at No.22 after starting with first day sales of 28,000 units.

Check out the list below, as well as the hardware tallies that show the DSi still beat the PSP despite the release of Dissidia, whilst Wii gets a timely boost due to the shopping season:

Media Create Top 50 - 15th-21st December, 2008
1.) Dissidia Final Fantasy (PSP, Square Enix) - 489,100 | NEW
2.) Gundam Musou 2 (PS3, Bandai Namco) - 176,400 | NEW
3.) Kirby Super Star Ultra (NDS, Nintendo) - 149,600 | 779,100
4.) Animal Crossing: City Folk (Wii, Nintendo) - 144,500 | 731,500
5.) Tales of Hearts: Anime Movie Edition (NDS, Bandai Namco) - 123,600 | NEW
6.) Wagamama Fashion: Girl's Mode (NDS, Nintendo) - 99,900 | 441,600
7.) Gundam Musou 2 (PS2, Bandai Namco) - 99,700 | NEW
8.) Pokemon Platinum (NDS, The Pokemon Company) - 85,800 | 2,152,100
9.) Fate/Unlimited Codes (PS2, Capcom) - 82,900 | NEW
10.) Momotarou Dentetsu: 20th Anniversary (NDS, Hudson) - 79,700 | NEW
11.) Taiko no Tatsujin (Wii, Namco Bandai)
12.) JOYSOUND Karaoke (Wii, Hudson) - 73,000 | NEW
13.) Rhythm Tengoku Gold (NDS, Nintendo)
14.) Power Pro Kun Pocket 11 (NDS, Konami)
15.) Legend of the Strongest Penguins! (NDS, Konami)
16.) Suikoden Tierkreis (NDS, Konami)
17.) Wii Fit (Wii, Nintendo)
18.) Professor Layton and the Last Time Travel (NDS, Level-5)
19.) Mario Kart Wii (Wii, Nintendo)
20.) Little Magician's Adventure (NDS, Konami)
21.) Tamagotchi Twinkle Institution (NDS, Namco Bandai)
22.) Ragnorak Online DS (NDS, GungHo Works)
23.) Fable II (Limited Edition) (360, Microsoft)
24.) Harvest Moon DS3: Welcome to the Wind Bazaar! (NDS, Marvelous Entertainment)
25.) Animal Crossing: Wild World (NDS, Nintendo)
26.) Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (PSP the Best) (PSP, Capcom)
27.) Wii Music (Wii, Nintendo)
28.) Wii Sports (Wii, Nintendo)
29.) World Soccer Winning Eleven 2009 (Limited Edition) (PS3, Konami)
30.) Gran Turismo 5 Prologue Spec III (Limited Edition) (PS3, SCE)
31.) Gundam Musou 2 (Limited Edition) (360, Namco Bandai) - 26,800 | NEW
32.) Taiko no Tatsujin DS 7 Island Adventure (NDS, Namco Bandai)
33.) Inazuma Eleven (NDS, Level-5)
34.) Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat (Wii, Nintendo)
35.) Mario Kart DS (NDS, Nintendo)
36.) Wii Play (Wii, Nintendo)
37.) Chrono Trigger (NDS, Square Enix)
38.) New Super Mario Bros. (NDS, Nintendo)
39.) Tales of Hearts CG Movie Edition (NDS, Namco Bandai) - 16,900 | NEW
40.) Dragon Ball Z Infinite World (PS2, Namco Bandai)
41.) Bleach Vs. Crusade (Wii, Sega)
42.) Orochi Warriors (PSP, Koei)
43.) Need for Speed Underground (PS3, EA)
44.) Pachinko Series Vol.13 Evangelion (PS2, D3P)
45.) Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii, Nintendo)
46.) Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam VS. Gundam (Limited Edition) (PSP, Namco Bandai)
47.) The National Champion (PSP, Spike)
48.) Yes! Yes! Precure 5 (NDS, Namco Bandai)
49.) Mega Man Star Force 3: Black Aces (NDS, Capcom)
50.) Mario Party DS (NDS, Nintendo)

Hardware - This Week | Last Week | 2008 Sales | Lifetime Sales
1.) Nintendo DSi - 204,100 | 173,693 | 1,042,670 | 1,042,670
2.) PlayStation Portable - 146,000 | 71,540 | 3,574,322 | 11,239,399
3.) Wii - 131,000 | 91,641 | 2,727,804 | 7,343,943
4.) Nintendo DS - 50,300 | 31,120 | 2,658,769 | 23,831,823
5.) PlayStation 3 - 39,100 | 33,688 | 934,763 | 2,576,439
6.) Xbox 360 - 12,900 | 11,797 | 309,084 | 817,529
7.) PlayStation 2 - 8,700 | 6,659 | 462,080 | 21,389,120

Stick around for more Japanese sales updates as and when they occur...