Nintendo Sales | Tamagotchi & Mario Basket Strong in Japan

Below are the latest sales from Japan, courtesy of data tracker Media Create. Tamagotchi's sequel starts off amazingly strong, looking like it could easily catch the sales of its million-selling predecessor. Its sales, however, have not stunted Super Mario's, with the DS platform romp storming past the 2.5 million mark after just TEN weeks on sale!

The Square Enix-developed Mario Basket starts off with a surprisingly strong ~110,000 units, despite the sport not being very popular in Japan. Clearly the mix of Nintendo and Final Fantasy characters was too appealing to pass up. The question now is will it drop heavily, though. Nintendo's cooking helper holds up well in its second week considering all the competition around it, crossing the 60,000 mark and bringing its total to nearly 190,000 already.

Sega will not be quite as pleased, though, since its Mushiking only manages a No.10 entry with sales of nearly 32,000 units, placing it behind both Brain Training games. The company will have to hope that it now proves to be a slow burner. Included as well as the 11-30 sales positions, courtesy of NeoGAF.com, with sales where available and even some sales totals. The main highlight ('lowlight' maybe) is that Animal Crossing has finally dropped out of the Top 10.

Software - This Week | Total Sales

1.) Tamagotchi no Puchi Puchi Omisetchi Gohiikini (NDS, Bandai) - 192,458 | NEW
2.) Sengoku Basara 2 (PS2, Capcom) - 135,850 | NEW
3.) New Super Mario Bros (NDS, Nintendo) - 114,225 | 2,516,190
4.) Mario Basket 3-on-3 (NDS, Nintendo) - 110,708 | NEW
5.) Kamaitachi no Yoru 3 (PS2, Atlus) - 97,315 | NEW
6.) Shaberu! Oryouri Nabi (NDS, Nintendo) - 61,326 | 187,856
7.) More Brain Age (NDS, Nintendo) - 53,103 | 2,877,641
8.) Derby Stallion P (PSP, Enterbrain) - 49,206 | NEW
9.) Brain Age (NDS, Nintendo) - 32,419 | 2,616,839
10.) Mushiking Greatest Champion e no Michi 2 (NDS, Sega) - 31,763

11.) Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 13 (PS2) - Total Sales: 227,418
12.) Animal Crossing: Wild World (NDS) - Total Sales: 3,002,009
13.) Kinnikuman Max Grand Prix (PS2) - 27,321
14.) English Training DS (NDS) - Total Sales: 1,313,514
15.) Battle Stadium DON (PS2) - Total Sales: 72,014
16.) True Crime NYC (PS2) - 17,516 | NEW
17.) Persona 3 (PS2) - 16,993 | 155,980
18.) Mario Kart DS (NDS) - Total Sales: 1,523,420
19.) Hajimari no Yoru (PS2) - 14,574 | NEW
20.) Tetris DS (NDS) - Total Sales: 723,885
21.) LocoRoco (PSP) - 13,001 | 61,129
22.) Digimon Story (NDS) - Total Sales: 127,768
23.) Winning Eleven 10 (PS2) - Total Sales: 984,406
24.) Battle Stadium DON (GC) - Total Sales: 48,054
25.) Ape Escape Million Monkeys (PS2)
26.) Pok