Sales Chart: OMG!, is that a PS3 game at ichiban?

Week ending 4 February 2007

Oh my God! A PlayStation 3 game has taken the top spot on the games sales chart last week! That's right, folks. It has been a long time coming, but a PS3 game has finally made it to the top for the first time this year. The honour goes to Virtua Fighter 5. Sega has done it again this week. Last week it was J League Soccer Club 5, and this week, the arcade port Virtua Fighter 5 has taken on a golf club, baseball bat, bowling ball, tennis racket and boxing gloves heads on... and won! Wii Sports missed out on the top spot by about 2,500 copies (48,365 vs 45,897). Considering that Wii Sports has been selling for yonks, it is not a bad effort.

So is it the game that Sony is hoping for? Probably not, that would have to wait until at least Gundam Musou. Hopefully that one is better than MS Gundam: Target in Sight. But considering the new Gundam game is from the creator of Dynasty Warriors (aka. Shin sangoku musou), there is a certain appeal to it. We'll just have to wait and see.

Elsewhere on the chart, DS games has taken 50% of the top 10, while the Wii and PS2 both have 2 titles in the top 10, and from 11th all the way down to 21st, they are all DS games. No wonder the DS Lite found another 201,177 homes last week, outselling the PSP (32,175) like usual. Wii (78,550) is selling more this week. Matter of fact, most of the consoles sold more than last week. PS3 has 23,431 while the forever dying XBox360 is still there with 4,811.

Cumulative total for the DS (both phat and lite) surpassed 15 million units in Japan. 15 million! Now that's a lot of DS. It will only go higher when Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings comes out. No doubt about it.

Best selling games for each platform (that is on the chart) this week:

PS3 - Virtua Fighter 5
Wii - Wii Sports
DS - Brain Training 2
PS2 - GTA San Andreas
PSP - Monster Hunter Portable

Number of titles in the top 50 for each platform this week:

DS - 33
PS2 - 7
Wii - 6
PSP - 3
PS3 - 1

Source: Media Create