Professor Layton’s third DS adventure easily tops the Japanese charts, outselling nearest rival PES 2009 (or Winning Eleven in Japan) by 2:1, and knocking previous leader Animal Crossing: City Folk down to third spot. Crosso suffers a serious hit to its sales, with a drop to 108,547 units this week - no news on whether that’s down to low stock, or perhaps it could be that the Japanese are realising just how similar it is to the DS game (or indeed that it’s better suited to handheld play).

Elsewhere, Chrono Trigger hangs in there in fourth position, though in the lower positions it’s the PSP show, Sony’s handheld proving very popular in the east at the moment. Yet in the hardware charts, DSi still rules the roost. Though with such impressive software sales - and for some pretty hardcore-friendly titles too - the PSP is proving a worthy competitor. That particular battle is going to rage on well into next year. Meanwhile, Wii continues to outsell its home console rivals, though the PS3 had a strong week again - whether that will start to catch up as 2009 goes on remains to be seen, but with Tatsunoko vs. Capcom out next week, I expect a sales spike for Wii as we head into the festive period.

The full charts follow:

1. NDS - Layton 3 - 347,360 / NEW
2. PS3 - PES 2009 - 168,405 / NEW
3. WII - Animal Crossing - 108,547 / 413,727
4. NDS - Chrono Trigger - 80,157 / 351,025
5. PSP - Yu-Gi-Oh Tag Force 3 - 64,179 / NEW
6. PSP - Gundam vs. Gundam - 56,557 / 323,489
7. NDS - Kirby Superstar Ultra - 56176 / 474,749
8. PSP - Kenka Banchou 3 - 53,966 / NEW
9. PSP - Musou Orochi: Maou Sairin - 45,809 / NEW
10. PSP - Higurashi Daybreak - 32,639 / NEW

Hardware
DSi = 87,185
PSP = 55,090
Wii = 49,848
PS3 = 34,978
DSL = 26,851
360 = 11,423
PS2 = 5,628

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This entry was posted on Thursday, December 4th, 2008 at 9:00 pm by Chris Schilling
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