A slow week in Japan in some ways - the top ten features no new entries at all, but then again, the tenth-place game shifted an impressively healthy 57,000 copies, so it’s not all bad. First-party Nintendo product dominates; Animal Crossing should have shifted a million units by next week, Kirby DS is the barest smidge under that very figure while Wii Fit is now over three million copies.

And then there’s top-ten staple Rhythm Tengoku Gold. Surely even Nintendo’s most optimistic sales estimates couldn’t have seen the musical sequel from topping a million and a half by the year’s end. Hearteningly, rumours suggest we’ll be seeing localisation Rhythm Heaven around April time, backed up by the release of the game’s western boxart (above).

The full chart is below. Cheers to Media Create as always for the figures.

01. [PSP] Dissidia Final Fantasy (Square Enix) 104,000 / 770,000
02. [NDS] Rhythm Tengoku Gold (Nintendo) 89,000 / 1,535,000
03. [NDS] Kirby Super Star Ultra (Nintendo) 77,000 / 998,000
04. [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo) 74,000 / 3,125,000
05. [WII] Animal Crossing: City Folk (Nintendo) 73,000 / 949,000
06. [PS3] White Knight Chronicles (SCE) 71,000 / 278,000
07. [NDS] Wagamama Fashion: Girl’s Mode (Nintendo) 68,000 / 615,000
08. [WII] Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo) 67,000 / 2,133,000
09. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (Best) (Capcom) 62,000 / 271,000
10. [NDS] Momotaro Densetsu 20th Anniversary (Hudson) 57,000 / 204,000

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This entry was posted on Friday, January 9th, 2009 at 8:18 pm by Chris Schilling
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