Latest Japanese Software Sales

The latest software sales figures from Japan, for the week beginning the 26th of July and ending the 1st of August, have been published by Media Create.

This week saw the release of Capcom's historical action game Sengoku Basara 3 on the Wii and PS3. How did the Wii version fare against its bigger brother?

01. / 00. [PS3] Sengoku Basara 3 (Capcom) - 242.698 / NEW 02. / 00. [PSP] Hatsune Miku: Project Diva 2 (Sega) - 241.467 / NEW 03 / 01 [WII] Wii Party (Nintendo) - 82.713 / 529.019 (-16%) 04 / 00 [NDS] Kamen Rider Battle: Ganbaride Card Battle Taisen (Bandai Namco) - 64.268 / NEW 05 / 00 [WII] Sengoku Basara 3 (Capcom) - 49.821 / NEW 06 / 00 [NDS] Metal Max 3 (Kadokawa Shoten) - 46.954 / NEW 07 / 03 [NDS] Inazuma Eleven 3: World Challenge!! Spark / Bomber (Level 5) - 34.049 / 727.402 (-23%) 08 / 00 [PSP] Ys Vs. Sora no Kiseki: Alternative Saga (Nihon Falcom) - 30.047 / NEW 09 / 06 [PSP] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2010 (Konami) - 22.132 / 103.094 (-24%) 10 / 04 [NDS] Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem - Hero of Light and Shadow (Nintendo) - 21.340 / 197.166 (-46%)

11 / 05 [WII] Dragon Quest: Monster Battle Road Victory (Square Enix) 12 / 07 [PS3] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2010 (Konami) 13 / 08 [WII] Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Nintendo) 14 / 12 [NDS] Taiko Drum Master DS: Dororon! Battle With the Ghouls!! (Bandai Namco) 15 / 00 [PS3] ModNation Racers (SCE) 16 / 15 [NDS] Friend Collection (Nintendo) 17 / 13 [NDS] Harvest Moon: Twin Villages (Marvelous Entertainment) 18 / 09 [PSP] Last Ranker (Capcom) 19 / 00 [NDS] Kaidan Restaurant: Ura Menu 100-Sen (Bandai Namco) 20 / 14 [PS3] White Knight Chronicles: Awakening of Light and Darkness (SCE)

As you can see, the Wii version of Sengoku Basara 3 only managed to sell a fraction of what the PS3 version did begging the question of why so few units were sold given the large install base of the Wii in Japan.

Elsewhere, Wii Party continues to sell well, having stepped down from 1 to 3 this week. And some new entries into well loved franchises ousted Dragon Quest: Monster Battle Road Victory from the top 10, with the latest Fire Emblem title on the DS managing to just hold on to 10th place.

One sad point, however, is the disappearance of Hudson Soft's Lost in Shadow from the top 50, after a debut last week which saw it come in at No. 39. Hopefully it will fare much better when it gets released in North America and Europe early next year.

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