The immensely popular Pocket Monster RPG is growing in popularity even after all these years and it’s multiple coloured releases. Japan proved this was true when the first week sales of Pokemon Black and White’s combined sales came back, weighing in at a whopping 2.6 million sales. To put this in perspective, Halo Reach sold 44,413 in the same week of September 13-19.
Not only did Reach not sell close to Pokemon, it also only charted in at 4th place in the land of the red sun, showing that shooters just aren’t their bag over there.The two other games that topped Halo were Front Mission Evolved(51,084) and Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s Tag Force 5(45,879), 3rd and 4th respectively. Check after the break for the entire weeks sales breakdown.
JAPAN GAME SALES WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 13-19, 2010
Software:
Rank / Title / Publisher / Platform / Unit sales
1. Pokemon Black and White / The Pokemon Company / DS / 2,557,779
2. Front Mission Evolved / Square Enix / PS3 / 51,084
3. Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s Tag Force 5 / Konami / PSP / 45,879
4. Halo: Reach / Microsoft / X360 / 44,413
5. Wii Party / Nintendo / Wii / 36,547
6. MonHun Nikki: Poka Poka Ailu Mura / Capcom / PSP / 28,627
7. One Piece: Gigant Battle / Namco Bandai / DS / 28,123
8. Blue Roses: Yousei to Aoi Hitomi no Senshitachi / Nippon Ichi / PSP / 9,846
9. Taiko no Tatsujin DS: Dororon! Youkai Daikessen!! / Namco Bandai / DS / 8,729
10. Super Mario Galaxy 2 / Nintendo / Wii / 8,178
Hardware:
DSi – 47,379
DSi LL – 31,254
PSP – 29,866
PS3 – 21,096
Wii – 14,833
DS Lite – 7,137
Xbox 360 – 5,804
PS2 – 1,390
PSP Go – 863
