Wii Sports Resort Still Selling Very Well

In Japan

By Andrei Dumitrescu, Games Editor
13th of July 2009, 18:55 GMT

Japan seems to be still interested in handhelds and in Wii Sports Resort or so the charts coming out of the country suggest. The Nintendo DS is the best sold gaming console and the Nintendo made game still leads the software charts by a huge margin.

The DSi has sold no less than 46,855 units in one week with its only rival, the PlayStation Portable from Sony, taking second place in the chart with sales of 32,849 units. The DS Lite is still selling, despite being considered a bit obsolete, moving a little over 7,500 units in one week.

The Nintendo Wii is the best sold home gaming console with close to 25,000 units sold in one week, which is more than the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360 managed to sell together. The Sony-made console sold a little over 11,000 units, while the Microsoft one is close to 6,000. The PlayStation 2 finally seems to be close to disappearing from the chart, with just 3,734 consoles moved in one week to gamers.

But the big news is coming from the software charts, where Wii Sports Resort, a game bundled with the fresh Wii Motion Plus add on, sold another 155,000 copies in the second week of its shelf life, going over half a million units sold overall.

Second place went to Hatsune Miku: Project Diva for the PlayStation Portable, which managed to move more than 100,000 units in the first week on sale, capitalizing on the rhythm game trend that has swept Japan. In third spot, with sales of 63,000, is Tomodachi Connection from Nintendo for the DS.

The last two places of the top five are PlayStation Portable games, which is a rare sight in Japan. Boku no Natsuyasumi 4, translated as My Summer Vacation 4, from Sony sold 50,000 units, while the budget version of Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G is at number five, with 14,000 copies added to the impressive 3.5 million, which the series has sold since release.

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