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Thursday, Dec 3
Professor Layton Schools Competitors On Sales, Nintendo Conquers Chart
Level 5's latest Professor Layton puzzle-adventure, Layton Kyouju to Majin no Fue, debuts at the top of Japan's video game software sales charts, another 300,000 Nintendo DS games added to the series' impressive sales. Media Create Weekly Software Sales [Gpara]
Thursday, Nov 26
Pokemon Sales Super Effective Against Zombies In Japan
07. World Soccer Winning Eleven 2010 (PS3) - 24,000 / 291,000 08. J-League Pro Soccer Club o Tsukurou! 6: Pride of J (PSP) - 24,000 / 109,000 09. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games (DS) - 23,000 / NEW 10. Dragon Ball Raging Blast (PS3) - 17,000 / 75,000
Thursday, Nov 19
Japan Still Loves Soccer, Favors PlayStation Games
New PlayStation 3 debuts like Dragon Ball: Raging Blast and Need for Speed: Shift helped Sony's ratio, but it was the PSP that scored the most spots, with 10 games for the portable platform showing this week. Not all of them showing well, mind you, but enough to secure a top 30 spot.
Wednesday, Aug 5
Monster Hunter Slays Dragon Quest IX In Japanese Sales Chart
Who can end Dragon Quest IX's chart topping run in Japan? As expected, it's Monster Hunter 3, the Wii sequel to the bestselling slay and loot series that has seen monstrous success on the PSP. Media Create Weekly Software Sales [Gpara]
Wednesday, Jul 29
Who Can Stop Dragon Quest IX In Japan?
Certainly none of this week's new games! While plenty of new titles hit Japan this past week, none of them came within spitting distance of Dragon Quest IX's continued strong sales. Only next week will we see a real challenger. Media Create Weekly Software Sales [Gpara]
Thursday, Jul 9
Wii Sports Resort Sales Pass 500,000 In Japan
That puts the Wii Sports sequel at more than a half million copies sold, according to Media Create, a feat sure to be made less impressive next week when Dragon Quest IX for the Nintendo DS lands in Japan. Debuting strongly beneath Wii Sports Resort is Sega's Hatsune Miku: Project Diva for th...
Thursday, Jul 2
Namco Bandai Locks Down Dragon Ball License For America
If you live in the lovely continent of North America, expect all Dragon Ball games you buy (or your parents buy you) over the course of the next five years to have a Namco Bandai label on them. The first three games to ship after the Namco Bandai deal are Dragon Ball: Raging Blast for the Xbox 360...
Wednesday, Jun 24
Mii Collecting Is Big In Japan
Nintendo has a new hit on its hands, as Tomodachi Collection for the Nintendo DS tops Japanese sales charts. The Mii collection and interaction software moved more than 100,000 copies in its first week on sale. Read on for the list of Japan's bestselling video games for the week of June 15th t...
Thursday, Jun 18
Japanese Software Chart Has DS Games Thrown Upon It
Infinite Space leads a top ten Media Create game sales chart that's Nintendo DS top heavy, as Level 5's Sloane to MacHale: Nazo no Monogatari and Capcom's Gyakuten Kenji hold steady. The only other new top ten debut is Nintendo's Wii remake of Chibi Robo, re-released under the Wii de Asobu l...
Wednesday, Jun 10
Kingdom Hearts Still Master Of The Domain In Japan
Japanese gamers liked last week's sales chart so much, they bought the exact same games, making for an encore sales presentation. Once again, Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, Gyakuten Kenji and Shin Sangoku Musou 5 Empires win, place, and show. Media Create Weekly Software Sales [Gpara]
Friday, Jun 5
Kingdom Hearts Slips Japanese Sales Chart A Mickey
11. Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (PSP) 12. Suzumiya Haruhi no Chokuretsu (DS) 13. Wii Fit (Wii) 14. Pokémon Fushigi no Dungeon: Sora no Tankenta (DS) 15. Made In Ore (DS) 16. Dragon Ball Z: Story Saiyajin Raishuu (DS) 17. Mario & Luigi RPG3!!! (DS) 18. Bleach: Heat the Soul 6 (PSP)
Thursday, May 28
Japanese Gamers Snap Up More Mass Effect Than You Might Expect
While BioWare's Mass Effect didn't score top placement in this week's Japanese software sales chart—Sloane to MacHale: Nazo no Monogatari did—it had a pretty damn good showing, considering the platform's last place position. Media Create Weekly Software Sales [Gpara]
Wednesday, Oct 29
Opinion: A 16 Second NHK Clip of Dragonball Movie (Very Boring) [Clips]
It's not the movie's fault. This is simply a super short clip from Japanese TV network NHK that shows off...not much of anything. (At least the dragonball looks decent!) The movie is getting released in Japan next spring. The country's reaction to Hollywood's interpretation should be interes...
Monday, Oct 27
First Dragonball Movie Review: "Not A Disaster" [Hollywood]
• Chow Yun Fat as Master Roshi - I was dissapointed with this. I wanted the fucking perverted roshi who fucking grabs breasts and asses like in the anime but alas all of that is fucking gone. Also he acted like Mr. Kesuke Miyagi. You know what I mean. The lines he spoke were fine but I felt he was uncomf...
Thursday, Oct 9
Pokémon Returns To Power On Japanese Software Charts [Simple 2000: The Japanese Software Chart]
Pokémon Platinum is back. It beat out one of Japan's other favorite series, yet another Dynasty Warriors for the PlayStation 2, to return to the number one spot after a week off. There's little else in the way of exciting new debuts, but we unfortunately see Disaster: Day of Crisis slip furth...
Friday, Sep 12
Hands On: Dragon Ball Origins DS
The plot follows the Dragon Ball saga all the way from the very beginning of the series (where Bulma drags Son Goku on her quest to find all seven dragon balls) all the way up to the first Martial Arts World Tournament right after Oolong foils General Pilaf’s attempt to make a wish on the drago...
Hands On: Dragon Ball Z: Infinite World – Gah! Too Many Colons!
Kids today don’t know their anime – it’s all Naruto this and One Piece that. And don’t even get me started on Death Note. Remember when Dragon Ball Z was the only anime we got on Cartoon Network? And it had that really lousy dub with the “It’s over 9000” line that will live in meme infamy?
Thursday, Oct 11
Halo And Goodbye: Simple 2000: The Japanese Software Chart
Halo 3's reign in Japan is over. Last time we got numbers from Media Create, Bungie and Microsoft topped the charts, pushing nearly 60,000 copies of the 360 exclusive during it's debut week. This week? Halo 3 doesn't appear in the top thirty. How quickly they turn on you. Perhaps sensing a great...
Thursday, Jul 12
E307: Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 Hands On
You might recall that I really enjoyed Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2 for the Nintendo Wii back when it launched with the system last November. There were a few minor annoyances with the game, such as having to keep your Wiimote pointed at the screen at all times, but for the most part it wa...
Thursday, Apr 12
Simple 2000: The Japanese Software Sales Chart
21. More Brain Age (DS) 22. Animal Crossing Wild World (DS) 23. Pro Baseball Spirits 4 (PS3) 24. Dragon Quest Monsters Joker (DS) 25. SimCity DS (DS) 26. Kageyama Method - Dennou Hanpuku: Tadashii Kanji Kaki to Rikun (DS) 27. Dragon Ball Z: Harukanaru Goku Legend (DS)
Thursday, Mar 29
Simple 2000: The Japanese Software Sales Chart
This week's Japanese sales charts (actually from the previous week, confusing I know) prove two things. The Japanese still love the DS and they still love Musou games. Oh, they also still like Dragon Ball, but we won't hold that against them.
Thursday, Feb 15
Atari Hitting Up NY Comic Con
Dragon Ball Z Shin Budokai: Another Road takes the intense wireless multiplayer battles and thrilling combative gameplay made popular in last year's hit and adds an improved fighting system with over 50 new fighting skills and ultimate attacks and will send players into a completely n...
