Weekly Japanese Sales: 01/23 - 01/29

New shipments of Nintendo DS arrive... yet it's still not enough to satisfy the demand.

Software: 01. PS2 - Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII (Square-Enix): 392,169 (392,169) 02. NDS - Eigo ga Nigate na Otona no DS Training: Eigo Zuke/English Training (Nintendo): 242,443 (242,443) 03. PS2 - Shin Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams (Capcom): 226,334 (226,334) 04. NDS - Motto Otona no DS Training/Brain Training 2 (Nintendo): 110,539 (1,056,962) 05. NDS - Oideyo Dobutsu no Mori/Animal Crossing DS (Nintendo): 79,515 (1,724,129) 06. NDS - Otona no DS Training/Brain Training (Nintendo): 70,724 (1,441,060) 07. PS2 - Ar tonelico: Sekai no Owari de Utai Tsudukeru Shoujo (Banpresto): 54,289 (54,289) 08. NDS - Bleach DS: Souten ni Kakeru Unmei (Sega): 35,977 (35,977) 09. NDS - Mario Kart DS (Nintendo): 29,366 (1,057,556) 10. PS2 - Winning Eleven 9 Bonus Pack (Konami): 27,943 (27,943)

Hardware: NDS - 106,081 PSP - 30,657 PS2 - 24,580 GBASP - 5,946 GBM - 3,042 GCN - 3,036 X360 - 1,976 GBA - 179 XBX - 128

YTD/LTD NDS - 316,259/5,963,211 PSP - 259,371/2,942,333 NDS Lead - 56,888/3,020,878

Square's latest FFVII spin-off takes the top spot this week with Nintendo's new generations game teaching Japanese how to speak English coming in second. Mostly new releases made the chart this week, including Treasure's latest action-fighter Bleach DS based off the popular anime in Japan. Unfortunately due to low shipments of the game, Bleach DS did not meet demand and sold less then it would have if Sega had just produced more copies to ship to retailers at launch. New shipments of the Nintendo DS had also finally reached retailers for this week. However as previously reported, they few off the shelves so quickly that the DS was sold out yet again by the end of the month, and given that the Chinese New Year is on the horizon, who knows if Nintendo and Sega will be able to satisfy the remaining demand for the DS and Bleach DS until after the holidays.

src: Media Create

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  Hungry Hungry Hungry, everybodys HUNGRY FOR SOME DS'S ZOMG

  Trent, 30-11--0001 at 00:00
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  Hungry Hungry Ja-Pa-Nee-Eeese. Get more DS's made Nintendo you slowpokes :P I'd love to go to Japan, like 1/3 of Japan have a DS.

  skarma, 30-11--0001 at 00:00
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  Nintendo proves, its to busy making the lite.

  Trent, 30-11--0001 at 00:00
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  Wow, that's crazy! Good to see Bleach sell so well though.

  NPC, 30-11--0001 at 00:00
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  i wish bleach was out over here..

  darkshadow61, 30-11--0001 at 00:00