Simple 2000: The Japanese Software Chart: King Wii Fit

For the week of December 3rd through the 9th, the sales charts stacked up like so.

01. Wii Fit (Wii) - 150,000 / 411,000
02. Mario Party DS (DS) - 107,000 / 646,000
03. Tales of Innocence (DS) - 104,000 / NEW
04. Hot Shots Golf Portable 2 (PSP) - 87,000 / NEW
05. Professor Layton and Pandora's Box (DS) - 76,000 / 370,000
06. Dragon Quest IV (DS) - 63,000 / 795,000
07. Lost Odyssey (Xbox 360) - 55,000 / NEW
08. Power Pro Kun Pocket 10 (DS) - 54,000 / NEW
09. Super Mario Galaxy (Wii) - 45,000 / 476,000
10. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Wii) - 45,000 / 148,000

[wiizy]

wii fit and wii back on top.... sonic and mario is doing good too....great to see

[PS360WII]

another month and DQIV should be up to a million. Hurry up with the localization please

[ALItheWISE]

Take that MK Red....LOL... He hates Wii Fit for sum reason...lol

[ruibing]

I don't like the Wii Fit either with good reason. It seems like nothing more than an excuse to stay indoors. I'm not going to say going to the gym is better alternative since most people who say that don't really go to the gym. But what ever happened to jogging in the neighborhood or local park for half an hour?

People are buying this either for themselves or their kids thinking that "fun + exercise = more exercise". But in reality it is not much more different than buying that hi tech treadmill for yourself, adding on some mp3 player, and then adding on a cable tv. If these people didn't have the motivation to have some real exercise in the first place, neither will this gadget.

[lonestarmt]

its silly, you can do almost all of that with a simple step table. Wii fit will just about has much work for you as eye toy kinetic.

[MK_Red]

I take it ;)
But really, the reason I hate Wii Fit is because it's a scale, masqurading as a game.

[Bladestar]

Lost Oddesey still selling well...

[lonestarmt]

"While Mistwalker's latest latest RPG didn't have a first week showing on par with Blue Dragon, it did pretty well."

Sorry it isn't still doing well. This is the same report as before. This is what it sold the first week, read the quote above. Sadly LO won't be tearing up the rpg world.

[PS360WII]

no not tearing up but still having a presence ^^

[ruibing]

See what gets to me more than the fact that MS is basically hogging a JRPG studio to itself is how 360 owners don't appreciate them. For them to buy more of Blue Dragon than Lost Odyssey boggles the mind.

I tried Blue Dragon on my friend's 360 for a few hours, it was one of those generic RPGs made catered for the masses. It's like watching a generic anime for children that was horribly dubbed. I really think Lost Odyssey has the studio finally establishing its roots, yet 360 owners would still rather play Halo 3 (not including Mass Effect since I'm a Bioware fan).

[lilwingman]

Still? This is the first week of its release... it should be selling reasonably during its first week.

[lonestarmt]

yup not a good sign for LO. Its its first week which in japan normally means really high game sales, since they ten to decrease rapidily and it did worse than blue dragon its first week. Not a good sign. Poor mistwalker

[OOG FunK]

lmao im sure RED will love this lol

[MK_Red]

Well, at TGS, the lines of people that were waiting to try Wii Fit were longer than MGS4's so, it was expected and sadly (IMO), the same thing might happen in other markets.

[waitbeyond]

Wow, Wii and DS dominate this week Japanese software market. Good to see another 360 game break into the top 10 list.

[tatotiburon]

no PS3 games?...damn but wtf BR movies are #1 in sells ja!

[Bladestar]

Funny... how Sony fanboys are trying to make it seem as if LO is doing bad... in terms of sales... yet they have no games on the top 20!
and only 2 game on the entire list.

Maybe what you guys don't want to accept is that Japan is owned by Nintendo... and any other system selling as much as LO is a big deal.. specially when hyped games like Encharted bombed in Japan.

[desolationstorm]

i just cant beleive how ds and wii dominated the software sales this week. Anyway I really seriously doubt that people are like yay wii fit now I dont have to go outdoors. I think its more like parents being like well my kids gonna play games either way they should at least move around.

Either way I think the majority of the pople buying it are doing it because its a differnt way to interact with video games.

[cooke15]

Wii is just a fad though right guys? month after month it outsells the compeition but its just fad. lol i love it.