Game Boy Advance (GBA) and PS2 continued to dominate Japan videog...
Game Boy Advance (GBA) and PS2 continued to dominate Japan videogame sales chart in week ended July 20. Data provider Media Create (MC) said combined GBA and front-lit GBA SP market share was 45.37%, with 9.47% from standard GBA…
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and 35.9% from SP. PS2 had 39.52% share. Trailing were GameCube (11.71%), Xbox (1.20%), SwanCrystal (1.16%), PS one (0.86%), WonderSwanColor (0.16%). In videogame software, MC said “total sales for the top 100 this week amounts to over 916,000 units… The release of Jikkyo Power Pro Baseball 10 [from Konami] as well as other new releases and this week earmarking the start of the school summer holiday have contributed to the favorable performance of the market this week. [It] has surpassed the weekly average [for the] first time in about 4 months since the release of Super Robot Battle Part 2 in the 4th week of March.” MC said “there were 24 new titles [that] made it into the rankings this week.” Among them, it said, Jikkyo for PS2 and GameCube saw “combined sales of [about] 271,000 units,” while Mega Man X7 from Capcom followed with 74,000 units and R-Type Final from Irem Software Engineering sold 42,000. MC said: “The ratio of new releases to the total sales is also high at 58.99%, and it is clearly indicating the strong lineups of the new releases this week. However, comparing this [week’s] performance with that of the same period last year (with market total of approximately 1.5 million units) and of 2001 (with 2.26 million units), it shows undoubtedly the continuously stagnant market situation for the time of year. Amid growing calls for the contraction of the summer selling seasons lately, it is expected that there will be further cooling of the market compared to” past years. MC said PS2 version of Jikkyo was #1- rented title, followed by PS2 version of Mega. Three other PS2 titles made top 10: R-Type at #5, Kino no Tabi: The Beautiful World from Media Works at #9, Bomberman Land 2 from Hudson at #10. Rounding out top 10 were Super Mario Advance 4 from Nintendo for GBA at #3, Kirby Air Ride from Nintendo for GameCube at #4, GameCube version of Jikkyo at #6, Korokke 2 from Konami for GBA at #7, Boktai: The Sun is in Your Hand from Konami for BA at #8.