Pokemon Black/White holds on to Japanese top-spot

Yakuza: Black Panther straight in at two as DS triumphs in hardware chart

News by Dan Pearson Contributor

Published on Sept. 30, 2010

Pokemon Black and White has continued its dominance of the Japanese software chart, selling another 828,000 copies to bring its two-week sales total to 3,386,358 units.

The closest challenger this week was SEGA's Yakuza: Black Panther, which sold 174,213 units and helped boost the PSP back into second place on the hardware chart.

Sales of the DSi, Dsi LL, and PSP all increased this week, but Xbox 360 figures almost halved after the brief boost provided by the release of Halo: Reach. Reach itself has now dropped out of the top twenty after a fourth-place debut last week.

Software sales chart - last week's sales figures in brackets where appropriate.

1. Pokemon Black & White (Pokemon, DS): 828,580 (3,386,358)
2. Black Panther Yakuza New Chapter (Sega, PSP): 174,213
3. Wii Party (Nintendo, Wii): 43,077 (1,040,102)
4. Durarara!! 3way Standoff (Ascii, PSP): 21,566
5. Monhan Diary Poka Poka Felyne Village (Capcom, PSP): 18,652 (447,329)
6. One Piece Gigant Battle! (Namco Bandai, DS): 14,339 (174,316)
7. Front Mission Evolved (Square Enix, PS3): 10,421 (61,504)
8. Koihime Musou Otome Ryouran Sangokushi Engi Go-hen (Yeti, PSP): 10,240
9. Yu-Gi-Oh Fighters Tag Force 5 (Konami, PSP): 9,805 (55,684)
10. Winning Post 7 2010 (Tecmo Koei, PS3): 9,714
11. Taiko Drum Master DS (Namco Bandai, DS): 9,653 (225,166)
12. Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Nintendo, Wii): 9,414 (834,955)
13. Wii Fit Plus (Nintendo, Wii): 7,720 (2,074,733)
14. Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G PSP the Best Re-release Version (Capcom, PSP): 7,585 (430,362)
15. Inazuma Eleven 3 (Level-5, DS): 7,526 (843,883)
16. Winning Post 7 2010 (Tecmo Koei, PSP): 6,355
17. Painting Classroom DS (Nintendo, DS): 6,314 (180,030)
18. Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo, Wii): 6,191 (2,937,740)
19. Friend Collection (Nintendo, DS): 5,999 (3,424,869)
20. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo, Wii): 5,891 (3,996,368)