No real surprise to see Animal Crossing topping the charts - though perhaps it is slightly surprising that it beat out a DS remake of one of Japan’s favourite games, Chrono Trigger. Guess that proves the Animal Crossing phenomenon is showing no signs of dying down any time soon. Given the success of the DS game, I think this one should sell and sell - though it could be that word-of-mouth is somewhere shy of ’stellar’ when people find out just how similar it is to Wild World.
Square-Enix’s DS remake of the superb Chrono Trigger is in second spot, while Sega’s Saka DS: Touch and Go breaks into the top five too, nudging Kirby down to number six.
Animal Crossing’s week one sales make it already the fourteenth best-selling Wii title to date. Wii Music isn’t even selling fairly steadily any more - a month and a half after release and it’s down to 9000 sales this week. Ouch.
In hardware sales, the DSi outstripped all, with sales of 88,843, though there was a significant spike for the PSP, which rose to 61,226. Wii sales were up to 35,298, while the DS Lite outsold the PS3 - 18,580 to 17, 436. Yikes.
Full details below, stat fans.
01. [WII] Animal Crossing: City Folk (Nintendo) 305,000 / NEW
02. [NDS] Chrono Trigger DS (Square Enix) 271,000 / NEW
03. [PSP] Gundam vs. Gundam (Namco Bandai) 267,000 / NEW
04. [360] The Last Remnant (Square Enix) 101,000 / NEW
05. [NDS] Saka DS: Touch and Go (SEGA) 72,000 / NEW
06. [NDS] Hoshi no Kirby: Ultra Super Deluxe (Nintendo) 55,000 / 418,000
07. [NDS] Wagamama Fashion Girls Mode (Nintendo) 25,000 / 209,000
08. [NDS] Rhythm Tengoku Gold (Nintendo) 25,000 / 1,184,000
09. [NDS] Pokémon Platinum (Pokémon) 24,000 / 1,941,000
10. [PS3] Way of the Samurai 3 (Spike) 20,000 / 100,000
DSi - 88,843
PSP - 61,226
Wii - 35,298
DSL - 18,580
PS3 - 17,436
X360 - 15,474
PS2 - 5,281
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