Old News: Pokemon Continues Japanese Dominance

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Another week at the top for Gold and Silver remakes.

October 30, 2009 - A flood of new releases last week didn't phase the Media Create top three in the least bit. For the week covering 10/19 to 10/25, Pokemon Heart Gold & Soul Silver, Wii Fit Plus, and Friend Collection continued their dominance, with Friend Collection inching closer to the 1.5 million mark.

New releases for the week included Rune Factory 3, Forza Motorsport 3, FIFA 10, and Dynasty Warriors 6 Special. While FIFA did place in the top 10, the real star of the Japanese soccer season will come in November with Winning eleven.

Here's the top full top ten, with life to date sales in parenthesis.

• Pokemon Heart Gold & Soul Silver (Pokemon, DS): 118,000(2,756,000)
• Wii Fit Plus (Nintendo, Wii): 88,000 (699,000)
• Friend Collection (Nintendo, DS): 52,000 (1,466,000)
• Inazuma Eleven 2 Fire & Blizzard (Level-5, DS): 49,000 (486,000)
• Rune Factory 3 (Marvelous, DS): 41,000
• Forza Motorsport 3 (Microsoft, X360): 32,000
• FIFA 10 World Class Soccer (EA, PS3): 20,000
• Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo, Wii): 19,000 (1,319,000)
• Uncharted 2 (Sony, PS3): 18,000 (72,000)
• Dynasty Warriors 6 Special (Sony, PSP): 18,000

Hardware positions remained mostly unchanged this week, although Wii dropped off a bit compared to the PS3. PSP go sees release on Sunday, so it's likely that the PSP platform will dominate for a few weeks -- at least until Nintendo DSi LL hits in late November.

Here's the full hardware chart, with last week's totals in parenthesis.

• DSi: 42,199 (49,145)
• PSP: 32,865 (33,508)
• PS3: 29,977 (30,231)
• Wii: 25,917 (29,965)
• DS Lite: 6,550 (2,590)
• X360: 4,470 (3,662)
• PS2: 1,951 (2,109)

Next week's charts should be packed with newcomers. Bayonetta and Tekken 6 both saw release this week. Sunday's PSP go release will be accompanied by the highly anticipated Persona 3 Portable

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