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Japanese Software: Namco Bandai's God Eater On Top In Japan
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February 12, 2010

Japanese Software: Namco Bandai's God Eater On Top In Japan

Namco Bandai's PlayStation Portable adventure game God Eater topped the weekly Japanese sales charts for the week ended February 7, bumping down last week's leader, Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Reverie, to number two.

Media-Create reported Friday that Namco Bandai's PSP adventure game God Eater sold 295,000 units for the week, debuting at number one. The game supports local four-player co-op, and is developed by Ape Escape Academy developer Shift.

God Eater topped last week's number one, Square Enix's Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Reverie, a Nintendo DS remake of the 1995 Super Famicom original. This week, Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Reverie sold 190,000 units, down from the phenomenal 906,000 units sold a week ago.

Aside from God Eater, two other new games broke into the top ten this week: Square Enix's PlayStation 3 game Star Ocean: The Last Hope -- International and the PSP game Pop'n Music Portable from Dance Dance Revolution Konami.

Dropping out of the top 10 from last week were Namco's Ar tonelico III: Sekai Shuuen no Hikigane wa Shoujo no Uta ga Hajiku for PS3, Sega's Resonance of Fate for Xbox 360 and Valkyria Chronicles 2 for PSP, and Sony's MAG for PS3.

Below are Media Create's Japanese sales charts for the week ended February 7:

LW	TW	Title	Publisher	Platform	Weekly Sales
NEW	1	God Eater	Namco Bandai	PSP	295,000
1	2	Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Reverie	Square Enix	DS	190,000
NEW	3	Star Ocean: The Last Hope – International	Square Enix	PS3	72,000
3	4	New Super Mario Bros. Wii	Nintendo	Wii	62,000
5	5	Friend Collection	Ninendo	DS	38,000
6	6	Wii Fit Plus	Nintendo	Wii	27,000
2	7	Resonance of Fate	Sega	PS3	25,000
NEW	8	Pop'n Music Portable	Konami	PSP	19,000
7	9	Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep	Square Enix	PSP	15,000
11	10	Wii Sports Resort	Nintendo	Wii	13,000

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