The Japanese sales charts seem slowly to be turning back to normal after the excitement of the holiday season, with the charts again dominated by PlayStation 2 titles. However with a paucity of new releases, as with elsewhere in the world, overall sales have been low. Even those few new releases as there have been, have performed relatively weakly with the special edition of Konami’s Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner making less impact than was expected.
In hardware sales things have also returned to a pre-Christmas norm with the PlayStation 2 leading the pack with a 45.90% market share, combined Game Boy Advance sales at 37.50%, GameCube at 14.90% (down significantly from 28.33% at the beginning of the month), Xbox at 0.95% and PS one at 0.48%.
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Title
Publisher
Formats
Release Date
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1
Gran Turismo 4: "Prologue"
SCE
PS2
2003.12.04
2
RE
Rockman.EXE 4: Blue Moon
SCE
GBA
2003.12.12
3
NE
Anubis: Zone of the Enders Special Edition
Nintendo
PS2
2004.01.15
4
2
Hot Shots Golf 4
SCE
PS2
2003.11.27
5
RE
Rockman.EXE 4: Red Sun
Namco
GBA
2003.12.12
6
6
Momotaro Railway 12
Hudson
PS2
2003.12.11
7
5
Taiko no Tatsujin: 3rd Generation
Namco
PS2
2003.10.30
8
RE
Naruto: Gekitou Ninja Taisen! 2
Tomy
GC
2003.12.25
9
3
Mario Kart: Double Dash!!
Nintendo
GC
2003.11.07
10
8
Full Metal Alchemist
Square Enix
PS2
2003.12.25
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