Pokemon Co. took the top spot in the Japanese software sales chart this week, with the debut of Battle & Get! Pokemon Typing DS on Nintendo DS.
According to numbers released by tracking firm Media Create (as translated on the NeoGAF forums), last week's robot battler Dai-2-Ji Super Robot Wars Z: Hakai-hen dropped down from first to third place with 44,973 sales, while the Pokemon Typing game sold 59,363 units.
PSP and PlayStation 3 title Pro Baseball Spirits 2011 continued to sell well, dropping only a couple of places to fourth and fifth for the respective platforms.
Square Enix's Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 - Professional jumped up a place, selling 45,397 units to reach second place, but down 47 percent in sales from last week.
Meanwhile, the chart also saw several other new entries, including SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs 4, which only managed to sell 12,613 units, and Otomedius X from Konami, which jumped in at number 10 with 10,502 sales.
Other new additions also include Hudson's Original Story from Fairy Tail: Gekitotsu! Kardia Daiseidou, Prototype's Clannad and Bandai Namco's Detective Conan: Aoki Houseki no Rinbukyoku.
Media Create's complete top 20 sales chart, covering boxed console games sold in Japan from April 18 through April 24, follows.
| LW | TW | Title | Publisher | Platform | Weekly Sales |
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| NEW | 1 | Battle & Get! Pokemon Typing DS | Pokemon Co. | NDS | 59,363 | | 3 | 2 | Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 - Professional | Square Enix | NDS | 45,397 | | 1 | 3 | Dai-2-Ji Super Robot Wars Z: Hakai-hen | Bandai Namco | PSP | 44,973 | | 4 | 4 | Pro Baseball Spirits 2011 | Konami | PSP | 27,931 | | 2 | 5 | Pro Baseball Spirits 2011 | Konami | PS3 | 24,365 | | NEW | 6 | Detective Conan: Aoki Houseki no Rinbukyoku | Namco | NDS | 19,786 | | NEW | 7 | GachiTora! Abarenbou Kyoushi in High School | Spike | PSP | 13,560 | | NEW | 8 | SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs 4 | SCE | PS3 | 12,613 | | 6 | 9 | Pilotwings Resort | Nintendo | 3DS | 10,675 | | NEW | 10 | Otomedius X | Konami | 360 | 10,502 | | 5 | 11 | Persona 2: Innocent Sin | Atlas | PSP | 10,400 | | NEW | 12 | Monster Hunter Frontier Online (Forward .1 Premium Package) | Capcom | 360 | 10,393 | | 13 | 13 | Monster Hunter Freedom 3 | Capcom | PSP | 8,558 | | NEW | 14 | Original Story from Fairy Tail: Gekitotsu! Kardia Daiseidou | Hudson | NDS | 8,376 | | 8 | 15 | Earth Defence Force 2 Portable | DS Publisher | PSP | 8,207 | | NEW | 16 | Clannad | Prototype | PS3 | 7,466 | | 12 | 17 | Final Fantasy IV: The Complete Collection | Square Enix | PSP | 7,369 | | 11 | 18 | Amagami (EBKore+) | Kadokawa | PSP | 7,016 | | 16 | 19 | Wii Party | Nintendo | Wii | 6,748 | | 15 | 20 | Nintendogs + Cats: French Bulldog / Shiba / Toy Poodle & New Friends | Nintendo | 3DS | 6,303 |
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