DS Game Sales Data in Japan

According to Famitsu, the 5th best selling game in Japan from 2/4/2008 to 2/10/2008 is "Mario and Sonics at the Olympic Games" with over 24,000 copies sold during that period. The accumulated sales number over 200,000.

A new adventure game called "L the Prologue to Death Note Rasen No Wana" came in at 7th. In case you don't know, "Death Note" is a very popular comic in Japan. It talks about a notebook dropped by demon. The owner of the notebook can write any person's name on it and that person will die. One of the most outstanding characters is "L". He is a genius detective who vows to find out the killer behind the large amount of unknown deaths of criminals. And the real killer is actually the owner of the "Death Note". "L" wins over many comic fans with his genius way of solving problems and eccentric behavior. This game is actually about a side story centered around him and it has no relationship with "Death Note" at all.

Mario Party DS came in at ninth. It is going strong and had sold 1.5 million copies already in Japan.

In this reported week, 3 game from DS is in the top 10 spots. 11 of the top 30 game sales spots belong to DS games while 7 belong to Wii games.