Epic Mickey Lands In Japan, But Is Less Epic Than Kirby

Disney’s Epic Mickey made its (rather late) to the Wii in Japan last week, debuting in the top ten, but not in the top five. Another adorable mascot, Nintendo’s Kirby, fared yono all app much better overseas. The yono all app week’s real winner, however, was Sega’s J-League Pro Soccer Club o Tsukurou! 7 Euro Plus for PSP. The soccer sim moved more than 100,000 copies during its first week on the Japanese market, according to sales tracker Media Create. Kirby, therefore, had to settle for second, with Kirby Mass Attack for Nintendo DS selling just shy of 75,000 units.(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c&cid=872d12ce-453b-4870-845f-955919887e1b'; cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c" }).render("79703296e5134c75a2db6e1b64762017"); }); Other top ten debuts include Toriko: Gourmet Survival for PSP and w69 slot All Kamen Rider: Rider Generation for DS. Developer Prope, the studio founded by Yuji Naka, managed to score a top ten showing with its latest Wii game Family Fishing, but did not light up the charts. Here are the top 20 bestselling games in Japan for the week of August 1 to 7. 01. J-League Pro Soccer Club o Tsukurou! 7 Euro Plus (PSP) – 101,022 / NEW 02. Kirby Mass Attack (DS) – 74,915 / NEW 03. Toriko: Gourmet Survival (PSP) – 62,882 / NEW 04. Rhythm Heaven Wii (Wii) – 62,597 / 262,709 05. All Kamen Rider: Rider Generation (DS) – 52,575 / NEW 06. Epic Mickey (Wii) – 27,257 / NEW 07. Family Fishing (Wii) – 22,365 / NEW 08. Wii Sports Resort (Wii) – 18,945 / 460,834 09. Taiko no Tatsujin Portable DX (PSP) – 14,872 / 152,697 10. Devil Survivor 2 (DS) – 12,904 / 75,912 11. Storm Lover: Summer Love!! (PSP) 12. Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 2011 (PS3) 13. Queen’s Gate: Spiral Chaos (PSP) 14. Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 2011 (PSP) 15. Inazuma Eleven Strikers (Wii) 16. Elminage III: Ankoku no Shito to Yaiyou no Kyuuden (PSP) 17. Half Minute Hero II (PSP) 18. Sengoku Basara: Heroes Chronicle (PSP) 19. Wii Play Motion (Wii) 20. Puyo Puyo! (DS) On the hardware side, Japan was PlayStation country last week, with the PSP and PS3 ruling the charts. PSPgo, notsomuch. Zero people bought one last week. Japanese gamers are now cooling their jets on a Nintendo 3DS purchase. The stereoscopic 3D system was outperformed by the Nintendo DSi XL last week. PSP – 35,619 PlayStation 3 – 18,338 Wii – 17,004 Nintendo DSi LL – 4,176 Nintendo 3DS – 4,132 Nintendo DSi – 3,900 PlayStation 2 – 1,529 Xbox 360 – 1,406 Nintendo DS Lite – 102 PSP go – 0 You can contact Michael McWhertor, the author of this post, at [email protected]. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and lurking around our #tips page.