This Week In Sales: Pirates And More Samurai, This Time From Irem

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The week of September 6th – 12th saw four new games in the top-20 chart, with One Piece: Gigant Battle leading the way at the #1 spot. Interestingly, at #10 is Sengoku Efuda Yuugi: Hototogisu Tairan, a strategy card-based battle game developed by Irem, set in Japan’s warring states period.

 

Sengoku Efuda Yuugi’s play mechanics are designed by Matsuo Goro, the Japanese champion of the Magic: The Gathering series. Irem, known best for creating the R-Type series of shoot-em-ups, are also presently working on Disaster Report 4, which is on display at ongoing Tokyo Game Show.

 

The top-20 sales ranking for the week of September 6th – 12th is as follows:

 

Lw Tw Title Tw. Sales Tot. Sales Sys. Publisher
New 01. One Piece: Gigant Battle 131,854 New DS Namco Bandai
01. 02. MonHun Nikki Poka Poka Airu Mura 55,569 400,050 PSP Capcom
02. 03. Wii Party 44,908 960,478 Wii Nintendo
04. 04. Ace Combat: Joint Assault 12,667 98,012 PSP Namco Bandai
03. 05. Metroid: Other M 11,239 56,637 Wii Nintendo
06. 06. Super Mario Galaxy 2 9,827 817,363 Wii Nintendo
07. 07. Art Academy 8,172 167,179 DS Nintendo
New 08. Vitamin X Evolution Plus 7,975 New PSP D3 Publisher
08. 09. Inazuma Eleven 3: Challenge the World! Spark / Bomber 7,640 828,379 DS Level 5
New 10. Sengoku Efuda Yuugi: Hototogisu Tairan 7,407 New PSP Irem
13. 11. Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (PSP The Best) 7,360 415,663 PSP Capcom
12. 12. Wii Fit Plus 6,910 2,060,081 Wii Nintendo
16. 13. Taiko no Tatsujin Dororon! The Great Yokai Battle 6,870 206,784 DS Namco Bandai
09. 14. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Bargain Edition) 6,779 15,941 PS3 Square Enix
05. 15. Bleach: Heat the Soul 7 6,552 31,926 PSP Sony
New 16. UFC Undisputed 2010 6,524 New DS Yukes
11. 17. Tomodachi Collection 6,429 3,412,354 DS Nintendo
18. 18. Mario Kart Wii 5,532 2,926,201 Wii Nintendo
17. 19. Sengoku Basara 3 4,318 371,780 PS3 Capcom
14. 20. Sengoku Basara 3 4,281 96,406 Wii Capcom

 

Sales data sourced from Media-Create and 4Gamer.


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Ishaan specializes in game design/sales analysis. He's the former managing editor of Siliconera and wrote the book "The Legend of Zelda - A Complete Development History". He also used to moonlight as a professional manga editor. These days, his day job has nothing to do with games, but the two inform each other nonetheless.