Media Create has released Japanese software and hardware sales for the week of June 6 through June 12. The first number represents software sold for the period while the second displays total software sold to date.
- Metal Saga: Sajin no Kusari (Success, PS2) - 63,219 units
- Kenka Banchou (Spike, PS2) - 39,195 units
- Soccer Life 2 (Banpresto, PS2) - 35,697 units
- Touhokudai Gaku Mirai Kagakugijutsu... (Nintendo, DS) - 32,589 units
- Mahou Sensei Negima! Private Lesson... (Marvelous, GBA) - 24,167 units
- Tear Ring Saga Series: Berwick Saga (Enterbrain, PS2) - 11,453 units
- Namco X Capcom (Namco, PS2) - 11,275 units
- Killer 7 (Capcom, PS2) - 11,253 units
- Nintendogs: Shiba & Friends (Nintendo, NDS) - 10,194 units
- Shoujo Yoshitsuneden 2 (Well Made, PS2) - 9,463 units
- Nintendo DS - 32,765 units
- PlayStation 2 - 27,741 units
- PlayStation Portable - 21,476 units
- GameBoy Advance SP - 8,522 units
- GameCube - 2,558 units
- GameBoy Advance - 623 units
- Xbox - 131 units
Furthermore, Famitsu has published a list of the top 10 most successful game developers in Japan, rated by the number of software sold in 2004. Translation is provided courtesy of The-MagicBox. Note that Game Freak is the developer of Pokemon.
- Game Freak -- 3,999,760 -- 3
- Nintendo -- 3,558,079 -- 13
- Level 5 -- 3,231,288 -- 1
- Capcom -- 2,244,576 -- 9
- Konami -- 1,867,314 -- 3
- Omega Force -- 1,696,286 -- 3
- ArtePiazza / Matrix -- 1,611,155 -- 1
- Namco -- 1,059,371 -- 6
- Sammy -- 902,105 -- 1
- Hudson -- 833,318 -- 2
In other news, Nintendo will release a Pokemon XD + GameCube Bundle Pack in Japan on August 4 for 16800 yen, according to The-MagicBox. The bundle will include a Pokemon XD Edition of the GameCube console, along with the Pokemon XD video game and a Memory Card 59.