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.

  1. Metal Saga: Sajin no Kusari (Success, PS2) - 63,219 units
  2. Kenka Banchou (Spike, PS2) - 39,195 units
  3. Soccer Life 2 (Banpresto, PS2) - 35,697 units
  4. Touhokudai Gaku Mirai Kagakugijutsu... (Nintendo, DS) - 32,589 units
  5. Mahou Sensei Negima! Private Lesson... (Marvelous, GBA) - 24,167 units
  6. Tear Ring Saga Series: Berwick Saga (Enterbrain, PS2) - 11,453 units
  7. Namco X Capcom (Namco, PS2) - 11,275 units
  8. Killer 7 (Capcom, PS2) - 11,253 units
  9. Nintendogs: Shiba & Friends (Nintendo, NDS) - 10,194 units
  10. Shoujo Yoshitsuneden 2 (Well Made, PS2) - 9,463 units

  1. Nintendo DS - 32,765 units
  2. PlayStation 2 - 27,741 units
  3. PlayStation Portable - 21,476 units
  4. GameBoy Advance SP - 8,522 units
  5. GameCube - 2,558 units
  6. GameBoy Advance - 623 units
  7. 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.

  1. Game Freak -- 3,999,760 -- 3
  2. Nintendo -- 3,558,079 -- 13
  3. Level 5 -- 3,231,288 -- 1
  4. Capcom -- 2,244,576 -- 9
  5. Konami -- 1,867,314 -- 3
  6. Omega Force -- 1,696,286 -- 3
  7. ArtePiazza / Matrix -- 1,611,155 -- 1
  8. Namco -- 1,059,371 -- 6
  9. Sammy -- 902,105 -- 1
  10. 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.