1)Fire Emblem: Shin Monshou no Nazo Hikari to Kage no Eiyuu (DS) - Nintendo - 136,000

2) Dragon Quest Monsters: Battle Road Victory (Wii) - Square-Enix - 136,000

3) Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 2010 (PS3) - Konami - 120,000

4) Wii Party (Wii) - Nintendo - 113,000 / 348,000

5) Last Ranker (PSP) - Capcom - 61,000

6) Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 2010 (PSP) - Konami - 52,000

7) Inazuma Eleven 3 (DS) - Level 5 - 46,000 / 649,000

8) White Knight Chronicles 2 (PS3) - Sony - 34,000 / 210,000

9) Harvest Moon: Twin Villages (DS) - Marvelous - 20,000 / 84,000

10) Momotarou Dentetsu Tag Match: Yuujou - Doryoku - Shouri no Maki! (PSP) -  17,000

Not quite what I expected from the early data, but a good week overall. Will be interesting to see our hw / sw figures when they come in shortly.

I have to say the results are a little strange this week. For the preview, every DQ game since 2007 has had the same week one market share but this DQ for Wii they had like 50% more share than usual. Some weird stuff with Fire Emblem which is similar and Momotarou. Those franchises are usually pretty consistent...but not this week.

That's a very strong opening for a Fire Emblem title.. I'm shocked.

Great slaes for Fire Emblem and Dragon Quest, I wonder if the opton to switch off permanent deaths in the game as a role in this number?

Wow low DQ sales, but it is a 3 year old spinoff port. I still expected 200k at least

They have shipped 300k units of DQ, so it will eventually reach that number, with or without a price-cut.

dragon quest IX (DS): 2,338,221 opening week in japan (VGC).

dragon quest monsters joker (DS): 627,022 opening week in japan (VGC).

looks like the old adage remains true.... japan is handhelds.

Console DQ spinoff 1st week sales for comparison (Famitsu only, sorry)... I was kinda surprised how low the last console DQM sold (which was also an enhanced port), it's identical to Battle Road V...

• Torneko no Daibouken 2 (PS) 359k (578k)
• Dragon Quest Monsters I*II (PS) 132k (292k)

• Torneko no Daibouken 3 (PS2) 304k (514k)
• Itadaki Street Special (PS2) 186k (380k) (19k UH)
• Shonen Yangus (PS2) 152k (302k)

• Dragon Quest Swords (Wii) 302k (489k) (47k UH)

So how does this compare to the PS2 version that was released?

Ok sorry i read your first sentence, and obviously this has performed similar to the previous one which means that it isnt all that bad after all. Maybe we overestimated its performance?

Square-Enix never even listed it as a major title for the fiscal year - it just kind of came out of the blue. I expected more, but that doesn't mean they're dissatisfied - some games only get one shipment.