Super Mario Galaxy Tops Charts

Japanese statistics compiler, Media Create has released it video games sales figures for October 29 to November 4, and - would you believe it - Super Mario Galaxy has zoomed its way to the Number 1 spot?!

No, really it has. You can find out why by reading SPOnG's review right over here.

In the meantime, let's look at why the rest of the competition even bothered getting out of its video-gaming bed to do battle with the portly plumber. The top 10 games in Japan last week were... (total sales are in brackets where applicable):

1: Super Mario Galaxy - (Wii) - 251,000 (New Entry)
2: Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation - (Xbox 360) - 77,000 (New Entry)
3: Final Fantasy Tactics A2 - (DS) - 51,000 (193,000)
4: Super Robot Wars Scramble Commander The 2nd - (PS2) - 21,000 (New Entry)
5: DS Bungaku Zenshuu - (DS) - 18,000 (72,000)
6: DS Nishimura Kyotaro Suspense Shin Tantei Series: Kyoto Atami Zekkai no Kotou - Satsui no Wana - (DS) - 18,000 (115,000)
7: Wii Sports - (Wii) - 16,000 (2,182,000)
8: Flash Focus: Vision Training in Minutes a Day - (DS) - 15,000 (676,000)
9: World Soccer Winning Eleven DS Goal x Goal! - (DS) - 15,000 (44,000)
10: Pokémon Mysterious Dungeon: Time Expedition Party - (DS) - 14,000 (552,000)

So, out of that Top 10 we have eight Nintendo titles, leaving Xbox 360 and PlayStation 2 to share the remaining... do the maths... right, two (2) places.

Also notable from that is that Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation on Xbox 360 debuts at Number 2 while Sony's venerable PS2 and its Super Robot Wars Scramble Commander The 2nd comes in at 4. So, good news for Microsoft - and maybe Sony fans in Japan are playing all their PS2 games on their backwardly compatible PS3s?