Nintendo Wii was sold 7 million units in Japan.

According to ENTERBRAIN, Wii was sold 7 million units in Japan between December 2nd, 2006 and November 23th, 2008.

Wii was already sold 5 million units until January 20th, 2008. I heard that this is earlier then PS2 sales.
And, Wii is the best-selling the game machine (without the portable machines) recently all over the world.

A lot of wii will be sold from now because some famous games which work in it will be sold(for example Monster Hunter 3).

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Grand Theft Auto 4 was the best-selling video game for a week!

According to Famitsu, Grand Theft Auto 4 became the best-selling video game from October 27th through November 2nd.
(Famitsu is the most famous in game magazine in Japan. It is publshed by ENTERBRAIN.)

Rank	Title	Game Machine	Maker	Unit Sales
1	Grand Theft Auto 4	PS3	CAPCOM	112,058
2	Valkyrie Profile	DS	Square Enix	73,779
3	LittleBigPlanet	PS3	Sony Computer Entertainment	47,086
4	Grand Theft Auto 4	Xbox 360	CAPCOM	38,281
5	Wagamama Fashion: Girls Mode	DS	Nintendo	38,251

Grand Theft Auto 4 was sold 150,339 units in total. It is great for foreign video game's sales in Japan.

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Paintings of Dragon Ball

I found a video which has many paitings of Dragon Ball.



This video has a secret. Actually...

All of paintings in this video were drawn by Akira Toriyama who is the author of Dragon Ball.
They were drawn by various manga artists(cartoonist) who like dragon ball.

I have looked for the manga artists and manga titles in English as below.

1. Taito Kubo(BLEACH)
2. Yoshio Sawai(Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo)
3. Yuusuke Murai(Eyeshield 21)
4. Yasuhiro Kano(M x 0)
5. Nakaba Suzuki(Rising Impact)
6. Sinya Suzuki(Mr.FULLSWING)
7. Norihiro Yagi(CLAYMORE)
8. Masashi Kishimoto(NARUTO)
9. Kentarou Yabuki(To Love-Ru)
10. Eiichiro Oda(ONE PIECE)
11. Mikio Ito(Nazo no Murasame-kun)
12. Kenjiro Takeshita(Happy World!)
13. Kouta Hirano(HELLSING)
14. Ken-ichi Sakura(Dragon Drive)
15. Arina Tanemura(Gentlemen's Alliance)
16. Ryo Azuki(ラビダビスター(I'm sorry, but I couldn't find English manga title.))
17. Koushi Rikudou(Excel Saga)
18. Masakazu Katsura(ZETMAN)

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Nintendo DSi was sold 170,779 units for 2 days.

According to ENTERBRAIN, Nintendo DSi was sold 170,779 units in Japan from release date (November 1st) through Nobember 2nd.

The sales of Nintendo DSi is more than the sales of PSP-3000.

But, PSP became best-selling game marchine in Japan for the first half of the fiscal 2008. So, I think Nintendo DS is as popular as PSP in Japan.

By the way, Nintendo DSi will be relased in other countries in 2009.

About DSi news(Japanese)
http://www.famitsu.com/game/news/1219467_1124.html

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