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Nintendo swamps Japanese top twenty

Nintendo has flooded the Japanese charts, with the top sixteen best-selling games all exclusive to the Wii or DS.

Nintendo has flooded the Japanese charts, with the top sixteen best-selling games all exclusive to the Wii or DS.

Square Enix's Final Fantasy XII: Revenent Wings is at the top of the charts with over 274,000 copies sold, followed by new entry Momotarou Dentetsu which makes its charts debut by selling 79,000 units.

There are five Wii titles in the top ten, with new entries from Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree at number five (42,259 units sold) and Namco Bandai's One Piece: Unlimited Adventure at number seven (40,003 units sold).

The most successful PSP title in the Japanese top thirty is Final Fantasy: Anniversary Edition at number seventeen. There are no PlayStation 3 games in the top thirty.

Microsoft's Xbox 360 has two titles in the top thirty — Test Drive Unlimited at number 24 and Rainbow Six: Vegas at 27.

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