Surprise! Wii mega-title Mario Galaxy takes first place in this week’s Japanese sales charts. OK, not really a surprise. But what is surprising is that it only sold 251,000 units, quite a bit less than Super Mario Sunshine’s first week debut of 400,000 units. Nevertheless, with the Wii’s growing userbase, Galaxy certainly has the potential to surpass Sunshine in terms of sales in the long run.

So without further ado, here are the software sales charts in Japan for the week beginning October 29.

01. [WII] Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo) – 251,000 / NEW
02. [360] Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation (Bandai-Namco) – 77,000 / NEW
03. [NDS] Final Fantasy Tactics A2 (Square-Enix) – 51,000 / 193,000
04. [PS2] Super Robot Wars Scramble Commander the 2nd (Banpresto) – 21,000 / NEW
05. [NDS] DS Literature Collection (Nintendo) – 18,000 / 72,000
06. [NDS] DS Nishimura Kyotarou Suspense Detective Series: Deadly Intent (Tecmo) – 18,000 / 115,000
07. [WII] Wii Sports (Nintendo) – 16,000 / 2,182,000
08. [NDS] Flash Focus: Vision Training in Minutes a Day (Nintendo) – 15,000 / 676,000
09. [NDS] World Soccer Winning Eleven DS: Goal to Goal (Konami) – 15,000 / 44,000
10. [NDS] Pokémon Mysterious Dungeon: Time Expedition Party (Pokémon) – 14,000 / 552,000

11. [NDS] Kanji Brain Test 2.5M (IE Institute)
12. [WII] Wii Play (Nintendo)
13. [PS2] Ar Tonelico 2 (Banpresto)
14. [NDS] Pokémon Mysterious Dungeon: Shadow Expedition Party (Pokémon)
15. [NDS] Mario Kart DS (Nintendo)
16. [WII] Mario Party 8 (Nintendo)
17. [PSP] Gundam Battle Chronicle (Bandai-Namco)
18. [NDS] Kanji Test 2 (Rocket Co.)
19. [NDS] Dragon Tamer: Sound Spirit (Bandai-Namco)
20. [NDS] New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)
21. [360] The Idolm@ster (Bandai-Namco)
22. [PS2] Dragon Ball Z: Sparking! Meteor (Bandai-Namco)
23. [NDS] Tamagotchi no Puchi-Puchi Omisecchi: Thanks Everybody! (Bandai-Namco)
24. [NDS] More Brain Age (Nintendo)
25. [NDS] My Housekeeping Diary (Nintendo)
26. [WII] Ghost Squad (Sega)
27. [NDS] Animal Crossing Wild World (Nintendo)
28. [PSP] Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII (Square-Enix)
29. [360] Earth Defense Forces 3 (D3 Publisher)
30. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2nd (Capcom)

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