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You gotta hand it to the Japanese. While American gamers must wait until March 9 to buy their copies of Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Europeans are pretty much in the dark about the release dates, our Japanese friends have already enjoyed this smashing title for Wii. How smashing, you may say? Well, the game has already sold 819,647 copies since its release back in 31st January. One of the reason is that SSBB was only the seventh game in the history of top Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu to be given a perfect score of 40 out of 40, so it was no surprise that the game has been selling so quickly. With that record, SSBB is in the number one spot in the Japanese game chart for January 28 to February 3. Regarding hardware, the Wii came out on top this week, with SSBB no doubt helping to boost the sales of the console–94,473 were taken home by new owners. The PlayStation Portable came second with 72,528, then the DS Lite with 67,472, PlayStation 3 with 41,796, PlayStation 2 with 12,115, and finally the Xbox 360 with 6,060 units.

Source: GameSpot