Animal Crossing and 3DS remain firmly on top in Japan
Posted 21 Nov 2012 at 20:41 by Aaron Clegg
Animal Crossing: New Leaf has remained firmly at the top of the Japanese chart for its second week with sales staying tremendously high.
With Media Create apparently not tracking download card or pure download sales, the tracker has the game at just under 900k for the physical version, but in reality total sales should be quite a bit over one million.
Meanwhile, sales of New Super Mario Bros. 2 have shot up thanks to yet another new limited edition 3DS bundle. Monster Hunter 3 G (Ultimate as it will be known in the west) also saw its traditional Best Price budget re-release come out.
Here is the software chart for the week of November 12th to 18th.
| Game/ Sales | Platform | Publisher | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Animal Crossing: New Leaf 290,280 / 893,344 | 3DS | Nintendo |
| 2 | Assassin's Creed III 72,504 | PS3 | Ubisoft |
| 3 | New Super Mario Bros. 2 41,658 / 1,385,212 | 3DS | Nintendo |
| 4 | Summon Night 4 40,111 | PSP | Bandai Namco |
| 5 | Medal of Honor: Warfighter 25,097 | PS3 | EA |
| 6 | Assassin's Creed III: Liberation 24,304 | PSV | Ubisoft |
| 7 | Dynasty Warriors 7: Empires 14,911 / 85,012 | PS3 | Koei Tecmo |
| 8 | Need for Speed: Most Wanted 13,383 | PS3 | EA |
| 9 | Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate (Best Price!) 13,236 | 3DS | Capcom |
| 10 | Tales of Xillia 2 12,337 / 411,565 | PS3 | Bandai Namco |
| 11 | Assassin's Creed III 9,261 | 360 | Ubisoft |
| 12 | Aikatsu! Cinderella Lesson 8,725 | 3DS | Bandai Namco |
| 13 | Bravely Default: Flying Fairy 8,624 / 257,884 | 3DS | Square Enix |
| 14 | World Soccer Winning Eleven 2013 8,454 / 59,176 | PSP | Konami |
| 15 | World Soccer Winning Eleven 2013 7,492 / 355,985 | PS3 | Konami |
| 16 | Okami HD 7,141 / 86,797 | PS3 | Capcom |
| 17 | Tousouchuu: Shijou Saikyou no Hunter-Tachi Kara Nigekire! 7,102 / 236,737 | 3DS | Bandai Namco |
| 18 | Style Savvy: Trendsetters 6,696 / 173,113 | 3DS | Nintendo |
| 19 | Pokemon Black 2 / White 2 5,736 / 2,834,685 | NDS | Nintendo |
| 20 | Yakuza 1 & 2 HD Edition 5,487 / 73,697 | PS3 | Sega |
In the hardware chart, that New Super Mario Bros. 2 bundle enabled 3DS to remain at a shockingly high number following Animal Crossing's release last week. Also, a couple of new colours for Vita pushes Sony's young handheld up to third place and sales of over 10k for the first time in a while.
| System | This week's sales | Last week's sales | Life-to-date sales | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nintendo 3DS | 168,876 | 187,077 | 8,258,394 |
| 2 | PlayStation 3 | 17,035 | 18,043 | 8,615,290 |
| 3 | PlayStation Vita | 13,091 | 4,021 | 1,042,804 |
| 4 | PlayStation Portable | 12,217 | 12,076 | 19,435,755 |
| 5 | Wii | 3,001 | 2,921 | 12,592,846 |
| 6 | Xbox 360 | 2,063 | 2,908 | 1,604,471 |
| 7 | PlayStation 2 | 723 | 1,187 | 21,826,649 |
| 8 | Nintendo DS | 353 | 424 | 32,874,136 |
