Animal Crossing stays top in Japan for third week, Capcom's EX Troopers fails to impress
Posted 29 Nov 2012 at 16:09 by Aaron Clegg
For the third consecutive week since release, Animal Crossing: New Leaf for Nintendo 3DS has remained top of the Japanese software charts, with this week seeing the game pass a million retail units sold (download sales would put the game's total sales higher).
Not even spirited debuts from the latest Call of Duty or Pokémon Mystery Dungeon could displace the smash-hit life-sim, which is selling at a startling pace even compared to its hugely successful predecessors.
Sadly, it's less great news for Capcom, whose anime-stylised Lost Planet spin-off EX Troopers failed to make much of an impact. The 3DS version of the game performed marginally better than the PS3 version, but the publisher surely cannot be happy with total first week sales barely passing 25k.
Here is the full software chart for the week of November 19th to 25th.
| Game/ Sales | Platform | Publisher | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Animal Crossing: New Leaf 213,414 / 1,106,758 | 3DS | Nintendo |
| 2 | Call of Duty: Black Ops II - Subtitled Edition 197,350 | PS3 | Square-Enix |
| 3 | Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Magnagate and the Infinite Dungeon 121,480 | 3DS | Nintendo |
| 4 | Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational 100,862 | PS3 | Sony |
| 5 | New Super Mario Bros. 2 34,971 / 1,420,184 | 3DS | Nintendo |
| 6 | Call of Duty: Black Ops II - Subtitled Edition 22,177 | 360 | Square-Enix |
| 7 | E,X, Troopers 17,402 | 3DS | Capcom |
| 8 | Assassin's Creed III 16,379 / 88,883 | PS3 | Ubisoft |
| 9 | Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate (Best Price!) 11,369 / 24,604 | 3DS | Capcom |
| 10 | Dangerous Ji-San to 1000-nin no Otomodachi Yokoshima 10,452 | 3DS | Bandai Namco |
| 11 | E,X, Troopers 8,717 | PS3 | Capcom |
| 12 | Ouchi Mainichi Tamagotchi 8,643 | 3DS | Bandai Namco |
| 13 | Wand of Fortune 2 FD: Kimi ni Sasageru Epilogue 8,023 | PSP | Idea Factory |
| 14 | Tousouchuu: Shijou Saikyou no Hunter-Tachi Kara Nigekire! 7,627 / 244,363 | 3DS | Bandai Namco |
| 15 | Dynasty Warriors 7: Empires 7,462 / 92,474 | PS3 | Koei Tecmo |
| 16 | Summon Night 4 7,405 / 47,516 | PSP | Bandai Namco |
| 17 | Style Savvy: Trendsetters 7,364 / 180,476 | 3DS | Nintendo |
| 18 | Kokoro Connect: Yochi Random 7,163 | PSP | Bandai Namco |
| 19 | Bravely Default: Flying Fairy 7,017 / 264,901 | 3DS | Square-Enix |
| 20 | World Soccer Winning Eleven 2013 6,967 / 362,952 | PS3 | Konami |
It could probably said that 3DS has now gone into 'full-beast mode' for the holidays, with the hardware now staying above 160k for the third week running. PS3 received a slight boost thanks to some new bundles. Conversely, Vita falls back down below 10k following last week's new colours.
| System | This week's sales | Last week's sales | Life-to-date sales | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nintendo 3DS | 162,077 | 168,876 | 8,420,471 |
| 2 | PlayStation 3 | 34,167 | 17,035 | 8,649,457 |
| 3 | PlayStation Portable | 16,903 | 12,217 | 19,452,658 |
| 4 | PlayStation Vita | 9,712 | 13,091 | 1,052,516 |
| 5 | Wii | 3,590 | 3,001 | 12,596,436 |
| 6 | Xbox 360 | 1,495 | 2,063 | 1,605,966 |
| 7 | PlayStation 2 | 747 | 723 | 21,827,396 |
| 8 | Nintendo DS | 452 | 353 | 32,874,588 |
