News: Mario Party 9 Stays Top in Japan
Posted 16 May 2012 at 18:40 by Aaron Clegg
Sales take a sluggish turn in post-Golden Week blues...
The latest Media Create charts are out, and they're in somewhat jarring contrast to the previous week. With the Golden Week period now over, sales across the board were not only down significantly, but seemed to yet again enter the traditional May low.
It of course didn't help that there was hardly anything new out. Starhawk on PS3 was the only charting new entry at number 4, which meant the latest in the leggy Mario Party series stayed at the top spot for the second week running.
Almost half of the top 20 was composed of 3DS games.
Here's the full software chart for the week of May 7th to May 13th.
| No. | System | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wii | Mario Party 9 37,353 / (334,821) | Nintendo |
| 2 | 3DS | Fire Emblem: Awakening 16,530 / (361,790) | Nintendo |
| 3 | PS3 | Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City 14,553 / (319,505) | Capcom |
| 4 | PS3 | Starhawk 12,873 | Sony |
| 5 | 3DS | Super Mario 3D Land 11,260 / (1,574,788) | Nintendo |
| 6 | 3DS | Monster Hunter 3G 9,105 / (1,442,475) | Capcom |
| 7 | 3DS | Mario Kart 7 9,045 / (1,704,350) | Nintendo |
| 8 | 3DS | Kid Icarus: Uprising 7,636 / (269,519) | Nintendo |
| 9 | 3DS | Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games 4,933 / (162,270) | Nintendo |
| 10 | PSP | Conception: Please Give Birth to My Child! 4,600 / (44,639) | Spike |
| 11 | Wii | Wii Sports Resort with Wii Remote Plus 4,416 / (939,971) | Nintendo |
| 12 | PSP | Pro Baseball Spirits 2012 4,041 / (132,450) | Konami |
| 13 | Wii | Wii Party 3,408 / (2,348,884) | Nintendo |
| 14 | PS3 | Pro Baseball Spirits 2012 3,342 / (156,276) | Konami |
| 15 | 3DS | Dynasty Warriors Vs. 3,231 / (27,423) | Koei Tecmo |
| 16 | 3DS | Kingdom Hearts 3D -Dream Drop Distance 3,204 / (311,688) | Square-Enix |
| 17 | PSP | Monster Hunter Portable 3rd (BEST) 3,104 / (252,765) | Capcom |
| 18 | 3DS | Harvest Moon: The Land of Origin 3,040 / (182,188) | Marvelous AQL |
| 19 | PSP | 2nd Super Robot Wars Z: Saisei-hen 2,959 / (331,392) | Bandai Namco |
| 20 | NDS | Pok |
