News Super Mario Bros. 2 flies to the top of the charts in Japan
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Posted 01 Aug 2012 at 16:56 by Aaron Clegg
Following on from yesterday's news that the 3DS XL is doing not too badly in Japan, we now have some more concrete figures with the latest Media Create charts.
It will be a surprise to no-one that New Super Mario Bros. 2 made its debut at a distant number one, breezing past 400,000 units sold. It is thought these figures will not include download sales of the game, although Nintendo has said it will make these figures available at some point.
It certainly wasn't the only new release, though. Atlus seems to have found surprising levels of success with a fighting spin-off of Persona 4. The Nintendo-localised version of Just Dance 2 also made a good debut, while we also mustn't overlook Oni Training - the spiritual successor of the smash-hit Brain Training games on DS. It will be very interesting to see what kind of legs that game can manage, and whether it can pull in a more casual audience on 3DS.
Here's the software chart for the week of July 23rd to July 29th.
Game/ Sales | Platform | Publisher | |
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1 | New Super Mario Bros. 2 407,503 | 3DS | Nintendo |
2 | Persona 4: Arena 128,485 | PS3 | Atlus |
3 | Nayuta no Kiseki 74,860 | PSP | Nihon Falcom |
4 | Pokemon Black 2 / White 2 73,420 / 2,455,006 | NDS | Nintendo |
5 | Super Dangan-Ronpa 2: Sayonara Zetsubou Gakuen 69,000 | PSP | Spike |
6 | Just Dance Wii 2 60,121 | Wii | Nintendo |
7 | Oni Training 40,272 | 3DS | Nintendo |
8 | Digimon World Re:Digitize 31,037 / 116,854 | PSP | Bandai Namco |
9 | Kirby's Dream Collection: Special Edition 29,367 / 129,653 | Wii | Nintendo |
10 | The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love 25,753 | PS3 | Bandai Namco |
11 | Rune Factory 4: A Fantasy Harvest Moon 21,017 / 106,972 | 3DS | Marvelous |
12 | Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2012 20,948 / 83,688 | PS3 | Konami |
13 | Kobitodzukan: Kobito Kansatsu Set 20,625 | 3DS | Nippon Columbia |
14 | Taiko no Tatsujin: Chibi Dragon to Fushigi na Orb 20,270 / 117,472 | 3DS | Bandai Namco |
15 | Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2012 12,666 / 40,808 | PSP | Konami |
16 | Dragon Quest Monsters: Terry's Wonderland 3D 12,396 / 837,669 | 3DS | Square-Enix |
17 | Sangoku Koi Senki: Otome no Heihou! 10,887 | PSP | Bandai Namco |
18 | Persona 4: Arena 9,801 | 360 | Atlus |
19 | Little Battlers eXperience: Explosive Boost 9,642 / 92,392 | 3DS | Level-5 |
20 | Mario Party 9 9,537 / 501,920 | Wii | Nintendo |
There's only one story in the hardware chart - the debut of the 3DS XL shoots 3DS numbers sky-high. Interestingly enough, it looks like the redesigned system hardly had any effect on the standard model - the original 3DS sold about 42,000 units in the week, just 2,000 down on the previous week.
System | This week's sales | Last week's sales | Life-to-date sales | |
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1 | Nintendo 3DS | 229,635 | 44,399 | 6,792,506 |
2 | PlayStation 3 | 15,916 | 15,214 | 8,333,433 |
3 | PlayStation Portable | 12,989 | 13,058 | 19,221,116 |
4 | PlayStation Vita | 10,846 | 11,932 | 854,702 |
5 | Wii | 10,170 | 9,002 | 12,451,184 |
6 | Nintendo DS | 1,178 | 1,343 | 32,859,174 |
7 | PlayStation 2 | 994 | 1,093 | 21,809,152 |
8 | Xbox 360 | 948 | 865 | 1,579,047 |