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Posted December 6, 2012 by Justin Alderman in News
 
 

Weekly Sales Total Confirms Japan Is 3DS Country

nintendo 3ds japan sales cant stop here
nintendo 3ds japan sales cant stop here

According to Media Create, the 3DS sold 167K units last week in Japan, bringing its LTD sales in Nintendo’s home country up over the 8.5 million mark and putting the handheld within striking distance of overtaking the PS3′s total Japanese sales.

The 3DS realized a small week-over-week bump (up from 162K in the prior week) due to the strong 2nd place debut of Professor Layton Vs. Ace Attorney, which sold 128K. 2nd Super Robot Wars OG for the PS3 debuted as Japan’s top selling game last week, with 217K in sales.

Animal Crossing: New Leaf, which was the top seller in Japan for three weeks straight, fell to 4th place on the charts with 105K in weekly sales — life-to-date Nintendo’s ultimate collect-a-thon has sold 1.212 million units. This drop was not entirely unexpected as Nintendo recently stated in an open letter that Animal Crossing was basically sold out in Japan, and they would be unable to restock retailers with additional copies for a couple of months due to manufacturing difficulties with the game’s higher capacity cart.

In total, the 3DS dominated Japan’s top 20 chart with 9 titles, followed by the PS3 with 4 titles, the PSP with 3 titles, and the PS Vita and Wii with 2 titles each.

The full Japanese hardware and software sales charts for the week ending December 2, 2012 are as follows:

Hardware

|System| This Week | Last Week | Last Year  |     YTD   |     LTD     |
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|  3DS |   167.408 |   162.077 |    205.962 | 4.305.736 |   8.587.879 |
|  PS3 |    29.809 |    34.167 |     40.668 | 1.042.881 |   8.679.266 |
|  PSP |    15.941 |    16.903 |     39.547 |   739.215 |  19.468.599 |
|  PSV |    11.066 |     9.712 |            |   623.596 |   1.063.582 |
|  Wii |     5.550 |     3.590 |     31.071 |   438.765 |  12.601.986 |
|  360 |     1.217 |     1.495 |      1.660 |    71.138 |   1.607.183 |
|  PS2 |       812 |       747 |      1.500 |    54.101 |  21.828.208 |
|  NDS |       457 |       452 |      4.436 |    66.559 |  32.875.045 |

Software

01./00. [PS3] 2nd Super Robot Wars OG # (Bandai Namco Games) {2012.11.29} (¥8.379) – 217.710 / NEW
02./00. [3DS] Professor Layton Vs. Ace Attorney (Level 5) {2012.11.29} (¥5.980) – 128.856 / NEW
03./00. [WII] Taiko no Tatsujin Wii: Super Deluxe Edition # (Bandai Namco Games) {2012.11.29} (¥5.040) – 115.955 / NEW
04./01. [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf # (Nintendo) {2012.11.08} (¥4.800) – 105.553 / 1.212.312 (-51%)
05./03. [3DS] Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Magnagate and the Infinite Dungeon (Pokemon Co.) {2012.11.23} (¥4.800) – 48.039 / 169.519 (-60%)
06./04. [PS3] Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational # (Sony Computer Entertainment) {2012.11.22} (¥4.980) – 37.874 / 138.736 (-62%)
07./02. [PS3] Call of Duty: Black Ops II – Subtitled Edition (Square Enix) {2012.11.22} (¥7.980) – 36.234 / 233.584 (-82%)
08./05. [3DS] New Super Mario Bros. 2 # (Nintendo) {2012.07.28} (¥4.800) – 32.973 / 1.453.157 (-6%)
09./00. [PSV] Fate/Stay Night -Realta Nua- (Kadokawa Shoten) {2012.11.29} (¥6.300) – 30.583 / NEW
10./00. [PSV] Atelier Totori Plus: The Alchemist of Arland 2 # (Gust) {2012.11.29} (¥6.090) – 27.651 / NEW
11./00. [PSP] Kamen Rider: Ultra Climax Heroes (Bandai Namco Games) {2012.11.29} (¥6.280) – 20.739 / NEW
12./00. [WII] Kamen Rider: Ultra Climax Heroes (Bandai Namco Games) {2012.11.29} (¥6.280) – 14.237 / NEW
13./09. [3DS] Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate (Best Price!) (Capcom) {2012.11.15} (¥3.800) – 11.721 / 36.325 (+3%)
14./08. [PS3] Assassin’s Creed III (Ubisoft) {2012.11.15} (¥7.770) – 8.584 / 97.467 (-48%)
15./00. [3DS] Naruto: SD Powerful Shippuden (Bandai Namco Games) {2012.11.29} (¥5.230) – 8.023 / NEW
16./17. [3DS] Style Savvy: Trendsetters (Nintendo) {2012.09.27} (¥4.800) – 7.528 / 188.005 (+2%)
17./14. [3DS] Tousouchuu: Shijou Saikyou no Hunter-Tachi Kara Nigekire! (Bandai Namco Games) {2012.07.05} (¥5.040) – 7.526 / 251.890 (-1%)
18./00. [PSP] UnchainBlades EXXiV (FuRyu) {2012.11.29} (¥6.279) – 6.793 / NEW
19./00. [3DS] UnchainBlades EXXiV (FuRyu) {2012.11.29} (¥6.279) – 6.645/ NEW
20./00. [PSP] Saint Seiya Ω: Ultimate Cosmos (Bandai Namco Games) {2012.11.29} (¥5.230) – 6.448 / NEW

Source: NeoGAF


Justin Alderman

 
A gamer since the Intellivision days in the early 80′s, who started writing about and covering the video game industry in 2008. In his spare time he is also a bit of a gun-nut and Star Wars nerd.