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This Week In Sales: Super Robots And Spirit Cameras

By Ishaan . January 18, 2012 . 4:32pm

Period: The week of January 9th – January 15th (2012)

Top-seller: Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Masou Kishin I & II – 81,896

Nintendo 3DS sales: 100,668 | Total sales: 4,623,629

PlayStation Vita sales: 18,361 | Total sales: 501,262

 

This Week In Sales: Super Robots And Spirit Cameras

Now that the end-of-year festivities are over in Japan, sales plummeted across the board in the second week of the year. The highest-selling game for the week was Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Masou Kishin I & II for the PSP at 82,000 copies.

 

Following behind it were the usual 3DS suspects — Mario Kart 7, Monster Hunter 3G, Super Mario 3D Land and Inazuma Eleven Go.

 

New releases were slow. Further down the chart from Super Robot Taisen, was Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir, Nintendo and Tecmo’s Fatal Frame augmented reality spin-off game for the 3DS. Even lower on the chart, Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Legacy snuck a few copies in as well, barely making the top-10.

 

Meanwhile, PlayStation Vita hardware sales dropped even lower during the week, coming in at under 20k. The device was outsold once again by its predecessor, the PSP, which itself sold 22,500 units.

 

The top-20 chart for the week is as follows:

 

LwTwTitleWeekly SalesTotal SalesSys.Publisher
New01.Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Masou Kishin I & II81,896NewPSPNamco Bandai
01.02.Mario Kart 752,2661,369,6233DSNintendo
03.03.Monster Hunter 3G44,6441,128,4983DSCapcom
02.04.Super Mario 3D Land40,1541,239,4403DSNintendo
04.05.Inazuma Eleven Go: Shine/Dark20,777346,1353DSLevel 5
05.06.Warriors Orochi 220,409336,925PS3Tecmo Koei
New07.Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir16,351New3DSNintendo
07.08.Final Fantasy XIII-214,407753,968PS3Square Enix
New09.Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Legacy12,819New3DSNamco Bandai
06.10.Just Dance Wii12,370
503,048
WiiNintendo
10.11.Wii Sports Resort10,076843,833WiiNintendo
08.12.Wii Party9,3832,266,185WiiNintendo
18.13.Monster Hunter Portable 3rd (PSP the Best)9,342163,780PSPCapcom
15.14.Taiko no Tatsujin: Definitive Edition9,049206,052WiiNamco Bandai
12.15.Mario Kart Wii8,9783,483,638WiiNintendo
09.16.Kirby’s Return to Dreamland8,931579,098WiiNintendo
24.17.Go Vacation8,162216,180WiiNamco Bandai
13.18.Nintendogs + cats7,958475,8723DSNintendo
24.19.Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Dubbed version)7,77290,446PS3Square Enix
14.20.Inazuma Eleven Strikers 2012 Xtreme6,716134,126WiiLevel 5

 

Sales data acquired from 4Gamer, Media-Create and Geimin.net.



  • James Beatty

    PSV….only 18k? damn

  • James Beatty

    Nice to see Nintendo doing so well in their home turf…what’s up with all the wii games? They weren’t there last week. Also, It looks like MH 3G will reach it’s estimated sales in a week or two :)

    and on an unrelated note, pick up solatorobo. It’s so awesome :D

    • http://www.youtube.com/user/jodecideion?feature=mhum TheWon and Only

      The Wii games have been their the entire month of December. Go back, and check the past list to see. Also yes Solatorobo is awesome currently playing it myself.

      • James Beatty

        Ah, okay, i didn’t remember seeing them. I bought 4 3DS/DS games with the money i got for christmas. I bought Ace Combat (which is also pretty good), kirby mass attack, Dragon quest 9, and Solatorobo. After hearing mixed reviews about Solatorobo i was expecting it to be my least liked game of the group and i was expecting DQ 9 to be my favorite, but the opposite happened. i got hooked on the game and i bought it’s spiritual predecessor for the ps1 and i have been enjoying that as well :)

        • theworldofnoboundries

          YEahh i am happy that there are people who tries Ace Combat 3D as that games, i think is just underrated considering how fun the game is.

  • Herok

    i hope the sales make sony give Vita a killer app soon because i don’t want the system dead before i even get mine the 15th

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/jodecideion?feature=mhum TheWon and Only

    This is going to be a way to see what’s really going on over there. We should see these kind of numbers for a while. Now that we are pass the holiday sales spike. So it’s going to take the power of some great software for hardware numbers to move huge numbers. I believe the 3DS can stay on this run for a few months. They have some decent Japanese software coming very soon.

    • James Beatty

      If sales begin to falter for the 3DS all they need to do is release a redesign or a new pokemon game. From info that i have gathered there is a ton of people waiting for either one of those. :P

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1769064526 Vivian Mai

    Aw, the Fatal Frame sales & PSV sales aren’t what I wanted to see…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Daniel-Morandi/100000837836996 Daniel Morandi

    Masou Kishin!! YEAH!

    Multiple-routes split, over 100 stages, Granzon! CYBASTAA!!. The game is awesome and it deserves it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeremiah-Velasquez/100001627819376 Jeremiah Velasquez

    I hope Spirit Camera sells well..

    Good to see MK,SML3D and MH3G is still in the top 5..

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeremiah-Velasquez/100001627819376 Jeremiah Velasquez

      WOAH!! There are no PSVITA games in the Top 20!?

      ……Maybe people are downloading their games through PSN..

      • James Beatty

        There has never been a vita game in the top 20. I think one of them breached the top 30 recently though.

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ivanir-Ignacchitti/100002728780712 Ivanir Ignacchitti

        It has been like that for some weeks, but I hope it’ll change by the end of January/beginning of February (as in, after Tales of Innocence R release). ^_^

      • kuro_chan666

        No wonder, considering they’re crap, or remakes.

        • sandra10

          You played Golden Abyss to know? Or are you talking out of your a-er, rear-end?

          • badmoogle

            That’s just only one game though,and i don’t think it’s the right franchise to drive Japanese Vita sales.

            Right now it seems like Sony is slacking.They need to make some big exclusive 3rd party deals and announcements soon or otherwise it will be difficult for the console to get back on its feet.

          • sandra10

            That has no bearing on his statement. He made a sweeping generalization that ALL of the games were crap. And we’re not talking about it being a system seller or anything like that, just simply quality.

  • PrinceHeir

    can’t wait for Onechanbara Kagura Z!!!!!!

  • http://twitter.com/FaithlessMr Bruno Silva

    Glad to see that FF XIII-2 is still charting in the top 10. Sure the sales are underwhelming considering the first game’s sucess (sales wise), but I’m glad to see this is far from being a flop, and I’d like to believe it will cross the 900k mark domestically. Or even one million, eventually, who knows!

  • theworldofnoboundries

    I hope Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir and Ace Combat 3D: Cross Rumble will be able to sell well to allow Bamco remake other Ace Combat series on 3D as i believe almost all Ace Combat game, especially the music and the Strangereal world is just awesome!!!

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