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This Week In Sales: Armored Core V Is Another Success Story For From Software

By Ishaan . February 1, 2012 . 4:33pm

Period: The week of January 23rd – January 29th (2012)

Top-seller: Armored Core V – 163,906

Nintendo 3DS sales: 84,789 | Total sales: 4,789,378

PlayStation Vita sales: 18,942 | Total sales: 535,423

 

This Week In Sales: Armored Core V Is Another Success Story For From Software

From Software have built a name for themselves in the last two years or so, and it shows. Armored Core V (PS3) was the best-selling new game in Japan last week. It sold close to 164,000 copies in its first week, outselling Armored Core IV by a wide margin.

 

For reference, Armored Core IV (PS3) sold 39,261 copies in its first week in 2006, so that’s a gigantic improvement. From Software are easily one of the more interesting success stories of late, and it should be interesting to see if they can maintain this success going forward.

 

This Week In Sales: Armored Core V Is Another Success Story For From Software

At #2 was Resident Evil: Revelations with 146,559 copies sold. There’s no other past title one can directly compare the game to, but we’re curious to see how it holds up in the weeks to come.

 

The #3 game was Tales of Innocence R, with close to 55,000 copies sold. Considering the PlayStation Vita’s low userbase, that isn’t a bad number. What’s interesting, though, is that Innocence R’s release didn’t make too much of a difference to the Vita’s hardware sales for the week.

 

Next week will see the release of Ragnarok Odyssey on the Vita, followed by Gravity Rush the week after that. On February 14th, the 3DS will get its next major release in the form of New LovePlus.

 

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

 

LwTwTitleWeekly SalesTotal SalesSys.Publisher
New01.Armored Core V163,906NewPS3From Software
New02.Resident Evil: Revelations146,559New3DSCapcom
New03.Tales of Innocence R54,853NewPSVNamco Bandai
01.04.Mario Kart 729,2371,433,9583DSNintendo
03.05.Monster Hunter 3G27,0321,186,8983DSCapcom
New06.Armored Core V24,719New360From Software
04.07.Super Mario 3D Land23,0031,288,4953DSNintendo
New08.The Idolm@ster Anime & G4U: Vol. 418,179NewPS3Namco Bandai
02.09.Rhythm Thief and the Emperor’s Treasure14,92846,5263DSSega
07.10.Inazuma Eleven Go: Shine/Dark10,479
370,804
3DSLevel 5
New11.Mobile Suit Gundam: Trails of the Wooden Horse9,121NewPSPNamco Bandai
12.12.Just Dance Wii7,837519,199WiiNintendo
10.13.Warriors Orochi 3*7,419355,033PS3Tecmo Koei
13.14.Monster Hunter Portable 3rd (PSP the Best)7,072178,978PSPCapcom
11.15.Final Fantasy XIII-26,405769,079PS3Square Enix
14.16.Wii Party6,2802,279,598WiiNintendo
15.17.Wii Sports Resort6,056856,483WiiNintendo
19.18.Nintendogs + cats5,397487,2013DSNintendo
17.19.Mario Kart Wii5,3263,495,100WiiNintendo
16.20.Kirby’s Return to Dreamland4,837590,133WiiNintendo
*Formerly referred to as Warriors Orochi 2. The game is titled Warriors Orochi 3 in North America and Europe.

 

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



  • Herok

    impressive this is the first time a vita game made the top 3

    • http://twitter.com/DanijoEX DanijoEX

      I’m glad about that.

    • James Beatty

      First time a vita game has been on the top 20 i believe. 

      • PoweredByHentai

        You are wrong:
        http://andriasang.com/comzgp/media_create_20_to_30/

        Vita launch titles to place in the top 30 include:
        07. Hot Shots Golf 6
        08. Uncharted Golden Abyss
        18. Dynasty Warriors Next
        19. Lord of Apocalypse
        22. Disgaea 3 Return
        28. Ridge Racer
        30. Shin Kamaitachi no Yoru

        • James Beatty

          I guess i missed that. :p When did that happen? I don’t remember seeing it on Siliconera.

          • PoweredByHentai

            I provided you with the Andriasang link.  Just how lazy do you intend to be?  :P

          • James Beatty

            Ah, okay. That was the first week of sales. I forgot about that :P I haven’t seen any of them since they dropped out of the top 20 after a week so i forgot. My bad :P

  • SolidusSnake

    Awesome, I hope Armored Core kills it in the US as well.

    • http://www.youtube.com/user/EnvyMizuhashi Garyuu

      This is an epic comeback for a series if I ever saw one. Dear god, I hope everyone spreads the light of this game.

      • raymk

        I actually just got into the series yep :P.  Plan on buying this and past games to catch up on this awesome series.

        • http://www.youtube.com/user/EnvyMizuhashi Garyuu

          By all means, give the old games a shot, specifically the AC4 games as practice for AC5. You can play almost any AC game without worry of continuity.

  • http://twitter.com/DanijoEX DanijoEX

    Never mind. Forget what i said…

    • OneOkami

      ?

      He said it didn’t make much of a difference.  I wouldn’t say its a good start, not when you’re struggling to outsell your 7+ year-old predecessor.  I’d expect things to eventually pick up, but this has not been a good launch.

      • http://twitter.com/DanijoEX DanijoEX

        Nevermind…

  • James Beatty

    Good to see Resident evil revelations selling well. I hope it continues to sell well in all regions. That beta plus the price drop of the game should greatly increase sales.
    It also looks like MH 3G will reach it’s expected sales next week.

  • badmoogle

    Well done FS,i hope they expand and become even more successful in the future!

    Now if only they could improve the technical aspects of their games,then they would be perfect.

  • aoihana

    Great chart! Very pleasant that Revelations did so well, and ecstatic to see Vita software in the top 3! （＾ｖ＾）

    That’s just great, but I hope the hardware sales start to pick up soon! Fight Sony! Fight! ლ(´ڡ`ლ)

    I wonder how well received New Love Plus will be? I hope it does great! (◕‿◕✿)

    Regardless, I’ll be contributing to the charts, and that always makes me happy! ヽ(*≧ω≦)ﾉ

    • James Beatty

      I’m betting that New love plus will sell pretty well. 

    • Aoshi00

      I’m hoping I would be able to get the Nene LE.. right now it says sold out on AmiAmi and PlayAsia would open pre-order on release day 2/14.. I’m worried *.*… now I know there’s LE there’s no way I could get regular.. anyway, grabbed my 13-2 LE w/ the ep i novella w/ the OST, sweet package :)

  • malek86

    What’s with the Gravure sales? Did every Idolmaster fan suddenly get a permanent paycheck raise last month? The previous volumes didn’t sell nearly as much, aside from Vol. 3 which could have been at least partly explained by the holiday effect.

    • http://www.siliconera.com Ishaan

      I haven’t paid attention to these before, but considering that Vol. 4 sales are nearly identical to Vol. 3, I’d imagine it’s the same 18,000 people trying to collect the entire series.

      • malek86

        Yes, and that’s the problem. Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 both sold less than 10.000 units, since they didn’t appear in the Top 20 during their launch weeks. I normally expect iMas fans to just pick up everything.

        My only possible explanation is that the anime episodes 1/3 (the ones contained in those two volumes) kinda sucked. The anime started picking up steam from episode 4 onwards.

        Either that, or the fact that Gravure Vol. 4 apparently had swimsuits.

        • http://www.siliconera.com Ishaan

          We will never understand the thinking of crazy Idolmaster fans. :(

        • Juuu

          It could very well be episode quality rather than costumes, since vol. 1 was also a swimsuit game. To be fair, wasn’t volume one packaged exclusively with the IM@S 2 special edition? Anyways, if it is episodes, expect whatever game comes packaged with ep. 20/21 to sell like hotcakes. ;p It’s considered the best of the run.

  • mat kuria

    From Software is a powerhouse to be reckoned with, anything they make is worthy of purchasing. Also Best of luck to the Vita’s first steps to recovery, it jumped an extra 3k sales from last week (for 15k to 18k.) it now needs to keep that momentum and march forward!

  • https://twitter.com/#!/Ojsinnerz Firo_Prochainezo

    Go AC, go!

  • skymap

    I’m glad to see Revelations do well. Hopefully it will do better in NA and EU and justify future games that evoke feelings of the classic series.

    • Luna Kazemaru

      RE is fine how it is now but yes Hope it sells well.

  • a b

    love from software,  but I haven’t played a ac since ps2;I ,might pick up ac5 once it reaches Canada .

  • SetzerGabbiani

    So, since Beyond the Labyrinth has tanked, I suppose that means we will not be getting it in the US.

    • malek86

      We might still get it, depending on what Konami thinks. Since the 3DS is a new platform, they might want to try and get ahold of the RPG public in the west. Also, maybe Nintendo will come to the rescue. They seem to be doing that often lately.

  • sandra10

    From Software games are now always on my radar after loving both Souls games to death. ACV looks really interesting but I’m worried about the framerate drops. I never found DS unplayable because of them but I think that has more to do with the combat. I don’t know how that will affect something like Armored Core which seems more action packed.

  • MrRobbyM

    Great work, FS! You’ve easily become one of my favorite devs within the past few years.

  • cj_iwakura

    Armored Souls confirmed for 2013. 

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

    Awesome, while Innocence: R sales weren’t amazing they made it to the top 3. I expected as much really, given it’s a remake of a game that was released not long ago on a very popular system in japan, this time on a system that still has a rather slim player based domestically.

    I hope the game keeps charting at least and tops the 100k sales in Japan, as I’d like to believe high sales for this game would translate into a higher chance of localization! 

  • PrinceHeir

    FFXIII-2 still hanging on :P

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Alex-Mcclure/1264855897 Alex Mcclure

    im thinking i should get armoured core on the ps3 rather than the xbox then

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