This Week In Sales: My Little Sister Isn’t Afraid Of Eternal Punishment

Period: The week of May 14th – May 20th (2012)

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Top-seller: My Little Sister Can’t Be This Cute Portable Can’t Possibly Continue – 53,175

Nintendo 3DS sales: 45,752 | Total sales: 6,001,586

PlayStation Vita sales: 6,347 | Total sales: 703,446

 

Persona 2: Eternal Punishment on PSP didn’t fare as well as its predecessor in Japan—at least not at retail stores. Where the PSP port of Innocent Sin sold close to 63,000 copies in its first week, Eternal Punishment only sold 24,500. Meanwhile, Persona 3 Portable debuted at about 94,000 copies sold.

 

Hopefully, we’ll get an idea of how many copies of Eternal Punishment Atlus shipped later this week. One plausible theory for the lower sales is that, perhaps there are simply less fans that care for the older style of Persona games after the releases of Persona 3 and Persona 4.

 

Persona 2: Eternal Punishment was only the #2 game of the week, however. The #1 spot was stolen by Namco Bandai’s My Little Sister Can’t Be This Cute Portable Can’t Possibly Continue. That game sold 53,000 copies.

 

Here are a few other interesting sales tidbits we noticed for the week:

1. Harvest Moon: The Land of Origin continues to sell well. Producer, Yoshifumi Hashimoto, revealed on the series’ blog this week that 200,000 copies of the game have been shipped so far, due to consistent sales.

 

2. Pokémon Black/White are back in the top-20. Will we see them move further up the chart as anticipation for Black/White 2 builds and fuels further sales of the originals?

 

3. Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance dropped out of the top-20. Fire Emblem: Awakening, however, is still in the top-10. KH3D’s sales as of two weeks ago were 311,688. Fire Emblem has already surpassed it and it doesn’t look like the gap between the two will grow smaller any time soon.

 

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

 

Lw Tw Title Weekly Sales Total Sales Sys. Publisher
New 01. My Little Sister Can’t Be This Cute Portable Can’t Possibly Continue 53,175 New PSP Namco Bandai
01. 02. Mario Party 9 25,123 359,943 Wii Nintendo
New 03. Persona 2: Eternal Punishment 24,547 New PSP Atlus
02. 04. Fire Emblem: Awakening 14,913 376,703 3DS Nintendo
New 05. Brothers Conflict Passion Pink 10,911 New PSP Idea Factory
05. 06. Super Mario 3D Land 10,450 1,585,238 3DS Nintendo
07. 07. Mario Kart 7 8,569 1,712,918 3DS Nintendo
06. 08. Monster Hunter Tri G 8,334 1,450,809 3DS Capcom
03. 09. Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City 6,625 326,130 PS3 Capcom
08. 10. Kid Icarus: Uprising 6,232 275,752 3DS Nintendo
New 11. Pachipara 3D: Ocean Story 2 6,144 New 3DS Irem
09. 12. Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games 5,041 167,311 3DS Nintendo
15. 13. StarHawk 4,522 17,395 PS3 Sony
11. 14. Wii Sports Resort 4,416 944,388 Wii Nintendo
13. 15. Wii Party 3,309 2,352,193 Wii Nintendo
12. 16. Pro Baseball Spirits 2012 3,266 135,716 PSP Konami
17. 17. Monster Hunter Portable 3rd (PSP The Best) 2,807 255,572 PSP Capcom
18. 18. Harvest Moon: The Land of Origin 2,718 184,906 3DS Mavelous AQL
New 19. Bunmei Kaika: Aoiza Ibunroku Saien 2,694 New PSP FuRyu
25. 20. Pokémon Black/White 2,551 5,471,875 DS Pokémon Co.

 

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Sales data acquired from 4Gamer, Media-Create and Geimin.net.
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Ishaan Sahdev
Ishaan specializes in game design/sales analysis. He's the former managing editor of Siliconera and wrote the book "The Legend of Zelda - A Complete Development History". He also used to moonlight as a professional manga editor. These days, his day job has nothing to do with games, but the two inform each other nonetheless.