This Week In Sales: The Post-Holiday Apocalypse

Period: The week of January 7th – January 13th (2013)

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Top-seller: Animal Crossing: New Leaf – 83,220

Nintendo 3DS sales: 36,284 | Total sales: 7,848,868

Nintendo 3DS XL sales: 56,377 | Total sales: 2,302,932

PlayStation Vita sales: 11,088 | Total sales: 1,175,222

Wii U sales: 20,715 | Total sales: 715,085

<< Last week’s software sales chart

 

The week after the holidays is when sales drop across the board, and that’s what happened in Japan last week. Everything—hardware and software—dropped, and the top-20 sales chart comprised primarily of the strongest recent releases.

 

Being the current craze in Japan, Animal Crossing: New Leaf held on to its #1 spot, with another 83,000 copies sold. Following it was New Super Mario Bros. 2 at the #2 spot, with less then 22,000 copies moved during the week. Also worth noting are Yakuza 5 sales, which are at nearly 555,000 now.

 

Meanwhile, Level 5’s Fantasy Life dropped out of the top-20 entirely, although Konami’s Magician’s Quest: Town of Magic managed to hang on at the #15 position. Finally, barely making it into the top-20 was Professor Layton vs. Ace Attorney. This is probably the last time we’ll be seeing the game in the top-20 chart, so bid adieu to it while you can.

 

Finally, it bears mentioning that Run for Money Tousouchuu has blasted past Namco Bandai’s expectations. Namco expected Run for Money to sell 300,000 copies by the end of March. It’s currently already at 387,000 copies sold.

 

On the hardware front, Nintendo 3DS sales stabilized, while Wii U and Vita sales dropped. Wii U sales will likely remain low until Nintendo release more significant software for the system.

 

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

 

Lw Tw Title Weekly Sales Total Sales Sys. Publisher
01. 01. Animal Crossing: New Leaf 83,220 2,186,309 3DS Nintendo
02. 02. New Super Mario Bros. 2 21,784 1,855,840 3DS Nintendo
13. 03. Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate (Best Price!) 14,809 170,410 3DS Capcom
10. 04. Run for Money Tousouchuu 14,602 387,698 3DS Namco Bandai
03. 05. Paper Mario: Sticker Star 14,472 484,867 3DS Nintendo
04. 06. Inazuma Eleven Go 2: Chrono Stone – Neppuu/Raimei 13,834 379,369 3DS Level 5
16. 07. Fist of the North Star: Ken’s Rage 2 13,289 207,446 PS3 Tecmo Koei
05. 08. New Super Mario Bros. U 12,400 432,110 WiiU Nintendo
07. 09. Nintendo Land 11,703 262,176 WiiU Nintendo
12. 10. Taiko Drum Master: The Little Dragon and the Mysterious Orb 10,014 385,076 3DS Namco Bandai
18. 11. Yakuza 5 9,725 554,579 PS3 Sega
08. 12. One Piece Romance Dawn 9,046 273,785 PSP Namco Bandai
23. 13. Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 (Dubbed Version) 8,788 99,474 PS3 Square Enix
14. 14. Mario Kart 7 8,147 1,947,404 3DS Nintendo
09. 15. Magician’s Quest: Town of Magic 8,065 127,801 3DS Konami
27. 16. AKB1/149 Love Election 7,278 187,714 PSP Namco Bandai
11. 17. Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity 7,119 416,008 3DS Pokémon Co.
21. 18. Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational 6,951 247,322 PS3 Sony
25. 19. Pokémon Black/White 2 6,619 2,943,072 DS Pokémon Co.
15. 20. Professor Layton vs. Ace Attorney 5,907 255,596 3DS Level 5

 

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

 

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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.