This Week In Sales: God Eater 2 To The Rescue

Period: The week of November 11th – November 17th (2013)

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Top-seller: God Eater 2 – 266,326

Nintendo 3DS sales: 22,250 | Total sales: 8,975,175

Nintendo 3DS XL sales: 47,852 | Total sales: 4,752,738

PlayStation Vita sales: 46,350 | Total sales: 2,050,635

Vita TV sales: 42,172

Wii U sales: 15,906 | Total sales: 1,169,954

<< Last week’s software sales chart

 

Last week, Namco Bandai released God Eater 2 for the PlayStation Vita and PSP in Japan. The game sold 266,326 copies on the Vita and another 112,024 copies on PSP, bringing total first-week sales to nearly 380,000. Here’s how that compares to past God Eater launches:

 

God Eater – 295,405

God Eater Burst – 263,150

 

That puts God Eater 2 a good bit ahead of the first game and its updated release. A good showing on Namco’s part. It should be interesting to watch how the game sells over the next few months, and if it can achieve the same long-term sales as its predecessor.

 

Meanwhile, PlayStation Vita sales saw a boost for the week, too, but perhaps not by as much as one would have expected. Alongside God Eater 2, Sony released the PlayStation Vita TV, and the combined launches of both products brought total Vita sales to about 90,000 units for the week. A good week for the Vita, but a little concerning for the system’s long-term sales, when one considers that God Eater 2 is likely to be the most high-profile Vita game for the foreseeable future.

 

Also released last week was the subtitled version of Call of Duty: Ghosts, which debuted at an impressive 200,000 copies between the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

 

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

 

Lw Tw Title Weekly Sales Total Sales Sys. Publisher
New 01. God Eater 2 266,326 New PSV Namco Bandai
New 02. Call of Duty: Ghosts (Subtitled Version) 190,631 New PS3 Square Enix
New 03. Pro Evolution Soccer 2014 151,800 New PS3 Konami
New 04. God Eater 2 112,024 New PSP Namco Bandai
02. 05. Pokémon X and Y 82,705 2,929,806 3DS Nintendo
New 06. Daigasso! Band Bros. P 40,196 New 3DS Nintendo
03. 07. Monster Hunter 4 26,358 2,938,669 3DS Capcom
New 08. Medabots DUAL: Kabuto and Kuwagata 21,454 New 3DS Rocket Company
06. 09. Grand Theft Auto V 20,144 579,822 PS3 Take 2
01. 10. Battlefield 4 19,291 140,990 PS3 Electronic Arts
New 11. Pro Evolution Soccer 2014 16,976 New PSP Konami
05. 12. PowerPros Baseball 2013 13,590 181,174 PS3 Konami
New 13. Call of Duty: Ghosts 12,950 New 360 Square Enix
New 14. Pro Evolution Soccer 2014 11,444 New 3DS Konami
07. 15. PowerPros Baseball 2013 8,943 107,799 PSP Konami
14. 16. Sentouchuu: Survival Battle with the Legendary Ninjas 7,981 95,304 3DS Namco Bandai
11. 17. Wii Party U 60,693 New WiiU Nintendo
New 18. Arcana Famiglia 2 6,198 New PSP Comfort
04. 19. Akiba’s Trip 2 6,074 39,550 PSV Acquire
New 20. Model Stylish Audition: Dream Girl 5,999 New 3DS Alchemist

 

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.