This Week In Sales: Square Enix Releases Diablo III: Reaper of Souls

Period: The week of August 18th – August 24th (2014)

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Top-seller: Yo-kai Watch 2 (3DS) – 77,465

Nintendo 3DS sales: 6,914 | Total sales: 9,582,949

Nintendo 3DS XL sales: 28,788 | Total sales: 6,476,226

PlayStation Vita sales: 15,309 | Total sales: 3,057,748

Vita TV sales: 1,118 | 134,570

Wii U sales: 8,985 | Total sales: 1,898,896

PlayStation 4 sales: 5,923 | 671,683

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Last week saw a fair few new releases in Japan, but none of them performed spectacularly well. The Last of Us Remastered made its debut on PS4 and sold 30,587 copies in its first week. Meanwhile, Bullet Girls on the Vita sold 29,690 copies.

 

Also out last week were two versions of Diablo III: Reaper of Souls—one for PlayStation 3 and one for PlayStation 4, selling a combined total of 33,648 copies. Both versions of the game were published by Square Enix under their “Extreme Edges” label, which is used for Western games such as Call of Duty.

 

Meanwhile, coming out of Obon week, hardware and software sales across the board took a dive. This is most evident in the case of Yo-kai Watch 2, which fell from 118,526 copies the week prior to 77,465 copies. That said, I doubt Level 5 have any reason to complain—the game is already at 2.28 million copies sold at retail.

 

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

 

Lw Tw Title Weekly Sales Total Sales Sys. Publisher
01. 01. Yo-kai Watch 2: Head/Founder 77,465 2,289,983 3DS Level 5
New 02. The Last of Us Remastered 30,587 New PS4 Sony
New 03. Bullet Girls 29,690 New PSV D3 Publisher
New 04. Diablo III: Reaper of Souls Ultimate Evil Edition 17,832 New PS4 Square Enix
New 05. Diablo III: Reaper of Souls Ultimate Evil Edition 15,816 New PS3 Square Enix
02.
06. Hyrule Warriors 15,142 84,232 WiiU Koei Tecmo
03. 07. Yoshi’s New Island 12,931 157,092 3DS Nintendo
04. 08. Mario Kart 8 12,075 639,710 WiiU Nintendo
05. 09. Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultimate Mission 2 10,831 119,689 3DS Bandai Namco
07. 10. Ultra Street Fighter IV 7,928 61,859 PS3 Capcom
08. 11. Taiko Drum Master: Don and Katsu’s Great Space-Time Adventure 7,246 145,967 3DS Bandai Namco
09. 12. Yo-kai Watch 7,189 1,252,231 3DS Level 5
06. 13. Monster Hunter Frontier G (Beginner’s Package) 5,183 26,352 PSV Capcom
New 14. Chaos;Head Dual 4,662 New PSV 5pb.
13. 15. Pokémon X and Y 4,255 4,132,144 3DS Pokémon Co.
12. 16. Grand Theft Auto V (Bargain Edition) 3,938 49,220 PS3 Take 2
10. 17. Senran Kagura 2: Deep Crimson 3,829 59,948 3DS Marvelous
14. 18. Mario Kart 7 3,376 2,371,488 3DS Nintendo
18. 19. Animal Crossing: New Leaf 3,367 3,778,065 3DS Nintendo
20. 20. Monster Hunter 4 3,321 3,330,825 3DS Capcom

 

Sales data acquired from 4Gamer and Media Create.

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