Animal Crossing: New Leaf got off to a phenomenal start in Japan when it was released last week.

Nintendo president, Satoru Iwata, reveals that Nintendo shipped 600,000 copies of the game to stores .

Meanwhile, Okami HD did pretty well, too.

Namco Bandai revisit the world of Tales of Xillia with Tales of Xillia 2, featuring both familiar and new faces.

Sales tracker, Media Create, report on the Dark Souls with Artorias of the Abyss Edition sell-through.

Sega provide an update on Hatsune Miku: Project Diva f’s sales on PlayStation Vita.

Last week saw a slate of new releases in Japan, with Namco Bandai’s The Idolm@ster Shiny Festa taking the top spot.

The Little Battlers W, a sequel to 2011’s The Little Battlers, got off to a less-than-admirable start in Japan last week.

Last week’s biggest release in Japan was The Little Battlers W, the newest game in Level 5′s mecha series, but it wasn’t actually very “big” at all.

Sales tracker, Media Create, report that Bravely Default sold through 85.68% of its initial shipment.

Square Enix’s brand new role-playing game enjoys a great first-week debut.

That’s the highest number of pre-orders for a Resident Evil game since 2005.

Resident Evil 6 was last week’s big release in Japan, and demonstrated the strength of a popular brand once again.

…but none of them were the #1 seller. That honour went to SD Gundam G Generation Overworld.