Period: The week of April 16th – April 22nd (2012)
Top-seller: Fire Emblem: Awakening – 242,600
Nintendo 3DS sales: 84,760 | Total sales: 5,743,259
PlayStation Vita sales: 8,250 | Total sales: 667,877
Ladies and gentlemen, we now live in a world where Fire Emblem managed to outsell Kingdom Hearts in terms of first-week sales. Not that this has much bearing on the long-term sales of both new games—Kingdom Hearts 3D will likely outsell Fire Emblem: Awakening in the long run—but it is an accomplishment for Fire Emblem nonetheless.
Fire Emblem: Awakening, released last week for the Nintendo 3DS, sold 242,000 copies in its first week. This marks the strongest debut any Fire Emblem game has seen in several years. Take a look at the debut sales of some of the other recent games in the series:
Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn (Wii) | 2007 – 75,359
Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon (DS) | 2008 – 144,905
Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem (DS) | 2010 – 136,367
Something else that’s interesting is that Media-Create’s figures don’t paint a full picture of just how well Fire Emblem: Awakening did either. You may recall that Nintendo announced a new Nintendo 3DS bundle to celebrate the game’s release. This bundle was released exclusively via their online store in Japan and it appears that Media-Create haven’t taken these added sales into account, as the software chart makes no mention of the hardware bundle.
The top-20 software sales chart for the week is as follows:
| Lw | Tw | Title | Weekly Sales | Total Sales | Sys. | Publisher |
| New | 01. | Fire Emblem: Awakening | 242,600 | New | 3DS | Nintendo |
| New | 02. | Code of Princess | 19,554 | New | 3DS | Agatsuma |
| 03. | 03. | Super Mario 3D Land | 14,491 | 1,519,303 | 3DS | Nintendo |
| 01. | 04. | The 2nd Super Robot Taisen Z: Regeneration Chapter | 13,560 | 313,402 | PSP | Namco Bandai |
| 06. | 05. | Monster Hunter Tri G | 13,069 | 1,403,296 | 3DS | Capcom |
| 02. | 06. | Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance | 12,881 | 289,668 | 3DS | Square Enix |
| 05. | 07. | Kid Icarus: Uprising | 10,915 | 231,558 | 3DS | Nintendo |
| 08. | 08. | Mario Kart 7 | 10,892 | 1,660,759 | 3DS | Nintendo |
| New | 09. | Cho~ricchi! Tamagotchi no Puchi Puchi Omisecchi | 8,453 | New | 3DS | Namco Bandai |
| New | 10. | Detective Conan: Prelude to the Past | 8,312 | New | DS | Namco Bandai |
| 07. | 11. | Pro Baseball Spirits 2012 | 7,954 | 139,758 | PS3 | Konami |
| 04. | 12. | Pro Baseball Spirits 2012 | 7,833 | 111,919 | PSP | Konami |
| 09. | 13. | Pokémon Conquest | 6,976 | 302,950 | DS | Pokémon Co. |
| 10. | 14. | Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games | 6,104 | 137,326 | 3DS | Nintendo |
| 14. | 15. | Wii Sports Resort | 4,567 | 919,259 | Wii | Nintendo |
| New | 16. | Seinarukana: Spirit of Eternity Sword 2 | 4,406 | New | PSP | Cyberfront |
| New | 17. | Lord of the Rings: War in the North | 4,199 | New | PS3 | Warner Ent. Japan |
| New | 18. | Detective Conan: Prelude to the Past | 4,037 | New | PSP | Namco Bandai |
| 17. | 19. | Mario Kart Wii | 3,967 | 3,550,906 | Wii | Nintendo |
| New | 20. | Miyako Awayuki No Utage | 3,824 | New | PSP | Idea Factory |
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