This Week In Sales: Professor Layton vs. Ace Attorney Goes To Court

Period: The week of November 26th – December 2nd (2012)

Top-seller: The 2nd Super Robot Taisen OG – 217,710

Nintendo 3DS sales: 60,651 | Total sales: 7,243,384

Nintendo 3DS XL sales: 106,757 | Total sales: 1,344,495

PlayStation Vita sales: 11,066 | Total sales: 1,063,582

<< Last week’s software sales chart

Last week’s best-seller was The 2nd Super Robot Taisen OG, Namco Bandai’s latest mecha crossover game for the PlayStation 3. The 2nd Super Robot Taisen OG sold 217,710 copies in its first week.

At #2 was Professor Layton vs. Ace Attorney, which sold 128,856 copies in its first week. Initially announced way back in 2010, the game was finally released last week, following a long period of silence, which was broken around the time of the Tokyo Game Show this year.

We’ll have to wait and see if sales tracker, Media Create, provide any sell-through figures for the game later in the week. Until then, let’s hold off on further judgment.

Next week’s sales column will feature the Wii U launch, giving us an idea of how Nintendo’s new console did in its first week on Japanese store shelves. How will it do? We’ll find out soon enough.

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

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