This Week In Sales: Yakuza Zero Travels Back In Time

Period: The week of March 9th  – March 15th (2015)

Top-seller: Yakuza Zero (PS3) – 145,823

Nintendo 3DS sales: 2,666 | Tot. sales: : 9,820,738

Nintendo 3DS XL sales: 2,590 | Tot. sales: 6,888,456

New Nintendo 3DS sales: 7,164 | Tot. sales: 499,011

New Nintendo 3DS XL sales: 19,668 | Tot. sales: 1,191,823

PlayStation Vita sales: 20,103 | Tot. sales: 3,615,231

Vita TV sales: 688 | Tot. sales: 158,127

Wii U sales: 7,054 | Tot. sales: 2,247,836

PlayStation 4 sales: 33,826 | Tot. sales: 1,257,260

Xbox One sales: 307 | Tot. sales: 48,513

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Last week, Sega released Yakuza Zero in Japan on both PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4. The game sold a combined total of 236,329 copies at launch across both platforms, which is among the lower debuts for a Yakuza game in recent years. Below is a look at how some of the more recent Yakuza titles have debuted in Japan:

• (2010) Yakuza 4 – 383,972
• (2011) Yakuza: Dead Souls – 307,019
• (2012) Yakuza 5 – 356,757
• (2014) Yakuza Restoration – 220,698

One could make the argument that Yakuza Zero isn’t a main numbered Yakuza title since it isn’t Yakuza 6, but at the same time it isn’t a spin-off game set in an entirely different time period like Yakuza Kenzan or Restoration either.

Meanwhile, Bandai Namco released Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth in Japan, and the game sold 76,760 copies in its first week. That’s a slightly lower opening than its predecessor, Digimon World Re:Digitize. That game sold 85,817 copies at launch.

And with that, the top-20 software sales chart for last week is as follows:

Sales data acquired from 4Gamer and Media Create.