This Week In Sales: A Slow Week That Even Ninjas Couldn’t Save

Period: The week of April 1st – April 7th (2013)

Top-seller: Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon – 68,423

Nintendo 3DS sales: 22,684 | Total sales: 8,185,209

Nintendo 3DS XL sales: 34,180 | Total sales: 2,909,930

PlayStation Vita sales: 19,328 | Total sales: 1,486,212

Wii U sales: 14,783 | Total sales: 869,030

<< Last week’s software sales chart

Last week was slow on new releases, so the only new game in the top-20 was Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge… which sold 9,659 copies at launch.

Topping the charts again was Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon, which appears to be developing quite the long tail. The game has proven to be a very strong seller and pushed another 70,000 copies last week. Behind it at #2 was Animal Crossing: New Leaf, with another 50,000 copies sold.

Namco Bandai’s games are doing well, too. One Piece: Pirate Warriors 2 has moved close to 360,000 copies on the PlayStation 3 and an additional 85,000 on the Vita.

Meanwhile, despite a relatively slow start, Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultimate Mission continues to sell week after week, and has reached 152,000 copies sold. This is likely due to its release being timed with the new Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods animated movie, and it isn’t Namco’s first 3DS game to show strong sales over a long period of time. Readers may recall Run for Money Tousouchuu and Taiko Drum Master: The Little Dragon and the Mysterious Orb doing very well, too.

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

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