This Week In Sales: Ghosts, Samurai And Doctors

Judging by sales of Hakuouki: Junsouroku, for better or worse, it appears Idea Factory have a limited loyal audience that are invested in the series, but expansion beyond this existing demographic doesn’t seem to be taking place.

For the sake of comparison, Hakuouki: Yuugi Roku, a minigame compilation released for PSP in May, moved 15,569 units in its first week. Unlike the PSP game, Junsouroku is a mainline visual novel entry, but still debuted with lower numbers. One reason for this could be that Junsouroku is a tweaked compilation of Hakuouki: Shinsengumi Kitan and associated fan-disc, Hakuouki Zuisouroku, both originally released for the PlayStation 2.

The top-ten for the week of June 14th – 20th is as follows:

Meanwhile, Super Mario Galaxy 2 returned to the #1 spot while Xenoblade took a dip. Interestingly, the game at #3, Art Academy, an art training game, is a DSiWare-to-DS retail port. It contains both Art Academy: First Semester and Art Academy: Second Semester and is Nintendo’s first DSiWare-to-retail conversion.

Slightly lower in the chart, Konami’s soccer games appear to be benefiting from the World Cup effect. And at the other end of the spectrum is Atlus’ Hospital — you may know it better as Trauma Team — which debuted well outside the top-ten at #19.

Thanks to fevh in the comments for reminding us that Hakuouki: Junsouroku is a compilation, not a new game!