It looks like everyone chose to release everything the week of January 24th – 30th. Okay, maybe not everything, but you’ll recognize a lot of names on this week’s top-20 software sales list. Naturally, some of these games fared better than others. Let’s take a look.
Mistwalker and Nintendo’s The Last Story led the new release charge at the #1 spot with 114,722 units sold in three days. The closest comparison we’d make is the PlayStation 3 version of Resonance of Fate — also an entirely new franchise — which debuted at 118,000 units back in Jan 2010.
Certainly not a bad number, but when you consider the talent associated with The Last Story, one would have hoped to see a bigger release. Thankfully, The Last Story’s debut numbers are a slight improvement over Nintendo’s last RPG, Xenoblade, which moved around 83,000 copies during its own launch. Next week’s numbers should give us a better idea of what to expect of the game.
At #2 was Sega’s Valkyria Chronicles 3 at 102,779 units. Something to note is that Valkyria 3 is exhibiting the best debut numbers in the series yet. The original Valkyria Chronicles opened at 77,000 units while Valkyria 2 debuted at 94,000 units.
Following Valkyria 3 were My Little Sister Can’t Be This Cute, Kenka Bancho 5 and A Certain Magical Index, all on the PSP. #5 saw the release of another high-profile role-playing game, Bioware’s Dragon Age: Origins, published in Japan by Spike.
The next batch of new releases that caught our attention were Tsuku Monogatari and GalGun, at #12 and #13 respectively. Tsuku Monogatari, which is developed by Lux-Pain developer, Killaware, in particular seemed interesting to us, and we covered it on the day of its Japanese release.
Games that failed to crack the top-20 included: Mindjack, Scribblenauts and the Sly Cooper Collection. The top-20 software sales list for the week was as follows:
Lw | Tw | Title | Weekly Sales | Total Sales | Sys. | Publisher |
New | 01. | The Last Story | 114,722 | New | Wii | Nintendo |
New | 02. | Valkyria Chronicles 3 | 102,779 | New | PSP | Sega |
New | 03. | My Little Sister Can’t Be This Cute Portable | 88,493 | New | PSP | Namco Bandai |
New | 04. | Kenka Bancho 5 | 58,977 | New | PSP | Spike |
New | 05. | A Certain Magical Index | 56,017 | New | PSP | ASCII Media Works |
New | 06. | Dragon Age: Origins | 42,854 | New | PS3 | Spike |
02. | 07. | Monster Hunter Portable 3rd | 33,338 | 4,128,278 | PSP | Capcom |
New | 08. | Dream Club Zero | 21,734 | New | 360 | D3 Publisher |
01. | 09. | Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep Final Mix | 20,528 | 97,846 | PSP | Square Enix |
03. | 10. | Donkey Kong Country Returns | 19,214 | 773,893 | Wii | Nintendo |
New | 11. | Dragon Age: Origins | 14,000 | New | 360 | Spike |
New | 12. | Tsuku Monogatari | 13,329 | New | PSP | FuRyu |
New | 13. | Galgun | 12,419 | New | 360 | Alchemist |
09. | 14. | Wii Party | 10,778 | 1,767,425 | Wii | Nintendo |
New | 15. | Chaos;Head Love Chu☆Chu! | 10,753 | New | PSP | Namco Bandai |
08. | 16. | Pokémon Black/White | 10,654 | 5,050,638 | DS | Nintendo |
07. | 17. | Inazuma Eleven 3: Challenge the World – The Ogre | 10,437 | 388,350 | DS | Level 5 |
06. | 18. | Ni no Kuni: The Jet-Black Sorcerer | 8,814 | 459,967 | DS | Level 5 |
New | 19. | Monster Hunter Frontier Online (Season 10 Premium Pack) | 8,055 | New | 360 | Capcom |
05. | 20. | AKB 1/48 Fall In Love With An Idol | 7,916 | 359,859 | PSP | Namco Bandai |
Sales data acquired from 4Gamer and Media-Create.
Published: Feb 2, 2011 04:31 pm