Period: The week of May 16th – May 22nd (2011)
Top-seller: Akiba’s Trip – 58,150
Nintendo 3DS sales: 17,240 | Total sales: 1,013,259
The week of May 16th – 22nd saw the Nintendo 3DS finally cross the 1 million mark. Weekly sales remained slow at 17,240 units, however, owing to the as yet unchanged lack of popular software to persuade consumers to invest in the system.
Software-wise, Akiba’s Trip occupied the top spot in the software sales chart, with 58,150 copies sold. That’s 58,150 people learning to protect Akihabara against a potential vampire threat…and learning to perform continuous strip combos.
At #2 was Dead or Alive: Dimensions for the Nintendo 3DS. The Team Ninja game sold 23,078 copies in its first week on store shelves. For comparison, Dead or Alive 4 for the Xbox 360 debuted at 44,853 copies at the end of 2005. It launched a month after the release of the Xbox 360 in Japan, and was an anticipated game for the system.
Following at #4 was Gungnir, while Portal 2 also charted at #6 (PS3) and #20 (360). The full top-20 chart for the week is as follows:
| Lw | Tw | Title | Weekly Sales | Total Sales | Sys. | Publisher |
| New | 01. | Akiba’s Trip | 58,150 | New | PSP | Acquire |
| New | 02. | Dead or Alive: Dimensions | 23,078 | New | 3DS | Tecmo Koei |
| 01. | 03. | Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 Professional | 19,290 | 494,793 | DS | Square Enix |
| New | 04. | Gungnir | 16,355 | New | PSP | Atlus |
| 05. | 05. | Patapon 3 | 11,458 | 95,341 | PSP | Sony |
| New | 06. | Portal 2 | 8,942 | New | PS3 | Electronic Arts |
| 06. | 07. | Professional Baseball Spirits 2011 | 8,032 | 160,066 | PSP | Konami |
| 11. | 08. | Wii Party | 5,043 | 1,891,324 | Wii | Nintendo |
| 14. | 09. | Pokémon Black/White | 4,767 | 5,181,982 | DS | Nintendo |
| 03. | 10. | Steel Diver | 4,583 | 21,991 | 3DS | Nintendo |
| 09. | 11. | Professional Baseball Spirits 2011 | 4,401 | 151,465 | PS3 | Konami |
| 10. | 12. | The 2nd Super Robot Taisen Z | 4,100 | 403,064 | PSP | Namco Bandai |
| 12. | 13. | Monster Hunter Portable 3rd | 3,902 | 4,474,713 | PSP | Capcom |
| 04. | 14. | Reminiscences of Haruhi Suzumiya | 3,758 | 18,711 | PSP | Namco Bandai |
| New | 15. | Eliminage Original | 3,625 | New | PSP | Starfish SD |
| 18. | 16. | Mario Kart Wii | 3,562 | 3,228,399 | Wii | Nintendo |
| 02. | 17. | Reminiscences of Haruhi Suzumiya | 3,529 | 22,360 | PS3 | Namco Bandai |
| 08. | 18. | Tale of the Last Promise | 3,518 | 89,054 | PSP | Imageepoch |
| New | 19. | Portal 2 | 3,468 | New | 360 | Electronic Arts |
| 16. | 20. | Nintendogs + cats | 3,192 | 221,708 | 3DS | Nintendo |
Sales data acquired from 4Gamer, Media-Create and Geimin.net.
