Period: The week of May 7th – May 13th (2012)
Top-seller: Mario Party 9 – 37,353
Nintendo 3DS sales: 46,425 | Total sales: 5,955,834
PlayStation Vita sales: 6,340 | Total sales: 697,099
The week after Japan’s Golden Week holiday ended led to a decline in software and hardware sales across the board, owing to a lack of new releases and the working/studying population getting back into the daily grind. As a result, the highest selling game for the week was Mario Party 9 once again with just 37,000 copies sold during the week.
At #2 was Fire Emblem: Awakening, which continues to sell well week after week. The only new release for the week was Sony’s StarHawk (above), at the #4 slot with close to 13,000 copies sold.
In the realm of hardware sales, the Nintendo 3DS dropped by about half from the week prior to 46,000 units sold for the week. Meanwhile, PlayStation Vita dropped to just 6,000 units sold.
The top-20 software sales chart for the week is as follows:
| Lw | Tw | Title | Weekly Sales | Total Sales | Sys. | Publisher |
| 01. | 01. | Mario Party 9 | 37,353 | 334,821 | Wii | Nintendo |
| 03. | 02. | Fire Emblem: Awakening | 16,530 | 361,790 | 3DS | Nintendo |
| 02. | 03. | Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City | 14,553 | 319,505 | PS3 | Capcom |
| New | 04. | StarHawk | 12,873 | New | PS3 | Sony |
| 04. | 05. | Super Mario 3D Land | 11,260 | 1,574,788 | 3DS | Nintendo |
| 07. | 06. | Monster Hunter Tri G | 9,105 | 1,442,475 | 3DS | Capcom |
| 05. | 07. | Mario Kart 7 | 9,045 | 1,704,350 | 3DS | Nintendo |
| 06. | 08. | Kid Icarus: Uprising | 7,636 | 269,519 | 3DS | Nintendo |
| 08. | 09. | Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games | 4,933 | 162,270 | 3DS | Nintendo |
| 09. | 10. | Conception: Please Deliver My Child!! | 4,600 | 44,639 | PSP | Spike Chunsoft |
| 10. | 11. | Wii Sports Resort | 4,416 | 939,971 | Wii | Nintendo |
| 11. | 12. | Pro Baseball Spirits 2012 | 4,041 | 132,450 | PSP | Konami |
| 15. | 13. | Wii Party | 3,408 | 2,348,884 | Wii | Nintendo |
| 16. | 14. | Pro Baseball Spirits 2012 | 3,342 | 156,276 | PS3 | Konami |
| 14. | 15. | Dynasty Warriors Vs. | 3,231 | 27,423 | 3DS | Tecmo Koei |
| 12. | 16. | Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance | 3,204 | 311,688 | 3DS | Square Enix |
| 24. | 17. | Monster Hunter Portable 3rd (PSP The Best) | 3,104 | 252,765 | PSP | Capcom |
| 19. | 18. | Harvest Moon: The Land of Origin | 3,040 | 182,188 | 3DS | Mavelous AQL |
| 18. | 19. | The 2nd Super Robot Taisen Z: Regeneration Chapter | 2,959 | 331,392 | PSP | Namco Bandai |
| 13. | 20. | Pokémon Conquest | 2,819 | 320,885 | DS | Pokémon Co. |
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