This Week In Sales: Final Fantasy Type-0 Returns In HD

Period: The week of March 16th  – March 22nd (2015) Top-seller: Final Fantasy Type-0 HD (PS4) – 92,094 Nintendo 3DS sales: 2,371 | Tot. sales: : 9,823,109 Nintendo 3DS XL sales: 2,115 | Tot. sales: 6,890,571 New Nintendo 3DS sales: 6,566 | Tot. sales: 505,577 New Nintendo 3DS XL sales: 17,652 | Tot. sales: 1,209,475 PlayStation Vita sales: 20,923 | Tot. sales: 3,636,154 Vita TV sales: 639 | Tot. sales: 158,766 Wii U sales: 7,595 | Tot. sales: 2,255,431 PlayStation 4 sales: 46,395 | Tot. sales: 1,303,655 Xbox One sales: 344 | Tot. sales: 48,857 << Last week’s software sales chart << How to read and understand sales   Last week, Square Enix released Final Fantasy Type-0 HD in Japan, and the game sold 92,094 copies in its first week. Despite being a port of a PSP game, that’s a fairly low debut, but logic dictates that since Square developed Type-0 HD primarily for Western markets, it’s really the U.S. and European sales figures that one should be looking out for.   Meanwhile, a retail version of Resident Evil: Revelations 2 was released last week as well, and sold a combined total of 115,731 copies across PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 in its first week. That’s less than the original Resident Evil: Revelations, which debuted at 147,000 units on the Nintendo 3DS, but again, this is a case of a game having been created primarily for the West, judging by the episodic release model.   Finally, it’s interesting to note that while major Japanese releases perform better on PlayStation 3 than on PlayStation 4, it’s the other way around in the case of Western-developed games. This was demonstrated once again last week with EA’s Battlefield: Hard Line selling more than twice the amount on the PS4 as it did on PS3. (Meanwhile, Resident Evil predictably sold more on PS3.)   And with that, the top-20 software sales chart for last week is as follows:  

  Sales data acquired from 4Gamer and Media Create.