This Week In Sales: Yakuza Zero Travels Back In Time

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Period: The week of March 9th  – March 15th (2015)

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Top-seller: Yakuza Zero (PS3) – 145,823

Nintendo 3DS sales: 2,666 | Tot. sales: : 9,820,738

Nintendo 3DS XL sales: 2,590 | Tot. sales: 6,888,456

New Nintendo 3DS sales: 7,164 | Tot. sales: 499,011

New Nintendo 3DS XL sales: 19,668 | Tot. sales: 1,191,823

PlayStation Vita sales: 20,103 | Tot. sales: 3,615,231

Vita TV sales: 688 | Tot. sales: 158,127

Wii U sales: 7,054 | Tot. sales: 2,247,836

PlayStation 4 sales: 33,826 | Tot. sales: 1,257,260

Xbox One sales: 307 | Tot. sales: 48,513

<< Last week’s software sales chart

<< How to read and understand sales

 

Last week, Sega released Yakuza Zero in Japan on both PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4. The game sold a combined total of 236,329 copies at launch across both platforms, which is among the lower debuts for a Yakuza game in recent years. Below is a look at how some of the more recent Yakuza titles have debuted in Japan:

 

  • (2010) Yakuza 4 – 383,972
  • (2011) Yakuza: Dead Souls – 307,019
  • (2012) Yakuza 5 – 356,757
  • (2014) Yakuza Restoration – 220,698

 

One could make the argument that Yakuza Zero isn’t a main numbered Yakuza title since it isn’t Yakuza 6, but at the same time it isn’t a spin-off game set in an entirely different time period like Yakuza Kenzan or Restoration either.

 

Meanwhile, Bandai Namco released Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth in Japan, and the game sold 76,760 copies in its first week. That’s a slightly lower opening than its predecessor, Digimon World Re:Digitize. That game sold 85,817 copies at launch.

 

And with that, the top-20 software sales chart for last week is as follows:

 

Lw Tw Title Weekly Sales Total Sales Sys. Publisher
New 01. Yakuza Zero 145,823 New PS3 Sega
New 02. Yakuza Zero 90,506 New PS4 Sega
New 03. Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth 76,760 New PSV Bandai Namco
New 04. Uta no Prince-sama: All Star After Secret 67,237 New PSP Broccoli
New 05. Mario Party 10 50,212 New WiiU Nintendo
01. 06. Dragon Quest Heroes 33,448 426,408 PS3 Square Enix
New 07. Assassination Classroom: Koro-sensei The Great Siege!! 25,494 New 3DS Bandai Namco
04. 08. The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask 3D 15,941 381,702 3DS Nintendo
03. 09. Dragon Quest Heroes 14,744 319,473 PS4 Square Enix
New 10. Harukanaru Toki no Naka de 13,601 New PSV Koei Tecmo
08. 11. Yo-kai Watch 2: Headliner 11,701 2,539,885 3DS Level 5
10. 12. Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire 10,768 2,559,923 3DS Pokémon Co.
06. 13. God Eater 2: Rage Burst 10,406 299,945 PSV Bandai Namco
New 14. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Sui 9,879 New PSV Kaga Create
11. 15. Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS 6,965 2,180,208 3DS Nintendo
New 16. Winning Post 8 2015 6,943 New PS3 Konami
12. 17. Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate 6,100 2,498,432 3DS Capcom
09. 18. LEGO City Undercover: The Chase Begins 5,993 19,277 3DS Nintendo
New 19. Winning Post 8 2015 5,933 New PSV Konami
33. 20. Samurai Warriors 4-II 5,729 39,423 PSV Koei Tecmo

 

Sales data acquired from 4Gamer and Media Create.


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Ishaan specializes in game design/sales analysis. He's the former managing editor of Siliconera and wrote the book "The Legend of Zelda - A Complete Development History". He also used to moonlight as a professional manga editor. These days, his day job has nothing to do with games, but the two inform each other nonetheless.