This Week In Sales: They All Fall Down

Period: The week of May 7th – May 13th (2012)

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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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Sales data acquired from 4Gamer, Media-Create and Geimin.net.
Ishaan Sahdev
About The Author
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.

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