By Period: The week of October 8th – October 14th (2012)
Top-seller: Bravely Default: Flying Fairy – 141,529
Nintendo 3DS sales: 27,221 | Total sales: 6,942,561
Nintendo 3DS XL sales: 52,079 | Total sales: 744,117
PlayStation Vita sales: 6,134 | Total sales: 1,008,253
<< Last week’s software sales chart
Bravely Default: Flying Fairy, Square Enix’s new Nintendo 3DS RPG, was last week’s big release in Japan, and it came out the gate with 141,529 copies sold in its first week. That’s a great debut for a new franchise, and it’s even better when you compare it to first-week sales of Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light.
Released in 2009 for the Nintendo DS, Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light sold 114,714 copies in its first week. Bravely Default, which looks like something of a spiritual successor, outselling it without the help of the Final Fantasy brand is quite something. Congratulations to producer, Tomoya Asano, and writer, Naotaka Hayashi, on a brand new game!
The other Nintendo 3DS role-playing game that released last week was Namco Bandai’s Project X Zone, the strategy RPG that features characters from Capcom, Namco Bandai and Sega franchises. Project X Zone sold 85,539 copies in its first week.
Things didn’t go quite as well for Time and Eternity: Toki Towa, however. That game sold a mere 32,000 copies, joining Sol Trigger as another recent Imageepoch-developed game with sales on the low side.
The top-20 chart for the week was as follows:
| Lw | Tw | Title | Weekly Sales | Total Sales | Sys. | Publisher |
| New | 01. | Bravely Default: Flying Fairy | 141,529 | New | 3DS | Square Enix |
| 01. | 02. | Resident Evil 6 | 92,921 | 727,854 | PS3 | Capcom |
| New | 03. | Project X Zone | 85,539 | New | 3DS | Namco Bandai |
| 02. | 04. | Pro Evolution Soccer 2013 | 50,144 | 274,028 | PS3 | Konami |
| New | 05. | Time and Eternity: Toki Towa | 32,215 | New | PS3 | Namco Bandai |
| 07. | 06. | New Super Mario Bros. 2 | 29,651 | 1,246,707 | 3DS | Nintendo |
| 06. | 07. | Style Savvy: Trendsetters | 22,195 | 122,391 | 3DS | Nintendo |
| 11. | 08. | Run for Money Tousouchuu | 18,458 | 190,370 | 3DS | Namco Bandai |
| New | 09. | Rocksmith | 13,964 | New | PS3 | Ubisoft |
| New | 10. | Diabolik Lovers | 13,173 | New | PSP | Idea Factory |
| 08. | 11. | SD Gundam G Generation Overworld | 10,788 | 249,333 | PSP | Namco Bandai |
| 04. | 12. | Sol Trigger | 10,197 | 52,234 | PSP | Imageepoch |
| 10. | 13. | Pokémon Black/White 2 | 10,100 | 2,799,467 | DS | Pokémon Co. |
| New | 14. | Dishonored | 9,984 | New | PS3 | Bethesda |
| 18. | 15. | Summon Night 3 | 8,823 | 60,276 | PSP | Namco Bandai |
| 12. | 16. | Art Academy: Lessons for Everyone! | 7,255 | 86,014 | 3DS | Nintendo |
| 15. | 17. | Taiko Drum Master: The Little Dragon and the Mysterious Orb | 6,410 | 235,676 | 3DS | Namco Bandai |
| 14. | 18. | Final Fantasy III | 5,048 | 74,118 | PSP | Square Enix |
| 19. | 19. | Demon Training | 4,639 | 178,791 | 3DS | Nintendo |
| 22. | 20. | Kobitodsukan Kobito Kansatsu Set | 4,536 | 110,398 | 3DS | Nippon Columbia |
Sales data acquired from 4Gamer, Media Create and Geimin.net.
