This Week In Sales: Cave Returns With Dodonpachi Saidaioujou

Period: The week of May 27th – June 2nd (2013)

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Top-seller: Tomodachi Collection: New Life – 59,104

Nintendo 3DS sales: 14,057 | Total sales: 8,324,325

Nintendo 3DS XL sales: 28,807 | Total sales: 3,209,816

PlayStation Vita sales: 11,783 | Total sales: 1,606,001

Wii U sales: 6,680 | Total sales: 935,586

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Amidst a slow week in Japan, recent game releases had a chance to keep the spotlight to themselves a little longer. Shin Megami Tensei IV sold another 30,000 copies for the week, now at nearly 219,000 sold. The next few weeks should be interesting to see how the game holds up over time.

 

Meanwhile, Resident Evil: Revelations is at 135,000 sold on PlayStation 3, behind Kamen Rider Battride War’s 149,000. On the new release slate was Cave’s Dodonpachi Saidaioujou, which sold 9,300 copies for the week.

 

As an aside, the budget re-release of Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate is still selling a few copies each week, with total sales of the game exceeding Capcom’s initial forecasts. Capcom have also begun airing TV commercials for Monster Hunter 4 in Japan, and recently announced that they hope to sell 2.8 million copies of the game by March 31st, 2014. The game is slated for release on September 14th.

 

The top-20 chart for the week was as follows:

 

Lw Tw Title Weekly Sales Total Sales Sys. Publisher
04. 01. Tomodachi Collection: New Life 59,104 1,044,088 3DS Nintendo
03. 02. Resident Evil: Revelations 32,193 134,866 PS3 Capcom
01. 03. Shin Megami Tensei IV 30,424 218,987 3DS Atlus
02. 04. Kamen Rider: Battride War 20,076 148,735 PS3 Namco Bandai
07. 05. Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon 19,649 750,953 3DS Nintendo
08. 06. Animal Crossing: New Leaf 16,870 3,249,710 3DS Nintendo
New 07. Norn9: Norn + Nonette 14,836 New PSP Idea Factory
05. 08. Valhalla Knights 3 11,128 51,485 PSV Marvelous AQL
New 09. Dodonpachi Saidaioujou 9,344 New 360 Cave
06. 10. Terraria 8,470 28,322 PS3 Spike Chunsoft
New 11. Haiyore! Nyaruko-San: Nafushigatai Game no You na Mono 6,836 New PSV 5pb.
09. 12. Summon Night 5 5,999 125,134 PSP Namco Bandai
13. 13. Taiko no Tatsujin: Super Splendid Edition 5,563 488,493 Wii Namco Bandai
15. 14. Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultimate Mission 5,301 198,461 3DS Namco Bandai
17. 15. New Super Mario Bros. 2 3,966 2,036,147 3DS Nintendo
12. 16. Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen 3,636 187,724 PS3 Capcom
19. 17. Mario Kart 7 3,418 2,057,664 3DS Nintendo
14. 18. Zillions of Enemy X 2,954 7,973 PS3 Nippon Ichi
22. 19. Run for Money Tousouchuu 2,920 491,549 3DS Namco Bandai
20. 20. Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate (Best Price!) 2,893 312,977 3DS Capcom

 

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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