This Week In Sales: The Last of Us Gets Off To A Good Start

Period: The week of June 17th – June 23rd (2013)

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Top-seller: The Last of Us – 117,465

Nintendo 3DS sales: 14,988 | Total sales: 8,369,615

Nintendo 3DS XL sales: 28,281 | Total sales: 3,294,802

PlayStation Vita sales: 13,422 | Total sales: 1,639,820

Wii U sales: 5,329 | Total sales: 953,228

<< Last week’s software sales chart

 

Last week, Sony released Naughty Dog’s latest game, The Last of Us, in Japan, and it got off to a good start with over 117,000 copies sold in its first week. Here’s how it compares to first-week sales of Naughty Dog’s previous PS3 games:

 

Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune – 16,702

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves – 53,827

Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception – 124,989

 

That puts The Last of Us right behind the highest-debuting Uncharted game in Japan to date. Not too shabby at all.

 

Other new releases for the week included Hyperdimension Idol Neptunia PP and Farewell Umihara Kawase. Meanwhile, Shin Megami Tensei IV appears to have sold through its first shipment and is likely on its second.

 

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

 

Lw Tw Title Weekly Sales Total Sales Sys. Publisher
New 01. The Last of Us 117,465 New PS3 Sony
01. 02. Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D 42,247 146,816 3DS Nintendo
02. 03. Tomodachi Collection: New Life 34,286 1,167,532 3DS Nintendo
New 04. Hyperdimension Idol Neptunia PP 29,933 New PSV Compile Heart
New 05. Kuma Tomo 12,705 New 3DS Namco Bandai
05. 06. Animal Crossing: New Leaf 12,491 3,290,847 3DS Nintendo
04. 07. Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon 11,859 793,519 3DS Nintendo
New 08. Farewell Umihara Kawase 11,058 New 3DS Agatsuma Ent.
New 09. Storm Lover 2nd 10,001 New PSP D3 Publisher
New 10. Ro-Kyu-Bu! Himitsu no Otoshimono 9,282 New PSP Kadokawa
08. 11. Terraria 5,192 47,741 PS3 Spike Chunsoft
06. 12. Resident Evil: Revelations 4,948 165,068 PS3 Capcom
11. 13. Taiko no Tatsujin: Super Splendid Edition 4,723 502,150 3DS Capcom
New 14. Winning Post 7 2013 4,413 New PSV Konami
03. 15. Gyrozetter: Wings of the Albatross 4,079 22,004 3DS Square Enix
10. 16. Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultimate Mission 3,957 212,273 3DS Namco Bandai
07. 17. Shin Megami Tensei IV 3,898 245,568 3DS Atlus
13. 18. Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate (Best Price!) 3,684 323,656 3DS Capcom
12. 19. New Super Mario Bros. 2 3,191 2,046,263 3DS Nintendo
14. 20. Mario Kart 7 3,122 2,067,213 3DS Nintendo

 

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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