This Week In Sales: Gundam And Toukiden Lead A Wave Of New Games

Period: The week of June 24th – June 30th (2013)

Top-seller: Gundam Breaker – 200,564

Nintendo 3DS sales: 17,440 | Total sales: 8,387,055

Nintendo 3DS XL sales: 33,272 | Total sales: 3,328,074

PlayStation Vita sales: 31,271 | Total sales: 1,671,091

Wii U sales: 7,060 | Total sales: 960,288

<< Last week’s software sales chart

Last week saw the release of another Gundam game in Japan from Namco Bandai. Gundam Breaker, where you battle using plastic Gundam models, sold a whopping 200,564 in its first week.

At #2 was the PlayStation Vita version of Toukiden, Tecmo Koei’s Monster Hunter-esque game set in medieval Japan. On Vita, Toukiden sold 122,794 copies in its first week, while the PSP version sold another 66,6016 copies.

Also released last week was Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium Girl from Atlus. The game sold 88,278 copies in its first week, which gives it the second-highest debut of the series, behind Etrian Odyssey IV. Here’s how the series’ first-week sales have looked so far:

(2007) Etrian Odyssey – 32,511

(2008) Etrian Odyssey II – 68,913

(2010) Etrian Odyssey III – 87,765

(2012) Etrian Odyssey IV – 95,506

Finally, Gust’s Atelier Escha & Logy for PlayStation 3 was released last week as well, and sold 57,550 copies in week 1. To see how that compares to past Atelier games on PlayStation 3, check out this previous report.

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

Sales data acquired from 4Gamer, Media Create and Geimin.net.