This Week In Sales: Wild Pokémon Art Academy Appears

Period: The week of June 16th – June 22nd (2014)

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Top-seller: Pokémon Art Academy (3DS) – 31,080

Nintendo 3DS sales: 4,852 | Total sales: 9,521,943

Nintendo 3DS XL sales: 21,459 | Total sales: 6,176,932

PlayStation Vita sales: 11,937 | Total sales: 2,858,587

Vita TV sales: 1,444 | 118,348

Wii U sales: 10,715 | Total sales: 1,801,596

PlayStation 4 sales: 7,009 | 612,560

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Last week was relatively slow in terms of new releases in Japan. Pokémon Art Academy debuted at 31,080 copies and was the best-selling game for the week.

 

The other two new releases that managed to make an appearance in the top-20 software sales chart were Nippon Ichi’s Firefly’s Diary (9,744 copies) and Bandai Namco’s Casting Voice (7,524 copies).

 

The top-20 software sales chart for last week is as follows:

 

Lw Tw Title Weekly Sales Total Sales Sys. Publisher
New 01. Pokémon Art Academy 31,080 New 3DS Nintendo
02. 02. Yo-kai Watch 30,394 1,117,611 3DS Level-5
01. 03. Mario Kart 8 28,112 469,316 WiiU Nintendo
04. 04. Pro Evolution Soccer 2014: Challenge of the Blue Samurai 20,600 123,867 PS3 Konami
03. 05. Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth 11,979 230,307 3DS Alus
New 06. htoL#NiQ (Firefly’s Diary) 9,744 New PSV Nippon Ichi
New 07. Casting Voice 7,524 New PS3 Bandai Namco
07. 08. Pro Evolution Soccer 2014: Challenge of the Blue Samurai 7,374 50,288 3DS Konami
06. 09. One Piece Unlimited World: Red 6,307 24,333 PS3 Bandai Namco
10. 10. FIFA14: World Class Soccer 5,867 47,303 PS4 Electronic Arts
05. 11. The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Blue Evolution 5,657 25,316 PSV Falcom
13. 12. Pokémon X and Y 4,828 4,088,012 3DS Pokémon Co.
18. 13. Pro Evolution Soccer 2014: Challenge of the Blue Samurai 4,541 23,154 PSP Konami
15. 14. One Piece Unlimited World: Red 4,072 14,421 PSV Bandai Namco
16. 15. Mario Kart 7 3,983 2,339,820 3DS Nintendo
14. 16. Mario Party: Island Tour 3,836 397,379 3DS Nintendo
17. 17. Monster Hunter 4 3,383 3,296,439 3DS Capcom
09. 18. Cardfight!! Vanguard Lock On Victory!! 3,284 42,852 3DS FuRyu
19. 19. Kirby Triple Deluxe 3,051 602,562 3DS Nintendo
06. 20. Animal Crossing: New Leaf 3,004 3,749,733 3DS Nintendo

 

Sales data acquired from 4Gamer and Media Create.

Ishaan Sahdev
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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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