This Week In Sales: Super Smash Bros. for Wii U

Period: The week of December 1st  – December 7th (2014)

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Top-seller: Super Smash Bros. for Wii U (Wii U) – 227,527

Nintendo 3DS sales: 38,846 | Tot. sales: 9,725,544

Nintendo 3DS XL sales: 17,319 | Tot. sales: 6,755,026

New Nintendo 3DS sales: 25,541 | Tot. sales: 238,312

New Nintendo 3DS XL sales: 63,714 | Tot. sales: 569,835

PlayStation Vita sales: 22,355 | Tot. sales: 3,274,436

Vita TV sales: 986 | Tot. sales: 147,186

Wii U sales: 24,469 | Tot. sales: 2,033,982

PlayStation 4 sales: 15,971 | Tot. sales: 838,525

Xbox One sales: 790 | Tot. sales: 40,488

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Last week saw the release of Super Smash Bros. for Wii U in Japan. The game sold 227,527 copies in its first week—not a great figure for a game like Smash, but not an unsurprising one either, given that the Nintendo 3DS version of the game was recently released, and on a more popular platform that is also more suited to Japan’s preference for portable gaming.

 

Meanwhile, Kadokawa Games released Derby Stallion Gold, the latest in the horse-racing and business-simulation series, for the Nintendo 3DS. It sold 73,616 copies in its first week. Also on 3DS, Bandai Namco’s Aikatsu! 365 Idol Days sold 33,151 copies. Both games target a relatively mainstream audience and should be interesting to watch in the weeks ahead.

 

Meanwhile, Arc System Works’ Guilty Gear Xrd –Sign- was also released in Japan last week, and between its PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 versions, sold 39,916 copies.

 

Finally, Spike Chunsoft released an updated version of their Nintendo 3DS Attack on Titan game, titled Attack on Titan: The Last Wings of Mankind CHAIN. The game sold 19,073 copies upon launch, but Spike are also making the update available to existing Attack on Titan owners as paid DLC, which would obviously affect retail sales.

 

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

 

Lw Tw Title Weekly Sales Total Sales Sys. Publisher
New 01. Super Smash Bros. for Wii U 227,527 New WiiU Nintendo
01. 02. Pokémon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire 171,813 1,798,097 3DS Pokémon Co.
New 03. Derby Stallion Gold 73,616 New 3DS Kadokawa
New 04. Aikatsu! 365 Idol Days 33,151 New 3DS Bandai Namco
08. 05. Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS 29,670 1,788,460 3DS Nintendo
New 06. Guilty Gear Xrd -Sign- 27,278 New PS3 Arc System Works
07. 07. Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate 25,157 2,225,855 3DS Capcom
09. 08. Yo-kai Watch 2: Head/Founder 23,557 2,925,945 3DS Level 5
New 09. Samurai Warriors Chronicle 3 22,152 New PSV Koei Tecmo
02. 10. Phantasy Star Nova 19,833 127,147 PSV Sega
13. 11. Mario Kart 8 19,244 753,870 WiiU Nintendo
New 12. Attack on Titan: The Last Wings of Humanity CHAIN 19,073 New 3DS Spike Chunsoft
05. 13. Resident Evil HD Remaster 15,445 65,703 PS3 Capcom
New 14. Samurai Warriors Chronicle 3 14,909 New 3DS Koei Tecmo
New 15. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (Dubbed) 13,758 New PS3 Square Enix
New 16. Guilty Gear Xrd -Sign- 12,638 New PS4 Arc System Works
14. 17. Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker 11,829 65,882 WiiU Nintendo
New 18. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (Dubbed) 9,461 New PS4 Square Enix
03. 19. Etrian Odyssey Untold II: The Knight of Fafnir 9,456 68,986 3DS Atlus
New 20. The Crew 9,002 New PS4 Ubisoft

 

Sales data acquired from 4Gamer and Media Create.

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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