Period: The week of December 26th – January 1st (2016/2017)
Top-seller: Pokémon Sun & Moon – 90,891 (3DS)
Nintendo 3DS sales: 72
Nintendo 3DS LL sales: 40
Nintendo 2DS – 20,259
New Nintendo 3DS sales: 4,342
New Nintendo 3DS LL sales: 45,809
PlayStation Vita sales: 25,487
Wii U sales: 2,589
PlayStation 4 sales: 73,421
PlayStation 4 Pro: 9,916
PlayStation 3 sales: 1,002
Xbox One sales: 221
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Last week, Japan didn’t see any notable new releases, but what it had was more like a race to see who can finish 2016 on top for bragging rights. Here’s the latest from Japanese sales tracker, Media Create, with a look at software and hardware sales from the week of December 26, 2016 through January 1, 2017.
It comes as no big surprise to see Pokémon Sun & Moon finish the year at #1 with 90,891 copies sold in the last week of 2016. Super Mario Maker managed to stick close last week but ended up placing #2 with 73,002 copies sold. Meanwhile, Momotaro Dentetsu 2017 with 63,577 units sold managed to overtake the #3 position from Yo-kai Watch 3 Sukiyaki that placed #4 with 49,350 units sold.
Final Fantasy XV took advantage of Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition and Miitopia’s pace drop to claim #5 with 30,381 units sold in the week. As far as hardware sales go, they dropped for obvious reasons being the week prior was Christmas week, so we’ll likely continue seeing numbers drop down on average in the coming weeks in both hardware and software sales, but probably nothing too drastic, as kiddies will likely have some otoshidama to spend on games Santa forgot to bring them.
The top-20 chart for the week was as follows:
| Lw | Tw | Title | Weekly Sales | Total Sales | Sys | Publisher |
| 01. | 01. | Pokémon Sun & Moon | 90,891 | 2,949,287 | 3DS | Pokémon Company |
| 02. | 02. | Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS | 73,002 | 790,530 | 3DS | Nintendo |
| 04. | 03. | Momotaro Dentetsu 2017: Tachiagare Nippon! | 63,577 | 196,452 | 3DS | Nintendo |
| 03. | 04. | Yo-kai Watch 3: Sukiyaki | 49,350 | 561,508 | 3DS | Level-5 |
| 07. | 05. | Final Fantasy XV | 30,381 | 884,422 | PS4 | Square Enix |
| 05. | 06. | Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition | 23,765 | 1,042,463 | PSV | SIE |
| 09. | 07. | Yakuza 6: The Song of Life | 19,822 | 312,500 | PS4 | Sega |
| 06. | 08. | Miitopia | 18,259 | 120,971 | 3DS | Nintendo |
| 13. | 09. | Animal Crossing: New Leaf –Welcome amiibo | 10,858 | 85,842 | 3DS | Nintendo |
| 12. | 10. | Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu Heroes | 10,710 | 59,794 | 3DS | Konami |
| 08. | 11. | Minecraft: Wii U Edition | 9,713 | 257,654 | Wii U | Microsoft Japan |
| 26. | 12. | Watch Dogs 2 | 9,466 | 89,237 | PS4 | Ubisoft |
| 19. | 13. | SaGa: Scarlet Grace | 9,208 | 88,673 | PSV | Square Enix |
| 36. | 14. | Grand Theft Auto V | 8,429 | 225,839 | PS4 | TakeTwo |
| 11. | 15. | Mario Party: Star Rush | 7,137 | 135,024 | 3DS | Nintendo |
| 34. | 16. | The Last Guardian | 6,452 | 108,836 | PS4 | SIE |
| 10. | 17. | Sumikko Gurashi: Mura wo Tsukurundesu | 6,413 | 137,580 | 3DS | Nippon Columbia |
| 50. | 18. | Battlefield 1 | 5,791 | 237,636 | PS4 | EA |
| 21. | 19. | Mario Kart 7 | 5,741 | 2,714,357 | 3DS | Nintendo |
| ??? | 20. | Resident Evil 6 | 5,701 | 19,814 | PS4 | Capcom |
Sales data acquired from 4Gamer and Media Create.
Published: Jan 6, 2017 08:15 am