Period: The week of September 17th – September 23rd (2012)
Top-seller: Final Fantasy III – 44,872
Nintendo 3DS sales: 26,176 | Total sales: 6,865,895
Nintendo 3DS XL sales: 35,206 | Total sales: 597,639
PlayStation Vita sales: 9,295 | Total sales: 979,693
<< Last week’s software sales chart
Final Fantasy III on PSP didn’t sell very many copies at all, when it released in Japan last week. The updated PSP port of the Nintendo DS (and iOS) game sold close to 45,000 copies in its first week.
That’s an incredibly low number for any mainline Final Fantasy game—even an old one—but it isn’t very surprising, considering that the original version sold over 1 million copies on the DS, which means a lot of people already owned the game and likely had no interest in buying it again.
While Final Fantasy III took the #1 spot for the week, #3 went to Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, published by Spike Chunsoft in Japan, with about 20,700 copies sold. The other notable release for the week was LittleBigPlanet PS Vita, which sold close to 6,000 copies.
The top-20 chart for the week was as follows:
| Lw | Tw | Title | Weekly Sales | Total Sales | Sys. | Publisher |
| New | 01. | Final Fantasy III | 44,872 | New | PSP | Square Enix |
| 03. | 02. | New Super Mario Bros. 2 | 37,313 | 1,150,471 | 3DS | Nintendo |
| New | 03. | Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning | 20,695 | New | PS3 | Spike Chunsoft |
| 04. | 04. | Art Academy: Lessons for Everyone! | 18,760 | 54,670 | 3DS | Nintendo |
| 02. | 05. | Medabots 7: Kabuto/Kuwagata | 17,659 | 67,177 | 3DS | Rocket Company |
| 01. | 06. | Tekken Tag Tournament 2 | 17,240 | 79,870 | PS3 | Namco Bandai |
| New | 07. | Tiger & Bunny: On-Air Jack! | 16,550 | New | PSP | Namco Bandai |
| 06. | 08. | Pokémon Black/White 2 | 16,274 | 2,763,732 | DS | Pokémon Co. |
| 09. | 09. | Run For Money Tousouchuu | 14,537 | 151,461 | 3DS | Namco Bandai |
| New | 10. | Hunter X Hunter: Wonder Adventure | 12,007 | New | PSP | Namco Bandai |
| 05. | 11. | Samurai Warriors Chronicles 2nd | 10,376 | 44,309 | 3DS | Tecmo Koei |
| New | 12. | Eureka Seven AO: Flowers of Jungfrau | 9,794 | New | PS3 | Namco Bandai |
| 11. | 13. | Taiko Drum Master: The Little Dragon and the Mysterious Orb | 8,875 | 214,968 | 3DS | Namco Bandai |
| New | 14. | Shirahana no Ori: Hiiro no Kakera 4 | 8,648 | New | PSP | Idea Factory |
| 13. | 15. | Demon Training | 7,783 | 162,320 | 3DS | Nintendo |
| 10. | 16. | Dragon Quest X: Rise of the Five Tribes Online | 7,764 | 556,091 | Wii | Square Enix |
| New | 17. | LittleBigPlanet PS Vita | 5,901 | New | PSV | Sony |
| 16. | 18. | Wii Sports Resort | 5,788 | 1,078,304 | Wii | Nintendo |
| 18. | 19. | Kobitodsukan Kobito Kansatsu Set | 5,433 | 96,496 | 3DS | Nippon Columbia |
| 20. | 20. | Just Dance Wii 2 | 5,238 | 176,389 | Wii | Nintendo |
Sales data acquired from 4Gamer, Media Create and Geimin.net.
Published: Sep 26, 2012 02:15 pm