This Week In Tales: Sales Of Zestiria

Period: The week of January 19th – January 25th (2015)

Top-seller: Tales of Zestiria (PS3) – 340,891

Nintendo 3DS sales: 3,287 | Tot. sales: 9,800,961

Nintendo 3DS XL sales: 3,882 | Tot. sales: 6,866,685

New Nintendo 3DS sales: 8,028 | Tot. sales: 441,814

New Nintendo 3DS XL sales: 20,065 | Tot. sales: 1,019,316

PlayStation Vita sales: 14,991 | Tot. sales: 3,483,764

Vita TV sales: 589 | Tot. sales: 153,580

Wii U sales: 7,088 | Tot. sales: 2,200,396

PlayStation 4 sales: 13,793 | Tot. sales: 1,061,274

Xbox One sales: 259 | Tot. sales: 45,026

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Last week, Bandai Namco released Tales of Zestiria in Japan and the RPG sold 340,891 copies in its first week. Here’s a look at the first-week sales of the previous Tales games on PlayStation 3, so you can see how Tales of Zestiria compares to them:

• (2009) Tales of Vesperia – 216,593
• (2010) Tales of Graces f – 215,187
• (2011) Tales of Xillia – 525,605
• (2012) Tales of Xillia 2 – 364,439

In short: higher than Vesperia and Graces f, but lower than Xillia and Xillia 2. What’s important now is how Tales of Zestiria holds up in the weeks ahead.

When it comes to role-playing games in Japan, traditionally, the vast majority of sales occur within the first week. In order for sales to continue at a healthy pace after the first week, positive word-of-mouth is paramount. With that in mind, whether or not some of the issues players have highlighted will affect the game in the long run remains to be seen.

Additionally, Bandai Namco have not yet announced their sales forecast for Tales of Zestiria, so it might be hard to judge exactly how the game is doing relative to internal estimates. It is worth pointing out, though, that Tales of Xillia 2 failed to hit Namco’s sales forecast back when it was released. Namco expected the game to ship 650,000 copies by March 31st, 2013, but only managed to move 500,000 by that date.

Meanwhile, FuRyu’s The Legend of Legacy was another notable release this week, and it sold 53,974 copies at launch. You can expect a more detailed report on its performance in this report. Finally, Nintendo’s Kirby and the Rainbow Cruse failed to make much of a splash, selling just 32,137 copies at launch.

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

Sales data acquired from 4Gamer and Media Create.