Period: The week of February 2nd – February 8th (2015)
Top-seller: Dragon Ball Xenoverse (PS3) – 44,221
Nintendo 3DS sales: 2,642 | Tot. sales: 9,806,790
Nintendo 3DS XL sales: 3,084 | Tot. sales: 6,873,410
New Nintendo 3DS sales: 7,916 | Tot. sales: 457,430
New Nintendo 3DS XL sales: 21,650 | Tot. sales: 1,062,846
PlayStation Vita sales: 10,013 | Tot. sales: 3,505,648
Vita TV sales: 560 | Tot. sales: 154661
Wii U sales: 6,517 | Tot. sales: 2,213,720
PlayStation 4 sales: 18,758 | Tot. sales: 1,097,424
Xbox One sales: 238 | Tot. sales: 45486
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Last week, Bandai Namco released Dragon Ball Xenoverse in Japan, and the game sold 44,221 copies on the PlayStation 3, with another 34,690 sold on PlayStation 4.
Additionally, the publisher also released Lost Heroes 2, a dungeon-crawler featuring the Gundam, Ultraman, and Kamen Rider franchises, for Nintendo 3DS. That game sold 20,691 copies, which is a rather large drop from the first Lost Heroes game.
The first game was released in 2012, and sold 32,504 copies on 3DS and another 15,650 copies on the PSP. I’m not quite certain just what is responsible for the drop in sales, but it could simply be that a number of people got their fill of a crossover dungeon RPG involving those franchises with the first game.
There are other examples to support this as well, such as the fact that when Bandai Namco released Gundam Breaker in 2013, it sold over 200,000 copies at launch. Meanwhile, 2014’s Gundam Breaker 2 debuted lower at close to 124,000 copies. The same happened with One Piece: Pirate Warriors (655,774) and Pirate Warriors 2 (275,000 at launch).
The top-20 software sales chart for last week is as follows:
| Lw | Tw | Title | Weekly Sales | Total Sales | Sys. | Publisher |
| New | 01. | Dragon Ball Xenoverse | 44,221 | New | PS3 | Bandai Namco |
| New | 02. | Dragon Ball Xenoverse | 34,690 | New | PS4 | Bandai Namco |
| 04. | 03. | Yo-kai Watch 2: Headliner | 24,068 | 2,455,880 | 3DS | Level 5 |
| New | 04. | Lost Heroes 2 | 20,691 | New | 3DS | Bandai Namco |
| 07. | 05. | Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire | 12,234 | 2,501,000 | 3DS | Pokémon Co. |
| 02. | 06. | Far Cry 4 | 9,790 | 46,029 | PS4 | Ubisoft |
| 09. | 07. | Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate | 9,715 | 2,460,920 | 3DS | Capcom |
| New | 08. | Ebikore Photo Kano Kiss | 9,512 | New | PSV | Kadokawa |
| 01. | 09. | Devil Survivor 2: Record Breaker | 9,240 | 62,505 | 3DS | Atlus |
| 11. | 10. | Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS | 8,950 | 2,140,261 | 3DS | Nintendo |
| 06. | 11. | Far Cry 4 | 8,513 | 26,879 | PS3 | Ubisoft |
| 03. | 12. | Tales of Zestiria | 8,225 | 378,602 | PS3 | Bandai Namco |
| New | 13. | Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin | 7,770 | New | PS3 | Bandai Namco |
| 08. | 14. | Kirby and the Rainbow Curse | 7,004 | 52,009 | WiiU | Nintendo |
| 14. | 15. | Super Smash Bros. for Wii U | 5,683 | 581,796 | WiiU | Nintendo |
| 19. | 16. | Mario Kart 8 | 4,799 | 911,267 | WiiU | Ninendo |
| 17. | 17. | Yo-kai Watch 2: Head/Founder | 4,777 | 3,098,589 | 3DS | Level 5 |
| 20. | 18. | Animal Crossing: New Leaf | 4,678 | 3,913,847 | 3DS | Nintendo |
| New | 19. | Persona 4: Golden (The Best) | 3,574 | New | PSV | Atlus |
| 16. | 20. | Kenka Bancho 6 | 2,896 | 40,742 | 3DS | Spike Chunsoft |
Sales data acquired from 4Gamer and Media Create.
Published: Feb 12, 2015 09:31 am