This Week In Sales: Resident Evil 6 Blasts Out Of The Gate

Period: The week of October 1st – October 7th (2012)

Top-seller: Resident Evil 6 – 634,933

Nintendo 3DS sales: 24,623 | Total sales: 6,915,340

Nintendo 3DS XL sales: 39,046 | Total sales: 692,038

PlayStation Vita sales: 7,957 | Total sales: 1,002,119

<< Last week’s software sales chart

Resident Evil 6 was last week’s big release in Japan, and demonstrated the strength of a popular brand once again, by moving a large number of copies on the PlayStation 3 and an additional few on the Xbox 360. Here’s how Resident Evil 6 sold in its first week:

Resident Evil 6 (PS3) – 634,933

Resident Evil 6 (360) – 41,652

For comparison, here’s what Resident Evil 5’s first week sales looked like back in 2009:

Resident Evil 5 (PS3) – 319,590

Resident Evil 5 (360) – 79,157

It should be interesting to see how Resident Evil 6 holds up in the weeks to come. Meanwhile, the PSP also saw two new releases—Summon Night 5 with 51,453 copies sold and Sol Trigger with 42,037 copies sold.

Next week’s chart will tell us how Bravely Default, Project X-Zone, and Time and Eternity sold in their first week.

The top-20 chart for the week was as follows:

Sales data acquired from 4Gamer, Media Create and Geimin.net.