This Week In Sales: Golden Week

Period: The week of May 4th  – May 10th (2015)

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Top-seller: Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition (3DS) – 38,914

Nintendo 3DS sales: 1,413 | Tot. sales: : 9,834,735

Nintendo 3DS XL sales: 1,358 | Tot. sales: 6,902,431

New Nintendo 3DS sales: 5,446 | Tot. sales: 549,331

New Nintendo 3DS XL sales: 17,875 | Tot. sales: 1,330,401

PlayStation Vita sales: 17,273 | Tot. sales: 3,766,635

Vita TV sales: 665 | Tot. sales: 163,058

Wii U sales: 11,137 | Tot. sales: 2,323,838

PlayStation 4 sales: 15,992 | Tot. sales: 1,465,029

Xbox One sales: 187 | Tot. sales: 51,146

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Last week saw no new releases in Japan due to the country’s Golden Week holiday. Instead, the top-20 was made up of existing games, some old and some new. Unfortunately, while it was a holiday week, software sales were low all around.

 

The #1 spot was occupied by Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition, which sold nearly 39,000 copies in its, second week, bringing total sales to over 218,000 copies. Meanwhile, Style Savvy 3 occupied the #2 spot, and has achieved total sales of over 120,000 copies at retail.

 

The #3 spot was held by Minecraft on the PS Vita, and was the only game on a non-Nintendo platform to chart in the top-20 during Golden Week.

 

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

 

Lw Tw Title Weekly Sales Total Sales Sys. Publisher
01. 01. Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition 38,914 218,839 3DS Gung Ho
05. 02. Style Savvy 3 21,784 120,791 3DS Nintendo
06. 03. Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition 18,025 143,976 PSV Sony
03. 04. Xenoblade Chronicles X 11,689 97,275 WiiU Nintendo
10. 05. Mario Kart 8 9,454 983,902 WiiU Nintendo
04. 06. Bravely Second 9,403 129,645 3DS Square Enix
13. 07. Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire 8,557 2,618,841 3DS Pokémon Co.
12. 08. Mario Party 10 7,406 137,759 WiiU Nintendo
16. 09. Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS 7,057 2,227,583 3DS Nintendo
15. 10. Yo-kai Watch 2: Headliner 6,163 2,603,483 3DS Level 5
24. 11. Theatrhythm Dragon Quest 4,866 115,089 3DS Square Enix
02. 12. Dragon Quest X: Legend of the Ancient Dragon 4,719 103,042 WiiU Square Enix
26. 13. Animal Crossing: New Leaf 4,687 3,970,494 3DS Nintendo
32. 14. Super Smash Bros. for Wii U 4,483 634,070 WiiU Nintendo
11. 15. Assassination Classroom: Koro-sensei the Great Siege!! 3,767 67,581 3DS Bandai Namco
19. 16. Future Card Buddyfight 3,654 26,948 3DS FuRyu
28. 17. The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask 3D 3,608 427,697 3DS Nintendo
35. 18. Mario Kart 7 3,559 2,502,286 3DS Nintendo
22. 19. Xenoblade Chronicles 3D 3,511 82,403 N3D Nintendo
38. 20. LEGO City Undercover: The Chase Begins 3,372 46,056 3DS Nintendo

 

Sales data acquired from 4Gamer and Media Create.

Ishaan Sahdev
About The Author
Ishaan specializes in game design/sales analysis. He's the former managing editor of Siliconera and wrote the book "The Legend of Zelda - A Complete Development History". He also used to moonlight as a professional manga editor. These days, his day job has nothing to do with games, but the two inform each other nonetheless.

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