This Week In Sales: Is Sanity The Price To Pay For Power?

Period: The week of June 15th  – June 21st (2015)

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Top-seller: Rhythm Heaven The Best+ (3DS) – 66,416

Nintendo 3DS sales: 1,126 | Tot. sales: 9,841,740

Nintendo 3DS XL sales: 790 | Tot. sales: 6,907,676

New Nintendo 3DS sales: 4,506 | Tot. sales: 573,473

New Nintendo 3DS XL sales: 17,642 | Tot. sales: 1,410,984

PlayStation Vita sales: 11,748 | Tot. sales: 3,834,563

Vita TV sales: 540 | Tot. sales: 166,165

Wii U sales: 14,616 | Tot. sales: 2,407,788

PlayStation 4 sales: 13,850 | Tot. sales: 1,537,321

Xbox One sales: 201 | Tot. sales: 52,644

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Last week, Marvelous released Popolocrois: A Story of Seasons Fairytale in Japan, and the game sold 46,491 copies in its first week. That’s not nearly as high a debut as your typical Story of Seasons games, but keep in mind that Popolocrois is a spin-off based on a manga and anime series, and a new anime season hasn’t been aired since 2005.

 

Also released last week was Devil May Cry 4: Special Edition, and the updated re-release sold 35,872 copies in its first week. The updated version adds Vergil as a playable character, and also makes Lady and Trish playable in Dante and Nero’s missions.

 

Unfortunately, despite being a new release, Devil May Cry 4: Special Edition lost the #3 spot to Splatoon, which is still going strong a month after release and is now at 1 million sold worldwide.

 

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

 

Lw Tw Title Weekly Sales Total Sales Sys. Publisher
01. 01. Rhythm Heaven The Best+ 66,416 224,008 3DS Nintendo
New 02. Popolocrois: A Story of Seasons Fairytale 46,491 New 3DS Marvelous
03. 03. Splatoon 43,653 310,582 WiiU Nintendo
New 04. Devil May Cry 4: Special Edition 35,872 New PS4 Capcom
02. 05. Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butoden 16,443 91,102 3DS Bandai Namco
06. 06. Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition 9.703 209,693 PSV Sony
05. 07. Mario Kart 8 8,660 1,037,923 WiiU Nintendo
07. 08. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 6,150 117,985 PS4 Spike Chunsoft
04. 09. The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky FC Evolution 4,666 25,150 PSV Kodansha
13. 10. Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire 4,332 2,643,436 3DS Pokémon Co.
10. 11. Style Savvy 3 3,983 155,177 3DS Nintendo
11. 12. Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition 3,848 266,975 3DS GungHo
09. 13. Shiren the Wanderer 5 Plus 3,553 25,848 PSV Spike Chunsoft
17. 14. Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS 3,460 2,246,991 3DS Nintendo
18. 15. Animal Crossing: New Leaf 2,621 3,985,433 3DS Nintendo
16. 16. Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai DX 2,533 54,017 3DS Sega
25. 17. Super Smash Bros. for Wii U 2,522 646,705 WiiU Nintendo
08. 18. Alien: Isolation 2,060 8,287 PS4 Sega
21. 19. Pro Evolution Soccer 2015 (Konami the Best) 1,882 3,980 PS3 Konami
20. 20. Yo-kai Watch 2: Headliner 1,826 2,616,984 3DS Level 5

 

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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