This Week In Sales: Minecraft Reaches Japan On Xbox 360

Period: The week of June 3rd – June 9th (2013)

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Top-seller: Tomodachi Collection: New Life – 46,878

Nintendo 3DS sales: 12,700 | Total sales: 8,337,025

Nintendo 3DS XL sales: 27,172 | Total sales: 3,236,988

PlayStation Vita sales: 9,733 | Total sales: 1,615,734

Wii U sales: 6,330 | Total sales: 941,916

<< Last week’s software sales chart

 

Note: Apologies for the delay in this week’s sales column—E3 coverage kept us busy.

 

Last week was quiet yet again in Japan, with no new releases to speak of, save for Minecraft on the Xbox 360. This game sold 4,268 copies in its first week.

 

Meanwhile, the usual popular sellers continued to dominate the top-20 software sales chart for the week. Shin Megami Tensei IV has more or less sold out its first shipment by this point, so Atlus will probably be resupplying the market with new copies soon, if they haven’t already.

 

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

 

Lw Tw Title Weekly Sales Total Sales Sys. Publisher
01. 01. Tomodachi Collection: New Life 46,878 1,090,875 3DS Nintendo
04. 02. Kamen Rider: Battride War 18,059 166,794 PS3 Namco Bandai
05. 03. Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon 15,759 766,712 3DS Nintendo
02. 04. Resident Evil: Revelations 15,495 150,361 PS3 Capcom
06. 05. Animal Crossing: New Leaf 13,953 3,263,663 3DS Nintendo
03. 06. Shin Megami Tensei IV 13,649 232,636 3DS Atlus
10. 07. Terraria 7,619 35,941 PS3 Spike Chunsoft
08. 08. Valhalla Knights 3 5,710 57,195 PSV Marvelous AQL
14. 09. Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultimate Mission 5,148 203,609 3DS Namco Bandai
13. 10. Taiko no Tatsujin: Super Splendid Edition 4,300 492,793 Wii Namco Bandai
New 11. Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition 4,268 New 360 Microsoft
20. 12. Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate 3,510 316,487 3DS Capcom
15. 13. New Super Mario Bros. 2 3,330 2,039,477 3DS Nintendo
07. 14. Norn9: Norn + Nonette 3,121 17,956 PSP Idea Factory
17. 15. Mario Kart 7 3,034 2,060,698 3DS Nintendo
12. 16. Summon Night 5 2,793 127,927 PSP Namco Bandai
19. 17. Run for Money Tousouchuu 2,669 494,218 3DS Namco Bandai
16. 18. Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen 2,611 190,336 PS3 Capcom
21. 19. Taiko Drum Master: The Little Dragon and the Mysterious Orb 2,459 493,591 3DS Namco Bandai
26. 20. New Super Mario Bros. U 2,452 519,027 WiiU Nintendo

 

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

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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