This Week In Sales: Splatoon Makes A Splash In Japan

Period: The week of May 25th  – May 31st (2015)

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Top-seller: Splatoon (Wii U) 144,818

Nintendo 3DS sales: 1,418 | Tot. sales: 9,837,582

Nintendo 3DS XL sales: 919 | Tot. sales: 6,904,967

New Nintendo 3DS sales: 4,129 | Tot. sales: 560,552

New Nintendo 3DS XL sales: 11,170 | Tot. sales: 1,363,045

PlayStation Vita sales: 12,517 | Tot. sales: 3,801,189

Vita TV sales: 529 | Tot. sales: 164,449

Wii U sales: 17,713 | Tot. sales: 2,355,590

PlayStation 4 sales: 12,272 | Tot. sales: 1,500,886

Xbox One sales: 522 | Tot. sales: 52,124

<< Last week’s software sales chart

<< How to read and understand sales

 

Last week, Nintendo released Splatoon in Japan, and the multiplayer shooter sold 144,818 copies in its first week on store shelves. That’s a respectable figure by Wii U standards, and had the game not sold out at launch, it would likely have sold even better.

 

While Splatoon took the #1 spot on the software sales chart, the #2 spot went to Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai DX. This is a remixed edition of the first two Project Mirai games, and is also the version of the game that Sega will release in North America and Europe later this year.

 

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

 

Lw Tw Title Weekly Sales Total Sales Sys. Publisher
New 01. Splatoon 144,818 New WiiU Nintendo
New 02. Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai DX 41,442 New 3DS Sega
01. 03. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 22,454 89,839 PS4 Spike Chunsoft
02. 04. Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition 12,449 179,625 PSV Sony
06. 05. Mario Kart 8 11,654 1,006,719 WiiU Nintendo
New 06. Cross Ange: Rondo of Angels and Dragons tr. 11,215 New PSV Bandai Namco
New 07. Downtown Nekketsu Jidaigeki 9,444 New 3DS Arc System Works
03. 08. Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition 8,920 252,479 3DS GungHo
??? 09. Assassination Classroom: Koro-sensei the Great Siege!! 6,620 75,242 3DS Bandai Namco
New 10. Nobunaga’s Ambition: Sphere of Influence with Power Up Kit 6,360 New PSV Koei Tecmo
05. 11. Style Savvy 3 6,282 140,808 3DS Nintendo
New 12. Psycho Pass 4,593 New XBO 5pb.
09. 13. Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire 4,501 2,631,071 3DS Pokémon Co.
New 14. Possession Magenta 4,172 New PSV Comfort
11. 15. Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS 3,507 2,237,443 3DS Nintendo
07. 16. Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster 2,994 24,498 PS4 Square Enix
??? 17. Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultimate Mission 2 2,858 207,938 3DS Bandai Namco
12. 18. Mario Party 10 2,607 146,290 WiiU Nintendo
19. 19. Earth Defense Force 4.1: The Shadow of New Despair 2,554 45,143 PS4 D3 Publisher
15. 20. Animal Crossing: New Leaf 2,526 3,977,777 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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