This Week In Sales: Style Savvy 3 Is Ready For Its Closeup

Period: The week of April 13th  – April 19th (2015)

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Top-seller: Style Savvy 3 (3DS) – 55,179

Nintendo 3DS sales: 1,144 | Tot. sales: : 9,830,707

Nintendo 3DS XL sales: 1,309 | Tot. sales: 6,898,355

New Nintendo 3DS sales: 5,324 | Tot. sales: 532,655

New Nintendo 3DS XL sales: 14,047 | Tot. sales: 1,281,483

PlayStation Vita sales: 14,568 | Tot. sales: 3,716,147

Vita TV sales: 491 | Tot. sales: 161,148

Wii U sales: 6,324 | Tot. sales: 2,282,593

PlayStation 4 sales: 15,419 | Tot. sales: 1,409,143

Xbox One sales: 170 | Tot. sales: 50,417

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Last week, Nintendo released Style Savvy 3 in Japan, and the game sold 55,179 copies in Japan. That doesn’t sound like a whole lot, but it’s actually in line with how Style Savvy games typically sell. They move a few ten thousand units at launch, and when you come back a year or so later, they’re in the hundreds of thousands.

 

For the sake of comparison, here’s a look at the launch sales of the two prior Style Savvy games:

 

  • (2008) Style Savvy – 75,770
  • (2011) Style Savvy: Trendsetters – 65,908

 

The original Style Savvy may have started out with just 76,000 in sales, but went on to sell over 900,000 copies during the course of its life. Meanwhile, Style Savvy: Trendsetters launched at 66,000 but went on to sell well over 370,000 copies over the 12 months following its release.

 

Of course, it bears mentioning that Style Savvy 3 has seen the lowest opening in the series yet, and this is likely because the 3DS already has a Style Savvy game in Trendsetters. These are games aimed at a more casual audience—one that likely isn’t keen on buying sequels so soon after they’ve had their fill—so perhaps in the future, we’ll see the series adopt a “once per-platform” approach similar to Mario Kart or Super Smash Bros. After all, once the platform supports it, it would make more sense to periodically update the game instead of releasing a new version each time.

 

That, however, is a discussion for another day. In the meantime, it’s going to be interesting to see where Style Savvy 3 is at at a year from now.

 

[Note: Next Wednesday, April 29th, is the start of Japan’s Golden Week holiday, and is a public holiday in the country. As a result, Media Create will release sales data a day later on Thursday, April 30th, instead.]

 

And with that, the top-20 software sales chart for last week is as follows:

 

Lw Tw Title Weekly Sales Total Sales Sys. Publisher
New 01. Style Savvy 3 55,179 New 3DS Nintendo
New 02. Dying Light 25,530 New PS4 Warner Ent.
New 03. Future Card Buddyfight 16,630 New 3DS FuRyu
04. 04. Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition 12,175 97,117 PSV Sony
05. 05. One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3 6,926 137,211 PS3 Bandai Namco
02. 06. The 3rd Super Robot Taisen Z: Tengoku Hen 6,542 143,154 PSV Bandai Namco
08. 07. Mario Party 10 5,991 118,433 WiiU Nintendo
03. 08. The 3rd Super Robot Taisen Z: Tengoku Hen 5,798 129,581 PS3 Bandai Namco
06. 09. Bloodborne 5,674 190,631 PS4 Sony
11. 10. Yo-kai Watch 2: Headliner 5,659 2,586,851 3DS Level 5
07. 11. Sword Art Online: Lost Song 5,532 177,145 PSV Bandai Namco
15. 12. Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire 5,483 2,598,884 3DS Pokémon Co.
09. 13. Xenoblade Chronicles 3D 5,330 71,167 N3D Nintendo
10. 14. Assassination Classroom: Koro-sensei the Great Siege!! 5,196 49,827 3DS Bandai Namco
01. 15. Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin 5,134 25,628 PS4 From Software
16. 16. Pro Baseball Spirits 2015 4,960 88,090 PS3 Konami
New 17. Saints Row IV: Re-Elected 4,776 New PS4 Spike Chunsoft
13. 18. One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3 4,543 80,779 PSV Bandai Namco
19. 19. Mario Kart 8 4,542 961,504 WiiU Nintendo
12. 20. Theatrhythm Dragon Quest 4,079 104,044 3DS Square Enix

 

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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