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Well, I’m glad someone is happy about these numbers.

Software Sales

01./00. [3DS] Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D <ACT> (Nintendo) {2013.06.13} (¥4.800) – 104.569 / NEW
02./01. [3DS] Friend Collection: New Life # <ETC> (Nintendo) {2013.04.18} (¥4.800) – 42.372 / 1.133.246 (-9%)
03./00. [3DS] Chousoku Henkei Gyrozetter: Albatross no Tsubasa <RPG> (Square Enix) {2013.06.13} (¥5.490) – 17.925 / NEW
04./03. [3DS] Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon <ACT> (Nintendo) {2013.03.20} (¥4.800) – 14.949 / 781.660 (-5%)
05./05. [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf # <ETC> (Nintendo) {2012.11.08} (¥4.800) – 14.693 / 3.278.356 (+5%)
06./04. [PS3] Resident Evil: Revelations <ADV> (Capcom) {2013.05.23} (¥4.990) – 9.759 / 160.120 (-37%)
07./06. [3DS] Shin Megami Tensei IV # <RPG> (Atlus) {2013.05.23} (¥6.980) – 9.034 / 241.670 (-34%)
08./07. [PS3] Terraria <ADV> (Spike Chunsoft) {2013.05.23} (¥4.179) – 6.608 / 42.549 (-13%)
09./02. [PS3] Kamen Rider: Battride War # <ACT> (Bandai Namco Games) {2013.05.23} (¥7.480) – 6.152 / 172.946 (-66%)
10./09. [3DS] Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultimate Mission <TBL> (Bandai Namco Games) {2013.02.28} (¥5.800) – 4.707 / 208.316 (-9%)
11./10. [WII] Taiko no Tatsujin Wii: Super Deluxe Edition # <ACT> (Bandai Namco Games) {2012.11.29} (¥5.040) – 4.634 / 497.427 (+8%)
12./13. [3DS] New Super Mario Bros. 2 # <ACT> (Nintendo) {2012.07.28} (¥4.800) – 3.595 / 2.043.072 (+8%)
13./12. [3DS] Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate (Best Price!) <ACT> (Capcom) {2012.11.15} (¥3.800) – 3.485 / 319.972 (-1%)
14./15. [3DS] Mario Kart 7 <RCE> (Nintendo) {2011.12.01} (¥4.800) – 3.392 / 2.064.091 (+12%)
15./08. [PSV] Valhalla Knights 3 <RPG> (Marvelous AQL) {2013.05.23} (¥5.980) – 3.375 / 60.570 (-41%)
16./17. [3DS] Tousouchuu: Shijou Saikyou no Hunter-Tachi Kara Nigekire! <ACT> (Bandai Namco Games) {2012.07.05} (¥5.040) – 2.568 / 496.786 (-4%)
17./23. [PSP] God Eater: Burst (PSP the Best Reprint) <ACT> (Bandai Namco Games) {2013.06.06} (¥1.800) – 2.463 / 4.376 (+29%)
18./21. [NDS] Pokemon Black 2 / White 2 <RPG> (Pokemon Co.) {2012.06.23} (¥4.800) – 2.453 / 3.014.537
19./19. [3DS] Taiko no Tatsujin: Chibi Dragon to Fushigi na Orb <ACT> (Bandai Namco Games) {2012.07.12} (¥5.040) – 2.391 / 495.981 (-3%)
20./20. [WIU] New Super Mario Bros. U <ACT> (Nintendo) {2012.12.08} (¥5.985) – 2.224 / 521.251 (-9%)

Hardware Sales

3DS 47.135
PS3 10.872
PS Vita 10.664
Wii U 5.983
PSP 5.651
Wii 1.461
Xbox 360 397

And this is why I need a new list of when things come out in Japan. A few weeks back, I listed Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D as a game that would be part of a bump across the board for sales. Turns out, the list I was using was incorrect. But either way, the game has topped the Media Create charts.

And for another week, we see stagnant sales in software and most hardware. The 3DS claims 12 spots with Nintendo as a whole claiming 15 out of 20. However, this is hardly Nintendomination again. It took 2,224 units for New Super Mario Bros. U to claim the 20th spot. A game selling 5,000 units could’ve easily made the top 10. And only two games sold more than 20,000 units last week.

On the hardware side, there’s nothing much to say other than there being a 7,000-unit jump in sales from the previous week. Also of note is that the Vita sold 24,000 fewer units in this same week last year. However, there are two things to know about this: 1) this was the week last year that Persona 4 Golden was released and 2) the Vita is still up 170,000 units overall from last year.

Other than that, we should be hitting a couple of milestones before the end of the year with Wii U topping 1 million, and the PSP topping 20 million.

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Jeff Neuenschwander
Jeff has been a supporter of the website and campaign since the beginning. Joining in for E3 2012, he worked his way up the ranks quickly, making it to the Editing Manager post at the beginning of 2013. Jeff has a wide variety of tastes when it comes to gaming and pretty much likes anything that is quirky, although his favorite genres are Action, Platforming, and RPG. Outside of gaming, Jeff is a musician, being trained as a trombonist for Jazz and Classical music, and holds a degree in Sound Recording.