Japanese VG sales for Week 7, 2012: New Love Plus sells big

[garyopa]

The dating sim boosts 3DS sales a bit.

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As every week, the Media Create Japanese Sales for last week (02/13/12 – 02/19/12) are out.
3DS remains on top and the Konami dating sim game 'New Love Plus' debuts in first place.

As every week, Media Create has released its Japanese VG sales chart, for this year's Week 7 (02/13/12 – 02/19/12).

* Software.

New Love Plus for 3DS debuts in first place selling more than 100K units. Binary Domain (PS3) is in second place with over 73K units sold. And Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy debuted in third place, selling 67K units (seems there was a shortage for that game). Half of the top 20 games are on Nintendo 3DS. Last week sales are in parenthesis.



01. [3DS] New Love Plus (Konami, 02/14/12) – 104,969
02. [PS3] Binary Domain (Sega, 02/16/12) – 73,683
03. [3DS] Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy (Square Enix, 02/16/12) – 67,206
04. [3DS] Mario Kart 7 (Nintendo, 12/01/11) – 22,015 (1,506,522)
05. [3DS] Super Mario 3D Land (Nintendo, 11/03/11) – 17,791 (1,348,776)
06. [3DS] Monster Hunter Tri G (Capcom, 12/10/11) – 17,490 (1,249,833)
04. [PSP] Samurai Warriors 3 Z Special (Tecmo Koei, 02/16/12) – 17,125
08. [3DS] Resident Evil: Revelations (Capcom, 01/26/12) – 15,666 (231,907)
08. [PSP] Genso Suikoden: Tsumugareshi Hyakunen no Toki (02/09/12) – 13,695 (75,479)
10. [PSV] Gravity Rush (SCEJ, 02/09/12) – 10,219 (53,680)
11. [3DS] Tekken 3D: Prime Edition (Namco Bandai, 02/16/12) – 9,421
12. [3DS] Extreme Escape Adventure: Good People Die (Chunsoft, 02/16/12) – 9,307
13. [PS3] Gran Turismo 5 Spec II (SCEK, 02/02/12) – 8,169 (42,198)
14. [Wii] Just Dance Wii (Nintendo, 10/13/11) – 7,643 (542,589)
15. [PSV] Extreme Escape Aventure: Good People Die (Chunsoft, 02/16/12) – 6,538
16. [PS3] Armored Core V (From Software, 02/16/12) – 6,430 (212,784)
17. [3DS] Inazuma Eleven Go Shine / Dark (Level-5, 12/15/11) – 6,268 (393,130)
18. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 3rd PSP the Best (Capcom, 09/22/11) – 5,223 (197,031)
19. [Wii] Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo, 11/11/10) – 5,135 (873,120)
20. [3DS] Nintendogs + Cats & New Friends (Nintendo, 02/26/11) – 4,839 (501,169)


Game count: 10 3DS, 3 PS3, 3 PSP, 2 PSV and 2 Wii

* Hardware.

As usual, 3DS remains on top and we can see a sales boost thanks to this week new game releases. Last week sales are in parenthesis.



1. 3DS – 94,667 (67,558)
2. PlayStation 3 – 21,993 (22,002)
3. PSP – 14,824 (15,860)
4. PlayStation Vita – 12,309 (13,939)
5. Wii – 7,874 (8,206)
6. PS2 – 1,433 (1,239)
7. Xbox 360 – 983 (1,139)
8. DSi LL – 901 (957)
9. DSi – 656 (651)



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Will Vita sales go below the 10K mark by next week?

NEWS SOURCE: Media Create Sales 021312 (via) Gematsu (http://gematsu.com/2012/02/media-create-sales-021312-%E2%80%93-021912)

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[billysastard]

jack tretton said...

"Quite frankly, it scares me if people think that the Japanese launch is struggling. The fact is they sold 500,000 units in three weeks... I would be pleased if we did 500,000 units in the first three weeks here in the United States. I think that's a real healthy number for a new platform launch."

but they shipped 700k units and those STILL havent sold out and looking at this weeks figures i'd say that it was well below "struggling"

[billysastard]

Will Vita sales go below the 10K mark by next week?

probably not, but give it a few more weeks and its going to happen.

[Xenogears V]

xbox360 0.6%...ahahahaha

[JonathanD]

Well if things keep up like this those rumors of the Vita losing support in favor of the 3DS will come true. (Still think it could be possible, some developers only like to release on systems with a healthy install base.)

Well maybe the US and European numbers will look better for the Vita? Although my opinion is it will take a while for the Vita to pick up on sales, going to be a rough year for Sony all the way around.

[JonathanD]

xbox360 0.6%...ahahahaha

It is pretty funny, so let me join in! Hehehehe!!!