Posts Tagged ‘Charts’

Mario Sits At The Top Of The Japanese Charts

Mario Party 9 continues to be the best-selling piece of software in Japan selling a respectable 37,353 units. This week there were seven Nintendo related games in the top ten, which included Fire Emblem: Awakening, and the immensely popular Mario Kart 7. The Nintendo 3DS remains the best-selling piece of hardware, comfortably fending of Sony’s [...]

Mario Party 9 and 3DS retain top spots on Japanese charts following Golden Week

Media Create has released its weekly retail chart for Japan, and Mario Party 9 was still tops for post Golden Week. 3DS also remained on top despite a significant drop in sales over the week prior; however, the hardware decline was chart-wide with Vita sales falling to 6,340 units – its lowest figure yet. Below [...]

Mario Party 9 and 3DS top Japanese charts during Golden Week

Media Create has released its weekly retail chart for Japan, and Golden Week was indeed golden for Nintendo with Mario Party 9 topping software with 144,585 units moved. It didn’t end there, though: 15 out of 20 titles on the software chart were for Nintendo systems, with 3DS still tops in hardware and Wii outselling [...]

Mario Party 9 Storms Japanese Charts & The Nintendo 3DS Is On Fire

Mario Party 9 has successfully managed to climb to the top of the Japanese software charts this week selling a more-than respectable 144,585 units. If you look at the entire top ten you’ll immediately notice that eight of the ten game are on Nintendo platforms. With regards to hardware the Nintendo 3DS is once again [...]

Mario Party 9 And Nintendo 3DS Perform Well In Japan

This weeks Japanese media create sales figures are in and they continue to show that the Nintendo 3DS is the consumers hardware of choice. Mario Party 9 for Wii sold well but didn’t sell enough copy’s to overtake Capcom’s Resident Evil: Operation Racoon City which resides at the number one spot. Here’s the Japanese software [...]

Japanese charts – Operation Raccoon City tops software, Vita sales see upturn

Media Create has released its weekly retail chart for Japan and Resident Evil Operation Raccoon City topped software and 3DS maintained its throne. Get the full thing below. Software chart covering April 23 through April 29 with life-to-date in parentheses: [PS3] 01. Resident Evil Operation Raccoon City (Capcom, 04.26.2012): 252,525 (NEW) [WII] 02. Mario Party [...]

Japanese charts – Fire Emblem Awakening shows strong debut, 3DS sales up by 20,992 units

Media Create has released its weekly retail chart and Fire Emblem Awakening on 3DS debuted with 242,600 units sold. 3DS maintained its hardware lead with 84,760 units moved, which is units more than last week. Full chart is below. Software charts with LtD in parenthesis are below, last week’s chart is through here: [3DS] Fire [...]

Nine Nintendo Games In Japanese Top Ten

Fire Emblem: Awakening leads the charge during this weeks Famitsu sales and easily claims the number one spot. You’ll notice that there’s nine Nintendo related games in the entire Japanese top ten. Clearly it’s going to have been a another good week for Nintendo 3DS hardware sales. Here’s the top ten games in Japan: [3DS] [...]

Nintendo 3DS Easily Fends Off The Competition (Japanese Charts)

This weeks Japanese Media Create hardware and software charts are in and unsurprisingly they show that the Nintendo 3DS is still at the top of its game. Nintendo managed to shift a respectable 63,796 Nintendo 3DS consoles. Sony on the other hand only managed to sell 8,250 PlayStation Vita consoles. To top it off there [...]

Japanese charts – Super Robot Wars Z still tops, Vita decline continues

Media Create has released its weekly retail chart and for the second week in a row, Nacmo’s 2nd Super Robot Wars Z Saisei Volume topped the software chart. On the hardware side, 3DS stayed on top while Vita sales fell another 681 units over last week. Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance maintained its second [...]

NPD March: Mass Effect 3 tops despite overall sink in sales

NPD has released its report for March 2012 retail sales in the US, and the news was rather grim as all sectors noted a decline in sales. March at a Glance Total spend declined 25% year-over-year. All sectors declined year-on-year. Mass Effect 3 was tops, outselling Mass Effect 2 by twice as much during its [...]

Kingdom Hearts 3D Takes A Nose Dive (Japanese Charts)

Square Enix won’t be too pleased this week as it’s been revealed that Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance sales are down 80% from last week when the game officially launched in Japan. Without further ado, here’s the Japanese software and hardware charts: [PSP] 2nd Super Robot Wars Z: Saisei-hen [3DS] Kingdom Hearts 3D -Dream Drop [...]

Japanese charts – Super Robot Wars Z outsells all, Vita moves 8,931 units

Media Create has released its weekly retail chart and Nacmo’s 2nd Super Robot Wars Z Saisei Volume bested all software offerings with 265,439 units moved for the debut. On the hardware side, 3DS continued to trump all, while Vita sales saw a major slump with only 8,931 units moved. Sales charts are below. Here’s the [...]

Japanese charts – Kingdom Hearts 3D and 3DS big winners

Media Create has released its weekly retail chart and Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance the software lot with 213,579 units moved, which gave 3DS another boost over last week with 121,921 units moved. Here’s the full top 20 with LtD sales in parentheses: [3DS] 01. Kingdom Hearts 3D (Square Enix, 03.29.2012): 213,579 [PS3] 02. [...]

Japanese charts – Kid Icarus Uprising tops, provides 3DS with sales boost

Media Create has released its weekly retail chart and Kid Icarus Uprising bested another high profile Japanese debut, SEGA’s Yakuza Black Panther 2, by 27,589 units while also providing 3DS with a week-over-week sales boost of 30,000 units. Here’s the full software chart for the week ending March 25 with life to date sales in [...]

Japanese charts – Pokemon + Nobunaga’s Ambition boosts older DS sales

Media Create has released its weekly retail chart and Pokemon + Nobunaga’s Ambition scored the top spot topped it for DS with 172,027 units moved. On the hardware end, 3DS sales fell 4,934 units over last week but still maintained its number one position. PSP continued to outsell its new sibling with 18,633 units moved [...]

NPD February: Sales down 20% YOY, hardware recovering

Final Fantasy XIII-2 was the major challenger to the perennial Call of Duty in the NPD’s February 2012 report, which noted another year-on-year depression in retail sales across the board. February NPD At A Glance Total spend down 20% year on year. All sectors report year-on-year decreases, but hardware noted a decent revival from January’s [...]

PlayStation Vita Can’t Catch A Break Against The Nintendo 3DS (Japanese Charts)

This weeks Media Create sales figures are in from Japan and they once again show that the Nintendo 3DS is seriously a force to be reckoned with. The Nintendo 3DS managed to sell 70,744 units, while Sony’s recently released PlayStation Vita, only managed to sell 10,023 units. Here’s the Japanese software charts, along with the Japanese [...]

Rayman Origins “best rated Vita game on Metacritic” during launch week

Ubisoft has said Rayman Origins was”very well received” on Vita, and at launch the game was “the best-rated Vita game on Metacritic.” During launch week, the title was also the fourth, highest-selling Vita game and the third-highest on the All Formats Top 40. “The launch of a console is a good way to spotlight how [...]

Nintendo 3DS Continues To Throttle The PlayStation Vita In Japan (Japanese Charts)

This weeks Media Create software and hardware charts are in from Japan. The Nintendo 3DS continues to dominate the hardware charts, easily outselling Sony’s PlayStation Vita. The Nintendo 3DS sold 76, 322 units whilst the PlayStation Vita only managed to sell 15,928 units. This week also saw the release of Harvest Moon: Land of Origin [...]