[Chris1964]

Media Create Sales: Week 4, 2012 (Jan 23 - Jan 29)

01./00. [PS3] Armored Core V <ACT> (From Software) {2012.01.26} (¥7.800) - 163.906 / NEW
02./00. [3DS] Resident Evil: Revelations <ADV> (Capcom) {2012.01.26} (¥5.990) - 146.559 / NEW
03./00. [PSV] Tales of Innocence R <RPG> (Bandai Namco Games) {2012.01.26} (¥5.980) - 54.853 / NEW
04./01. [3DS] Mario Kart 7 <RCE> (Nintendo) {2011.12.01} (¥4.800) - 29.230 / 1.433.958 (-17%)
05./03. [3DS] Monster Hunter 3G # <ACT> (Capcom) {2011.12.10} (¥5.800) - 27.032 / 1.186.898 (-14%)
06./00. [360] Armored Core V <ACT> (From Software) {2012.01.26} (¥7.800) - 24.719 / NEW
07./04. [3DS] Super Mario 3D Land <ACT> (Nintendo) {2011.11.03} (¥4.800) - 23.003 / 1.288.495 (-12%)
08./00. [PS3] The Idolmaster: Gravure For You! Vol. 4 <ETC> (Bandai Namco Games) {2012.01.26} (¥9.980) - 18.179 / NEW
09./02. [3DS] Rhythm Thief & the Emperor's Treasure <ACT> (Sega) {2012.01.19} (¥6.090) - 14.928 / 46.526 (-53%)
10./07. [3DS] Inazuma Eleven Go: Shine / Dark <RPG> (Level 5) {2011.12.15} (¥5.800) - 10.479 / 370.804 (-26%)
11./00. [PSP] Mobile Suit Gundam: Mokuba no Kiseki <SLG> (Bandai Namco Games) {2012.01.26} (¥6.280) - 9.121 / NEW
12./12. [WII] Just Dance Wii <ACT> (Nintendo) {2011.10.13} (¥5.800) - 7.837 / 519.199 (-6%)
13./10. [PS3] Warriors Orochi 3 # <ACT> (Koei Tecmo) {2011.12.22} (¥7.800) - 7.419 / 355.033 (-31%)
14./13. [PSP] Monster Hunter Freedom 3 (PSP the Best) <ACT> (Capcom) {2011.09.22} (¥2.990) - 7.072 / 178.978 (-13%)
15./11. [PS3] Final Fantasy XIII-2 # <RPG> (Square Enix) {2011.12.15} (¥7.980) - 6.405 / 769.079 (-26%)
16./14. [WII] Wii Party # <ETC> (Nintendo) {2010.07.08} (¥4.800) - 6.280 / 2.279.598 (-12%)
17./15. [WII] Wii Sports Resort with Remote Plus # <SPT> (Nintendo) {2010.11.11} (¥5.800) - 6.056 / 856.483 (-8%)
18./19. [3DS] Nintendogs + Cats: French Bulldog / Shiba / Toy Poodle & New Friends <ETC> (Nintendo) {2011.02.26} (¥4.800) - 5.397 / 487.201 (-9%)
19./17. [WII] Mario Kart Wii <RCE> (Nintendo) {2008.04.10} (¥5.800) - 5.326 / 3.495.100 (-13%)
20./16. [WII] Kirby's Return to Dream Land <ACT> (Nintendo) {2011.10.27} (¥5.800) - 4.873 / 590.133 (-21%)
21./09. [PSP] Super Robot Wars OG Saga: Masou Kishin II - Revelation of Evil God # <SLG> (Bandai Namco Games) {2012.01.12} (¥6.280)
22./06. [PSP] Heroes Phantasia # <RPG> (Bandai Namco Games) {2012.01.19} (¥6.280)
23./00. [PS3] WWE '12 <SPT> (THQ Japan) {2012.01.26} (¥7.140)
24./23. [PSP] Little Battlers eXperience: Boost <RPG> (Level 5) {2011.11.23} (¥4.980)
25./22. [PSP] World Soccer Winning Eleven 2012 <SPT> (Konami) {2011.11.03} (¥4.980)
26./18. [PS3] Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - Dubbed Edition <ACT> (Square Enix) {2011.12.22} (¥7.980)
27./21. [WII] Taiko Drum Master Wii: Definitive Edition # <ACT> (Bandai Namco Games) {2011.11.23} (¥5.040)
28./47. [PS3] Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition (PlayStation 3 the Best) # <ADV> (Capcom) {2010.11.11} (¥2.990)
29./20. [WII] Go Vacation <ETC> (Bandai Namco Games) {2011.10.20} (¥5.800)
30./26. [WII] Inazuma Eleven Strikers 2012 Xtreme <SPT> (Level 5) {2011.12.22} (¥4.980)
31./29. [PS3] The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim <RPG> (Bethesda Softworks) {2011.12.08} (¥7.980)
32./36. [NDS] Pokemon Black / White # <RPG> (Pokemon Co.) {2010.09.18} (¥4.800)
33./08. [3DS] Beyond the Labyrinth <RPG> (Konami) {2012.01.19} (¥5.800)
34./37. [PSP] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2011: Definitive Edition <SPT> (Konami) {2011.12.22} (¥5.250)
35./35. [WII] New Super Mario Bros. Wii <ACT> (Nintendo) {2009.12.03} (¥5.800)
36./43. [WII] Rhythm Heaven Fever <ACT> (Nintendo) {2011.07.21} (¥5.800)
37./00. [PSP] Love Bancho 2: Midnight Lesson!!! # <ADV> (Idea Factory) {2012.01.26} (¥6.090)
38./27. [3DS] Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir <ADV> (Nintendo) {2012.01.12} (¥3.800)
39./33. [PS3] World Soccer Winning Eleven 2012 <SPT> (Konami) {2011.10.06} (¥7.980)
40./00. [WII] Itadaki Street Wii <TBL> (Square Enix) {2011.12.01} (¥6.090)
41./31. [PSV] Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational <SPT> (Sony Computer Entertainment) {2011.12.17} (¥4.980)
42./32. [NDS] One Piece: Gigant Battle 2 - New World # <FTG> (Bandai Namco Games) {2011.11.17} (¥5.230)
43./39. [3DS] The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D <ADV> (Nintendo) {2011.06.16} (¥4.800)
44./45. [PSP] Hatsune Miku: Project Diva Extend <ACT> (Sega) {2011.11.10} (¥5.299)
45./30. [PSP] Frontier Gate <RPG> (Konami) {2011.12.22} (¥5.250)
46./00. [PSP] AKB1/48: If I loved an Idol in Guam... # <ADV> (Bandai Namco Games) {2011.10.06} (¥5.229)
47./48. [WII] PokePark 2: Wonders Beyond <ADV> (Pokemon Co.) {2011.11.12} (¥5.800)
48./38. [PS3] Mobile Suit Gundam Extreme Vs. <ACT> (Bandai Namco Games) {2011.12.01} (¥8.380)
49./00. [PSP] Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (Rockstar Classics) <ACT> (Take-Two Interactive) {2011.07.21} (¥2.500)
50./00. [360] Tropico 4 <SLG> (Russell) {2012.01.26} (¥7.140)

Top 50

PSP - 12
WII - 12
3DS - 10
PS3 - 10
360 - 2
NDS - 2
PSV - 2

SOFTWARE

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|System | This Week  | Last Week  | Last Year  |     YTD    |  Last YTD  |
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|  ALL  |    982.000 |    695.000 |  1.094.937 |  4.377.000 |  3.940.557 |
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HARDWARE

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|System | This Week  | Last Week  | Last Year  |     YTD    |  Last YTD  |     LTD     |
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|  3DS  |     84.789 |     80.960 |            |    507.236 |            |   4.789.379 |
|  PS3  |     22.924 |     21.155 |     25.149 |    148.870 |    141.743 |   7.785.255 |
|  PSV  |     18.942 |     15.219 |            |     95.437 |            |     535.423 |
| PSP # |     16.008 |     17.181 |     34.928 |    126.760 |    134.617 |  18.856.144 |
|  WII  |     10.396 |     10.173 |     19.448 |     84.273 |    111.833 |  12.247.494 |
| NDS # |      1.918 |      2.022 |     22.561 |     14.197 |    164.741 |  32.822.683 |
|  360  |      1.235 |      1.588 |      3.513 |      7.080 |     12.346 |   1.543.125 |
|  PS2  |        713 |        903 |      1.938 |      3.705 |      7.950 |  21.777.812 |
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|  ALL  |    156.925 |    149.201 |    107.537 |    987.558 |    573.230 | 100.357.315 |
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| DSiLL |      1.180 |      1.200 |     11.891 |      7.866 |     85.185 |   2.302.185 |
|  DSi  |        738 |        822 |      9.611 |      6.331 |     70.503 |   5.840.381 |
|  PSP  |     16.008 |     17.181 |     34.648 |    126.760 |    128.847 |  18.680.157 |
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Media Create Sales: Week 3, 2012 (Jan 16 - Jan 22)

[Sammy Samusu]

02./00. [3DS] Resident Evil: Revelations <ADV> (Capcom) {2012.01.26} (¥5.990) - 146.559 / NEW

That's great! LEGGO!

[D_prOdigy]

A fair debut for Innocence, it may be fair to say. With Revelations beating out RE4 GCN, I'm intrigued to know if that makes it the highest debut for a RE game on a Nintendo system (admittedly not some astonishing achievement).

[Colonel Mustard]

Vita > PSP

The impossible has happened.

[duckroll]

Armored Core V is the real success story here. Really amazing launch by From Software. :o

[darkside31337]

Vita overtook the PSP. Maybe it won't hit below 10k after all!

[The_Darkest_Red]

Hmm... it doesn't look like Vita got too much of a boost in terms of hardware sales from Tales of Innocence.

[Fersis]

Armored Core V is the real success story here. Really amazing launch by From Software. :o

From Software is so hot right now.

[Sho_Nuff82]

Is that the best debut ever for an Armored Core game?

As an aside, the game really does look fantastic.

[Scum]

Nice numbers for Resident Evil: Revelations and for Capcom.

[Tguy]

Armored Core V is the real success story here. Really amazing launch by From Software. :o

I just hope this recent success from From Software continues and they can get bigger budget for their games or a better engine for some solid framrate!

[idlewild_]

decent sales for Innocence, it even pushed the vita above the psp (not that that's saying much.)

i'm surprised ACV and RE:R are so high, thought they'd be closer to 100k once it was said that ACV was on top.

[wrowa]

RE:R is close enough to 150k to be considered decent.

ToI did respectable numbers too (at least if one compared them only to Abyss 3DS). 55k is far from a striking success, but it's better than the worst case scenarios some people predicted. However, knowing Namco they probably had strange expectations of 200k LT sales.

[Mpl90]

Revelations did almost in the 150k-200k range to be considered at least good. Good.
Innocence is ABSOLUTELY the surprise here. Even more than Armored Core having the best debut in the series.

LOL at Gundam.

[iceatcs]

Hmm... it doesn't look like Vita got too much of a boost in terms of hardware sales from Tales of Innocence.

Almost 20% boost is nothing?

[ertitoagus]

3 or 4 weeks to break 5M of 3DS.

[MikeE21286]

Wow at ACV > RE:R

[BassForever]

Correct me if I'm wrong but this only tracks physical numbers and not digital downloads of titles from PSN? ToI:R certain did better then I expected, and RE:R may not hit 1 million sales in Japan but it will certainly do it globally.

[duckroll]

Revelations did almost in the 150k-200k range to be considered at least good. Good. Innocence is ABSOLUTELY the surprise here. Even more than Armored Core having the best debut in the series. LOL at Gundam.

I'm really not that surprised at Tales doing okay. There are very hardcore fans for the series at the base, and there are at least 100k worth of them. That's why when you look at the sales for Tales games, even the worst in the series and the total nonsense fan discs tend to sell about 100k.

[Stumpokapow]

Almost 20% boost is nothing?

Yes? It was 18k week 2, 15k week 3, 18k week 4. Seems like a holding pattern to me, no indication that this week's uptick is linked to ToIR versus just natural variance.

[Spiegel]

Vita and ToIR doing bad, RE:R has an ok debut and ACV smashes expectations

I say RE:R had an ok debut because I'm comparing it to MGS:PO (which was an spinoff with much lower production values) and that game did 178k in the first week.

[Scum]

So, around 210K (or a tad bit more) in about 3-4 weeks for the 3DS, it is then...

[The_Darkest_Red]

Almost 20% boost is nothing?

No, it's 20%. I never said nothing. That said, "almost 20%" in this particular situation translates to 3,723 units, which doesn't seem too substantial to me.

[Stumpokapow]

Is that the best debut ever for an Armored Core game?

Yes, best debut. It's already outsold AC4. Best-selling individual SKU is AC2 (205k), AC2+Expansion and AC3+Expansion are both a little under 400k total.

[The_Darkest_Red]

Yes, best debut. It's already outsold AC4. Best-selling individual SKU is AC2 (205k), AC2+Expansion and AC3+Expansion are both a little under 400k total.

Wow, that's impressive! I've never played an AC game but I'm interested in V, it looks interesting based on what I've seen so far. Hopefully these sales are indicative of its quality.

[iceatcs]

Yes? It was 18k week 2, 15k week 3, 18k week 4. Seems like a holding pattern to me, no indication that this week's uptick is linked to ToIR versus just natural variance.

But you still can't said there is no boost at all because it do some how increase 20% from last week. Otherwise it suppose 20% decrease like last week?

If you curious, yes it is still very low sale for new systems.

[Colonel Mustard]

Almost 20% boost is nothing?

Percentages don't mean much when the numbers are still awful.

[PSFan]

Nice RE sales :D

[Dynopia]

PS2 still chugging along, wonder if it'll be there in 2 years time.

[Sammy Samusu]

18./19. [3DS] Nintendogs + Cats: French Bulldog / Shiba / Toy Poodle & New Friends <ETC> (Nintendo) {2011.02.26} (¥4.800) - 5.397 / 487.201 (-9%)

Female gamers jumping on board? Maybe that's why Capcom decided to announce Ace Attorney 5.

[slaughterking]

The original Innocence did 106,733 (by Famitsu). The remake doing about 50% of that seems decent enough.

[Mpl90]

Vita and ToIR doing bad, RE:R has an ok debut and ACV smashes expectations I say RE:R had an ok debut because I'm comparing it to MGS:PO (which was an spinoff with much lower production values) and that game did 178k in the first week.

No, it did good considering especially the Vita's install base and the size of the project.

[Mrbob]

Look at that residual effect from Demons Souls and Dark Souls. From Software rising to heaven.

[M-PG71C]

RE:R numbers are good, 150K roughly is a good start. I'm sure Capcom is pretty happy with the 3DS at this point in time. The 3 Kings is still owning the top 10 and AC5 is doing awesome. Rhythm Thief is holding on as well, it may have some legs.

And finally, Kirby will hit 600K for sure at this point. Hell yeah. I hope it continues to show up in the top 20.

[Father_Brain]

Decent but not great RE sales. Likely won't get over 300K at full price.

[iceatcs]

Percentages don't mean much when the numbers are still awful.

look above.

I didn't said it is a good boost.

[Gaborn]

But you still can't said there is no boost at all because it do some how increase 20% from last week. Otherwise it suppose 20% decrease like last week? If you curious, yes it is still very low sale for new systems.

I think the fairest thing is to call it a modest bump at best. I agree with Stump that it's probably natural variance but I'd be more comfortable being definitive with more data points so you could assume, for example, without Tales it might have dropped another k or 2 in which case this is around a 5k bump! But it's still a silly discussion with the numbers involved because, whether there IS a bump in play or not the smaller number leaves the discussion open to statistical noise.

[cyberheater]

I'm left wondering how long Sony will allow Vita to limp along like this before they announce a price cut.

Why are the Japanese not interested in Vita? I thought the line up was pretty solid.

[Brazil]

Incredible ACV numbers.

Revelations is also looking good.

[Mpl90]

Oh, one thing

09./02. [3DS] Rhythm Thief & the Emperor's Treasure <ACT> (Sega) {2012.01.19} (¥6.090) - 14.928 / 46.526 (-53%)

While Beyond the Labyrinth doesn't even obtain to do 4k. The difference between having a demo and not having it?

[Sadist]

Wow at Armored Core. Revelations did pretty well.

[saichi]

Although RE:R is very close to 150K but it's still under, a bit underperformed.

ToIR really out performed the expectation for its debut. However, it will be probably under 10K next week.

AC5 really gained from From's new popularity and we have seen signs from COMG this might happen. <3 Mpl90

[A Twisty Fluken]

Vita and ToIR doing bad, RE:R has an ok debut and ACV smashes expectations I say RE:R had an ok debut because I'm comparing it to MGS:PO (which was an spinoff with much lower production values) and that game did 178k in the first week.

If you're going to draw this analogy, didn't MGS:PO also launch in the thick of the holiday season?

[Kyoufu]

Tales did alright considering it's a remake of a not so hot title, but I'm expecting (hoping) that Ragnarok Odyssey and Gravity Daze both break 100k.

[aknbad30]

I'm left wondering how long Sony will allow Vita to limp along like this before they announce a price cut. Why are the Japanese not interested in Vita? I thought the line up was pretty solid.

Needs more Monster Hunter.....

[BassForever]

Tales did alright considering it's a remake of a not so hot title, but I'm expecting (hoping) that Ragnarok Odyssey and Gravity Daze both break 100k.

Maybe combined, but I don't have much faith in their ability to do well, I think at best we see 50k sales from each of them.

[User Tron]

I thought the line up was pretty solid.

For me it was more like: More of the same only that it's portable now.

[Brazil]

Oh, one thing 09./02. [3DS] Rhythm Thief & the Emperor's Treasure <ACT> (Sega) {2012.01.19} (¥6.090) - 14.928 / 46.526 (-53%) While Beyond the Labyrinth doesn't even obtain to do 4k. The difference between having a demo and not having it?

The difference between being an accessible rhythm title from Sega (with a demo) and being a really niche RPG from Konami (without a demo), yeah.

[lunchwithyuzo]

I say RE:R had an ok debut because I'm comparing it to MGS:PO (which was an spinoff with much lower production values) and that game did 178k in the first week.

Portable Ops released Dec 21st though. Revelations likely would have debuted higher had it also been leading into the biggest shopping season of the year, rather than launching after it.

[Chris1964]

I don't see any real surprises this week except Armored Core V that performed a little better that expected (on PS3).