3DS Dominates Latest Japanese Sales Charts

The 3DS is doing well over in Japan.

The 3DS has had a very good week in Japan in both hardware and software charts.  In the week ending May 5th, the 3DS sold over 55,000 units, more than every other console combined.  Meanwhile, 5 of the top 10 selling games of the week were 3DS games, with the top 3 selling games all being 3DS games.  The list and figures are below: –

Software sales (lifetime total)

1. Tomodachi Collection: New Life (3DS, Nintendo) – 208.814 / 758.575
2. Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon (3DS, Nintendo) – 64.420 / 660.575
3. Animal Crossing: New Leaf (3DS, Nintendo) – 47.128 / 3.175.398
4. Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen (PS3, Capcom) – 31.319 / 156.682
5. Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultimate Mission (3DS, Bandai Namco) – 15.094 / 177.157
6. Tomb Raider (PS3, Square Enix) – 12.899 / 48.149
7. Naruto Shippuden: Narutimate Storm 3 (PS3, Bandai Namco) – 12.096 / 117.593
8. New Super Mario Bros. 2 (3DS, Nintendo) – 10.875 / 2.019.369
9. Taiko no Tatsujin Wii: Super Deluxe Edition (Wii, Bandai Namco) – 9.984 / 469.436
10. 7th Dragon 2020-II (PSP, Sega) – 8.985 / 97.862

Hardware sales

1. 3DS – 76.463 (55.433)
2. Vita – 22.051 (21.399)
3. PS3 – 17.415 (14.682)
4. Wii U – 13.173 (8.262)
5. PSP – 8.443 (7.536)
6. Wii – 2.238 (1.660)
7. Xbox 360 – 596 (490)
8. Total – 140.379 (109.462)

Source: CVG