As we rattle towards the festive season and retail sales spike, Nintendo is no doubt hoping for strong sales around the world to move towards its targets and overall profitability. While the peak season has arrived in the West — with Black Friday, for example — the biggest sales boosts in Japan can come a little later. The latest Media Create numbers don't show any major increases yet, though there are impressive 3DS numbers and improved Wii U figures.
To start with software, Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire remains on top in its second week, selling nearly 300,000 physical retail copies; Etrian Odyssey Untold II makes it début in third place behind Vita title Phantasy Star Nova. You can see the top 20 below, with lifetime sales in brackets.
1. [3DS] Pokemon Omega Ruby / Alpha Sapphire – 298,613 (1,626,284)
2. [PSV] Phantasy Star Nova – 107,313 (New)
3. [3DS] Etrian Odyssey Untold II: Knight of Fafnir – 59,531 (New)
4. [PSV] Fate/hollow ataraxia – 53,979 (New)
5. [PS3] Resident Evil – 50,258 (New)
6. [PS4] Dragon Age: Inquisition – 29,274 (New)
7, [3DS] Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate – 27,624 (2,200,698)
8. [3DS] Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS – 21,755 (1,758,790)
9. [3DS] Yokai Watch 2: Ganso / Honke – 20,577 (2,902,388)
10. [PSV] Nisekoi: Yomeiri!? – 15,508 (New)
11. [PSV] Senran Kagura: Bon Appetit! – 14,275 (New)
12. [PS3] Pro Evolution Soccer 2015 – 12,886 (104,801)
13. [Wii U] Mario Kart 8 – 12,742 (734,626)
14. [Wii U] Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker – 12,211 (54,053)
15. [PSV] Oedo BlackSmith – 11,562 (New)
16. [PS3] Dragon Age: Inquisition – 11,294 (New)
17. [PS3] Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (Subtitled Version) – 10,291 (105,302)
18. [3DS] Gotouchi Tetsudou: Gotouchi Kyara to Nihon Senkoku no Tabi – 9,936 (New)
19. [3DS] Hero Bank 2 – 8,014 (New)
20. [PS3] Dynasty Warriors 8: Empires – 7,784 (45,907)
Moving onto hardware we have increased sales for the New 3DS LL — which remains at number one — and likewise with both of the older models. The Wii U also saw an increase, even though there were no obvious software successes to prompt the jump; it should be noted, of course, that Super Smash Bros. for Wii U arrives in Japan this week, so may have helped with an early boost. The figures are below, with the previous week's sales in brackets.
New 3DS LL – 48,738 (42,184)
PlayStation Vita – 27,935 (10,236)
New 3DS – 22,875 (26,791)
3DS – 19,722 (8,144)
3DS LL – 15,182 (11,534)
PlayStation 4 – 13,489 (12,430)
Wii U – 12,496 (9,615)
PlayStation 3 – 5,360 (4,324)
PlayStation Vita TV – 1,285 (621)
Xbox One – 1,237 (776)
Xbox 360 – 108 (100)
PSP – 18 (11)
A solid week for Nintendo, overall, and it'll be interesting to see how the Wii U entry of Smash Bros. performs next week — its portable equivalent performed rather well on 3DS.
[source gematsu.com]
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With Smash Bros. for Wii U on the horizon, Wii U sales will rise in Japan.
Good job, Captain Toad! And look at that gap between number 1 and number 2 in the software chart.
Can Nintendo make it to 9 million Wii U's by the end of December? Will they make it to 10 million? Seems like a long shot to get to 10 million but with the right December numbers it could happen.
Hoping a December direct will come around in a few weeks to talk about 2015 in all it's glory. I need to start saving money!
For the first time in history, the 3DS sold more than the 3DS LL! That's good.
3DS – 19,722 (8,144)
3DS LL – 15,182 (11,534)
Anybody know whats up w/ Vita sales nearly tripling? Were they giving it away for free or is Phantasy Star Nova really that big of a deal?
Wii U in spitting distant of PS4 is nice. Should be able to top it for the next few weeks w/ SSBU.
I wonder if the Godzilla game will spike PS3 sales? Does anybody in Japan still not own a PS3?
@VolcanoFlamesNL - But don't you wonder why 35,000 people bought an obsolete model of the system last week? The new one has been out for weeks now so they should know.
It takes 3 weeks for the Wii U to sell as many as the old 3DS systems. sigh
Yokai watch is almost at 3 million, wonder if it'll make it by the end of the year
@rjejr
The sales tripled not because of Phantasy Star, it was obviously the job of Senran Kagura Bon Appetit!
But on a serious note, check the amount of new games on Vita for the week. And those are the ones that made it to the top 20. I guess that is the reason.
Regarding the "obsolete" 3DS and LL, most likely they are being heavily discounted to get rid of the stock.
What's more crazy is if you combine all sales of the 3DSes, Nintendo is selling more than 100K units per week!
@Azooooz As well as the fight for who gets a Gamecube Adapter.
There are clearly a lot of "long life" 3DS games, pokemon just adds to its total. It will be interesting to see how smash performs in JP, clearly the 3DS version is popular, but I wonder if the WiiU version will drive more Wii U sales, considering how portable-gaming focused Japan is.
It's kind of amazing that the old 3DS sold better than the old 3DS LL this week.
Nice numbers for Wii U. Incredible numbers for Pokemon. 3DS sales are 4 times the Vita sales.
I think this console Generation is going to be a slow one in Japan. The PS4 has probably sold magnitudes more than the WiiU but not as much as Sony hoped I'm betting.
So next week is the big one for Wii U in Japan, right? Freaking fingers crossed Smash U sells as good as the 3DS version by getting people lining very early in the morning to get their copy and stuff. Wii U and this game desserves it!!
I believe Wii U has now hit two million in Japan, can anyone confirm that? Hopefully there is a nice spike with Smash Wii U arriving in Japan! Wel done Nintendo, good week all told
Decent console sales, Smash will increase Wii U sales in Japan a little bit for next week’s chart report. Also, so many new releases, amazing…
Also, Wii U has surpassed 2 Million LTD sales in Japan...
@MJKOP http://mynintendonews.com/2014/12/03/wii-u-life-to-date-sales-have-now-surpassed-2-million-in-japan/ Here you go...
@Takerkaneanite6 nice one, thank you
I'm really hoping Wii U takes off anywhere. I just want it to continue to get committed support from Nintendo with brave new games and if there is no user base it will always be about making the base bigger.
2 million in Japan, so far, is good news.
Judging from how NIntendo sat out of Black Friday with the Wii U, it looks like they are trying hard for a return to profit more than increasing base alone. Not sure how I feel about that. Only Nintendo knows how big the installed base of Wii U consoes needs to be to continue making enough money on the games they develop. Maybe they want to continue to rely on games to sell the console, but a $300 Wii U looked pretty expensive next to a $330 XBox One during Black Friday. (Not entirely fair because there were some deals like a $25 gift card with Wii U around that time, as well)
@Guybrush20X6 - I believe PS4 is closing in on around 900K in Japan and Wii U is at 2 million, with over a year head start, so neither is really selling like crazy in Japan yet. So far it's been slow for sure.
According to eBay: "Wii U sells 4,000 consoles in 17 minutes as eBay’s Black Friday deal". That's not too shabby.
"The Wii U, priced at $259.99, sold out 4,000 units in less than 17 minutes, with customers snapping up four of the devices per second. The $399 iPads sold at a rate of one per second, with 2,000 disappearing in a just over 30 minutes"
GO GO Etrian Odyssey!!!
I love how they keep tracking PSP; good for them, their sales went up by more than 50% this week
@sinalefa - Well that is a lot of new games. I wonder if any of them are making it to the west?
Just surprised to see so many Vita sold, I thought it was dead and buried. And that's a healthy tripling to put it up there w/ 3DS numbers, Vita TV and X1 each doubled, but from extremely little to very little sold.
I want more, just so more a bit more
Who is still buying a PSP?! do they need extra parts or something?
Pretty decent this week. Wonder how this week's gonna go.
New 3DS with a loss, Vita almost triples last week's sales.
With more games coming more frequently and the allure of cross-buy with both PS3 and PS4, I almost wouldn't be surprised to see the Vita overtake the 3DS once the holiday excitement cools.
Nintendo did see a nice boost for the Wii U, but so did most every other system. Comparatively, the jump wasn't overly impressive and unless this positive trend continues, 2015's first quarter will be roughest on Nintendo.
@Ryu_Niiyama
That would be my guess, replacement consoles. There are quite a few UMD only games out there. Could be people snapping them up while supplies last too, or even for homebrew.
XboxOne is Doomed!
@VolcanoFlamesNL Yeah.....Ignoring the fact that New 3DS LL is trashing the New 3DS. But I'm still getting the New 3DS though. Those faceplates.....ugh.
@NodesforNoids coming from the person that wants Nintendo to leave hardware and talk's negative things about Wii U.
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