The Media Create chart results are out, including some new releases and - in some ways - a continuation of the norm in hardware sales.
Starting with game sales, Tekken 7 on PS4 has unsurprisingly taken top spot on its debut, but we do have Seiken Densetsu Collection making its debut in second place for the Nintendo Switch; it includes the first three Mana games from Game Boy and Super Famicom. Beyond that Mario Kart 8 Deluxe holds third place as the best-performing 'evergreen' title on Nintendo hardware - the top 20 is below with lifetime sales in brackets.
- [PS4] Tekken 7 (Bandai Namco, 06/01/17) – 58,736 (New)
- [NSW] Seiken Densetsu Collection (Square Enix, 06/01/17) – 29,564 (New)
- [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 20,984 (488,673)
- [PSV] Tsukitomo. Tsukuita. 12 Memories (Bandai Namco, 06/01/17) – 12,763 (New)
- [3DS] Monster Hunter XX (Capcom, 03/16/17) – 12,263 (1,502,606)
- [PS4] Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana (Falcom, 05/25/17) – 10,201 (37,492)
- [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Limited Edition Included) (Nintendo, 03/03/17) – 9,666 (485,687)
- [PSV] Death Mark (Experience, 06/01/17) – 7,099 (New)
- [3DS] Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultimate Mission X (Bandai Namco, 04/27/17) – 5,935 (158,859)
- [NSW] Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers (Capcom, 05/27/17) – 4,735 (21,139)
- [PS4] Guilty Gear Xrd: Rev 2 (Arc System Works, 05/25/17) – 3,891 (14,500)
- [PS4] NieR: Automata (Square Enix, 02/23/17) – 3,591 (338,144)
- [3DS] Pokemon Sun / Pokemon Moon (Nintendo, 11/18/16) – 3,312 (3,269,509)
- [PS4] Rainbow Six Siege (Ubisoft, 12/10/15) – 3,187 (200,144)
- [PS4] Grand Theft Auto V (Low Price Version) (Take-Two, 10/08/15) – 3,092 (342,821)
- [3DS] Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS (Nintendo, 12/01/16) – 2,972 (1,047,077)
- [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf Amiibo+ (Nintendo, 11/23/16) – 2,831 (184,674)
- [3DS] Pro Yakyuu Famista Climax (Bandai Namco, 04/20/17) – 2,824 (82,293)
- [Wii U] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo, 03/03/17) – 2,733 (128,502)
- [3DS] Mario Sports Superstars (Nintendo, 03/30/17) – 2,721 (98,459)
Moving on to hardware we still have the Nintendo Switch on top, despite reports of demand still outstripping supply in the country. The PS4 saw a boost that took it past the New 3DS LL (XL) in second place; results are below with last week's sales in brackets.
- Switch – 23,524 (27,146)
- PlayStation 4 – 15,854 (13,972)
- New 3DS LL – 12,676 (14,610)
- PlayStation 4 Pro – 5,492 (5,030)
- PlayStation Vita – 4,454 (4,092)
- 2DS – 2,904 (2,667)
- New 3DS – 915 (1,018)
- PlayStation 3 – 714 (258)
- Wii U – 221 (177)
- Xbox One – 167 (121)
A relatively quiet week, all told, though Nintendo is still enjoying plenty of demand for its latest system.
[source gematsu.com]
Comments 71
Please, for the love of all that is good and holy, English release please!
@roadrunner343 Yes! When are they going to treat us non-Japanese with a little respect and give us these amazing games??
Includes two of the best action RPGs of all time. This needs an (official) North American and European release!
The Mana Collection has been released!? Why didn't anybody tell me? Onward, to Play-Asia! Getting some japanese eShop cash.
Well I was planning on getting some eshop cash from playasia anyway....
Makes this right, Square-Enix!
Can't get over the sales and attach rates for MK8 and BOTW.
Meanwhile, XBOne may catch up with the Wii U before they sale out...maybe? We'll have to tune in next week I guess...
MK8D has officially outsold Zelda BOTW, as Switch supply continues to struggle.
Tekken 7 launch sales are atrocious. Speaks to how poorly non-Smash Bros fighting games have sold in Japan. In fact, here's how Tekken 7's launch sales compare to that of last year's Pokken Tournament:
Pokken Tournament - 69,675
Tekken 7 - 58,736
Now how about that English release?
Come on, even if it was a Digital Only offering again, you'd more then make the translation costs back....
Bring that to the west please
Inb4 someone comments on 'another port'.
Seriously though, these needs to be localised. Skip a Europe release for all I care. - I'll import
Ys should be ported to the Switch!
Just got my physical copy of Seiken Densetsu Collection from Play-Asia today.
Why in the ancient hell is this Seiken Densetsu Collection not released in english in the west???
@Equinox We can't buy them if they don't release them.
I love SNES more than I love being sensible. I would buy a Switch for this collection alone.
@crackafreeze Its pretty nice handdrawn artwork on the front and back with 1 screenshot from each game on the back as well. http://www.play-asia.com/seiken-densetsu-collection/13/70b1qz
Here's a link so you can at least see the front unfortunately they don't have a picture of the back.
Want Mana Collection international localization please. C'mon Square Enix can't you see I want to throw money at you?
@crackafreeze I will looking forward to playing it soon.
Seiken Densetsu Collection when when when in english
Hope it get announced for the West soon
@crackafreeze Indeed, though I just that would depend on whether they want to update the translations or not. I dunno how close to the original Japanese the English translations were day in the day, but if there were any change to dialogue or censorship (Hey, I havent played through any of the games so I have no idea), they might want to change that.
Then of course if we're talking Europe, then they'd have to ensure all the Euro countries have a translation in their languages, which god knows what the situation is for all those languages..... XD
Ever since I saw this on the Japanese eshop I wished it had English text or they just released it in English as it would be a day 1 buy for sure to with I am setsuna I just grabbed and enjoying.
english release would be so sexy~
I am actually braced for this coming out on the West...but with Secret of Evermore instead of SD3.
I knew Switch sales would be down this week. Watch as they somehow miraculously rise again next week.
Software sales are poor too. Don't think Bamco will be happy with those Tekken 7 numbers.
@audiobrainiac Because Square Enix is full of xenophobic eggheads.
@Crono1973 Sure you can, there's no region lock.
People of Internet!
Raise your hands to the sky and give your energy for this official western translation!
@Hydrus13 I don't think there's such a thing as too many localised Japanese games myself, but whatever does this have to do with respect?
@mikegamer Like most Japanese game companies?
I really really want Square Enix to offer an English translation/western release of the Seiken Densetsu Collection on Nintendo Switch! I'd download it from the Japan eShop but I don't read Japanese. I really want to own this collection. It wouldn't be that difficult to offer an English translation and release on the North American & European eShops.
To play a physical copy of an import, do you need an account from that region? I don't want to have all the Japanese games in my news feed (what happens when you add a Japanese account).
The Switch has 4 out of the top 10 games in Japan. Not bad at all! Nice to see SFII hang in the top ten still, considering we probably all own it already... but not on a portable Switch!
@audiobrainiac The modern Square Enix seems to think that the only titles worth releasing in the West are Western developed ones or its blockbuster franchise. Its like the whole Bravely Default fiasco; they never localised it as they felt it was a "Japanese" thing and were "surprised" after it sold better than expected in the West after Nintendo did the localisation.
I say our best bet is for another company to snag the localisation rights.
(Occasionally there are exceptions)
It would be nice to play secret of mana 2 one day
@Kuipo : Region free. Pop the card in and play. That's it. You don't get non-eShop related notifications under News anyway.
If you create a different region profile on the same Switch, then the different region eShop news are combined, and to the best of my knowledge, can't be turned off.
@sillygostly Awesome, thanks. I kind of want to buy this game but after I saw all the e-shop news littering my feed I quickly undid it and deleted the account. Thinking about getting a physical copy of this. Easily my favorite game from my childhood... but wary of it being in all Japanese. =/ REALLY want a NA/EU localization.
Yeesh. The Y's series is still at it. Considering the series started I think on the TurboGrafx which I have on the wiivc and still need to beat. I thought they wouldn't be making anymore. Oh and Secret of Mana collection to English pls.
I need this so badly.
Hopefully they'll release the Seiken Densetsu Collection here. I only ever played Secret of Mana, and only because I rented it after borrowing a friend's SNES (I went the Genesis route to compliment my friend's SNES, in order to enjoy the best of both worlds). I have some fond memories of that game, and wouldn't mind playing it and others in the series as well.
I would pony up more than face value for this if it were to come West . Looks really good!
Here is how all the previous Tekken games since Tekken 2 performed in Japan:
Game - First week sales / Lifetime sales
Tekken 2 - 367,666 / 1,088,069
Tekken 3 - 671,886 / 1,186,119
Tekken 4 - 176,280 / 318,920
Tekken 5 - 216,566 / 317,357
Tekken 6 - 146,618 / 239,278
Tekken 7 - 58,736 / ???
Looking at these numbers for fighting games outside of Smash Bros, I expect Arms to sell around 50,000 to 75,000 copies at launch, with decent legs carrying it to around 400,000 to 450,000 copies sold lifetime in Japan.
Also, the Seiken Densetsu Collection had to 3rd best launch for a 3rd party Switch game in Japan thus far, behind Dragon Quest Heroes I-II and Super Bomberman R.
I'd be tempted to download this given the high esteem the series is held in, but £40 is a lot of money to throw at a retro purchase of a series I've got no experience of.
There's no nostalgia to leech off, and while I'm curious about discovering the old classics, I'm not sure that curiosity stretches to paying full retail price for a history lesson. I bought the Ace Attorney trilogy for under £20 from the eShop the other day which felt like pretty good value, so I'm a little disheartened that this comes in some way out of 'impulse buy' territory.
Anyway, we've had lots of people complaining about the lack of localisation, and here I am moaning about the price. Just throught I'd flesh out the 'lazy ungrateful entitled gamer' stereotype a little more.
But seriously, I definitely put this in the same class as PPT, Bomberman and SF2 in terms of pricing. Like, they're nice to have, but... eep.
@westman98 Hard to believe Tekken has slowed so much over the years. I guess the problem is, most people really only need one good fighting game per system.
I'm more surprised that MK8D has overtaken BoTW. I love both, but Zelda is a work of art!
@Krillin
Fighting games in general have faded dramatically in Japan outside of Super Smash Bros. Super Smash Bros 3DS has comfortably outsold every fighting game released on the Wii U, PS Vita, and PS4 combined.
@Krillin Zelda isn't as big in Japan as it is in the West. Same with Metroid. Mario Kart on the other hand is a pretty big seller in Japan (like most mini-game/party type games).
BotW is doing better in Japan than some of its predecessors though. Twilight Princess on the Wii (Gamecube sales were negligible in comparison) only sold about 600k lifetime units in Japan and Skyward Sword 370k.
It's getting pretty close to Twilight Princess sales (and surpassed Skyward Sword already) for being on a console that's out of stock in Japan, with a smaller player base and rather early in its lifespan.
@SLIGEACH_EIRE ARMS releases next week, so I expect to see a rise than. (Not that it's going to be a system seller or anything, but you get my point.)
@Hikingguy
Quite the opposite. Zelda as a whole is known to be middling in popularity in japan.
Hyrule Warriors can be seen as attaching Zelda to a more popular series in japan
I really hope we get a surprise announcement at E3 for an English release later this year. Seiken Densetsu 3 is up there with Mother 3 for games I'm still upset about not getting an English release.
Tekken is too easy but that's the way it is
@Aaron09 Exactly. That's my point. People keep saying it's sold out in Japan and Nintendo can't produce more than the ~25,000 number that it's been at for 3 or 4 weeks now. But watch next week, the hardware sales I bet will be over 40,000.
@Joffe27 Does it come with multiple translations or just Japanese? People could just do an import if they have English already built into the games.
@Captain_Toad Ys started on the sega master system.
@Equinox The demand for Splatoon 2 is huge in Japan so my guess is Nintendo is restricting supply until its release.
Imported a copy, I'm doing my part.
Please release an english version!
@RedMageLanakyn the japanese release is japanese language only because there has not yet been an official english release of seiken densetsu 3. Sadly, otherwise everyone would import this.
@bolt05 Ah, I forgot about that. Hopefully they'll send it our way then, I was a little bummed out that Secret of Mana never made it's way to WiiU VC.
I'd kill for Western release
Launch aligned sales:
https://i.gyazo.com/bee27201395413a109d83f229b7ac2e7.png
Even with supply constraints, the Switch is destroying the WiiU, PS Vita, and PS4 on a weekly basis, and closely approaching the 3DS.
I waited and hoped for YEARS that they would put Secret of Mana on 3ds but last winter I finally just gave up and bought a SupaBoy S which has the same size screen as the 3ds XL and I just play my own Secret of Mana game on that. Kiss my rear, Nintendo.
@Equinox Well I can't fix the populace's broken mindset. I wish more people would see the beauty and joy in RPGs like these instead of mindless shooting Call of Doodie crap.
@RedMageLanakyn yeah same here.
Secret of Mana Yes Yes Yes please
Fingers crossed that they'll announce the localised versions of the Mana Collection and Monster Hunter XX at E3 next week!
Please, give me a reason to use my switch before 2018!
@roadrunner343 I came here to ask for the same thing. If SE wants more sells it just need to release this in english. Heck just put english in the Japanese e-shop version.
@Jessica286 I would much prefer a physical release, but beggars can't be choosers I suppose, so even if they only did an English digital release, I would definitely buy it. Hopefully it does well enough in Japan for them to consider translating.
I'd pay for a Seiken Densetsu Collection just to play Mana 3, despite me beating Sword and Secret of Mana. Please SquareEnix.
@crackafreeze Haha! I got exactly this from Nin-Nin-game lol My copy of the collection and i am setsuna physical arrived today! The inside cover of the collection is really nice!
@Menchi187 Same! Had to have it Physically even if i can't read Japanese lol.
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