Girls Mode 3

It's easy to be dismissive of Style Savvy / New Style Boutique, with its focus on fashion, designer coffees and neat apartments, but it's a rather fun and entertaining title on the 3DS. The release of the latest entry in Japan has given some life to the country's charts this week, too, though overall sales are still worryingly low.

Girls Mode 3: Kirakira Code is that latest entry in the fashionable series, which also includes some goofy amiibo features and unlocks on the New Nintendo 3DS. It claimed the number one spot in the software charts, though numbers through the rest of the top 20 are disappointingly low. You can see those results below, with lifetime sales in brackets.

  1. [3DS] Girls Mode 3: Kirakira Code (Nintendo, 04/16/15) – 55,179 (New)
  2. [PS4] Dying Light (Warner Bros., 04/16/15) – 25,530 (New)
  3. [3DS] Future Card Buddy Fight: Yuujou no Bakunetsu Fight (FuRyu, 04/16/15) – 16,630 (New)
  4. [PSV] Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition (SCE, 03/19/15) – 12,175 (97,117)
  5. [PS3] One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3 (Bandai Namco, 03/26/15) – 6,926 (137,211)
  6. [PSV] 3rd Super Robot Wars Z: Tengoku Hen (Bandai Namco, 04/02/15) – 6,542 (143,154)
  7. [Wii U] Mario Party 10 (Nintendo, 03/12/15) – 5,991 (129,581)
  8. [PS3] 3rd Super Robot Wars Z: Tengoku Hen (Bandai Namco, 04/02/15) – 5,798 (118,433)
  9. [PS4] Bloodborne (SCE, 03/26/15) – 5,674 (190,631)
  10. [3DS] Yo-kai Watch 2: Shinuchi (Level-5, 12/14/14) – 5,659 (2,586,851)
  11. [PSV] Sword Art Online: Lost Song (Bandai Namco, 03/26/15) – 5,532 (177,145)
  12. [3DS] Pokemon Omega Ruby / Alpha Sapphire (Pokemon, 11/21/14) – 5,483 (2,598,884)
  13. [3DS] Xenoblade Chronicles 3D (Nintendo, 04/02/15) – 5,330 (71,167)
  14. [3DS] Assassination Classroom: Grand Siege on Koro-sensei (Bandai Namco, 03/12/15) – 5,196 (49,827)
  15. [PS4] Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin (From Software, 04/09/15) – 5,134 (25,628)
  16. [PS3] Pro Yakyuu Spirits 2015 (Konami, 03/26/15) – 4,960 (88,090)
  17. [PS4] Saints row IV: Re-Elected (Spike Chunsoft, 04/16/15) – 4,776 (New)
  18. [PSV] One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3 (Bandai Namco, 03/26/15) – 4,543 (80,779)
  19. [Wii U] Mario Kart 8 (Nintendo, 05/29/14) – 4,542 (961,504)
  20. [3DS] Theatrhythm Dragon Quest (Square Enix, 03/26/15) – 4,079 (104,044)

The sales are even less desirable once you look at hardware numbers. Every single system recorded a drop in comparison to last week, with the New Nintendo 3DS LL (XL) in third place, albeit with the portable's 'family' being number one overall. The Wii U is still down in fourth as the second best selling home console - the results are below with last week's sales in brackets.

  1. PlayStation 4 – 15,419 (17,885)
  2. PlayStation Vita – 14,568 (17,517)
  3. New Nintendo 3DS LL – 14,047 (16,955)
  4. Wii U – 6,324 (6,654)
  5. New Nintendo 3DS – 5,324 (6,222)
  6. PlayStation 3 – 4,175 (4,221)
  7. Nintendo 3DS LL – 1,309 (1,986)
  8. Nintendo 3DS – 1,144 (1,678)
  9. PlayStation Vita TV – 491 (511)
  10. Xbox One – 170 (238)

It's nice to see a 3DS release seizing top spot with a bit of style, though overall this is clearly a quiet spell in the Japanese market.

[source gematsu.com]