Fire Emblem Fates Leads Japanese Charts Alongside Rhythm Heaven and Splatoon

Animal Crossing is going to crack 4 million in just Japan in like 2 weeks. Very impressive for a game with no goals.

This has just made me yearn for Nintendo to release more Fire Emblem on VC and make a new Wars game for Wii U!

Splatoon still holding on strong. Well deserved.

Hopefully Splatoon's success will prompt Nintendo to try new IPs more often, instead of just slapping Mario's face on everything.

Still waiting for that Rhythm Heaven announcement for the west...please don't make me buy a Japanese 3DS, Nintendo

I wonder what is causing the uptick in ps4 sales... Ah well happy for splatoon and the other two 3ds games...I knew I should have gotten express shipping.

Goes back to waiting on USPS

@XCWarrior
Yeah it seems Japanese love their SIMS and RPGs ...

@XCWarrior yokai watch releases this week and should crack a mill first week. the downside is the great ace attorney also comes out and it's going to flop.

@faint No doubt. But I'm just pointing out 4 mil for a game's sales only in Japan is super impressive. Yokai Watch, Monster Hunter, Dragon Quest, maybe Puzzle and Dragons only other games in Japan that can probably ull that off.

@XCWarrior i dont think animal crossing is going to hit four million in two weeks. it may cross 1.5 fw but i'm not convinced of that yet. it's not moving fast enough at coming yet. 23 more days and we will see.

@faint Why will Ace Attorney flop? It looks great and there's a strong AA following in Japan, not to mention it's been heavily covered in Japan for months really. I think it will do well, 100,000 in no time I would think, which is pretty good considering.

Man, those legs on Splatoon. What an impressive run.

Super happy to see Fire Emblem on top, too, as that's my most anticipated 3DS game right now.

Happy to see Fire Emblem continue to do well. The limited edition probably sold out already, which would explain the absence from the chart. Would be a good relief for IS, after the failure of Code Name STEAM.

Splatoon is still holding really well and looks like it will have a decent long legs. Nintendo really strike a gold with that. Wii U is slowly declining after the Splatoon boost, but stay in five figures which is a good thing. Hopefully, Yoshi Woolly World will give it another boost. And who knows how Splatoon will do after the August update, perhaps another boost as people complained with lack of content will finally get it.

PS4 is doing really well and it's such a mistery, the software chart doesn't reflect the many unit of hardware sold. But having PS4 and Wii U doing great right now at least proved that home console market in Japan is still alive, which is a good thing. Xbox though, I don't know why they still insist of selling in Japan.

@faint oh and for that one he means New Leaf, not any of the upcoming ones. That is an amazing number considering it's still relatively new and not the most Japanese game out there.

@TheLastLugia i see it doing between 70 to 80k fw. i hope i'm wrong

@thesilverbrick

Hopefully Splatoon's success will prompt fans to try new Nintendo IPs more often, instead of just buying anything with Mario's face slapped on it.

@faint

[3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf (Nintendo, 11/08/12) – 4,276 (3,992,729)

If it sells 4,000 copies in each of the next 2 weeks, it gets to 4 million. You looking at the wrong number?

Are people just buying PS4s without any games?

@XCWarrior sry still waking up in na. Thought the reference was to happy home designer. X)

@chardir There was a time that was a fun joke about PS4. Not anymore. There are tons of good games if you don't own a gaming PC, which most of Japan does not.

@faint No worries. I've done the same thing. If Happy Home Designer sells a million in the US, I'd be shocked. In Japan, MAYBE cracks a million, but even then, it's a shell of a game.

So many sales only in japan? That's insane! Really glad about that. Next to Team Fotress 2, Splatoon is my absolute favorite multiplayer game even despite it's limited matchmaking options.

Man I've been in the mood to play FE latley. I really wish I never sold my GCN back in the day. I browsed Amazon to see how much PoR is going for, and its ridiculous.

Nintendo, please bring GCN and Wii games to the VC!

@XCWarrior
I don't think he was cracking fun at the PS4- I think he's legitimately asking if people are buying PS4's without games. Looking at the software chart, it doesn't reflect the success of the console. For as many PS4's that are being sold, you would expect much higher software sales to coorelate

@JaxonH There is a Dragon Quest game coming this holiday season. Smart Japan players are getting their PS4 now so they don't worry about a stock shortage when the game is released. At least that is my best guess.

FYI the new, more energy efficient PS4 was recently released in Japan.

@LUIGITORNADO They already did bring Wii games to VC...

@Sonicman
I forgot about that, but they did bring games which are not too hard to find.

@XCWarrior @JaxonH Yeah, if you add up all the PS4 software sales in the top 20, it's still less than the hardware sold. My guess is software sales are spread out across lots of titles not in the top 20. Or maybe that people are subscribing to PS Plus.

@JaxonH @chardir If I were to pick up a PS4 (no time to), I'd get MLB The Show, subscribe to PS Plus and never buy another game. I don't know how that system survives (I know most people can't wait to play a game past day 1, but I can). They give you 5+ free games a month. 2 are probably gonna be good. So play those with all the other systems most of us own, and never actually buy a game. Cause most of the good ones are free eventually.

3DS and Vita continue to trade off with each other in Japan... The final battle for portable consoles.