This week’s Media Create sales figures are now in from Japan. The highly regarded Super Mario 3D World slipped from number two to number four in the all-formats charts. Wii U sales saw a slight rise from 21,002 to 28,518, but it’s still performing below Nintendo’s expectations. However, the Nintendo 3DS continues to sell well in Japan. This week it sold 108.373 units. Here’s the Japanese software and hardware charts.
- [3DS] Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai 2 (Sega, 11/28/13) – 88,708 (New)
- [3DS] Pokemon X and Y (Nintendo, 10/12/13) – 86,391 (3,089,129)
- [PS3] Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII (Square Enix, 11/21/13) – 60,073 (337,155)
- [Wii U] Super Mario 3D World (Nintendo, 11/21/13) – 39,812 (139,400)
- [PS3] Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends (Tecmo Koei, 11/28/13) – 35,472(New)
- [PS3] Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag (Ubisoft, 11/28/13) – 35,348 (New)
- [PS3] Pro Evolution Soccer 2014 (Konami, 11/14/13) – 25,166 (212,844)
- [3DS] One Piece: Unlimited World R (Namco Bandai, 11/21/13) – 24,623 (108,228)
- [PS3] Super Robot Wars OG Infinite Battle (Namco Bandai, 11/28/13) – 22,833(New)
- [3DS] Monster Hunter 4 (Capcom, 09/14/13) – 21,969 (2,981,758)
- 3DS LL – 82,409 (63,709)
- Wii U – 28,518 (21,002)
- 3DS – 25,964 (20,797)
- PlayStation Vita – 20,202 (21,044)
- PlayStation 3 – 13,311 (12,436)
- PlayStation Vita TV – 5,391 (7,868)
- PSP – 4,232 (3,546)
- Wii – 588 (457)
- Xbox 360 – 309 (342)
And you know Nintendo’s expectations how?
This is what i came to write, glad ppl realized quick
Looks the Wii U sales is finally stabilizing in japan. 2014 will be a great year for Wii U in japan
what kind of troll are you?
The flip flopping kind?
I think so! wow, anonymous replying to anonymous…
We are legion. I do agree with the guy however!
Anonymous legion? lol
The Tsundere kind
Heavy PMS I’d say
Yes indeed they will be good numbers for the WiiU in 2014.3DS still emperor.
Seriously, they act like its bad that Wii U sold 28 thousand in japan.
It is not bad, but definitely would be alot better.
Sickr somehow knows Nintendo’s Japanese sales expectations. LOL, the idiot just says what he wants.
Considering Nintendo expected to sell 9 million units by next March, it’s not that hard to see that 28k units in one week is below expectations. Hurrrrrrrrrrrr.
Nintendo could have easily forecasted higher sales in North America than in Japan. That’s why I said he doesn’t know Nintendo’s JAPANESE SALES expectations. Hurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Yeah so what’s their expectations in Japan alone not global?
What last week I thought 3D Mario sold 99k? ???? And what exactly is Wii U’s expectations?
Yes, and this week it sold 39812, which gives the total of 139,400.
Nope, the numbers between () are from last month not totals.
No in the game section the number in () is the total unless Pokemon sold 3M copies last week.
In the console section the number in () is from last week
Yea I made a mistake still the () in Mario 3d world are not including this month and none of the others are neither.
Funny how Pokemon and 3D World were errored but not FF. So FF didn’t come in no last week huh?
Oh that’s bullshit. Why isn’t FF added then?
So if FF sold 337k that means last week it sold 277k right? If you are going to be adding 3D Mario because it debuted on 11/21 you got to do the same for FF as well.
If that was the truth what number do you add it with 99k or 106k? Neither number adds to 139k
Yea how can it be showing other numbers now? I guess the haters where pulling numbers out of their asses.
cool!
So 3D Mario World didnt sell the least units out of all the 3D Mario games from N64 to Wii U EXPOSED!!!!
Look at those ps3 flops!
How the hell do you get 99k then 106k to nearly 140k in sales in 3 days last week? Please explain.
The later number is the total. 99 + 40= 139.
You can see that Pokemon and Monster hunter both have sold around 3M total
So why isn’t FF added then?
Didn’t FF come out the same day 3D World debuted? So why isn’t FF added?
It came out the same week but not at the same date.
So why is the chart saying “11/21/2013” on FF too?
No idea.
So how you know if 3D World is accurate or not?
Haters are being super exposed lmao
I just gotta say, the gaming journalists are just being plain terrible when it comes to the wii-u.
When Lightning returns was released, barely anyone commented on the fact that it sold the least out of the lightning trilogy. nobody commented about how badly the vita tv is bombing, or how badly the vita is doing in general.
It’s just plain unprofessional, especially when people keep doing things like vgchartz and making extremely negative press or when ‘pro analysts’ give out their opinion
So putting that analogy to good use, you’re saying that people purely hate Nintendo, which quite frankly I don’t understand. What have they done to receive bad press?
I smell patcher’s doings.
I am sure it can be said for Sony products too. PS Vita is the newest console in Japan at the moment and it is failing just like the Wii U was doing.
I love the to get a vita but for me vita TV looks like a desperate attempt to get leftover vita components to some use.
Any why aren’t the media interviewing on how the Japanese feel about Sony being from there but aren’t releasing the console there first. They get new Toyota and Nintendo products first. Is Sony forgetting where it came from?
The media has reported on that several times and it boils down to three simple reasons:
1) Sony wanted to hit the markets in regions where Holiday shopping is a big thing, first, plus larger video game markets (primarily North America) before the Holiday shopping season in 2013.
2) There are currently a very limited number of PS4 games that appeal to the Japanese market, so they’re giving it more time to get a few Japanese games developed for the console.
3) Japan is a handheld and mobile dominated country. They wanted to make sure to get the PS4 out first to countries where there was the most demand.
Japan still gets a lot of products from Sony first (and many times, exclusively) otherwise.
Isn’t one of their launch titles guilty gear? Does that sell well in Japanese market?
Guilty Gear has never done wonderful numbers, anywhere. I’m not sure that it will be a “must-have” title for Japanese gamers.
That said, I don’t know whether or not it will be a launch title for the PS4 there either.
Yeah though guilty gear looks amazing it probable won’t do much. Most of them might wait till FF and KH comes. Japanese gamers have better patiences then us US gamers
Ignoring that GTA V was top ten like USa and Europe though.
What does GTA V have to do with anything I just said?
Because GTA v reached top 10 in Europe as well as USA and Europe. So no reason why PS4 can’t be released in Japan first.
*Japan
???? GTA V has nothing to do with PS4.
!!! What the…! no way! In what kind of parallel world am I!?
Im starting preparations to go live in that parallel world.
Seems like Wii U sales are picking up little by little bit. Each title like mario 3d world brings more people to the idea that maybe they should purchase it. But oh well.. Ps4 only comes in february to Japan
Even the smallest of sales is good for Nintendo. Sure it looks bad, but in the long run it’s good.
And where the hell did Nintendo say what Wii U’s expectations were in Japan? Source?
Also why isn’t there an article about how 3D Mario World got Wii U’s to sell vs, Pilmin 3 that got Wii U to 17k. This is the first time a Wii U software increased after the first week a tittle debuted. 3d Mario got Wii U to get from 16k to 21k to 28k.
Or how they are not showing that the wiiu has been the best selling home console in Japan for a whole 6 weeks.
Or how Wii U outsold 3DS for the first time being no. 2 best seller in Japan because of Mario. Not Wii Party U not Pikmin 3.
News like this expose people but the funny thing is that they are exposing big ass publishers and developers.
It tells me the media doesn’t know how to calculate sales.
Actually 3D Mario outsold FF since its the No.1 selling game on shop.
good for nintendo near 50,000 wii u has been moved by mario. Hope they can keep it up
You can already see what is meant by “Mario games have long legs.”
Last week Lightning Returns sold 3x more than Mario, but this week Mario sold 40,000 while FF dropped down to only 60,000 (only 1.5x more). Also a 7,000 unit increase in Wii U sales is a good sign.
Also speaking of expectations the Wii U outsold the 3DS for the first time. Is the article trying to say Nintendo is supposed to outsell the 3DXXl? Is that it?
Excellent, soon the Wii U will help Nintendo reach the stars
Japan developers can’t have the luxury of ignoring the wiiu now.
At least it’s still doing much better than it was before. From only 2K to 28K is a notable improvement.
As long as Wii U’s are selling at all, and Nintendo aren’t giving up on it, than it’s all good with me.
Me too…
Wish Sony did the same for the vita. None of Sony’s studios wants to work on it.
And that’s why they made the super gameboy so vita can be played on TV
It would have been tons better to allow the normal vita be played on TV like they did with the PSP. Sony push to stronger hardware but their old Ines are more versatile than the new ones.
Will they Sony gave Vita thesuper gameboy ttreatment to boost vita sales. Its working too. But for how long?
Except, a lot of Sony’s studios are working on games for it.
So. Vita TV is still a super Gameboy.
it was 21k last week and 28k this week
I’m sorry My Nintendo news NEEDS to get rid of Sickr. He will spin ANY good news into bad news.
1)The 3DS(XL) is cheaper and has more key franchises on it.
2)The 3DS(XL) has also been out for longer then the Wii U.
Instead of seeing this as a plus for Nintendo you see this as a falling short for them. To further throw salt to injury you say its falling below Nintendo’s expectations. Since when do you know what Nintendo’s expectations are?
You could of posted how this is the second week in a row in Japan that the Wii U is the best selling home console but instead you choose once again to ignore the positive and try to turn it into a negative.
Its actually more good in this article. Only thing faulty about it us 99k, 106k and 139k????????? Just to make a false article about 3D Mario world least selling 3D plat former. Didn’t N64 have a bigger install base when Super Mario 64debuted it sold 120k units at launch.
Lol no, the DS, wii and gamecube had a bigger installed base the n64 cero.
So You saying Wii Us install base is bigger than N64 at first few months?
Mario 64 was launch title. However mario being the first true 3D gaming experience helped him move units for new gamers
Playing that game for the first time is still one of the most magical moments in gaming I have ever had. :’D
ur damn right, still will never forget Super Punch it was my first video game I’ve ever played 8::D
Nice. I can’t remember the first game I played. It may have been Duck Hunt on NES though (excluding arcade games). lol
Still have beaten the full game freakin Nick Brusier. As a child I couldn’t get past bear hugger but now he is joke. Love to see another punch-out for wii u.
Nintendo spect to sell 9 million wiiu by the end of the fiscal year so I guess that’s whit a little math you can see if they are approaching that goal.
The 9 million is bullshit and Nintendo knows this. Iwata had to tell the investors that. I can see maybe 7 to 7.5 Million Wii U’s after the holiday season. So even with math its just a bunch of crap. I’m already prepared for the bullshit articles to hit how Nintendo underperformed this holiday when everyone knew they would.
I don’t care if it is bullshit or not the fact is that they are givinf there all to make it happen and that’s a win win to gamers unlike Sony abandoning the vita.
Sony didn’t abandon the Vita. They’re using it more now than ever before. The problem is getting more major third party devs, especially in the West, to jump on board.
Most be a different view points but for me the vita looks abandoned from Sony. Don’t get me wrong I love all consoles but I wish Sony did a game that force to buy one.
What could Sony make that would “force” you to buy one? They have already put out a variety of games from their studios and have announced several more (and are creating even more which haven’t been announced).
Chances are, if you don’t like any, then Sony’s portfolio probably just isn’t your cup of tea. That’s fine. But you can’t say they have abandoned it. Games for the Vita that come from Sony include:
Freedom Wars
Killzone Mercenary
Gravity Rush
Tearaway
Uncharted Golden Abyss
Resistance Burning Skies
LittleBigPlanet PS Vita
Flower
Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time
Jak & Daxter collection
Unit 13
Ecolibrium
PS All-Stars Battle Royale
Sound Shapes
Escape Plan
MLB The Show
Motorstorm RC
Soul Sacrifice
ModNation Racers
Open Me
Ratchet & Clank FFA
Reality Fighters
Smart As
WipEout 2048
God of War Collection
Destiny of Spirits
Hohokum
BigFest
Dead Nation
Frobisher Says
Helldivers
Invizimals
Murasaki Baby
PS Vita Pets
And the list goes on and on. That’s *just* from Sony.
As I said, it’s really down to the big third party devs and publishers to bring out some other must have games from certain best-selling franchises to the system; companies like Square Enix, EA, Rockstar, Activision, Capcom, and Namco Bandai just to name a few.
That’s a good list but are some of those games ports? They still count just curious don’t own a vita.
A few of them are, but most of them aren’t. About 6 of them are ports.
I do hope the vita turns things around
Unless Sony markets it more and better, it wont. It’s doing better now than it was before, but it’s still not doing that great.
Major third parties need to jump on the system with exclusive games from big franchises, and Sony needs to market the heck out of the system to different demographics. If they don’t, then it will continue to trickle through, eventually dwindling out.
Sony use to make rpgs and great ones at that a return to RPG making would be great”for me ” on vita but I doubt it.
But does it matter who the game comes from if it is a good game? Even if SCE doesn’t publish RPGs on the Vita, there are already a good number of excellent RPGs on the system from other devs and more to come.
If you *really* wanted a Vita or were even remotely interested in it, you would be able to find something you could enjoy on it.
So why you never listed Wii U games when trolls said that system had no games?
Because those are trolls. When do I ever engage trolls?
Will of course they are using it more remote play and wireless super game boy. Its sells alone suck.
Everything for clicks…
Get rid of him? lol It’s HIS site. He can do whatever he wants.
Anyone who thinks those are good or even decent sales are idiots. Only like 130k for a console Mario game is shit and about 20k for Wii U is horrible too not to mention ps4, bone aren’t even out in Japan yet. Mario didn’t save Wii U and nothing else will
Damage control full power! Did you see all those ps3 flops on the list?
The system is 7 years old. It’s not “flopping,” just about everyone already has one that wants one there.
I meant the games. If a game sell less than a so called flop the it is a flop too. If Mario is a flop having debuted at a #2 position then anything that sells less than that is a bigger one. Don’t you see the logic?
It depends on the game. Not every game is going to be a best seller. GTA V sold over 1 million copies in Japan on PS3 since its release there, for example.
No it hasn’t so it floped?
http://www.scei.co.jp/corporate/release/131203.html
So the media create list t is lying? It says the game has sold 600,000+ unless Sony is counting digital too.
Yet when Wii started flopping you never defended that. Yet you defend the vita more than Wii u.
When did the Wii flop? The Wii sold the most out of all systems last gen. It didn’t “flop” at all. It died down at the end of its cycle, like all systems; but it was by no means a flop (with regards sales).
On that note, I don’t “defend” Vita; I usually just state facts to correct misinformation. I criticize where criticism is needed as well. Interesting how you seem to miss those comments quite often.
When I comment on something with my own opinion, I make that pretty clear (at least I thought it was clear) that it’s just my feelings on the matter.
If there are legitimate users who aren’t just trolling or looking for arguments and have something inaccurate to say about the Wii U, then I’ll chime in.
20,000 for wiiu is terrible? That means that the ps4 Japan launch was canceled seeing has the ps3 and vita is such a flop and not wort to mention the xbone.
Your whole PS4/PS3/Vita/Xbox One statement……. That makes no sense at all.
20,000 for the Wii U is an improvement but not necessarily the best place right now. It’s good that it is improving though.
But I haven’t see the ps3 ever beating the 20,000 mark ever. My comment to a hater should be damage controlled by him XD.
Have u beaten 3d world?
Nope. I have been working so much these past few weeks and involved in other responsibilities, that I have barely had any time to play anything. ;/
Real life sucks. Going to college my self haven’t played Xenoblade for a while.
I’m off for the first time in a while today. So after I get some things done, I’ll probably play for a little bit. :)
be happy with what you got. life can be unfair. thats the way to put it.
True. Always look at the brighter side and Do what u love in life.
The ps3 is 7 years old just like simply G mentioned above so any sales at this point dont matter to much since its already did its work and is on the last of its lifetime BUT if ps3 did that good then imagine how good the ps4 will do.
It dosnt matter ps3 games are being debuting has flops. 8million consoles that games are barely breaking the 200,000 are even bigger flops than Mario selling 100,000 on a 1million one.
Yeah but you said 3D Mario wouldn’t increase Wii U sales.
And we get to laugh at xbones ridiculously small sales at Japan again, but Japan doesnt matter, right?
And we wont know how PS4 fares in Japan until February.
To be fair, this game had two days on the market and almost all of Nintendo’s big launch days for Mario were on Sunday, so they had Sunday-Friday to get sales for that week.
Yea true but it still sold the lowest out of all other Mario game launch titles and it didn’t do a “3d land” like the fanboys thought it would.
To be fair we don’t know digital sales, so the game is flying at anywhere really. And like Simply G said its handheld market, 3d land had much stronger chance then 3d world. Its better just wait to the holidays are over.
The digital sale is verry good, cause it is on number one right now, better then Windwaker digital, so you can do 100k in the 139k.
How you know it sold the lowest if last week it sold 139k and SM64 sold 120k and that’s without digital sales.
Ignoring you were wrong in saying Wii U sales would increase then a week later it would decrease. Remember you said that? Also from 2k to 28k is pretty good yo me.
You blithering idiot. Not all the best games are out yet.
I f*cking hate your trolling! It’s emabarrasing! Wii U is an excellent console, you’re just too shy to admit you have one and think it’s awesome.
you fanboys are a joke…… its like a miracle it even sold this much (better but not great) and your just jumping up and down cheering and trying to act like the ps3 or even the trash that is the wii havnt sold way better pretty much every week when they were relevant. these sales arnt that good. and seeing how overly defensive your getting from how its still under nintendos expectations is ridiculous. next week it will probably drop back down again, these sales are pathetic considering how its good for a new console.
For what the Wii U been through it is good. I rather see 28k than 2k again.
Ignoring that 28k still isn’t that great and that PS4 is closing in on Wii U lifetime sales
Ignoring 28k is better than what Wii U been the last 11 months.
So I guess 3DS sales are bad too since 28k ain’t great right?
Ignoring that it is sad that we consider 28k to be good for any console, that’s how bad the Wii U is doing. Did you not see the Iwata story?
http://www.p4rgaming.com/nintendo-president-satoru-iwata-breaks-down-in-tears-after-investor-compares-wii-u-to-dreamcast/
Also ignoring I never said “great” I said “better than” but you rather play dumb as if those two are the same but you rather say, the glass is half empty rather than “half full”
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Good to see an increase in Wii U sales.
Yup!
Also: Good to see a normal, positive comment. :)
IKR People are still at eachothers throats
Maybe it’s not the good numbers Nintendo is wanting, but it’s a significant rise. So, great news.
28K is pretty GOOD considering how bad it has been doing lately. It’s better than 2K. Well Done Nintendo, show us what you’re made of and please advertise!
If the Wii U stabilizes on 25-30K, with a rise in sales when new games are released, it won’t do THAT bad! If it sells 25000 consoles each week the next four years, it will sell 5.2 million consoles in Japan. Now, from looking at the articles of N64 and GameCube on Wikipedia, consoles usually sell 3-4 times BETTER in North-America. So if it in four years sells 5.2 million in Japan, it will probably sell between 15-20 millions in North-America. As Nintendo home consoles usually sells approximately the same in Europe AND Australia as in Japan, this would lead the Wii U’s total sale numbers up to 25-30 millions, if having these stable numbers over a period of four years.
While the console will probably last a little longer, sales get lower and lower towards the end of a consoles life. Some games, as SSB, Mario Kart 8, Zelda, Metroid + Third party exclusives will most likely boost a consoles sales, but I’m looking away from those.
Wii U outselling the 3DS (standalone, not combined with the LL)? Well, that’s something.
Good news is the sales do seem to be stabilising for the system. More of the same should restore some consumer faith in Japan. 2014 looks a good year for Nintendo, IF they pool ALL of their resources into the system.
Imagine the sales of Wii U globally and not just Japan since we are not even japanese.
If Wii U is steadily picking up, imagine sales when DKCTF and others are out. I think Iwata might not be able to move with his cash haha!
Well, look at it this way, Wii U is the best selling home console right now, that’s good, the bad thing is that the PS4 is coming up and it’ll be number one for a few months, until Nintendo released a Monster Hunter, Pokemon or something Japanese people love for the Wii U. I can see the DOOM posts when the PS4 is out, PS4 SELLS 300K IN THE FIRST MONTH OF JAPAN! BEST SELLING CONSOLE IN A DAY IN JAPAN WHILE WII U FAILS WITH 20K SOLD!