This week’s Japanese software and hardware charts are now in courtesy of Media Create. It has been another good week for Nintendo who currently have the two best-selling video game platforms in the country. The Nintendo 3DS sold 112K and the Wii U sold 47K. Despite the lack of new releases for Wii U, Splatoon and Super Mario Maker continue to sell well. Here’s the best-selling video game software and hardware this week!
Software Sales (followed by lifetime sales)
- [3DS] Monster Hunter X (Capcom, 11/27/15) – 192,203 (2,013,048)
- [3DS] Yo-kai Watch Busters: Red Cat Team / White Dog Squad (Level-5, 07/11/15) – 52,878 (1,851,500)
- [Wii U] Splatoon (Nintendo, 05/28/15) – 51,138 (912,335)
- [Wii U] Super Mario Maker (Nintendo, 09/10/15) – 48,600 (491,188)
- [PSV] Valkyrie Drive: Bhikkhuni (Marvelous, 12/10/15) – 39,013 (New)
- [PSV] Steins;Gate 0 (5pb., 12/10/15) – 38,746 (New)
- [PS4] Steins;Gate 0 (5pb., 12/10/15) – 38,156 (New)
- [3DS] Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam (Nintendo, 12/03/15) – 32,580 (81,847)
- [3DS] Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer (Nintendo, 07/30/15) – 27,669 (1,175,208)
- [PS4] Gravity Rush Remastered (SCE, 12/10/15) – 25,004 (New)
- [PS4] Rainbow Six Siege (Ubisoft, 12/10/15) – 23,402 (New)
- [PSV] The Idolmaster: Must Songs Red Board / Blue Board (Bandai Namco, 12/10/15) – 23,349 (New)
- [3DS] Disney Magical World 2 (Bandai Namco, 10/05/15) – 21,553 (152,533)
- [PSV] Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition (SCE, 03/19/15) – 17,643 (442,010)
- [PSV] The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC Evolution (Falcom, 12/10/15) – 15,202 (New)
- [3DS] Rhythm Heaven: The Best+ (Nintendo, 06/11/15) – 14,232 (524,053)
- [3DS] Sumikko Gurashi Omise Hajimerun Desu (Nippon Columbia, 11/19/15) – 12,506 (41,953)
- [PS4] Call of Duty: Black Ops III (SCE, 11/06/15) – 8,840 (240,340)
- [PS3] Steins;Gate 0 (5pb., 12/10/15) – 8,645 (New)
- [PS4] Star Wars Battlefront (EA, 11/19/15) – 8,368 (160,104)
Hardware Sales (followed by last week’s sales)
- New 3DS LL – 81,294 (76,779)
- Wii U – 47,890 (32,604)
- PlayStation 4 – 38,497 (35,782)
- PlayStation Vita – 35,116 (21,860)
- New 3DS – 19,454 (17,202)
- 3DS – 8,549 (7,915)
- 3DS LL – 3,531 (1,113)
- PlayStation 3 – 2,434 (1,916)
- PlayStation Vita TV – 793 (646)
- Xbox One – 609 (289)
Nintendomination is back
Did Japan have Wii U sales or something?
Nope not that I know of. Nintendo is just constantly supporting both Splatoon and Super Mario Maker with consistent content and updates which explains both games’s dominance in Japan. For the Wii U to slay the mighty dragon known as the PS4 this week in Japan without any major releases says a lot about how Japanese gamers just want unique fun quality gaming experiences
Bruh that’s massive though I wish it would stay that way..
Holy crap, over 2 million lifetime sales of Monster Hunter X and it hasn’t even been out for a month? It should definitely come to the West now.
I should finally try out the series.
Numbers 5 and 6 and 15 I would like to try and or just buy and the vita is doing ok
Oh yeah Wiiu beats the PS4 for the first time ever that’s amazing and 3ds still doing great, Nintendo is back for domination.
Wiiu is selling better month after month that’s great even good start for the new NX console, we will huge success from Nintendo next platform.
Actaully is not the first time.
Yea they back in the beginning of the year they where beating them several weeks in a row by up to 20,000 sales.
Happy to see that! Are Splatoon and Super Mario Maker the games that breakthrough, like 3D Land and Kart 7 were for the 3DS, on the WiiU to start rising? One can only dream lol.
I think it’s the number of big titles that are just now being released. Splatoon, Mario Maker, Wooly World, Xenoblade, Star Fox(2016), Pokken(2016). Plus Legend of Zelda has been promised for 2016. This is the kind of lineup Nintendo should have had every year since the U was released.
It is nice to see that the Wii U could be (or rather could have been) successful given the proper amount of support.
That’s quite the jump up for Wii U. But this is Japan, so I guess since there is no New 3DS fancy design to buy right now they got a Wii U lol.
>>>Good, push the Xbots over the cliff for good>>>
Wow those numbers are shocking. Good job Japan.
I know total sales for Splatoon is over 1 million over there, but maybe retail will hit it by the end of the year?
Could Nintendo be on their way to pulling a PS3 & finally getting the Wii U console itself to sell better & end on a nice little high note by the end of it’s life cycle? Stay tuned to find out on the next Dragon Ball Z Kai! ….. Wait… Wrong entertainment product… xP Joking aside, I mean it. I hope it’s finally gonna pull itself out of the gutter. But like the many times this has happened before, I won’t hold my breathe. March, get here soon so Nintendo can give us the total worldwide lifetime Wii U sales up to that point!
For me, DLC has been holding me back from buying some games. Like Splatoon. The game would probably feel pretty empty the way it is (without any of the DLC). And I’m highly against paying even MORE money on a game that already broke me just buying it in the first place.
DLC causes games currently in stores to seem incomplete. I almost know that some day there will probably be a Complete Edition of Splatoon. I’m thinking I should just wait. However, when Zelda Wii U comes out, NOTHING can stop me from buying it ASAP!
Btw……Does anybody know why my username says “(@Collect_Or_Die)”? I never understood that. It’s supposed to only be “The Collector”. Does it have something to do with signing in from Twitter?
Yes. Since you linked it to your Twitter account, your Twitter user name will show there.
Splatoon DLC is free though. It’s one of the very few games that does DLC the right way.
Seriously? ALL of it?
Every single update has been free. That’s one of the things that makes it such a good game. They keep adding content at no extra cost. By the way, I’m assuming your name does have to do with your twitter name.