Period: The week of February 24th – March 2nd (2014)
Top-seller: Harvest Moon: Connect to a New Land – 130,782
Nintendo 3DS sales: 11,986 | Total sales: 9,402,711
Nintendo 3DS XL sales: 26,027 | Total sales: 5,777,235
PlayStation Vita sales: 21,581 | Total sales: 2,517,874
Vita TV sales: 1,543 | 95,392
Wii U sales: 8,204 | Total sales: 1,651,299
PlayStation 4 sales: 65,685 | 374,839
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Last week, Marvelous AQL released Harvest Moon: Connect to a New Land for the Nintendo 3DS, and it saw the biggest opening for any Harvest Moon game in recent years. Connect to a New Land sold 130,782 copies in its opening week.
For comparison, Harvest Moon: A New Beginning, the previous Harvest Moon game on Nintendo 3DS, sold 81,131 copies in its first week. Both the Rune Factory and Harvest Moon games have seen growth since they moved to 3DS, which is a good sign for Marvelous.
Meanwhile, Fossil Fighters: Infinite Gear, published by Nintendo for 3DS, sold 58,329 copies. On the PlayStation 3 and Vita front, Tecmo Koei’s Deception IV: Blood Ties sold a combined total of 42,576 across both platforms.
Finally, Yo-Kai Watch fans will want to note that the game has sold 496,455 copies at retail thus far. On February 19th, Level 5 announced that they had shipped 500,000 copies of the game thus far, which means that Yo-kai Watch has sold through that entire shipment. Hopefully, Level 5 have managed to get more copies of the game to retailers by now or we’re going to see the effects of a shortage hurting its sales.
The top-20 software sales chart for last week is as follows:
| Lw | Tw | Title | Weekly Sales | Total Sales | Sys. | Publisher |
| New | 01. | Harvest Moon: Connect to a New Land | 130,782 | New | 3DS | Marvelous AQL |
| 01. | 02. | Knack | 66,772 | 376,076 | PS4 | Sony |
| New | 03. | Fossil Fighters: Infinite Gear | 58,329 | New | 3DS | Nintendo |
| 02. | 04. | Yakuza Restoration | 54,148 | 192,305 | PS3 | Sega |
| 04. | 05. | Dragon Quest Monsters 2 | 53,276 | 687,709 | 3DS | Square Enix |
| 06. | 06. | Yo-kai Watch | 37,493 | 496,455 | 3DS | Level 5 |
| New | 07. | Deception IV: Blood Ties | 23,254 | New | PS3 | Tecmo Koei |
| 03. | 08. | Yakuza Restoration | 22,466 | 105,006 | PS4 | Sega |
| New | 09. | Deception IV: Blood Ties | 19,322 | New | PSV | Sony |
| 09. | 10. | Kirby Triple Deluxe | 17,706 | 475,502 | 3DS | Nintendo |
| New | 11. | Infinite Stratos 2: Ignition Hearts | 15,213 | New | PSV | 5pb. |
| 10. | 12. | Puzzle & Dragons Z | 14,497 | 1,388,812 | 3DS | Gung Ho |
| 08. | 13. | Battlefield 4 | 13,117 | 37,916 | PS4 | Electronic Arts |
| 16. | 14. | Pokémon X and Y | 12,500 | 3,974,123 | 3DS | ??? |
| New | 15. | Valhalla Knights 3 Gold | 11,186 | New | PSV | Marvelous AQL |
| 05. | 16. | Kuroko’s Basketball: Miraculous Victory | 10,378 | 56,059 | 3DS | Namco Bandai |
| 12. | 17. | Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze | 10,056 | 60,103 | WiiU | Nintendo |
| 07. | 18. | Killzone: Shadow Fall | 8,501 | 40,837 | PS4 | Sony |
| 15. | 19. | Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition | 8,430 | 20,524 | PS4 | Square Enix |
| New | 20. | Infinite Stratos 2: Ignition Hearts | 8,246 | New | PS3 | 5pb. |
Sales data acquired from 4Gamer, Media Create and Geimin.net.
Published: Mar 5, 2014 01:31 pm