Period: The week of June 23rd – June 29th (2014)
Top-seller: Freedom Wars (PSV) – 188,888
Nintendo 3DS sales: 5,081 | Total sales: 9,527,024
Nintendo 3DS XL sales: 22,803 | Total sales: 6,199,735
PlayStation Vita sales: 22,192 | Total sales: 2,880,779
Vita TV sales: 2,727 | 121,075
Wii U sales: 10,653 | Total sales: 1,812,249
PlayStation 4 sales: 8,059 | 620,619
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Hunting-action games are the PlayStation Vita’s bread-and-butter, and last week, Sony released another such game in Japan—Freedom Wars, designed by Shift, the studio behind the God Eater series.
Freedom Wars sold 188,888 copies in its first week, which is an impressive debut, although not surprising, given the game’s genre and the heavy marketing that Sony have been doing in the months leading up to release. Here’s how the game’s first-week sales compare to those of other recent hunting-action titles on PlayStation platforms:
God Eater 2 – 378,350 (PSV + PSP)
Toukiden – 188,810 (PSV + PSP)
Soul Sacrifice – 92,396 (PSV only)
Very respectable. Freedom Wars has sold the same amount at launch as Toukiden did across both Vita and PSP. The question now is how the game will do in the weeks to come. One point of concern in this regard is that players have noticed some fairly serious balance issues within the game, and these are prominent enough to have prompted a response from the game’s producer, who has pledged to iron them out.
Perhaps more interesting is the fact that Freedom Wars presently sits at a rating of 2.5 stars (out of 5) on Amazon, and a number of user reviews point to the aforementioned balance issues, complaining about the second half of the game. Ideally, this wouldn’t affect sales too much, since we live in an age where problems such as these can be patched and fixed, and more savvy consumers are aware of this, but it should be interesting to monitor the game’s performance over the next few weeks regardless.
The top-20 software sales chart for last week is as follows:
| Lw | Tw | Title | Weekly Sales | Total Sales | Sys. | Publisher |
| New | 01. | Freedom Wars | 188,888 | New | PSV | Sony |
| New | 02. | Watch Dogs | 63,595 | New | PS4 | Ubisoft |
| New | 03. | Kamen Rider: Battride War II | 62,649 | New | PS3 | Bandai Namco |
| New | 04. | Taiko Drum Master: Don and Katsu’s Great Space-Time Adventure | 53,095 | New | 3DS | Bandai Namco |
| New | 05. | Girls und Panzer: I Will Master Tankery! | 31,526 | New | PSV | Bandai Namco |
| New | 06. | Watch Dogs | 31,028 | New | PS3 | Ubisoft |
| 02. | 07. | Yo-kai Watch | 29,590 | 1,147,202 | 3DS | Level 5 |
| 03. | 08. | Mario Kart 8 | 23,520 | 492,837 | WiiU | Nintendo |
| 01. | 09. | Pokémon Art Academy | 15,373 | 46,454 | 3DS | Nintendo |
| 04. | 10. | Pro Evolution Soccer 2014: Challenge of the Blue Samurai | 13,026 | 136,893 | PS3 | Konami |
| New | 11. | Date A Live: Arusu Install | 9,703 | New | PS3 | Compile Heart |
| 05. | 12. | Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth | 7,072 | 237,379 | 3DS | Atlus |
| New | 13. | Kamen Rider: Battride War II | 6,936 | New | WiiU | Bandai Namco |
| New | 14. | Warriors Orochi 3 Ultimate | 6,768 | New | PS4 | Koei Tecmo |
| New | 15. | Grand Theft Auto V (Bargain Edition) | 6,732 | New | PS3 | Take 2 |
| 10. | 16. | FIFA14: World Class Soccer | 6,510 | 53,813 | PS4 | Electronic Arts |
| 08. | 17. | Pro Evolution Soccer 2014: Challenge of the Blue Samurai | 6,454 | 56,742 | 3DS | Konami |
| New | 18. | Robotics;Notes Elite | 5,467 | New | PSV | 5pb. |
| 12. | 19. | Pokémon X and Y | 4,641 | 4,092,653 | 3DS | Pokémon Co. |
| 17. | 20. | Monster Hunter 4 | 4,250 | 3,300,689 | 3DS | Capcom |
Sales data acquired from 4Gamer and Media Create.
Published: Jul 2, 2014 11:59 am