This Week In Sales: Shin Megami Tensei IV Did Really, Really Well

Period: The week of May 20th – May 26th (2013)

Top-seller: Shin Megami Tensei IV – 188,562

Nintendo 3DS sales: 14,059 | Total sales: 8,310,268

Nintendo 3DS XL sales: 40,651 | Total sales: 3,181,009

PlayStation Vita sales: 12,171 | Total sales: 1,594,218

Wii U sales: 5,648 | Total sales: 928,906

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Shin Megami Tensei IV got off to a whopper of a start when it released in Japan last week. The 3DS RPG sold 188,562 copies in its first week, making it one of Atlus’ best-debuting games of the last few years.

In fact, the only recent Atlus game that has had a better launch was 2008’s Persona 4, which outsold Shin Megami Tensei IV by a very slight margin of about 4,000 copies. Persona 4 on the PS2 sold 192,812 copies in its first week.

Also released last week was Resident Evil: Revelations on consoles. Here’s a quick look at how the console versions sold in comparison to the original Nintendo 3DS version of the game:

Resident Evil: Revelations (3DS) – 146,559

Resident Evil: Revelations (PS3) – 102,673

Resident Evil: Revelations (Wii U) – 8,398

Resident Evil: Revelations (360) – 7,053

Finally, Namco Bandai’s Kamen Rider: Battride War got off to decent start as well, selling 128,659 copies in its first week.

The top-20 chart for the week was as follows:

Sales data acquired from 4Gamer, Media Create and Geimin.net.