Period: The week of May 16th – May 22nd (2016)
Top-seller: Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End – 21,155 (PS4)
Nintendo 3DS sales: 700
Nintendo 3DS LL sales: 103
New Nintendo 3DS sales: 2,552
New Nintendo 3DS LL sales: 12,051
PlayStation Vita sales: 10,954
Wii U sales: 4,109
PlayStation 4 sales: 18,430
PlayStation 3 sales: 1,001
Xbox One sales: 72
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Last week, Japan had several new releases including a good handful from the West with Dambuster Studios’ open world shooter Homefront the Revolution, id Software’s DOOM, and Gearbox’s Battleborn. Media Create provides us with a look at video game sales data for software and hardware that sold from the week of May 16 through May 22, 2016.
Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End maintained the #1 spot with 21,155 units sold in its second week, while Kirby: Planet Robobot also kept its #2 with 19,383. From here the total sales take a bit of a dip with Homefront the Revolution at #3 with 9,422 copies sold in its first week in Japan.
Yo-kai Watch: Sangokushi is at #4 with 8,913 units and in #5 we have another new title with Kenka Bancho Otome, the first entry in the series with a female protagonist where you get to date thugs, which sold 8,534 units in its debut week.
As far as other new titles go, the new DOOM game made it to #7 of the week in Japan with 6,164 units sold. The popular manga series My Hero Academia recently began airing its anime but its 3DS title My Hero Academia: Battle for All didn’t do as well with only 5,607 units sold in its first week, putting it at #9.
Battleborn also made its debut with 5,145 units sold for #11. And finally, Otomate’s latest visual novel in Period Cube: Amadeus of the Birdcage released last week and sold 3,850 units to take #16.
While last week saw a decent amount of new releases, albeit most from smaller titles or Western games that don’t have much of a following in Japan, overall software sales were a bit on the lower end and the same goes for hardware which mostly saw a little drop in sales across all platforms compared to the week before.
The top-20 chart for the week is as follows:
| Lw | Tw | Title | Weekly Sales | Total Sales | Sys. | Publisher |
| 01. | 01. | Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End | 21,155 | 149,879 | PS4 | SIE |
| 02. | 02. | Kirby: Planet Robobot | 19,383 | 268,334 | 3DS | Nintendo |
| New | 03. | Homefront the Revolution | 9,422 | New | PS4 | Spike Chunsoft |
| 03. | 04. | Yo-kai Watch: Romance of the Three Kingdoms | 8,913 | 518,492 | 3DS | Level-5 |
| New | 05. | Kenka Bancho Otome | 8,534 | New | PSV | Spike Chunsoft |
| 04. | 06. | Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyu 2016 | 6,763 | 126,073 | PSV | Konami |
| New | 07. | DOOM | 6,164 | New | PS4 | Bethesda |
| 05. | 08. | Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyu 2016 | 6,057 | 140,448 | PS4 | Konami |
| New | 09. | My Hero Academia: Battle for All | 5,607 | New | 3DS | Bandai Namco |
| 08. | 10. | Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition | 5,564 | 774,096 | PSV | SIE |
| New | 11. | Battleborn | 5,145 | New | PS4 | 2K |
| 09. | 12. | Splatoon | 5,038 | 1,367,268 | Wii U | Nintendo |
| 10. | 13. | Super Mario Maker | 4,088 | 878,493 | Wii U | Nintendo |
| 07. | 14. | Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 3 | 4,047 | 569,369 | 3DS | Square Enix |
| 06. | 15. | Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyu 2016 | 3,952 | 80,392 | PS3 | Konami |
| New | 16. | Period Cube: Amadeus of the Birdcage | 3,850 | New | PSV | Idea Factory |
| 18. | 17. | Star Fox Zero/Star Fox Guard Double Pack | 3,735 | 36,177 | Wii U | Nintendo |
| 14. | 18. | Animal Crossing: New Leaf (Happy Price Selection) | 2,373 | 47,974 | 3DS | Nintendo |
| 16. | 19. | Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games | 2,319 | 161,048 | 3DS | Nintendo |
| 11. | 20. | Dying Light: The Following – Enhanced Edition | 2,118 | 15,336 | PS4 | Warner Bros. |
Sales data acquired from 4Gamer and Media Create.
Published: May 25, 2016 06:45 am