This Week In Sales: Animal Crossing Hits 1 Million; 3DS XL Outsells Vita

Period: The week of November 12th – November 18th (2012)

Top-seller: Animal Crossing: New Leaf – 290,280

Nintendo 3DS sales: 51,441 | Total sales: 7,122,323

Nintendo 3DS XL sales: 117,435 | Total sales: 1,136,071

PlayStation Vita sales: 13,091 | Total sales: 1,042,804

<< Last week’s software sales chart

Last week’s biggest release in Japan wasn’t a piece of software, it was this:

That’s a Nintendo 3DS XL bundle with New Super Mario Bros. 2 pre-installed. It pushed 3DS XL sales hard, and brought them to 1.13 million. The 3DS XL has now outsold the PlayStation Vita’s lifetime sales. Meanwhile, New Super Mario Bros. 2 sales are now at 1.38 million (including sales from the bundle).

Animal Crossing: New Leaf crossed the 1 million mark last week, too. Retail sales of the game are at about 890,000 copies sold, but counting even just the initial download sales, the game is comfortably over the 1 million mark.

Last week also saw the  release of new red and blue colours for the PlayStation Vita, which gave the system’s hardware sales a temporary boost for the week. Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation was released last week as well, and sold around 24,000 copies on the Vita. Meanwhile, Assassin’s Creed III on consoles sold 72,500 copies on PS3 and close to 9,300 copies on the Xbox 360.

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

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