Period: The week of October 24th – October 30th (2011)
Top-seller: Final Fantasy Type-0 – 472,253
Nintendo 3DS sales: 65,041 | Total sales: 2,211,644
The top-seller in Japan last week was the long-awaited Final Fantasy Type-0, originally announced as a mobile phone game (Final Fantasy Agito XIII) in 2006, and later moved to the PSP. Final Fantasy Type-0 sold 472,253 copies in its first week.
Want to see how that compares to previous Final Fantasy games released for PSP? Take a look at their first-week sales in ascending order:
| No. | Title | First week | Released |
| 01. | Dissidia: Final Fantasy | 489,126 | Dec 2008 |
| 02. | Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII | 486,659 | Sep 2007 |
| 03. | Dissidia 012[duodecim]: Final Fantasy | 286,117 | Mar 2011 |
| 04. | Final Fantasy IV: The Complete Collection | 104,173 | Mar 2011 |
The question now is whether or not Type-0 can continue to sell consistently amidst the upcoming flood of year-end releases, including Super Mario 3D Land, Mario Kart 7 and Monster Hunter 3G. Watching it over the next few weeks should be interesting.
At #2 was Kirby’s Return to Dreamland, followed by The Idolm@ster at #3. Konami’s Terror of the Stratus was on the chart as well, coming in at #9.
Finally, at #18 was another interesting game: Arcana Famiglia (trailer above – seriously, watch it), a PSP otome(?) adventure starring a girl named Felicita. It was developed by HuneX and published by Comfort. Characters for the game were designed by Yomi Sarachi, who also adapted Steins;Gate into a manga.
The top-20 chart for the week was as follows:
| Lw | Tw | Title | Weekly Sales | Total Sales | Sys. | Publisher |
| New | 01. | Final Fantasy Type-0 | 472,253 | New | PSP | Square Enix |
| New | 02. | Kirby’s Return to Dreamland | 136,811 | New | Wii | Nintendo |
| New | 03. | The Idolm@aster 2 | 65,512 | New | PS3 | Namco Bandai |
| 04. | 04. | Just Dance Wii | 27,832 | 163,451 | Wii | Nintendo |
| 03. | 05. | Go Vacation | 25,259 | 72,468 | Wii | Namco Bandai |
| New | 06. | Disgaea 4: The Fuka & Desco Chapters | 19,460 | New | PS3 | Nippon Ichi |
| New | 07. | Ro-Kyu-Bu! | 17,593 | New | PSP | Kadokawa |
| 01. | 08. | Macross F: The Wings of Goodbye Hybrid Pack | 16,741 | 159,348 | PS3 | Namco Bandai |
| New | 09. | Terror of the Stratus | 15,623 | New | PSP | Konami |
| New | 10. | Ragnarok: The Imperial Princess of Light and Dark | 15,559 | New | PSP | GungHo |
| 05. | 11. | Dead Island | 14,260 | 54,205 | PS3 | Spike |
| 07. | 12. | Pro Evolution Soccer 2012 | 13,796 | 370,521 | PS3 | Konami |
| 09. | 13. | AKB1/48: I Fell in Love With an Idol in Guam | 13,480 | 301,743 | PSP | Namco Bandai |
| 12. | 14. | Wii Sports Resort | 12,377 | 625,522 | Wii | Nintendo |
| 02. | 15. | Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Impact | 12,082 | 65,230 | PSP | Namco Bandai |
| 11. | 16. | Rhythm Heaven | 9,251 | 526,943 | Wii | Nintendo |
| 06. | 17. | FIFA 12 | 8,255 | 33,894 | PS3 | Electronic Arts |
| New | 18. | Arcana Famiglia: La storia della Aracana Famiglia | 7,890 | 422,495 | PSP | Comfort |
| 08. | 19. | Ace Combat: Assault Horizon | 7,222 | 174,813 | PS3 | Namco Bandai |
| 17. | 20. | Kirby: Mass Attack | 6,373 | 272,043 | DS | Nintendo |
Sales data acquired from 4Gamer, Media-Create and Geimin.net.
Published: Nov 2, 2011 04:32 pm