This Week In Sales: Harvest Moon Is Still A Marvelous Cash Cow

Period: The week of February 20th – February 26th (2012)

Top-seller: Tales of the Heroes: Twin Brave – 85,309

Nintendo 3DS sales: 76,322 | Total sales: 5,102,943

PlayStation Vita sales: 11,186 | Total sales: 589,998

Following its release in Japan, we tried to get an idea for how Harvest Moon: The Land of Origin was doing, by perusing the blogs of various Japanese retailers. Going by the impressions we read, we assumed The Land of Origin would have a pretty good first week, but it actually didn’t.

No, it had a spectacular first week, with a whopping 81,131 copies sold. That’s a higher debut than any of the Harvest Moon (or Rune Factory) games on the Nintendo DS, and we’ll have a separate feature to illustrate this tomorrow.

A few other notes regarding some of the other games on the top-20 chart:

• Tales of the Heroes: Twin Brave did well, but as one retailer pointed out, Tales games tend to burn out quickly.

• Theatrhythm was supposedly restocked on Feb 25th, which might be why it only sold another 10k copies last week. The new shipment only had one day to chart.

• New LovePlus dropped fast and hard, but that could be because there were so many new releases last week. Let’s see how it does in the weeks to come.

• Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai Portable was released last week. On that note, some of you may recall this little bit of masterful baiting from last year.

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