Period: The week of April 20th – April 26th (2015)
Top-seller: Bravely Second (3DS) – 100,047
Nintendo 3DS sales: 1,095 | Tot. sales: : 9,831,802
Nintendo 3DS XL sales: 1,253 | Tot. sales: 6,899,608
New Nintendo 3DS sales: 5,329 | Tot. sales: 537,984
New Nintendo 3DS XL sales: 13,981 | Tot. sales: 1,295,464
PlayStation Vita sales: 15,467 | Tot. sales: 3,731,614
Vita TV sales: 558 | Tot. sales: 161,706
Wii U sales: 7,210 | Tot. sales: 2,289,803
PlayStation 4 sales: 20,112 | Tot. sales: 1,429,255
Xbox One sales: 201 | Tot. sales: 50,618
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Last week, Square Enix released Bravely Second in Japan and the game sold 100,047 copies in its first week. That’s a far lower debut than Bravely Default, which sold 141,529 copies at launch.
While the game has seen a slower start than Bravely Default, Japanese retail chain Tsutaya say they expect sales to remain strong through Golden Week, which should help offset the slow start to some extent.
As for why Bravely Second has seen a slower start than its predecessor… this is just a personal opinion, but judging by everything we’ve seen thus far, Second doesn’t really seem to do anything new that helps set it apart from Bravely Default. The game appears to be fairly iterative, and while that’s great for folks that liked Default and wanted more, it doesn’t help attract wider audiences.
And with that, the top-20 software sales chart for last week is as follows:
| Lw | Tw | Title | Weekly Sales | Total Sales | Sys. | Publisher |
| New | 01. | Bravely Second | 100,047 | New | 3DS | Square Enix |
| New | 02. | TV Anime Idol Master Cinderella Girls G4U! Pack Vol. 1 | 24,341 | New | PS3 | Bandai Namco |
| 01. | 03. | Style Savvy 3 | 23,724 | 78,903 | 3DS | Nintendo |
| New | 04. | Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory II | 22,609 | New | PS4 | Compile Heart |
| New | 05. | BlazBlue Chrono Phantasma Extend | 15,550 | New | PS3 | Arc System Works |
| 04. | 06. | Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition | 12,667 | 109,784 | PSV | Sony |
| New | 07. | Meiji Toukyou Renka: Twilight Kiss | 10,083 | New | PSP | Broccoli |
| New | 08. | Tropico 5 | 8,706 | New | PS4 | Square Enix |
| New | 09. | BlazBlue Chrono Phantasma Extend | 7,589 | New | PS4 | Arc System Works |
| 02. | 10. | Dying Light | 7,030 | 32,560 | PS4 | Warner Ent. |
| 14. | 11. | Assassination Classroom: Koro-sensei the Great Siege!! | 6,845 | 56,672 | 3DS | Bandai Namco |
| New | 12. | Clock Zero: Shuuen no Ichibyou ExTime | 6,306 | New | PSV | Idea Factory |
| New | 13. | Toukiden Kiwami | 6,103 | New | PS4 | Koei Tecmo |
| 07. | 14. | Mario Party 10 | 5,033 | 123,465 | WiiU | Nintendo |
| 19. | 15. | Mario Kart 8 | 4,989 | 966,494 | WiiU | Nintendo |
| 12. | 16. | Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire | 4,973 | 2,603,857 | 3DS | Pokémon Co. |
| 10. | 17. | Yo-kai Watch 2: Headliner | 4,851 | 2,591,702 | 3DS | Level 5 |
| 05. | 18. | One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3 | 4,770 | 141,981 | PS3 | Bandai Namco |
| 21. | 19. | Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS | 4,109 | 2,215,255 | 3DS | Nintendo |
| 06. | 20. | The 3rd Super Robot Taisen Z: Tengoku Hen | 4,001 | 147,155 | PSV | Bandai Namco |
Sales data acquired from 4Gamer and Media Create.
Published: Apr 29, 2015 02:02 pm