This Week In Sales: Kirby Makes His Nintendo 3DS Debut

Period: The week of January 6th – January 12th (2014)

Top-seller: Kirby Triple Deluxe – 214,208

Nintendo 3DS sales: 20,116 | Total sales: 9,318,549

Nintendo 3DS XL sales: 40,038 | Total sales: 5,580,080

PlayStation Vita sales: 29,494 | Total sales: 2,378,694

Vita TV sales: 2,522 | 84,079

Wii U sales: 14,020 | Total sales: 1,590,721

<< Last week’s software sales chart

Last week, Nintendo released Kirby Triple Deluxe in Japan, and the game sold an admirable 214,208 copies in its first week on store shelves. That’s the highest opening for a brand new Kirby game in quite a few years.

For reference, here are opening-week sales of the last three Kirby games in Japan:

(2010) Kirby’s Epic Yarn (Wii) – 92,280

(2011) Kirby: Mass Attack (DS) – 74,915

(2012) Kirby’s Return to Dreamland (Wii) – 136,811

While Kirby took the #1 spot on the software sales chart last week, Puzzle & Dragons Z was at #2, with 1.2 million copies sold thus far. Pokémon X and Y took #3, while Zelda: A Link Between Worlds and Monster Hunter 4 closed out the top 5.

Meanwhile, it bears mentioning that Grand Theft Auto V, which popped back into the top-20, is now at a whopping 674,835 copies sold. Very, very impressive.

Finally, Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster is still in the top-20 as well. Both versions of the game appear to have done reasonably well, although the game isn’t having quite the effect one would have hoped for on PlayStation Vita hardware sales.

Hardware sales dropped all around, but Vita and Wii U in particular took a nasty hit. Vita sales dropped to around 32,000 for the week, while Wii U sales were even lower at 14,000. Both platforms need to find a way to expand their reach to a broader audience.

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

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