Period: The week of December 29th (2014) – January 4th (2015)
Top-seller: Yo-kai Watch 2: Headliner (3DS) – 207,923
Nintendo 3DS sales: 17,293 | Tot. sales: 9,786,751
Nintendo 3DS XL sales: 19,096 | Tot. sales: 6,851,719
New Nintendo 3DS sales: 40,338 | Tot. sales: 409,644
New Nintendo 3DS XL sales: 76,439 | Tot. sales: 943,497
PlayStation Vita sales: 56,700 | Tot. sales: 3,430,414
Vita TV sales: 1,305 | Tot. sales: 151,518
Wii U sales: 30,031 | Tot. sales: 2,173,611
PlayStation 4 sales: 42,216 | Tot. sales: 1,012,883
Xbox One sales: 637 | Tot. sales: 43,904
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The week after New Year’s was—again—relatively slow in terms of software sales. Yo-kai Watch 2: Headliner led the charge for another week in a row, selling 208,000 copies, bringing total sales to 2.24 million.
PlayStation platforms traditionally see a slight boost in sales the week after New Year’s day, and the Vita and PS4 did indeed see an increase from the week prior, but unfortunately, the same couldn’t be said for software sales on either platform.
Going down the list, you’ll find the usual suspects occupying most of the top-20—Pokémon, Monster Hunter, Super Smash Bros., Gundam Breaker, Mario Kart and so on. No new games were released that week either.
You can expect to see a significant drop in both hardware and software sales in next week’s chart, as the holiday season comes to an end, and people return to work. Just how large the drop will be remains to be seen, but the signs aren’t encouraging.
The top-20 software sales chart for last week is as follows:
| Lw | Tw | Title | Weekly Sales | Total Sales | Sys. | Publisher |
| 01. | 01. | Yo-kai Watch 2: Headliner | 207,923 | 2,247,129 | 3DS | Level 5 |
| 02. | 02. | Pokémon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire | 110,895 | 2,394,239 | 3DS | Pokémon Co. |
| 03. | 03. | Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS | 70,913 | 2,072,848 | 3DS | Nintendo |
| 04. | 04. | Super Smash Bros. for Wii U | 58,008 | 529,244 | WiiU | Nintendo |
| 05. | 05. | Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate | 45,754 | 2,391,014 | 3DS | Capcom |
| 08. | 06. | Mario Kart 8 | 28,403 | 880,180 | WiiU | Nintendo |
| 07. | 07. | Yo-kai Watch 2: Head/Founder | 24,121 | 3,064,221 | 3DS | Level 5 |
| 06. | 08. | Final Fantasy Explorers | 22,928 | 233,796 | 3DS | Square Enix |
| 09. | 09. | Gundam Breaker 2 | 18,104 | 101,768 | PSV | Bandai Namco |
| 16. | 10. | Grand Theft Auto V | 17,451 | 135,665 | PS4 | Take 2 |
| 12. | 11. | Animal Crossing: New Leaf | 16,672 | 3,885,120 | 3DS | Nintendo |
| 10. | 12. | Gundam Breaker 2 | 15,464 | 104,410 | PS3 | Bandai Namco |
| 18. | 13. | Gotouchi Tetsudou: Gotouchi Chara to Nihon Zenkoku no Tabi | 13,854 | 60,984 | 3DS | Bandai Namco |
| 20. | 14. | Mario Kart 7 | 12,913 | 2,450,300 | 3DS | Nintendo |
| 14. | 15. | Sumikko Gurashi: Koko Ga Ochitsukundesu | 11,875 | 86,517 | 3DS | Nippon Columbia |
| 17. | 16. | Attack on Titan: The Last Wings of Humanity CHAIN | 11,052 | 70,018 | 3DS | Spike Chunsoft |
| 15. | 17. | Aikatsu! 365 Idol Days | 10,863 | 96,401 | 3DS | Bandai Namco |
| 33. | 18. | Tomodachi Life | 10,648 | 1,773,200 | 3DS | Nintendo |
| 13. | 19. | Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker | 10,421 | 130,381 | WiiU | Nintendo |
| 30. | 20. | Kirby Triple Deluxe | 9,160 | 686,479 | 3DS | Nintendo |
Sales data acquired from 4Gamer and Media Create.
Published: Jan 8, 2015 09:57 am