Japanese Sales Chart: Monster Hunter Continues to Dominate (Week Ending November 9, 2014)
The latest sales data from Japan is in, and this week sees the 3DS continue its domination in the East, with the top three games being for Nintendo’s handheld again. Monster Hunter 4 takes the top spot for the fourth week running, followed by Yokai Watch, which is closing in on 3 million sales. Super Smash Bros. rounds out the top three, moving steadily closer to the 2 million sales mark.
The Wii U picks up a little in sales this week, with Mario Kart 8 moving back up to eighth position with over 3000 sales, and new entry Lego Movie: The Game debuting at ninth position with 3,500 sales.
In hardware, the Wii U has moved up to sixth position, with a slight increase in sales. New 3DS sales also increased this week, moving over 65,000 between the standard and XL versions, beating out the next hardware sales by over 50,000.
Check out the full sales lists below, and let us know your thoughts on the way things were in Japan this week.
Software Sales (followed by lifetime sales)
- [3DS] Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate (Capcom, 10/11/14) – 57,645 (2,104,844)
- [3DS] Yokai Watch 2: Ganso / Honke (Level-5, 07/10/14) – 27,182 (2,842,890)
- [3DS] Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS (Nintendo, 09/13/14) – 24,509 (1,701,465)
- [PS3] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 2014 (Konami, 10/23/14) – 9,070 (111,037)
- [PSV] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu 2014 (Konami, 10/23/14) – 7,661 (71,073)
- [PS3] The Evil Within (Bethesda Softworks, 10/23/14) – 7,562 (82,932)
- [3DS] Tales of the World: Reve Unitia (Bandai Namco, 10/23/14) – 5,280 (62,120)
- [3DS] LEGO Movie: The Game (Warner Bros., 11/06/14) – 4,180 (New)
- [Wii U] LEGO Movie: The Game (Warner Bros., 11/06/14) – 3,574 (New)
- [Wii U] Mario Kart 8 (Nintendo, 05/29/14) – 3,210 (699,588)
- [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf (Nintendo, 11/08/12) – 2,844 (3,805,306)
- [PS3] Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel (2K Games, 10/30/14) – 2,676 (15,062)
- [PS4] Metro Redux (Spike Chunsoft, 10/30/14) – 2,624 (8,782)
- [3DS] Dragon Quest X Online (Square Enix, 09/04/14) – 2,501 (116,252)
- [PS4] The Evil Within (Bethesda Softworks, 10/23/14) – 2,359 (66,956)
- [PS3] Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 Remix (Square Enix, 10/02/14) – 2,258 (129,660)
- [PS4] Onechanbara Z2: Chaos (D3 Publisher, 10/30/14) – 2,245 (12,719)
- [3DS] Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultimate Mission 2 (Bandai Namco, 08/07/14) – 2,158 (154,098)
- [3DS] Yokai Watch (Level-5, 07/11/13) – 2,033 (1,293,939)
- [PSV] Super Hero Generation (Bandai Namco, 10/23/14) – 2,028 (22,856)
Hardware Sales (followed by last week’s sales)
- New 3DS LL – 50,619 (41,633)
- New 3DS – 15,020 (14,040)
- PlayStation 4 – 10,078 (8,906)
- PlayStation Vita – 9,874 (10,688)
- 3DS LL – 9,083 (9,270)
- Wii U – 4,787 (4,696)
- PlayStation 3 – 4,666 (5,066)
- 3DS – 4,495 (4,730)
- PlayStation Vita TV – 678 (718)
- Xbox One – 513 (599)
- Xbox 360 – 107 (79)
- PSP – 25 (50)
Source: Gematsu