Japanese Sales Charts: Hyrule Warriors Debuts at Number Two (Week Ending August 17, 2014)
This week’s sales data from Japan has been released, and it’s a very interesting week. Yokai Watch 2 retains it’s number one position for the sixth week in a row, outpacing newcomer Hyrule Warrios. The Wii U’s newest entry comes in at a respectable number two position, moving almost 70,000 units. It’s not as high as Mario Kart 8’s 325,000 debut last May, but still helped move a number of Wii U’s, with hardware sales picking up from last week’s 13,000 to over 18,000 this week.
In other hardware news, the 3DS also saw a nice increase of about 9000 in sales, hitting 42,000 for the week and easily sitting in number one position yet again.
All in all a good week for Nintendo. Check out the full charts below and let us know your thoughts on the latest sales from Nintendo’s homeland.
Software Sales (followed by lifetime sales)
- [3DS] Yokai Watch 2: Ganso / Honke (Level-5, 07/10/14) – 118,526 (2,212,518)
- [Wii U] Hyrule Warriors (Koei Tecmo, 08/14/14) – 69,090 (New)
- [3DS] Yoshi’s New Island (Nintendo, 07/24/14) – 29,933 (144,162)
- [Wii U] Mario Kart 8 (Nintendo, 05/29/14) – 28,221 (627,635)
- [3DS] Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultimate Mission 2 (Bandai Namco, 08/07/14) – 27,273 (108,857)
- [PSV] Monster Hunter Frontier G Beginners Package (Capcom, 08/13/14) – 21,169 (New)
- [PS3] Ultra Street Fighter IV (Capcom, 08/07/14) – 11,604 (53,931)
- [3DS] Taiko Drum Master: Don and Katsu’s Space-Time Great Adventure (Bandai Namco, 06/26/14) – 10,879 (138,721)
- [3DS] Yokai Watch (Level-5, 07/11/13) – 10,420 (1,245,042)
- [3DS] Senran Kagura 2: Deep Crimson (Marvelous, 08/07/14) – 9,624 (56,119)
- [3DS] Pokemon Art Academy (Nintendo, 06/19/14) – 6,644 (91,232)
- [PS3] Grand Theft Auto V Low Price Version (06/26/14) – 6,286 (45,283)
- [3DS] Pokemon X / Y (Pokemon, 10/12/13) – 6,053 (4,127,888)
- [3DS] Mario Kart 7 (Nintendo, 12/01/11) – 5,535 (2,368,112)
- [3DS] Mario Party: Island Tour (Nintendo, 03/20/14) – 4,728 (423,075)
- [3DS] Gundam Try Age SP (Bandai Namco, 07/17/14) – 4,705 (41,748)
- [PSV] Freedom Wars (SCEJ, 06/26/14) – 4,542 (280,209)
- [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf (Nintendo, 11/08/12) – 4,447 (3,774,698)
- [PSV] Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment (Bandai Namco, 04/24/14) – 3,984 (238,539)
- [3DS] Monster Hunter 4 (Capcom, 09/14/13) – 3,796 (3,327,503)
Hardware Sales (followed by last week’s sales)
- 3DS LL – 42,365 (33,172)
- PlayStation Vita – 20,825 (17,084)
- Wii U – 18,161 (13,598)
- 3DS – 9,429 (7,873)
- PlayStation 4 – 6,913 (5,470)
- PlayStation 3 – 6,260 (6,486)
- PlayStation Vita TV – 1,491 (1,344)
- PSP – 416 (301)
- Xbox 360 – 160 (151)
Source: Gematsu