Media Create has released the weekly software and hardware sales charts for the region of Japan, and as expected, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword has debuted on top, selling an impressive 194,978 units- with just three days on the market.
The other recent Nintendo release, Super Mario 3D Land, also performed well, selling 61,710 units and taking the No. 4 spot, taking its lifetime sales to over 550,000 units.
Metal Gear Solid HD Collection also made a strong debut, with the PS3 version coming in at No.5, selling a little over 60,000 units.
On the hardware front, the 3DS was leading again, selling 120K units. Skyward Sword’s release gave the Wii a boost, coming up from 13K units to over 20K units, but the system remained in the fourth spot.
Here’re the full software and hardware charts for the week ending November 20:
Software (Lifetime sales):
[WII] 01. Zelda Skyward Sword (Nintendo, 11/23): 194,978 – NEW
[PSP] 02. 7th Dragon 2020 (Sega, 11/23): 122,498 – NEW
[PSP] 03. Saint Seiya Senki (Namco Bandai, 11/23): 66,557 – NEW
[3DS] 04. Super Mario 3D Land (Nintendo, 11/23): 61,710 (560,960)
[PS3] 05. Metal Gear Solid HD Edition (Konami, 11/23): 61,192 – NEW
[PSP] 06. Little Battler eXperience Boost (Level-5, 11/23): 60,727 – NEW
[PSP] 07. Weiss Schwarz Portable (Namco Bandai, 11/23): 47,586- NEW
[PSP] 08. Uta no Prince Sama Music (Broccoli, 11/23): 38,918 – NEW
[WII] 09. Taiko Drum Master Wii Ultimate Version (Namco Bandai, 11/23): 32,098 – NEW
[PS3] 10. Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 Subtitled Version (Square Enix, 11/17): 29,726 (210,098)
[NDS] 11. One Piece Gigant Battle 2 (Namco Bandai, 11/17): 27,379 (143,441)
[PSP] 12. Pop’n Music Portable 2 (Konami, 11/23): 20,965 – NEW
[PS3] 13. Ni no Kuni (Level-5, 11/17): 20,185 (87,217)
[WII] 14. Kirby Wii (Nintendo, 10/27): 19,527 (255,566)
[PSP] 15. Final Fantasy Type-0 (Square Enix, 10/27): 16,655 (698,828)
[PSP] 16. Hatsune Miku Project Diva Extend (Sega, 11/10): 16,322 (231,037)
[WII] 17. Pokepark 2 Beyond the World (Pokemon, 11/12): 14,710 (69,740)
[WII] 18. Just Dance Wii (Nintendo, 10/13): 14,013 (230,268)
[WII] 19. Wii Party (Nintendo, 07/08/10): 13,756 (2,036,622)
[PS3] 20. Sengoku Basara 3 Utage (Cacpom, 11/10): 13,233 (163,201)
Hardware (Last week’s figures):
- 3DS: 120,920 (96,219)
- PS3: 34,031 (40,085)
- PSP: 33,151 (41,069)
- Wii: 20,148 (13,613)
- DSi LL: 2,237 (1,813)
- X360: 1,678 (1,763)
- PS2: 1,294 (1,291)
- DSi: 993 (897)
- DS Lite: 35 (31)
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