Wed, May 02, 2012 | 21:56 BST
Japanese charts – Operation Raccoon City tops software, Vita sales see upturn
Media Create has released its weekly retail chart for Japan and Resident Evil Operation Raccoon City topped software and 3DS maintained its throne. Get the full thing below.
Software chart covering April 23 through April 29 with life-to-date in parentheses:
[PS3] 01. Resident Evil Operation Raccoon City (Capcom, 04.26.2012): 252,525 (NEW)
[WII] 02. Mario Party 9 (Nintendo, 04.26.2012): 152,883 (NEW)
[3DS] 03. Fire Emblem Awakening (Nintendo, 04.19.2012): 60,313 (302,913)
[PSV] 04. Surge Concerto Ciel nosurge (Gust, 04.26.2012): 33,324 (NEW)
[PSP] 05. Conception Please Give Birth to My Children (Spike Chunsoft, 04.26.2012): 29,846 (NEW)
[PSP] 06. Steins;Gate Hiyoku Renri no Darling (5pb., 04.26.2012): 24,849 (NEW)
[PS3] 07. Idolmaster Anime & G4U! Pack Vol.7 (Namco Bandai, 04.26.2012): 17,314 (NEW)
[360] 08. Resident Evil Operation Raccoon City (Capcom, 04.26.2012): 16,285 (NEW)
[3DS] 09. Super Mario 3D Land (Nintendo, 11.03.2011): 15,696 (1,534,999)
[3DS] 10. Dynasty Warriors VS (Tecmo Koei, 04.26.2012): 15,578 (NEW)
[3DS] 11. Monster Hunter 3G (Capcom, 12.10.2011): 13,578 (1,416,873)
[PSP] 12. Even in a Game, Listen to Me, Girls. I Am Your Father! (Namco Bandai, 04.26.2012): 13,241 (NEW)
[PSP] 13. Ao no Exorcist Toki no Labyrinth (Namco Bandai, 04.26.2012): 11,939 (NEW)
[3DS] 14. Mario Kart 7 (Nintendo, 11.03.2011): 11,666 (1,672,424)
[3DS] 15. Kid Icarus Uprising (Nintendo, 03.22.2012): 11,537 (243,095)
[3DS] 16. Kingdom Hearts 3D (Square Enix, 03.29.2012): 9,284 (298,953)
[PSP] 17. 2nd Super Robot Wars Z Saisei Volume (Namco Bandai, 04.05.2012): 8,484 (321,886)
[PSP] 18. Pro Baseball Spirits 2012 (Konami, 03.29.2012): 6,647 (118,566)
[PS3] 19. Pro Baseball Spirits 2012 (Konami, 03.29.2012): 6,323 (146,081)
[WII] 20. Wii Sports Resort Wiimote Plus Pack (Nintendo, 11.11.2010): 6,239 (925,498)
Hardware chart with previous week’s sales in parentheses:
1. 3DS: 74,282 (84,760)
2. PSP: 22,457 (11,779)
3. PS3: 21,114 (16,390)
4. PSV: 12,299 (8,206)
5. Wii: 9,200 (7,025)
6. PS2: 1,395 (1,172)
7. X360: 1,327 (1,282)
8. DSi LL: 895 (760)
9. DSi: 717 (516)
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Tags: japanese charts, media create
10 comments
#1
Kabby
02/05/12, 4:54 pm
Japanese charts – Operation Raccoon City tops software.
Good grief.
#2
Goffee
02/05/12, 5:01 pm
PSP sales up 100%, Vita sales up 50% a bit more than a slight upturn, surely? Then again Golden Week is coming up…
#3
TMRNetShark
02/05/12, 5:16 pm
Operation Raccoon City tops the charts? I can’t believe it. I guess true Resident Evil fans only live in the EU/US. XD
I mean come on, don’t the Japanese hate shooter games? I know they like 3rd person shooter games more than FPS’s… but really? Quarter of a million in sales?
#4
DrDamn
02/05/12, 5:25 pm
@2 If the sales had gone from 12k to 8k I don’t think “slight downturn” would have been the phrase used either. Everything up bar the 3DS, was it a minor Japanese holiday or something?
#5
Stephany Nunneley
02/05/12, 5:35 pm
@ ALL – The post will be updated and more analysis added later.
@2 being up 4,093 in sales is not 50% and compared to the way it has been sliding, yeah, it’s slight.
#6
DrDamn
02/05/12, 6:45 pm
@5
“being up 4,093 in sales is not 50%”
Isn’t it? What do you think it is? 4000/8000*100% = 50% increase on the previous week.
#7
YoungZer0
02/05/12, 6:55 pm
@3: If Japanese Gamers wouldn’t like Shooters, Resident Evil Games wouldn’t sell there at all.
ZING!
#8
Stephany Nunneley
02/05/12, 7:04 pm
@6 NVM I was going by addition and subtraction instead of percentages. So yeah you’re right. 8026 x 50% is 4013. Blame the American education system. I do every fucking day.
#9
HeavyD-Love
02/05/12, 8:08 pm
ORC sucks. Therefore, Japanese gamers suck.
Relax, i’m just kidding. But the game really does suck though.
#10
TMRNetShark
02/05/12, 8:42 pm
@7 Resident Evil isn’t a shooter but a survival horror game (that’s still a shooter). That’s why Resident Evil 5 sucked because it went too action orientated and not enough survival horror. ORC was just a shooter and that’s why it got bad ratings in the US (I don’t know about EU publications).
ZING!