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Animal Crossing: New Leaf back on top in Japan, 3DS LL maintains 

Despite new releases from Nippon Ichi, Compile Heart and the release of Hitman: Absolution in Japan, Animal Crossing: New Leaf re-took the top spot on the Media Create charts after being bested by a brunette Dante last week. The Nintendo life sim sold an additional 82,370 units for the period, which brings its life-to-date-total to 2,366,126 units. 3DS LL was still on top of the hardware chart, followed by its older sister 3DS. The only hardware to increase in sales over the week prior was Vita, which moved 9,748 units compared to last week's 9,036. Likely due to the release of Demon Gaze and Compile Hearts' Genkai Totsuki Monster Monpiece. Charts are below.

Here’s the full software chart for the period. Life-to-date sales are in parentheses:

[3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf (Nintendo, 11/08/12) – 82,370 (2,366,126)
[PS3] DmC Devil May Cry (Capcom, 01/17/13) – 31,627 (142,056)
[PSP] Gintama no Sugoroku (Namco Bandai, 01/24/13) – 27,011 (New)
[PSV] Demon Gaze (Kadokawa Games, 01/24/13) – 25,316 (New)
[3DS] Fantasy Life (Level-5, 12/27/12) – 25,042 (187,772)
[PSV] Genkai Totsuki Monster Monpiece (Compile Heart, 01/24/13) – 24,978 (New) (plus 5,000 download sales)
[PS3] The God and the Fate Revolution Paradox (Nippon Ichi Software, 01/24/13) – 23,417 (New)
[PS3] Hitman: Absolution (Square Enix, 01/24/13) – 22,233 (New)
[PSP] Digimon Adventure (Namco Bandai, 01/17/13) – 13,991 (61,798)
[3DS] New Super Mario Bros. 2 (Nintendo, 07/28/12) – 12,834 (1,866,476)
[3DS] Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate (Best Price!) (Capcom, 11/15/12) – 12,105 (196,243)
[3DS] Inazuma Eleven Go Chrono Stone Neppu / Raimei (Level-5, 12/13/12) – 8,492 (400,331)
[3DS] Paper Mario: Sticker Star (Nintendo, 12/06/12) – 8,185 (504,107)
[3DS] Taiko Drum Master: Chibi Dragon and the Mysterious Orb (Namco Bandai, 07/12/12) – 7,640 (401,125)
[Wii U] New Super Mario Bros. U (Nintendo, 12/08/12) – 6,883 (448,591)
[Wii] Taiko Drum Master Wii Super Wonderful Edition (Namco Bandai, 11/29/12) – 6,852 (367,165)
[3DS] Run For Money: Flee From the Strongest Hunters in History (Namco Bandai, 07/05/12) – 6,761 (406,143)
[PS3] Call of Duty: Black Ops II Dubbed Edition (Square Enix, 12/20/12) – 6,111 (112,964)
[PS3] Fist of the North Star: Ken’s Rage 2 (Tecmo Koei, 12/20/12) – 5,983 (222,794)
[Wii U] Nintendo Land (Nintendo, 12/08/12) – 5,914 (276,831)

Here’s the full hardware chart for January 14 -20, with last week’s sales in parentheses.

3DS LL – 48,226 (51,015)
3DS – 26,898 (30,840)
PlayStation 3 – 18,322 (19,697)
Wii U – 13,746 (16,654)
PSP – 12,897 (15,343)
PlayStation Vita – 9,748 (9,036)
Wii – 2,093 (2,199)
Xbox 360 – 611 (706)

Thanks, Gematsu.

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