Japanese sales: Pokemon on top, Wii U sales still middling

This week saw the release of Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire in Japan, with both games topping the charts for the week. Both games combined have sold nearly 1.3 million in their week since release, showing that the Nintendo 3DS and Pokemon are still strong in Japan, despite newer games like Yokai Watch using a similar formula. In fact, Pokemon is still so popular in Japan that the Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire double pack managed to chart second, with nearly 100k units sold.

What’s surprising is that Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker charts at 10 on the charts, while Mario Kart 8 hangs on at 15. From there Bandai Namco has a new Wii U game release in Japan that charted at 11 and surprisingly, Super Smash Bros. on the Wii U is no where to be found in the top 20 (whoops it comes out next week!), despite selling record numbers of copies in America when it debuted last week.

Despite this, the Wii U has still managed to sell 9k this week, which is still double the 4k number we saw only a few weeks ago before the release of Super Smash Bros. and Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker. Either way Nintendo is winning with the Nintendo 3DS in Japan and the Super Smash Bros. sales in America, so we can’t say we’re too sad to see the Wii U only performing mediocre in Japan this week.

Software Sales

1. [3DS] Pokemon Omega Ruby / Alpha Sapphire (Pokemon, 11/21/14) – 1,327,671 (New)
2. [3DS] Pokemon Omega Ruby / Alpha Sapphire Double Pack (Pokemon, 11/21/14) – 90,497 (New)
3. [PS3] Dynasty Warriors 8: Empires (Koei Tecmo, 11/20/14) – 38,123 (New)
4. [PS4] Assassin’s Creed Unity (Ubisoft, 11/20/14) – 36,400 (New)
5. [3DS] Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate (Capcom, 10/11/14) – 28,728 (2,173,073)
6. [PS3] Pro Evolution Soccer 2015 (Konami, 11/13/14) – 20,612 (91,915)
7. [3DS] Yokai Watch 2: Ganso / Honke (Level-5, 07/10/14) – 17,834 (2,881,810)
8. [3DS] Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS (Nintendo, 09/13/14) – 16,846 (1,737,035)
9. [PS3] Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (Activision, 11/13/14) – 15,425 (95,011)
10. [Wii U] Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (Nintendo, 11/13/14) – 13,817 (41,843)
11. [Wii U] Taiko Drum Master: Tokumori! (Bandai Namco, 11/20/14) – 11,769 (New)
12. [PS4] Dynasty Warriors 8: Empires (Koei Tecmo, 11/20/14) – 11,725 (New)
13. [3DS] Sumikko Gurashi Koko Ga Ochitsukun Desu (Nihon Colombia, 11/20/14) – 11,656 (New)
14. [PS4] Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (Square Enix, 11/13/14) – 9,400 (73,459)
15. [Wii U] Mario Kart 8 (Nintendo, 05/29/14) – 8,752 (721,884)
16. [3DS] One Piece: Super Grand Battle! X (Bandai Namco, 11/13/14) – 8,045 (43,143)
17. [PS4] Pro Evolution Soccer 2015 (Konami, 11/13/14) – 6,859 (33,543)
18. [PSV] Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax (Sega, 11/13/14) – 5,798 (40,469)
19. [PSV] Senjou no Enbikyoku (Idea Factory, 11/20/14) – 5,738 (New)
20. [PS3] Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax (Sega, 11/13/14) – 5,692 (31,299)

Hardware Sales

1. New 3DS LL – 42,184 (38,457)
2. New 3DS – 26,791 (13,373)
3. PlayStation 4 – 12,430 (15,537)
4. 3DS LL – 11,534 (9,172)
5. PlayStation Vita – 10,236 (19,301)
6. Wii U – 9,615 (14,002)
7. 3DS – 8,144 (4,199)
8. PlayStation 3 – 4,324 (4,711)
9. Xbox One – 776 (2,245)
10. PlayStation Vita TV – 621 (675)
11. Xbox 360 – 100 (91)
12. PSP – 11 (25)