Japanese sales: Pokemon still king, Wii U sells 12k

The Wii U continues its bump before the release of Super Smash Bros. next week on December 6. The console managed to sell 12k units this week in Japan, which is a generous bump to the 9k sold last week and the 4k drop seen a few weeks ago. Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire still reign supreme at the top of the software charts, managing to sell 300k in the second week of availability in the country.

As for Wii U titles, Mario Kart 8 is still hanging on, while Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker is still charting as well. The infusion we’ll see in sales for Super Smash Bros. probably won’t come about until the week after next, when we’ll see a full week’s worth of data to compare to the 3DS launch. The PlayStation 4 only marginally outsold the Wii U this week, mostly thanks to the release of Dragon Age: Inquisition as it charted at number six this week and was the only PlayStation 4 game to top the top 20.

Software Sales

1. [3DS] Pokemon Omega Ruby / Alpha Sapphire (Pokemon, 11/21/14) – 298,613 (1,626,284)
2. [PSV] Phantasy Star Nova (Sega, 11/27/14) – 107,313 (New)
3. [3DS] Etrian Odyssey Untold II: Knight of Fafnir (Atlus, 11/27/14) – 59,531 (New)
4. [PSV] Fate/hollow ataraxia (Kadokawa Games, 11/27/14) – 53,979 (New)
5. [PS3] Resident Evil (Capcom, 11/27/14) – 50,258 (New)
6. [PS4] Dragon Age: Inquisition (EA, 11/27/14) – 29,274 (New)
7. [3DS] Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate (Capcom, 10/11/14) – 27,624 (2,200,698)
8. [3DS] Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS (Nintendo, 09/13/14) – 21,755 (1,758,790)
9. [3DS] Yokai Watch 2: Ganso / Honke (Level-5, 07/10/14) – 20,577 (2,902,388)
10. [PSV] Nisekoi: Yomeiri!? (Konami, 11/27/14) – 15,508 (New)
11. [PSV] Senran Kagura: Bon Appetit! (Marvelous, 11/27/14) – 14,275 (New)
12. [PS3] Pro Evolution Soccer 2015 (KOnami, 11/13/14) – 12,886 (104,801)
13. [Wii U] Mario Kart 8 (Nintendo, 05/29/14) – 12,742 (734,626)
14. [Wii U] Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (Nintendo, 11/13/14) – 12,211 (54,053)
15. [PSV] Oedo BlackSmith (NIS, 11/27/14) – 11,562 (New)
16. [PS3] Dragon Age: Inquisition (EA, 11/27/14) – 11,294 (New)
17. [PS3] Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (Subtitled Version) (Square Enix, 11/13/14) – 10,291 (105,302)
18. [3DS] Gotouchi Tetsudou: Gotouchi Kyara to Nihon Senkoku no Tabi (Bandai Namco, 11/27/14) – 9,936 (New)
19. [3DS] Hero Bank 2 (Sega, 11/27/14) – 8,014 (New)
20. [PS3] Dynasty Warriors 8: Empires (Koei Tecmo, 11/20/14) – 7,784 (45,907)

Hardware Sales

1. New 3DS LL – 48,738 (42,184)
2. PlayStation Vita – 27,935 (10,236)
3. New 3DS – 22,875 (26,791)
4. 3DS – 19,722 (8,144)
5. 3DS LL – 15,182 (11,534)
6. PlayStation 4 – 13,489 (12,430)
7. Wii U – 12,496 (9,615)
8. PlayStation 3 – 5,360 (4,324)
9. PlayStation Vita TV – 1,285 (621)
10. Xbox One – 1,237 (776)
11. Xbox 360 – 108 (100)
12. PSP – 18 (11)