Japanese sales: Wii U sees slight rise, Yokai Watch 2 still on top

Wii U sales

This week in Japan remains constant aside from a few new releases. Yoshi’s New Island finally hit Japan with a respectable 60k sold during its first week, though Yokai Watch 2 continues to dominate the top spot of the charts with 180k sold, bringing the grand total to 1.8 million since release.

Mario Kart 8 maintains its spot in the third position with 18k sold this week, bringing the grand total for Japan only up to 560k. Other new titles this week include Corpse Party: Blood Drive for PS Vita, Tokyo New World Record: Operation Abyss for PS Vita, and Under Nigh In-Birth Exe:Late for PS3. Not a single PS4 game managed to make it into the top ten this week, with the only PS4 game making it into the top 20 being FIFA 14. Home consoles continue to struggle in Japan, but the Nintendo 3DS and PS Vita are thriving.

Software Sales

  1. [3DS] Yokai Watch 2: Ganso / Honke (Level-5, 07/10/14) – 180,880 (1,829,533)
  2. [3DS] Yoshi’s New Island (Nintendo, 07/24/14) – 58,285 (New)
  3. [Wii U] Mario Kart 8 (Nintendo, 05/29/14) – 18,129 (560,487)
  4. [PSV] Oreshika: Tainted Bloodblines (SCEJ, 07/17/14) – 17,690 (111,465)
  5. [PSV] Tokyo New World Record: Operation Abyss (5pb., 07/24/14) – 15,242 (New)
  6. [PSV] Corpse Party: Blood Drive (5pb., 07/24/14) – 13,688 (New)
  7. [3DS] Yokai Watch (Level-5, 07/11/13) – 10,620 (1,218,698)
  8. [PS3] Under Nigh In-Birth Exe:Late (Arc System Works, 07/24/14) – 9,171 (New)
  9. [3DS] Taiko Drum Master: Don and Katsu’s Space-Time Great Adventure (Bandai Namco, 06/26/14) – 9,080 (110,558)
  10. [PS3] Atelier Shallie: Alchemists of the Dusk Sea (Gust, 07/17/14) – 7,432 (51,177)

Hardware Sales

  1. 3DS XL – 31,789 (31,192)
  2. PlayStation Vita – 21,875 (27,352)
  3. Wii U – 9,429 (8,209)
  4. PlayStation 3 – 7,175 (7,389)
  5. 3DS – 6,656 (6,185)
  6. PlayStation 4 – 5,581 (6,456)
  7. PlayStation Vita TV – 1,767 (2,249)
  8. PSP – 489 (556)
  9. Xbox 360 – 122 (129)