Period:The week of March 21st – March 27th (2011)
Top-seller:Dynasty Warriors 7 – 67,475 | Total Sales: 320,565
Nintendo 3DS sales: 50,710 | Total sales: 792,954
The biggest release in Japan during the week of March 21st – 27th was Final Fantasy IV: The Complete Collection, following shortly after the release of Dissidia 012. Square Enix’s packaging of their PSP Final Fantasy IV remake and its After Years sequel convinced 104,173 people to pick it up in its first week.
The next new release on the list was a Gundam game for the Nintendo 3DS, far below Final Fantasy IV’s numbers at the #3 position. Finally, the last notable release of the week was ClaDun 2, which sold 5,956 copies.
We also see the slight rise of games with long tails, such as Monster Hunter Portable 3rd, Pokémon Black/White, Donkey Kong Country Returns, Wii Party, Mario Kart Wii and New Super Mario Bros. Wii, all of which saw an increase in sales over the past week.
The top-20 chart for the week of March 21st – 27th is as follows:
| Lw | Tw | Title | Weekly Sales | Total Sales | Sys. | Publisher |
| New | 01. | Final Fantasy IV: The Complete Collection | 104,173 | New | PSP | Square Enix |
| 01. | 02. | Dynasty Warriors 7 | 36,548 | 357,113 | PS3 | Tecmo Koei |
| New | 03. | Gundam The 3D Battle | 23,500 | New | 3DS | Namco Bandai |
| 02. | 04. | Dissidia 012[duodecim]: Final Fantasy | 21,741 | 403,912 | PSP | Square Enix |
| 05. | 05. | Monster Hunter Portable 3rd | 16,444 | 4,401,653 | PSP | Capcom |
| 03. | 06. | Professor Layton and the Mask of Miracle | 16,294 | 242,649 | 3DS | Level 5 |
| 04. | 07. | Phantasy Star Portable 2: Infinity | 14,403 | 300,418 | PSP | Sega |
| 06. | 08. | Nintendogs + cats(all three versions) | 13,219 | 160,742 | 3DS | Nintendo |
| 07. | 09. | SD Gundam G Generation World | 10,160 | 283,802 | PSP | Namco Bandai |
| 11. | 10. | Pokémon Black/White | 10,025 | 5,127,678 | DS | Nintendo |
| New | 11. | Gakuen Hetalia Portable | 9,729 | New | PSP | Idea Factory |
| 08. | 12. | Way of the Samurai 4 | 9,153 | 110,483 | PS3 | Spike |
| 13. | 13. | Donkey Kong Country Returns | 8,526 | 859,865 | Wii | Nintendo |
| 14. | 14. | Wii Party | 8,450 | 1,829,936 | Wii | Nintendo |
| 15. | 15. | Fairy Tail: Portable Guild 2 | 6,291 | 31,444 | PSP | Konami |
| New | 16. | ClaDun 2 | 5,956 | New | PSP | Nippon Ichi |
| 16. | 17. | Digimon Story: Super Xros Wars Red/Blue | 5,812 | 57,676 | DS | Namco Bandai |
| 27. | 18. | Mario Kart Wii | 5,762 | 3,186,971 | Wii | Nintendo |
| 12. | 19. | Samurai Warriors: Chronicles | 5,641 | 106,059 | 3DS | Tecmo Koei |
| 16. | 20. | New Super Mario Bros. Wii | 5,574 | 4,253,995 | Wii | Nintendo |
Sales data obtained from 4Gamer and Media-Create.
Published: Mar 30, 2011 04:39 pm