Period: The week of November 5th – November 11th (2012)
Top-seller: Animal Crossing: New Leaf – 603,064
Nintendo 3DS sales: 52,425 | Total sales: 7,070,882
Nintendo 3DS XL sales: 134,652 | Total sales: 1,018,636
PlayStation Vita sales: 4,021 | Total sales: 1,029,713
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Nintendo released Animal Crossing: New Leaf for the Nintendo 3DS in Japan last week, and the game saw fantastic first-week sales of 603,064 copies. That’s a higher debut than Animal Crossing: Wild World on the Nintendo DS (325,466 first week) and Animal Crossing: City Folk on the Wii (305,180 first week).
The interesting part is that sales tracker, Media Create, who we source for these sales figures, don’t give the complete picture when it comes to Animal Crossing: New Leaf sales. For instance, yesterday, Nintendo president, Satoru Iwata, reported that Animal Crossing sold through 600,000 retail copies and was also purchased digitally as a download title over 200,000 times.
Even counting just retail sales, this makes Animal Crossing: New Leaf the Nintendo 3DS game with the highest first-week sales so far, beating out Super Mario 3D Land, Mario Kart 7, Dragon Quest Monsters: Terry’s Wonderland 3D, Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate and New Super Mario Bros. 2. It looks like 3DS has its killer app in Japan.
The top-20 chart for the week was as follows:
| Lw | Tw | Title | Weekly Sales | Total Sales | Sys. | Publisher |
| New | 01. | Animal Crossing: New Leaf | 603,064 | New | 3DS | Nintendo |
| New | 02. | Dynasty Warriors 7: Empires | 70,102 | New | PS3 | Tecmo Koei |
| New | 03. | Halo 4 | 39,312 | New | 360 | Microsoft |
| 01. | 04. | Tales of Xillia 2 | 34,789 | 399,228 | PS3 | Namco Bandai |
| 05. | 05. | New Super Mario Bros. 2 | 23,224 | 1,343,554 | 3DS | Nintendo |
| 06. | 06. | Bravely Default: Flying Fairy | 14,847 | 249,260 | 3DS | Square Enix |
| New | 07. | Silent Hill: Downpour | 13,516 | New | PS3 | Konami |
| 04. | 08. | Pro Evolution Soccer 2013 | 12,335 | 50,722 | PSP | Konami |
| 02. | 09. | Okami HD | 11,013 | 79,657 | PS3 | Capcom |
| 03. | 10. | Yakuza 1 & 2 HD Edition | 10,073 | 68,211 | PS3 | Sega |
| 08. | 11. | Pro Evolution Soccer 2013 | 9,508 | 348,494 | PS3 | Konami |
| 13. | 12. | Style Savvy: Trendsetters | 8,599 | 166,416 | 3DS | Nintendo |
| 19. | 13. | Run for Money Tousouchuu | 8,199 | 229,635 | 3DS | Namco Bandai |
| 09. | 14. | Resident Evil 6 | 6,811 | 814,850 | PS3 | Capcom |
| 20. | 15. | Pokémon Black/White 2 | 6,533 | 2,828,949 | DS | Pokémon Co. |
| 10. | 16. | Dark Souls with Artorias of the Abyss Edition | 5,754 | 85,919 | PS3 | From Software |
| 18. | 17. | Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate | 5,309 | 1,564,401 | 3DS | Capcom |
| New | 18. | Nicola Kanshuu: Model ☆ Oshare Audition Platinum | 5,295 | New | 3DS | Alchemist |
| 14. | 19. | Taiko Drum Master: The Little Dragon and the Mysterious Orb | 5,253 | 257,146 | 3DS | Namco Bandai |
| 07 | 20. | The Idolm@ster Shiny Festa: Funky Note/Groovy Tune/Honey Sound | 5,101 | 138,669 | PSP | Namco Bandai |
Sales data acquired from 4Gamer, Media Create and Geimin.net.
Published: Nov 14, 2012 02:00 pm