Period: The week of March 10th – March 16th (2014)
Top-seller: Dark Souls II (PS3) – 255,197
Nintendo 3DS sales: 10,772 | Total sales: 9,424,359
Nintendo 3DS XL sales: 23,372 | Total sales: 5,824,799
PlayStation Vita sales: 28,270 | Total sales: 2,577,469
Vita TV sales: 1,447 | 98,801
Wii U sales: 7,654 | Total sales: 1,666,726
PlayStation 4 sales: 29,677 | 439,810
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Oh, Dark Souls, what a long way you’ve come. Back when the Souls franchise first debuted in the form of Demon’s Souls back in 2009, the game sold a mere 39,689 copies in its first week on store shelves on PlayStation 3.
Cut to five years later, and Dark Souls II has sold a combined total of 261,147 copies between its PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions (this is the first multiplatform Souls game in Japan). It sold 255,197 copies on PS3 and another 5,950 copies on the 360.
Dark Souls II’s opening week sales fell just short of the opening sales of its predecessor, Dark Souls, which was released in 2011. That game sold 279,567 copies at launch, which puts it slightly higher than Dark Souls II. With that said, these are still very, very respectable figures for Dark Souls II’s debut.
The top-20 software sales chart for last week is as follows:
| Lw | Tw | Title | Weekly Sales | Total Sales | Sys. | Publisher |
| New | 01. | Dark Souls II | 255,197 | New | PS3 | From Software |
| 02. | 02. | Yo-kai Watch | 37,247 | 569,720 | 3DS | Level 5 |
| 03. | 03. | Dragon Quest Monsters 2 | 18,728 | 737,593 | 3DS | Square Enix |
| 01. | 04. | Soul Sacrifice Delta | 17,357 | 66,143 | PSV | Sony |
| 04. | 05. | Harvest Moon: Connect to a New Land | 15,883 | 176,180 | 3DS | Marvelous AQL |
| 06. | 06. | Fossil Fighters: Infinite Gear | 13,362 | 93,900 | 3DS | Nintendo |
| 09. | 07. | Kirby Triple Deluxe | 12,225 | 501,835 | 3DS | Nintendo |
| 10. | 08. | Pokémon X and Y | 10,106 | 3,994,938 | 3DS | Pokémon Co. |
| 07. | 09. | Yakuza Restoration | 10,034 | 222,147 | PS3 | Sega |
| 14. | 10. | Grand Theft Auto V | 7,910 | 736,810 | PS3 | Take 2 |
| 11. | 11. | Puzzle & Dragons Z | 7,755 | 1,407,075 | 3DS | Gung Ho |
| 12. | 12. | Battlefield 4 | 7,539 | 55,286 | PS4 | Electronic Arts |
| 05. | 13. | Ar noSurge | 6,751 | 33,787 | PS3 | Gust |
| New | 14. | Dark Souls II | 5,950 | New | 360 | From Software |
| 13. | 15. | Yakuza Restoration | 5,451 | 119,722 | PS4 | Sega |
| 21. | 16. | Monster Hunter 4 | 5,132 | 3,239,571 | 3DS | Capcom |
| 15. | 17. | Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze | 5,117 | 72,401 | WiiU | Nintendo |
| 23. | 18. | Doraemon: New Nobita’s Great Demon Peko and the Exploration Party of Five | 4,813 | 9,665 | 3DS | FuRyu |
| 22. | 19. | Animal Crossing: New Leaf | 4,759 | 3,692,937 | 3DS | Nintendo |
| 17. | 20. | Mobile Suit Gundam: Extreme Vs. Full Boost | 4,395 | 338,323 | PS3 | Namco Bandai |
Sales data acquired from 4Gamer and Media Create.
Published: Mar 19, 2014 08:30 am