Period: The week of Aug 22nd – Aug 28th (2011)
Top-seller: Monster Hunter Portable 3rd HD Ver. – 287,829
Nintendo 3DS sales: 60,781 | Total sales: 1,672,785
Ports and updated re-releases are the sales stories of the week. Last week saw the release of Monster Hunter Portable 3rd HD Ver., a PlayStation 3 port of the PSP game, in Japan. Portable 3rd HD Ver. sold 287,829 units in its first week on shelves and topped the software sales chart for the week.
Following it at #2 was Black Rock Shooter: The Game with 105,277 copies sold. At #3 was Mobile Suit Gundam: New Gihren’s Ambition at 75,611 sold.
Several other spots on the software sales chart were littered with new releases as well. Durarara!! 3way Standoff: Alley, an updated version of the original PSP visual novel adventure, also made its debut last week, as did updated ports of Samurai Warriors 3 and Dynasty Warriors 7.
The complete top-20 chart for last week is as follows:
| Lw | Tw | Title | Weekly Sales | Total Sales | Sys. | Publisher |
| New | 01. | Monster Hunter Portable 3rd HD Ver. | 287,829 | New | PS3 | Capcom |
| New | 02. | Black Rock Shooter: The Game | 105,277 | New | PSP | Imageepoch |
| New | 03. | Mobile Suit Gundam: New Gihren’s Ambition | 75,611 | New | PSP | Namco Bandai |
| New | 04. | Samurai Warriors 3: Empires | 70,254 | New | PS3 | Tecmo Koei |
| New | 05. | Dynasty Warriors 7 Special | 25,308 | New | PSP | Tecmo Koei |
| 01. | 06. | Rhythm Heaven | 25,063 | 399,552 | Wii | Nintendo |
| 02. | 07. | Monster Hunter Diary G | 23,151 | 162,416 | PSP | Capcom |
| 03. | 08. | Kirby: Mass Attack! | 18,901 | 181,224 | DS | Nintendo |
| 05. | 09. | Pokémon Rumble Blast | 15,764 | 134,201 | 3DS | Nintendo |
| 07. | 10. | The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D | 13,423 | 348,964 | 3DS | Nintendo |
| 08. | 11. | Wii Sports Resort | 12,760 | 515,086 | Wii | Nintendo |
| New | 12. | Suite PreCure: Melody Collection | 12,567 | New | DS | Namco Bandai |
| New | 13. | Durarara!! 3way Standoff: Alley | 10,454 | New | PSP | ASCII Media Works |
| New | 14. | Kaitou Tenshi Twin Angel: Toki to Sekai no Meikyuu | 10,156 | New | PSP | Alchemist |
| 10. | 15. | Toriko: Gourmet Survival | 9,662 | 118,213 | PSP | Namco Bandai |
| 09. | 16. | J-League Pro Soccer Club wo Tsukurou! 7 Euro Plus | 8,367 | 157,407 | PSP | Sega |
| 12. | 17. | Taiko no Tatsujin Portable DX | 8,028 | 187,055 | PSP | Namco Bandai |
| New | 18. | Persona 3 Portable (PSP The Best) | 7,176 | New | PSP | Atlus |
| New | 19. | Uncharted 2 (PlayStation 3 The Best) | 6,560 | New | PS3 | Sony |
| 20. | 20. | Pokémon Black/White | 6,512 | 5,293,428 | DS | Nintendo |
Sales data acquired from 4Gamer, Media-Create and Geimin.net.
Published: Aug 31, 2011 04:32 pm