This has been the best seller of the week in Japan (2/20/17 – 2/26/17): ‘NieR’ and more
Like every Wednesday, the popular Japanese company Media Create, tasked with tracking game shipments at major retailers each week, including sales figures for the purpose of comparing the most successful games and consoles currently in Japan and detailing the success of each game or platform in depth; offers us the data collected from February 20 to 26, 2017.
This week Deny It sweeps away the competition leading video game sales with 198,542 copies sold in the country of the rising sun. The second and third place monopolizes it Super Robot Wars V for PlayStation 4 and PS Vita respectively with almost 190,000 copies sold between the two consoles. You can take a look at sales data by yourselves below:
- NieR: Automata (Square Enix, 2/23/17) – 198,542 (New)
- Super Robot Wars V (Limited Edition Included) (Bandai Namco, 2/23/17) – 100,154 (New)
- Super Robot Wars V (Limited Edition Included) (Bandai Namco, 2/23/17) – 83,733 (New)
- NiOH (Koei Tecmo, 02/09/17) – 17,360 (118,613)
- Harukanaru Toki no Naka from 3 Ultimate (Koei Tecmo, 2/23/17) – 13,682 (New)
- Pokemon Sun / Pokemon Moon (Nintendo, 11/18/16) – 13,441 (3,176,979)
- The Witch and the Hundred Knight 2 (NIS, 2/23/17) – 13,421 (New)
- For Honor (Ubisoft, 2/16/17) – 13,203 (53,265)
- Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 3 Professional (Square Enix, 2/09/17) – 13,093 (149,633)
- Resident Evil 7: biohazard (Grotesque Ver. Included) (Capcom, 1/26/17) – 10,409 (284,490)
- Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS (Nintendo, 12/1/16) – 7,050 (976,825)
- Assassin’s Creed: The Ezio Collection (Ubisoft, 2/23/17) – 6,734 (New)
- Grand Theft Auto V (Low Price Version) (Take-Two, 10/8/15) – 6,199 (283,970)
- Yo-kai Watch 3: Sukiyaki (Level-5, 12/15/16) – 6.106 (675.260)
- Poochy & Yoshi’s Woolly World (Nintendo, 1/19/17) – 5,394 (92,286)
- Final Fantasy XV (Limited Edition and Combo Included) (Square Enix, 11/29/16) – 4,410 (944,806)
- Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition (SIE, 03/19/15) – 4,046 (1,114,149)
- Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Welcome Amiibo (Nintendo, 11/24/16) – 4,024 (134,618)
- Minecraft: Wii U Edition (Nintendo, 6/23/16) – 2,775 (294,460)
- Momotaro Dentetsu 2017: Tachiagare Nippon! (Nintendo, 12/22/16) – 2,575 (289,306)
Hardware sales (for comparison purposes, last week’s sales are also included in parentheses):
- PlayStation 4 – 37,008 (21,204)
- New 3DS LL – 15,984 (16,426)
- PlayStation Vita – 10,704 (8,284)
- PlayStation 4 Pro – 6,481 (5,999)
- 2DS – 4,303 (4,665)
- New 3DS – 1,254 (1,203)
- PlayStation 3 – 505 (500)
- Xbox One – 469 (76)
- Wii U – 464 (491)