Sales of the week in Japan (4/18/16 – 4/24/16): ‘One Piece: BB’, ‘Bullet Girls 2’ and more

One more week we bring you the list of Media Create, the popular Japanese company which is responsible for tracking game shipments at major retailers each week, for the purpose of comparing what is most popular currently in Japan and which games are having more success than others; this time with data collected from the April 4 to April 10 of 2016.

This week we noticed that Bandai Namco’s long-awaited title, One Piece: Burning Blood, has had a good start between its two versions for PS4 and PS Vita. Bullet Girls 2, a title that achieved an average rating in recent Famitsu reviews, has surpassed other important games such as Wii U’s Star Fox Zero and the popular Dark Souls III. In terms of platforms, it seems that nothing changes much, since the list continues to be headed by PS4, while PS Vita retains third place.

You can take a look at sales data for yourselves below:

software sales

1. One Piece: Burning Blood (Bandai Namco, 04/21/16) – 35,496 (NEW)
2. One Piece: Burning Blood (Bandai Namco, 04/21/16) – 32,682 (NEW)
3. Yo-kai Sangokushi (Level-5, 02/04/16) – 28,758 (430,239)
4. Bullet Girls 2 (D3 Publisher, 04/21/16) – 17,224 (NEW)
5. Star Fox Zero / Star Fox Guard Double Pack (Nintendo, 04/21/16) – 17,114 (NEW)
6. Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 3 (Square Enix, 03/24/16) – 15,940 (557,575)
7. Phantasy Star Online 2: Episode 4 (Sega, 04/21/16) – 14,950 (NEW)
8. Star Fox Zero (Nintendo, 04/21/16) – 8,135 (NEW)
9. Dark Souls III (Bandai Namco, 03/24/16) – 7,255 (274,909)
10. Terraria (Spike Chunsoft, 04/21/16) – 7,251 (NEW)
11. Phantasy Star Online 2: Episode 4 (Sega, 04/21/16) – 7,043 (NEW)
12. Nil Admirari no Tenbin: Teito Genwaku Kitan (Idea Factory, 04/21/16) – 6,987 (NEW)
13. Dying Light: The Following (Warner Bros., 04/21/16) – 6,476 (NEW)
14. Splatoon (Nintendo, 05/28/15) – 6,470 (1,338,689)
15. Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition (SCE, 03/19/15) – 6,254 (743,558)
16. Super Mario Maker (Nintendo, 10/09/15) – 5,873 (851,969)
17. UEFA EURO 2016 Pro Evolution Soccer (Konami, 04/21/16) – 5,094 (NEW)
18. Kamigami no Asobi (Broccoli, 04/21/16) – 4,828 (NEW)
19. Disney Art Academy (Nintendo, 07/04/16) – 4,646 (30,816)
20. Far Cry Primal (Ubisoft, 07/04/16) – 4,303 (38,410)

hardware sales (for comparison, last week’s sales are also included in parentheses):

1. PlayStation 4 – 20,589 (20,257)
2. New 3DS LL – 13,917 (14,573)
3. PlayStation Vita – 12,678 (12,337)
4. Wii U – 5,968 (6,091)
5. New 3DS – 3,268 (3,677)
6. PlayStation 3 – 1,153 (1,220)
7. 3DS – 939 (1,211)
8. 3DS LL – 137 (196)
9. Xbox One – 101 (142)

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