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 March 21 to 27 of 2016.
This week we can highlight that the long-awaited Dark Souls III for PlayStation 4 has taken the second place on the list, followed by the recently released Hatsune Miku: Project Diva a good week for Japan. As far as consoles are concerned, we find that the PlayStation 4 dominates the sales list for another week, followed closely by the Nintendo portable.
You can take a look at the complete lists of games and consoles sold just below:
- Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 3 (Square Enix, 03/24/16) – 368,665 (NEW)
- Dark Souls III (Bandai Namco, 03/24/16) – 210,141 (NEW)
- Hatsune Miku: Project Diva (NEW)
- Dead or Alive Xtreme 3: Fortune (Koei Tecmo, 03/24/16) – 44,723 (NEW)
- Pokken Tournament (Pokemon, 03/18/16) – 28,331 (98,007)
- Dead or Alive Xtreme 3: Venus (Koei Tecmo, 03/24/16) – 21,959 (NEW)
- Nobunaga’s Ambition: Sphere of Influence Sengoku Risshiden (Koei Tecmo, 03/24/16) – 20,322 (NEW)
- Assassination Classroom: Assassin Training Plan (Bandai Namco, 03/24/16) – 19,498 (NEW)
- Nobunaga’s Ambition: Sphere of Influence Sengoku Risshiden (Koei Tecmo, 03/24/16) – 13,482 (NEW)
- Nobunaga’s Ambition: Sphere of Influence Sengoku Risshiden (Koei Tecmo, 03/24/16) – 13,050 (NEW)
- Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games (Nintendo, 02/18/16) – 11,543 (119,188)
- Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition (SCE, 03/19/15) – 10,639 (712,822)
- The Division (Ubisoft, 10/03/16) – 10,581 (114,414)
- Digimon World: Next Order (Bandai Namco, 03/17/16) – 10,272 (74,490)
- Splatoon (Nintendo, 05/28/15) – 8,980 (1,310,480)
- Animal Crossing: New Leaf (Happy Price Selection) (Nintendo, 03/17/16) – 7,806 (14,737)
- Super Mario Maker (Nintendo, 10/09/15) – 7,047 (829,358)
- Dance with Devils (Rejet, 03/24/16) – 5,129 (New)
- Tomodachi Life (Happy Price Selection) (03/17/16) – 5,120 (8,252)
- Gundam Breaker 3 (Bandai Namco, 03/03/16) – 4,908 (105,708)
Regarding the consoles, these were the sales in Japan, followed by the previous week’s sales in parentheses for comparison:
- PlayStation 4 – 34,377 (28,370)
- New 3DS LL – 22,639 (18,353)
- PlayStation Vita – 20,068 (19,028)
- New 3DS – 5,773 (5,142)
- Wii U – 4,545 (12,998)
- 3DS – 2,322 (2,187)
- PlayStation 3 – 1,290 (1,462)
- 3DS LL – 365 (370)
- Xbox One – 55 (91)
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