This has been the best seller of the week in Japan (4/11/16 – 4/17/16): ‘Dark Souls III’, ‘Far Cry Primal’ and more

Once again 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.

As you can surely notice, Yo-kai Sangokushi has been kept in first placewhile the popular Far Cry Primal from Ubisoft has dropped from number 3 to number 4, while the recently released Dark Souls III from From Software went from number 5 to number 3, despite the fact that it could not improve sales from last week (15,000 units). In terms of hardware, PlayStation 4 once again dominates the sales list, while PlayStation Vita is getting closer and closer to second place.

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

software sales

1. Yo-kai Sangokushi (Level-5, 02/04/16) – 41,768 (401,481)
2. Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 3 (Square Enix, 03/24/16) – 24,489 (541,635)
3. Dark Souls III (Bandai Namco, 03/24/16) – 8,833 (267,654)
4. Far Cry Primal (Ubisoft, 07/04/16) – 8,805 (34,107)
5. Disney Art Academy (Nintendo, 07/04/16) – 8,453 (26,170)
6. Splatoon (Nintendo, 05/28/15) – 6,717 (1,332,219)
7. Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition (SCE, 03/19/15) – 6,451 (737,304)
8. Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition (Spike Chunsoft, 04/14/16) – 6,179 NEW
9. Super Mario Maker (Nintendo, 10/09/15) – 5,973 (846,096)
10. Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games (Nintendo, 02/18/16) – 4,388 (140,536)
11. Pokken Tournament (Pokemon, 03/18/16) – 4,348 (124,715)
12. Hatsune Miku: Project Diva
13. Animal Crossing: New Leaf (Happy Price Selection) (Nintendo, 03/17/16) – 3,603 (31,095)
14. Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness (Square Enix, 03/31/16) – 3,495 (126,903)
15. Assassination Classroom: Assassin Training Plan (Bandai Namco, 03/24/16) – 3,261 (38,113)
16. Republique (GungHo Online Entertainment, 04/14/16) – 3,156 NEW
17. Skullgirls 2nd Encore (Arc System Works, 04/14/16) – 2,678 NEW
18. The Division (Ubisoft, 10/03/16) – 2,333 (125,615)
19. Nobunaga’s Ambition: Sphere of Influence Sengoku Risshiden (Koei Tecmo, 03/24/16) – 2,206 (30,538)
20. Pokemon Omega Ruby / Alpha Sapphire (Pokemon, 11/21/14) – 2,151 (2,789,955)

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

1. PlayStation 4 – 20,257 (23,889)
2. New 3DS LL – 14,573 (18,042)
3. PlayStation Vita – 12,337 (13,278)
4. Wii U – 6,091 (4,963)
5. New 3DS – 3,677 (4,420)
6. PlayStation 3 – 1,220 (1,296)
7. 3DS – 1,211 (1,411)
8. 3DS LL – 196 (242)
9. Xbox One – 142 (212)

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