Pikmin 3 Tops Japanese Sales Charts

Pikmin 3 topped sales charts in Japan this week, selling 92,720 copies in its first two days on sale. Pikmin was joined by three other Nintendo games in the top 5, including 3DS exclusive Youkai Watch (which sold 53,654 copies), Tomodachi Collection: New Life (26,065 copies) and New Super Luigi U (24,881 copies). These numbers only represent physical sales, so it’s possible that these titles performed better when digital copies are taken into account.

Looking at hardware, 22,199 Wii Us were sold (pushing lifetime sales to 990,738). While this is a big boost for Wii U compared to last week, it’s significantly lower than the sales of Wii at the same point in its life. As documented by Famitsu, the trajectory of Nintendo hardware sales in Japan is represented below (via NeoGAF):

A partial hardware chart is below, with weekly sales represented in bold and life-to-date sales represented in brackets:

• Nintendo 3DS - 13,841 [ 8,415,402]
• Nintendo 3DS XL sales: 29,594 [ 3,387,384]
• PlayStation Vita sales: 15,662 [ 1,707,529]
• Wii U sales: 22,199 [990,738]

The week’s software top 20 is below, including sales from July 8th through July 14th with weekly sales represented in bold and life-to-date sales represented in brackets:

1. Pikmin 3 (Wii U) - 92,720 [NEW]
2. Youkai Watch (3DS) - 53,654 [NEW]
3. Earth Defense Force 2025 (PS3) - 37,024 [191,713]
4. Tomodachi Collection: New Life (3DS) - 26,065 [1,259,847]
5. New Super Luigi U (Wii U) - 24,881 [NEW]
6. Toukiden (PSV) - 20,853 [186,963]
7. Toukiden (PSP) - 19,262 [118,404]
8. Dead Island: Riptide - 18,462 [NEW]
9. Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection - 17,599 [NEW]
10. Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D - 12,963 [206,322]
11. Gundam Breaker - 10,224 [242,819]
12. Animal Crossing: New Leaf - 10,088 [3,325,123]
13. Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon - 9,184 [825,026]
14. The Last of Us - 9,158 [173,181]
15. Hanayaka Kana, Ware ga Ichizoku: Tasogare Polarstar - 9,046 [NEW]
16. Danganronpa - 6,106 [91,204]
17. Digimon World Re: Digitize Decode - 5,912 [50,952]
18. Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium Girl - 5,870 [106,914]
19. Taiko no Tatsujin: Super Splendid Edition - 5,203 [516,866]
20. Atelier Escha & Logy: Alchemists of the Dusk Sky - 5,031 [72,873]

Pikmin 3 will hit stores on July 26 in Europe and August 4th in North America. For more, read our impressions from last week and look for a full review on IGN soon.

Source: Siliconera

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