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Media Create: Atelier Meruru and PSP on Top

by Gabriel Franco, posted on 29 June 2011 / 1,784 Views

PlayStation 3's Atelier Meruru, the third PS3 Atelier series game,topped the sales chts selling 82,585 units in its first week. The PS3, however, did not received a notable boost in sales even with the game charting at the first place. Steins; Gate for PSP debuted at the second spot qith 63,558 units, another PSP game, Gundam Memories: Memories of the Battle, debuted in the third place with 52,067 units. These games helped the PSP to reclaim the top spot on the Hardware chart with 29,168 units, only 1,263 units more than the Nintendo 3DS which sold  27,905 units.

Here's Media Create's full software sales chart covering June 20 through June 26:

  • [PS3] 1. Atelier Meruru: Alchemist of Arland 3 (Gust, 06.23.11): 82,585 NEW!
  • [PSP] 2. Steins; Gate (5pb., 06.23.11): 63,558 NEW!
  • [PSP] 3. Gundam Memories: Memories of the Battle (Namco Bandai, 06.23.11): 52,067 NEW!
  • [PSP] 4. Little Battle eXperience (Level 5, 06.16.11): 38,326 (204,513)
  • [N3DS] 5. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of time 3D (Nintendo, 06.16.11): 37,452 (201,563)
  • [NDS] 6. Tennis no Oujisama Gyutto! Doki Doki Survival Umi to Yama no Love Passion (Konami, 06.23.11): 30,234 NEW!
  • [PS3] 7. Yakuza Of The End (Sega, 06.09.11): 24,247 (376,738)
  • [PS3] 8. Bleach Soul Ignition (SCEJ, 06.23.11): 23,516 NEW!
  • [WII] 9. Wii Sports Resort (Wii Remote Plus Pack) (Nintendo, 11.11.10): 9,874 (362,957)
  • [PSP] 10. Gloria Union (Atlus, 06.23.11): 8,933 NEW!
  • [NDS] 11. Pokemon Black & White (Pokemon, 09.18.10): 7,086 (5,211,443)
  • [WII] 12. Wii Party (Nintendo, 07.08.10): 5,980 (1,923,731)
  • [PS3] 13. Mass Effect 2 (Electronic Arts, 06.23.11): 5,885 NEW!
  • [NDS] 14. Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 2 Professional (Square Enix, 03.31.11): 5,814 (543,834)
  • [N3DS] 15. Resident Evil The Mercenaries 3D (Capcom, 06.02.11): 5,633 (89,038)
  • [PSP] 16. Mother Goose no Himitsu no Kan Nursery Rhymes for You (QuinRose, 06.23.11): 5,295 NEW!
  • [PS3] 17. Grand Theft Auto IV Complete Edition (Take-Two, 06.23.11): 4,629 NEW!
  • [N3DS] 18. One Piece Unlimited Cruise Special (Namco Bandai, 05.26.11): 4,289 (116,463)
  • [WII] 19. Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo, 04.10.08): 4,154 (3,249,050)
  • [WII] 20. Earth Seeker (Kadokawa Games, 06.23.11): 4,055 NEW!

Here's the hardware chart for the same period:

Pos. Console Sales Previous Week Dif
1 PSP          29,168             31,741 -8.11%
2 3DS          27,905             40,649 -31.35%
3 PS3          16,993             16,081 5.67%
4 Wii             9,511               6,678 42.42%
5  DSi XL              4,903               5,464 -10.27%
6 DSi             4,503               5,322 -15.39%
7 Xbox 360             2,152               2,875 -25.15%
8 PS2             1,332               1,346 -1.04%
9 DS Lite                 134                  109 22.94%
10 PSP go                  21                     55 -61.82%

7 Comments

mchaza
mchaza (on 29 June 2011)

it must say the PSP in japan just proves that Piracy is really damaging because in Japan the PSP is getting like nearly 1-3 new games a week and what is NA, EMEAA getting?. Let this be the example of why priacy must be stopped.

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outlawauron
outlawauron (on 29 June 2011)

Gust has to be pretty happy with the elevated success they've had with their PS3 entries. Quite nice.

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Ail
Ail (on 29 June 2011)

well the boost to 3ds hardware was short lived..

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hiroko
hiroko (on 29 June 2011)

yes atelier memuru doing much better than vgc predicted also steins gate.. it whas kinda weird vgc would predict a x360 game would sell more than a psp game...al around..sony ownss all

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DonFerrari
DonFerrari (on 30 June 2011)

@mchaza: I bet you never heard the long excuses that some users here use to explain that piracy is good.

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Hephaestos
Hephaestos (on 30 June 2011)

3DS needs an actuall system seller... ports are nice for fans... but they were buying the 3DS anyways.

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Seece
Seece (on 02 July 2011)

small boost for Wii in the end then

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