Media Create: Mario Kart 7 and 3DS Reigns, MH 3G Tops a Million

by Gabriel Franco, posted on 11 January 2012 / 1,179 Views

There were no surprises in the Media Create's software chart this week, the Nintendo 3DS dominated both the hardware and software charts thanks to Mario and Monster Hunter. Mario Kart 7 was the king of the chart once again selling 157,188 units, Super Mario 3D Land was at the second spot with 119,03 units sold. With 98,355 units in the third spot was Monster Hunter 3G, the Capcom's game crossed the million mark, becoming the third 3DS game to do so. In the hardware side the Nintendo 3DS sold 240,819 units and was once again in the top spot.

Here's the full top 20 for the week. Life to date sales are in parentheses.

  • [3DS] 01. Mario Kart 7 (Nintendo, 12/01): 157,188 (1,317,357)
  • [3DS] 02. Super Mario 3D Land (Nintendo, 11/03): 119,093 (1,199,285)
  • [3DS] 03. Monster Hunter 3G (Cacpom, 12/10): 98,355 (1,083,853)
  • [3DS] 04. Inazuma Eleven Go (Level-5, 12/15): 56,134 (325,358)
  • [PS3] 05. Musou Orochi 2 (Tecmo Koei, 12/22): 42,464 (316,516)
  • [WII] 06. Just Dance Wii (Nintendo, 10/13): 37,266 (490,677)
  • [PS3] 07. Final Fantasy XIII-2 (Square Enix, 12/15): 35,325 (739,561)
  • [WII] 08. Wii Party (Nintendo, 07/08/2010): 33,174 (2,256,803)
  • [WII] 09. Hoshi no Kirby Wii (Nintendo, 10/27): 33,040 (570,168)
  • [WII] 10. Wii Sports Resort Wiimote Plus Pack (Nintendo, 11/11/2010): 30,783 (833,757)
  • [WII] 11. Go Vacation (Namco Bandai,, 10/20): 26,852 (208,017)
  • [WII] 12. Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo, 04/10/2008): 26,346 (3,474,659)
  • [3DS] 13. Nintendogs + Cats (Nintendo, 02/26): 24,514 (467,914)
  • [WII] 14. Inazuma Eleven Strikers 2012 Extreme (Level-5, 12/22): 23,521 (127,410)
  • [WII] 15. Taiko Drum Master Wii Ultimate Version (Namco Bandai,, 11/23): 23,422 (197,003)
  • [NDS] 16. Magician's Quest: The Merchant's Store of Sorcery (Konami, 12/10): 19,574 (165,962)
  • [NDS] 17. One Piece Gigant Battle! 2 New World (Namco Bandai, 11/17): 18,789 (290,002)
  • [PSP] 18. Monster Hunter Portable 3rd PSP the Best (Capcom, 09/22): 18,293 (154,438)
  • [WII] 19. Minna no Rhythm Tengoku (Nintendo, 07/21): 15,903 (670,305)
  • [PSP] 20. Winning Eleven 2012 (Konami, 11/03): 15,689 (173,093)

Here's the hardware chart. Last week's sales are in parentheses.

  • 1. 3DS: 240,819 (197,952)
  • 2. PS3: 74,459 (67,199)
  • 3. PSP: 71,033 (62,746)
  • 4. Wii: 49,525 (33,208)
  • 5. PSV: 42,915 (42,648)
  • 6. DSi LL: 3,971 (3,356)
  • 7. X360: 2,738 (2,453)
  • 8. DSi: 3,565 (2,418)
  • 9. PS2: 1,323 (1,659)

 


5 Comments

Kai Master
Kai Master (on 11 January 2012)

In Japan Mario Kart Wii could be the best-selling Mario Kart in 20 weeks at this 26k/w pace! Nice Otoshidama week boost!

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Cheebee
Cheebee (on 11 January 2012)

Whoa, 16/20 of the games are on Nintendo machines? That's a lot, even by Nintendo standards. O_O'

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chidori-chan2
chidori-chan2 (on 12 January 2012)

Nintendo= domination global, lol

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Mr Khan
Mr Khan (on 12 January 2012)

I know i've spotted more than one salaryman playing MHTri G on the train, and there are still ads for it all over, over here.

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Ham_Burgular
Ham_Burgular (on 11 January 2012)

Looks likes the preview is inaccurate yet again.

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Salnax
Salnax (on 11 January 2012)

The preview is an early estimate based on very little data. It is only meant to give a rough picture.

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