Media Create: The Last Story Tops the Charts - News

by Gabriel Franco , posted on 02 February 2011 / 3,281 Views

This week's Media Create sales chart was full of new releases, 12 of the top 20 are new games. Topping the charts was The Last Story, which first shipment sold out so quickly, selling 114,722 units.

Valkyria Chronicles 3 was on second place with 102,779 units sold. on Third place a conversion of the "Oreimo" light novel sold an impressive 88,493 units. Two Xbox 360 games debuted on the tops 20, Dream Club Zero debuted in 8th place with 21,734 unit while Gal Gun debuted in 13th with 12,419 units.

Here's the full top 20 for January 24 through January 30:

1. The Last Story (Nintendo, Wii, 1/27): 114,722 NEW
2. Valkyria Chronicles 3 (Sega, PSP, 1/27): 102,779 NEW
3. My Little Sister Can't Be This Cute (Namco Bandai, PSP, 1/27): 88,493 NEW
4. Kenka Bancho 5 (Spike, PSP, 1/27): 58,977 NEW
5. A Certain Magical Index (ASCII, PSP, 1/27): 56,017 NEW
6. Dragon Age Origins (Spike, PS3, 1/27): 42,854 NEW
7. Monster Hunter Freedom 3 (Capcom, PSP, 12/1): 33,338 (4,128,278)
8. Dream Club Zero (D3 Publisher, Xbox 360, 1/27): 21,734 NEW
9. Kingom Hearts Birth by Sleep Final Mix (Square Enix, PSP, 1/20): 20,528 (97,846)
10. Donkey Kong Returns (Nintendo, Wii, 12/9): 19,214 (773,893)
11. Dragon Age Origins (Spike, Xbox 360, 1/27): 14,000 NEW
12. Tsuku Monogatari (Furyu, PSP, 2/17): 13,329 NEW
13. Gal Gun (Alchemist, Xbox 360, 1/27): 12,419 NEW
14. Wii Party (Nintendo, Wii, 7/8/2010): 10,778 (1,767,425)
15. Chaos; Head Love Chu Chu (5pb., PSP, 1/27): 10,753 NEW
16. Pokemon Black & White (Pokemon, DS, 9/18/2010): 10,654 (5,050,638)
17. Inazuma Eleven 3 The Ogre (Level-5, DS, 12/16/2010): 10,437 (388,350)
18. Ni no Kuni (Level-5, DS, 12/9/2010): 8,814 (459,967)
19. Monster Hunter Frontier Online Season 10 Premium Package (Capcom, Xbox 360, 1/26): 8,055 NEW
20. AKB1/48 (Namco Bandai, PSP, 12/23/2010): 7,916 (359,859)

On the hardware side, Xbox 360 and Wii had small sales spikes this week. Here's the full hardware chart for last week:

Pos.	Console	Sales	Previous Week	Dif
1	PSP	34,648	35,636	-3%
2	PS3	25,149	23,792	6%
3	Wii	19,448	14,547	34%
4	DSi LL	11,891	11,720	1%
5	DSi	9,611	8,990	7%
6	X360	3,513	2,338	50%
7	PS2	1,983	1,836	8%
8	DS Lite	1,059	1,528	-31%
9	PSP go	280	198	41%

17 Comments

JTurner82 (on 02 February 2011)

There's someone who thinks that the opening day sales of THE LAST STORY are abysmal and automatically means that the game is a failure. Well, how does he know that? This is only three days worth of sales. It may not be the hugest number, but it IS the biggest for a Mistwaker title. I don't know what people were expecting for this.

italo244 (on 02 February 2011)

VGChartz PS3: 21k... my bet.

Chrizum (on 02 February 2011)

How can TLS sell out the first shipment and sell only 114k? What the hell is wrong with that game?

Pavolink (on 02 February 2011)

@hiroko
And PS2, and DSi, and DSLL, and PSPGo. And becuase of that VGchartz is a fanboy?

jugon21 (on 02 February 2011)

Great week for PS3

MiSan7573 (on 02 February 2011)

Great sales hope it continues! Now port it over to the west!!!

woodstarman64 (on 02 February 2011)

Followed ever so closely by the fan favorite, "My Little Sister Can't Be This Cute"! Good god I'm not even sure I can bring myself to google that game.

Aiddon (on 02 February 2011)

good times

jlauro (on 02 February 2011)

wii hardware did go up 34%. Can't expect it to move hw when the sw sells out...

Silver-Tiger (on 02 February 2011)

cries
why is The Last Story exclusive to Japan? Why?!

Nintendogamer (on 02 February 2011)

DQX will move more HW than LS.

outlawauron (on 02 February 2011)

And oh my, OreImo. That's incredible, imo. I had no idea that it would ever do this well. Best sales for a VN for as long as I can remember on a console/handheld.