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Media Create: One Piece Tops The Chart, 3DS Received 40% Boost - News

by Gabriel Franco , posted on 01 June 2011 / 4,153 Views

One Piece Unlimited Cruise Special topped this week's Media Create with 80,488 units, seems like the release of this  game gave the 3DS hardware a boost in sales. The PS3 version of Troy Musou was in the second place with 31,428 unist sold. Pandora's Tower was at the third spot with 21,445 units sold. In the hardware side the PSP remained in the first place this week, the 3DS was on the second position, the Nintendo handheld received a 40% boost in sales. Overall all consoles were on the positive side this week.

 

Here's the full Media Create software chart covering 5/23 through 5/29:

  • [N3DS] 1. One Piece Unlimited Cruise Special (Namco Bandai, 05.26.11): 80,488 NEW!
  • [PS3] 2. Troy Musou (Koei, 05.26.11): 31,428 NEW!
  • [WII] 3. Pandora's Tower (Nintendo, 05.26.11): 21,445 NEW!
  • [PSP] 4. Akiba's Trip (Acquire, 05.19.11): 16,582 (74,732)
  • [PS3] 5. Nobunaga no Yabou Tendou with Power Up Kit (Koei, 05.26.11): 15,456 NEW!
  • [NDS] 6. Treasure Report: Kikai Jikake no Isan (Namco Bandai, 05.26.11): 14,304 NEW!
  • [NDS] 7. Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 2 Professional (Square Enix, 03.31.11): 13,974 (508,767)
  • [PSP] 8. Patapon 3 (SCEJ, 04.28.11): 9,134 (104,475)
  • [PSP] 9. Iza Shutsujin! Koi Ikusa (QuinRose, 05.26.11): 9,008 NEW!
  • [PSP] 10. Pro Baseball Spirits 2011 (Konami, 04.14.11): 8,394 (168,460)
  • [WII] 11. Wii Party (Nintendo, 07.08.10): 7,925 (1,899,249)
  • [NDS] 12. Battle & Get! Pokemon Typing DS (Pokemon, 04.21.11): 6,443 (108,377)
  • [PSP] 13. Memories Off Yubikiri no Kioku (5pb., 05.26.11): 6,310 NEW!
  • [NDS] 14. Red Stone DS Akaki Ishi ni Michibikareshi Monotachi (GameOn, 05.26.11): 6,062 NEW!
  • [X360] 15. Akai Katana Shin (CAVE, 05.26.11): 5,603 NEW!
  • [NDS] 16. Pokemon Black & White (Pokemon, 09.18.10): 5,197 (5,187,179)
  • [N3DS] 17. Dead or Alive Dimensions (Tecmo Koei, 05.19.11): 5,072 (28,150)
  • [PS3] 18. Totori no Atelier: Arland no Renkinjutsushi 2 PlayStation 3 the Best (Gust, 05.26.11): 4,660 NEW!
  • [WII] 19. Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo, 04.10.08): 4,518 (3,232,917)
  • [PSP] 20. Gungnir (Sting, 05.19.11): 4,515 (20,870)

Here's the full hardware chart for 5/23 through 5/29:

Pos. Console Sales Previous Week Dif
1 PSP          33,609             30,463 10.33%
2 3DS          24,283             17,240 40.85%
3 PS3          15,987             12,935 23.59%
4 Wii             7,438               6,269 18.65%
5  DSi XL              5,197               5,176 0.41%
6 DSi             5,106               4,938 3.40%
7 Xbox 360             2,303               2,186 5.35%
8 PS2             1,274               1,129 12.84%
9 DS Lite                 139                  158 -12.03%
10 PSP go                  76                     65 16.92%

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kopstudent89 (on 02 June 2011)

I like howtheir are 2 extreme opinions about the 3DS. The doomed one and the other that believe that it will sell 300mil +...

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binary solo (on 02 June 2011)

PSP on top despite no big selling new release. Impressive.

DS probably has one more Christmas in it? 10K nothing to sneeze at, but for DS it's pretty much swan song sales.

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Linkasf (on 02 June 2011)

"All it needs are some good games"
"No, it is doomed no matter what. Even if an AAA game was released, it's still doomed"

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cromeros (on 01 June 2011)

3DS boost... Good... :D... An important boost without GREAT HITS... :D...

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thismeintiel (on 01 June 2011)

Wow, even with the boost, the PSP still beat out the 3DS. PSP really has turned into a beast in Japan, lately. Play your cards just right, Sony, and you may have quite the success with the NGP/PSV.

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outlawauron (on 01 June 2011)

@ Arfen

These are the finals numbers.

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Alby_da_Wolf (on 01 June 2011)

So shortly after the drop following Golden Week boost, Japan sales are up again. This is very nice. Go Japan! :-)

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Yakuzaice (on 01 June 2011)

Patapon 3 should become the best selling in the series in a few weeks. Currently it is Patapon 2 with 120,942 (through 2010, and including a budget release).

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Salnax (on 01 June 2011)

So, in Japan, a port of a licensed game is a system seller?

What a weird country.

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Jumpin (on 01 June 2011)

Pandora's Tower, yet another game that should have done well and bombed.

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kivi95 (on 01 June 2011)

Patapon3 is having good legs in Japan :)

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IxisNaugus (on 01 June 2011)

I expected One Piece to do well, but I didn't expect a 40% boost to 3DS hardware.

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Jedidiah-Rose (on 01 June 2011)

This has been said over and over by the majority of people on here,but when it comes to Japan I'm still shocked every week to see just how influential sales wise the PSP has been over the last few months,I can't remember seeing a week in Japan where the PSP was second if I exclude the first two weeks of the 3DS release.
Good to see a rise this week in everything as well,except the DS but the a 3DS game on top and the 3DS rise makes up for it I think.

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Arfen (on 01 June 2011)

in other article one pice hits 85000 and Pandora 28000... want to se final numbers

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pokeclaudel (on 01 June 2011)

This is really surprising for me. Maybe I should check this out if it hits the US.

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