Pokemon Black & White 2 dominates Japanese charts, hardware slips

By Stephany Nunneley

Media Create has released its weekly retail chart for Japan, and Pokemon Black & White 2 continued to dominate software with 181,756 units sold. Vita feel back into its usual third place spot with 11,544 units sold compared with the previous week’s 22,638 units. However, hardware was down or flat across the board.

Here’s the full software chart, covering July 2 through July 8. Life-to-date sales are in parentheses.

  1. [NDS] Pokemon Black 2 / Pokemon White 2 (Nintendo, 06/23/12) – 181,756 (2,217,227)
  2. [3DS] Etrian Odyssey IV (Atlus, 07/05/12) – 97,142 (New)
  3. [3DS] Little Battler eXperience: Baku Boost (Level-5, 07/05/12) – 55,614 (New)
  4. [PSP] Toriko Gourmet Survival 2 (Namco Bandai, 07/05/12) – 43,790 (New)
  5. [3DS] Run For Money: Flee From the Strongest Hunters in History (Namco Bandai, 07/05/12) – (New)
  6. [3DS] Dragon Quest Monsters; Terry’s Wonderland 3D (Square Enix, 05/31/12) – 25,027 (812,642)
  7. [PS3] Ghost Recon: Future Soldier (Ubisoft, 07/05/12) – 23,021 (New)
  8. [PS3] Anarchy Reigns (Sega, 07/05/12) – 21,199 (New)
  9. [3DS] Culdcept (Nintendo, 06/28/12) – 11,657 (65,743)
  10. [Wii] Mario Party 9 (Nintendo, 04/26/12) – 10,396 (468,430)
  11. [PS3] Atelier Ayesha: Alchemist of the Ground of Dusk (Gust, 06/28/12) – 9,813 (85,687)
  12. [3DS] Mario Tennis Open (Nintendo, 05/24/12) – 9,323 (249,844)
  13. [PS3] Resident Evil: Chronicles HD Collection (Capcom, 06/28/12) – 8,354 (36,396)
  14. [PS3] Tokyo Jungle (SCEJ, 06/07/12) – 7,116 (185,744)
  15. [PS3] Robotics;Notes (5pb., 06/28/12) – 6,757 (64,554)
  16. [PSV] Persona 4 Golden (Atlus, 06/14/12) – 5,953 (188,782)
  17. [PSP] Kenka Banchou Bros. Tokyo Battle Royale (Spike Chunsoft, 06/21/12) – 5,503 (34,787)
  18. [3DS] Monster Hunter Tri G (Capcom, 12/10/11) – 5,430 (1,485,630)
  19. [Wii] Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo, 06/25/09) – 5,145 (2,914,529)
  20. [3DS] Super Mario 3D Land (Nintendo, 11/03/11) – 5,055 (1,650,058)

Here’s the hardware chart for the same period. Last week’s sales are in parentheses.

  • 3DS – 51,930 (65,267)
  • PS3 – 14,297 (16,399)
  • PSV – 11,544 (22,638)
  • PSP -10,627 (11,461)
  • Wii – 6,654 (6,880)
  • 360 – 711 (861)
  • PS2 – 474 (490)
  • DSi – 455 (657)

Thanks, Gematsu.

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