Overview – After Black Friday last week in America, sales remain high across the board. Monster Hunter Freedom 3 (PSP) debuts in Japan with one of the biggest video game opening in Japanese history. Selling two million copies and pushing PSP sales to over 300,000 in Japan alone. Two games sold over 1 million, the top six sold over 500,000 and the top 40 sold over 100,000.
Worldwide Hardware – Week on week sales as seen every year the week after black Friday either level out or decrease. The exception is the PSP as it sees a major software title, Monster Hunter Freedom 3 (PSP) released. PSP sales are up 81% worldwide and up over 300% in Japan. Sales have increased 243,000 to 544,000. The Wii is up slightly 38,000 or 3%, to 1.16 million. The PlayStation 3 drops 25% or 201,000, to 595,000. The Xbox 360 also sees a decrease this week. The game drops 19% or 166,000 to 720,000. The DS drops 22% or 328,000, to 1.13 million.
Year on year sales like with last week has a much smaller drop for the Wii and DS than what has been seen earlier in the year. The Wii is down 26% or 409,000 and the DS is down 14% or 179,000. The PS3 is relatively flat compared to being down the last few months since the 1 year anniversary of the release of the PS3 Slim. The PS3 is down just 2% or only 11,000. The PSP after seeing drops of around 30% year on year is up 38%or 149,000 this week with a major software release. The X360 while it has been the only platform up year on year the second half of this year it is up a much higher percentage than what has been seen. The X360 is up 59% or 268,000.
The last ten weeks of sales for Home Consoles remain interesting as sales are up between two and eight times compared with ten weeks ago. The Wii is up eight fold with the X360 up four fold and the PS3 up two fold. The Wii after being in third seven weeks ago is now well above the PS3 and X360 and the PS3 which was in first five weeks ago is now in third. The X360 was in third for two weeks, first for two weeks and has been is second every other week.
Worldwide Software – Two games debuted in the top 50. Monster Hunter Freedom 3 (PSP) is this week’s top debut as the game debuts at the top of the charts. The game sold 2 million copies in its opening week as the game was released in Japan, with no release date in America or EMEAA. The last PSP game in the series was Monster Hunter Freedom Unite with sales of 857,000 in its opening week in Japan less than half of what Monster Hunter Freedom 3 sold this week.
The other debut in the top 50 is Tales of Graces f (PS3) debuting at number 18 with sales of 219,000. The game debuted in Japan with no release planned anywhere else. The last game in the series released on the PS3 was Tales of Vesperia which was a port released one year after the X360 version, so a comparison won’t be perfect. However it did sell 225,000 in its opening week in Japan, almost identical sales.
Other games in the top 10 that are not debuts include Wii Sports at number two with sales of 1 million. Gran Turismo 5 (PS3) is at number three with sales of 764,000. Kinect Adventures! (X360) at number four with sales of 862,000 as the game passes the 3 million mark. New Super Mario Bros. Wii is at number five with sales of 608,000. Wii Sports Resort is at number six with sales of 508,000. Call of Duty: Black Ops (X360) is at number seven with sales of 491,000. Donkey Kong Country Returns (Wii) is at number eight with sales of 416,000. Wii Party is at number nine with sales of 361,000 as the game passes the 3 million mark.Call of Duty: Black Ops (PS3) rounds out the top ten with sales of 352,000.
Week on week software totals are flat for the Nintendo platforms, down for the PS3 and X360 and up significantly for the PSP. The Wii is up just a tad, 29,000 or .3%. The DS is up slightly at 4% or 200,000. The PS3 is down 1.5 million or 22% and the X360 is down 700,000. The PSP is up 2 million or 169%.
Year on year software total are up for the PS3, X360 and PSP and are down for the Wii and DS. The PS3 increased 2 million or 57%, the Wii is down 700,000 or 7% and the X360 increased 1.1 million or 25%. The DS decreased 300,000 or 4% and the PSP increased 1.2 million or 59%.
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