Japan video game sales charts – January 9th – January 15th

The latest software sale figures for the Japanese video game industry sees sales slumping with even the top selling game failing to sell over 100k copies. 

If you think about it, it’s not surprising that the Japanese video game sales charts shows that even the #1 game only just sold over 80k copies. With parents having given their money to children last week as part of “Otoshidama“, they themselves don’t have much to spend and children have little to spend, especially those who don’t get any kind of income (such as allowance”. So as a result, the fact that Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Masou Kishin I & II manage to get the top spot on its debut feels underwhelming. The only other new debuts to get into the charts was Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir, which got to 7th spot with over 16k copies sold and Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Legacy which took the 9th spot with just under 13k copies sold.

As such, this week’s charts will feel familiar to last week as Nintendo still dominate, system and publisher wise. What is interesting is that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Dubbed Version) made a re-entry into the charts making it the biggest climber, going from 24 to 19 (the Go Vacation Last Week and This Week stat seem to be an error). Monster Hunter series continues to be…Well a monster in sales, with Monster Hunter 3G staying in 3rd spot while Monster Hunter Portable 3rd (PSP the Best) climbs up from 18 to 13. The biggest drop belonged Kirby’s Return to Dreamland, going down by seven positions while the aforementioned Go Vacation, Inazuma Eleven Strikers 2012 Xtreme and Nintendogs + Cats followed closely with the former two dropping by six positions while the latter went down by five positions. Final Fantasy XIII-2 continues to do poorly and it reaching the million mark seems like a huge struggle, if not impossible. Square Enix will be banking on the North America and European sales to do very well.

Source: Siliconera