Gundam Versus, ARMS, and Radiant Historia remake were the biggest Japan releases this past month

Catching up on a month of sales

This past month has been a busy one. Not only for video games in Japan, which included the Nintendo Switch surpassing one million sales within the country, but also me trying to find a job. Thus I wasn’t able to report the sales the past few weeks. As an apology and catch-up, let’s check out the highlights.

ARMS released to just over 100,000 sales in its first week after releasing on June 16, topping the charts almost by default with no other new releases around it. In the following weeks, Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood (PS4) and the 3DS remake Radiant Historia: Perfect Chronology opened with 28,731 and 24,596 sales respectively.

And finally this week saw the most successful launch since Mario Kart 8: Deluxe rocked out with over 284,000 sales on April 28 when Gundam Versus moved 121,444 units in its initial week. Probably lower than some expected, but I’m surprised they keep making and keep selling Gundam games. There’s so many of them it’s going to rival Mario himself one day.

Media Create Sales 7/3/17-7/9/17 [4gamer]

Top game sales. Lifetime sales in parentheses.

1. [PS4] Gundam Versus – 121,444 (New)
2. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 13,436 (563,495)
3. [NSW] Arms – 12,653 (161,361)
4. [PS4] Omega Labyrinth Z – 9,320 (New)
5. [PSV] Omega Labyrinth Z – 8,821 (New)
6. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – 7,830 (530,012)
7. [3DS] Radiant Historia: Perfect Chronology – 5,349 (29,945)
8. [3DS] Monster Hunter XX – 4,328 (1,538,993)
9. [PS4] Grand Theft Auto V – 3,589 (360,800)
10. [3DS] Pokémon Sun & Moon – 3,405 (3,284,888)
11. [PS4] Portal Knights – 3,389 (14,888)
12. [PSV] Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition – 3,368 (1,173,784)
13. [PS4] Call of Duty: Black Ops III Game of the Year Edition – 3,286 (6,350)
14. [3DS] The Alliance Alive – 3,072 (39,578)
15. [PS4] Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana – 2,877 (59,564)
16. [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf Amiibo+ – 2,804 (198,696)
17. [3DS] Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultimate Mission X – 2,594 (175,491)
18. [PS4] Rainbow Six Siege – 2,445 (211,210)
19. [3DS] Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS – 2,409 (1,059,665)
20. [PS4] NieR: Automata – 2,253 (352,096)

Top console sales. Prior week’s sales in parentheses.

1. Switch – 26,256 (25,805)
2. PlayStation 4 – 22,704 (21,873)
3. New 3DS XL – 11,849 (12,669)
4. PlayStation 4 Pro – 7,067 (7,321)
5. PlayStation Vita – 4,572 (4,403)
6. 2DS – 2,196 (2,311)
7. New 3DS – 845 (740)
8. Wii U – 164 (193)
9. PlayStation 3 – 148 (153)
10. Xbox One – 72 (228)