7th Dragon III debuts in Japan, reaches #1 on sales chart

This wasn’t the best week overall for game sales in Japan, with SEGA’s 7th Dragon III Code: VFD taking the number one spot and pushing Yo-Kai Watch Busters: Red Cat Team/White Dog Squad to second place. The SEGA published SRPG on 3DS did 72,477 units on its debut week and was good enough to top all other games for said week.

Check out the top 20 software chart for Japan, which includes total numbers. This chart takes place between October 12th – the 18th, 7th Dragon III came out on the 15th, so it had about 3 days on sale.

[Via: NintendoLife]

Software numbers:

1. [3DS] 7th Dragon III Code: VFD – 72,477 / NEW
2. [3DS] Yo-Kai Watch Busters: Red Cat Team / White Dog Squad – 26,512 / 1,654,171
3. [Wii U] Super Mario Maker – 21,357 / 321,222
4. [PSV] Geki Jigen Tag: Blanc + Hyperdimension Neptunia Vs. Zombie Gundan – 19,990 / NEW
5. [Wii U] Splatoon – 14,680 / 724,319
6. [3DS] Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer – 12,696 / 1,090,279
7. [PS3] Winning Eleven 2016 – 9,665 / 75,971
8. [3DS] Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon – 9,447 / 237,092
9. [PSV] Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition – 8,544 / 367,716
10. [PS4] Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain – 8,224 / 406,776
11. [PS4] Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection – 7,743 / 32,610
12. [PSV] Tokyo Xanadu – 7,627 / 112,041
13. [PS4] Winning Eleven 2016 – 7,617 / 59,242
14. [3DS] Picross 3D 2 – 7,475 / 52,241
15. [3DS] Chibi-Robo! Zip Lash – 7,339 / 21,436
16. [3DS] Pro Baseball Famista Returns – 6,930 / 32,527
17. [3DS] Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King – 5,304 / 796,835
18. [PS3] Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain – 5,008 / 186,479
19. [PS4] FIFA 16 – 4,810 / 25,719
20. [3DS] Rhythm Heaven: The Best+ – 3,979 / 487,687

Hardware numbers: 

1. PS4 – 25,699 (30,349)
2. New 3DS LL – 17,881 (17,856)
3. PS Vita – 14,546 (14,368)
4. Wii U – 11,658 (11,594)
5. New 3DS – 4,514 (4,031)
6. PS3 – 2,105 (1,929)
7. 3DS – 1,232 (1,131)
8. PS Vita TV – 696 (670)
9. 3DS XL – 625 (548)
10. Xbox One – 438 (224)

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