News: Mario Kart 7 Ends 2011 Top in Japan
Posted 05 Jan 2012 at 21:25 by Aaron Clegg
Mario Kart 7 caps 2011 off by topping the chart and becoming the best selling game of the year...
The Media Create charts for the last week of 2011 come slightly late because of the holidays, but the numbers are now in, and it epitomises a year of success for 3DS.
Sales for everything were down significantly from the pre-Christmas week, but it was still the big 3DS games dominating the upper tier of the software chart. Capcom's Monster Hunter Tri G just fell short of topping a million units sold in 2011, but at its current rate, the publisher's 1.2m target for the end of March is looking in serious danger of annihilation.
The software chart for the week of December 26th to January 1st is as follows.
| No. | System | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3DS | Mario Kart 7 109,463 / (1,160,169) | Nintendo |
| 2 | 3DS | Monster Hunter 3 G 100,042 / (985,498) | Capcom |
| 3 | PS3 | Warriors Orochi 2 73,526 / (274,052) | Koei Tecmo |
| 4 | 3DS | Super Mario 3D Land 68,483 / (1,080,192) | Nintendo |
| 5 | PS3 | Final Fantasy XIII-2 61,202 / (704,236) | Square-Enix |
| 6 | 3DS | Inazuma Eleven Go 47,938 / (269,224) | Level-5 |
| 7 | Wii | Just Dance 33,347 / (453,411) | Nintendo |
| 8 | Wii | Kirby Wii 24,067 / (537,128) | Nintendo |
| 9 | Wii | Wii Party 22,932 / (2,223,629) | Nintendo |
| 10 | 3DS | SD Gundam G Generation 3D 20,427 / (111,300) | Bandai Namco |
| 11 | Wii | Wii Sports Resort with Wii Remote Plus 19,999 / (802,974) | Nintendo |
| 12 | Wii | Mario Kart Wii 19,410 / (3,448,314) | Nintendo |
| 13 | Wii | Go Vacation 19,312 / (181,165) | Bandai Namco |
| 14 | PS3 | The Idolm@ster: Gravure For You! Vol. 3 18,992 | Bandai Namco |
| 15 | Wii | Inazuma Eleven Strikers 2012 Xtreme 18,772 / (103,889) | Level-5 |
| 16 | Wii | Taiko Drum Master Wii: Definitive Edition 18,041 / (173,580) | Bandai Namco |
| 17 | PSP | World Soccer Winning Eleven 2012 17,806 / (157,404) | Konami |
| 18 | PS3 | Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 17,394 / (68,549) | Square-Enix |
| 19 | PSP | Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2011 17,065 / (51,905) | Konami |
| 20 | PSP | Frontier Gate 15,800 / (44,443) | Konami |
Hardware was naturally down across the board, but that didn't stop 3DS from having an almost awkward lead over everything else. It's tradition for sales to be bounce back up over the New Year period, so expect a bit of a spike next week.
| No. | Console | Week Sales | Last Week Sales | LTD Sales |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nintendo 3DS | 197,952 | 482,200 | 4,282,143 |
| 2 | PS3 | 67,199 | 75,943 | 7,636,385 |
| 3 | PSP | 62,746 | 101,121 | 18,729,363 |
| 4 | Vita | 42,648 | 72,479 | 439,986 |
| 5 | Wii | 33,208 | 91,176 | 12,163,221 |
| 6 | Nintendo DS | 5,802 | 14,396 | 32,808,486 |
| 7 | Xbox 360 | 2,453 | 4,245 | 1,536,045 |
| 8 | PS2 | 1,659 | 1,582 | 21,774,107 |
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