With the holiday season heating up, every single piece of hardware saw a sales increase compared to last week, but it was the 3DS LL that took home first place, moving 81,000 units.
Thanks to a jump of 15,000 units, the Wii U finished in 2nd, holding off the PlayStation 4 in 3rd. This left the PlayStation Vita in 4th, but it saw a big rise of 13,000 to sell 35,000 units.
On the software side of things, Monster Hunter X for 3DS ended up in first yet again, eclipsing the two million lifetime mark.
There’s a number of new PlayStation releases further down the charts, including Steins;Gate 0 in 6th and 7th on PS Vita and PS4, respectively, Gravity Rush Remastered in 10th, and Rainbow Six Siege in 11th.
Here’s how each system sold, along with the top 20 selling retail games in Japan from December 7 – December 13, 2015, according to Media Create:
Games (Lifetime)
- Monster Hunter X (3DS) – 192,203 (2,013,048)
- Yo-kai Watch Busters: Red Cat Team/White Dog Squad (3DS) – 52,878 (1,851,500)
- Splatoon (Wii U) – 51,138 (912,335)
- Super Mario Maker (Wii U) – 48,600 (491,188)
- Valkyrie Drive: Bhikkhuni (PS Vita) – 39,013
- Steins;Gate 0 (PS Vita) – 38,746
- Steins;Gate 0 (PS4) – 38,156
- Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam (3DS) – 32,580 (81,847)
- Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer (3DS) – 27,669 (1,175,208)
- Gravity Rush Remastered (PS4) – 25,004
- Rainbow Six Siege (PS4) – 23,402
- The Idolmaster: Must Songs Red Board/Blue Board (PS Vita) – 23,349
- Disney Magical World 2 (3DS) – 21,553 (152,533)
- Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition (PS Vita) – 17,643 (442,010)
- The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC Evolution (PS Vita) – 15,202
- Rhythm Heaven: The Best+ (3DS) – 14,232 (524,053)
- Sumikko Gurashi Omise Hajimerun Desu (3DS) – 12,506 (41,953)
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 (PS4) – 8,840 (240,340)
- Steins;Gate 0 (PS3) – 8,645
- Star Wars Battlefront (PS4) – 8,368 (160,104)
Systems (Previous Week)
- New 3DS LL – 81,294 (76,779)
- Wii U – 47,890 (32,604)
- PlayStation 4 – 38,497 (35,782)
- PlayStation Vita – 35,116 (21,860)
- New 3DS – 19,454 (17,202)
- 3DS – 8,549 (7,915)
- 3DS LL – 3,531 (1,113)
- PlayStation 3 – 2,434 (1,916)
- PlayStation Vita TV – 793 (646)
- Xbox One – 609 (289)
Do you think the 3DS will win the remaining weeks of 2015?