It's Wednesday, and like every Wednesday, Media Create released its sales charts for last week in the Japanese market. It was certainly a fairly relevant week, wit the launch of Dragon Quest Heroes II: The Twin Kings and the Prophecy’s End and Overwatch.
Looks like Blizzard's steamroller did not manage to conquer at least the world's JRPG stronghold.
- Dragon Quest Heroes II: The Twin Kings and the Prophecy’s End – PS4 – 184,820 / New
- Dragon Quest Heroes II: The Twin Kings and the Prophecy’s End – PS Vita – 120,664 / New
- Dragon Quest Heroes II: The Twin Kings and the Prophecy’s End – PS3 – 68,376 / New
- Overwatch – PS4 – 58,363 / New
- Guilty Gear Xrd - Revelator – PS4 – 17,829 / New
- Kirby: Planet Robobot – 3DS – 17,313 / 285,647
- Uncharted 4: A Thief's End – PS4 – 10,040 / 159,919
- Guilty Gear Xrd - Revelator – PS3 – 9,385 / New
- Yo-kai Sangokushi – 3DS – 7,493 / 525,985
- Minecraft: PS Vita Edition – PS Vita – 6,335 / 780,431
- Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2016 – PS Vita – 5,816 / 131,889
- Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2016 – PS4 – 5,685 / 146,132
- Splatoon – Wii U – 5,225 / 1,372,492
- Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2016 – PS3 – 5,140 / 85,532
- Cladun Sengoku – PS Vita – 4,459 / New
- Super Mario Maker – Wii U – 4,412 / 882,905
- Homefront: The Revolution – PS4 – 3,781 / 13,204
- Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 3 – 3DS – 3,420 / 599,789
- Mario and Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games – 3DS – 2,903 / 163,951
- My Hero Academia: Battle for All – 3DS – 2,810 / 8,417
And here comes the hardware chart:
- PS4: 24,813
- PS Vita: 14,956
- New 3DS XL: 12,394
- Wii U: 4,340
- New 3DS: 2,495
- PS3: 1,017
- 3DS: 696
- 3DS XL: 78
- Xbox On: 61
Besides Overwatch and Dragon Quest Heroes II, there were quite a couple new releases in Japan last week, but none really managed to make a splash. Guilty Gear Xrd - Revelator - did not impress, and unfortunately Cladun Sengoku had a really weak launch.
Luckily, Nippon Ichi Software seems to be unconcerned with sales, normally, which is good, as we get some really nice niche games from them.
Incidentally, while Overwatch's launch surely isn't bad for a western game in Japan, I personally expected it to do better. It's aesthetics should connect quite well with the Japanese audience, and let's be honest, it's basically Blizzard's own crossover of every anime trope, ever.