Pokkén Tournament Tops Japanese Sales but Doesn’t Push PS4 Off the Media Create Throne

Like every Wednesday, Media Create released its hardware and software sales charts, showing the debut of a couple of interesting titles like Bandai Namco’s Pokken Tournament and Digimon World: Next Order.

1. Pokkén Tournament – Wii U – 69,675 / New
2. Digimon World: Next Order – PS Vita – 64,218 / New
3. The Division – PS4 – 12,078 / 107,646
4. Splatoon – Wii U – 10,081 /1,301,500
5. Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition – PS Vita – 9,136 / 702,183
6. Battlefield 4: Premium Edition – PS4 – 8,771 / New
7. Gundam Breaker 3 – PS Vita – 8,741 / 100,800
8. Zelda: Twilight Princess HD – Wii U – 7,705 / 59,987
9. Summon Night 6 – PS Vita – 7,144 / 47,220
10. Animal Crossing: New Leaf (Happy Price Edition) – 3DS – 6,931 / New
11. Super Mario Maker – Wii U – 6,297 / 822,312
12. Gundam Breaker 3 – PS4 – 6,152 / 83,892
13. Senran Kagura: Estival Versus (Sakura Edition) – PS Vita – 6,089 / New
14. Attack on Titan – PS Vita – 5,862 / 110,525
15. Doraemon – 3DS – 5,018 / 18,893
16. Wand of Fortune R – PS Vita – 4,470 / New
17. Monster Hunter X – 3DS – 4,391 / 2,715,326
18. Yo-kai Watch Busters – 3DS – 4,360 / 2,232,744
19. Yakuza Zero (New Price Edition) – PS4 – 4,257 / New

And here’s the hardware chart:

1. PS4 – 28,370
2. PS Vita- 19,028
3. New 3DS XL – 18,353
4. Wii U – 12,998
5. New 3DS – 5,142
6. 3DS – 2,187
7. PS3 – 1,462
8. 3DS XL – 370
9. Xbox One – 91

Pokkén Tournament managed to narrowly beat Digimon World: Next Order, but the fact that the two franchises are this close is telling. Considering that Digimon is normally immensely less popular than its Nintendo counterpart, this shows just how lukewarm was the reception for Pokémon‘s fighting game in Japan.

I remember visiting arcades in Tokyo, and seeing rows of cabinets of Pokkén Tournament completely deserted, so I didn’t exactly expect for it to be a smash hit on consoles either. We’ll have to wait and see if it’ll do better in the west.

That said, Bandai Namco’s take on Nintendo’s critters still managed to push Wii U sales higher than in the past few weeks, but definitely did not come even close to pushing the PS4 off the top of the hardware chart. Incidentally, Sony’s console also passed 2.6 million units sold in the country.

Not every result is mediocre for Nintendo, though, as Splatoon makes a comeback, grabbing 4th place effortlessly, and passing 1.3 million copies sold in Japan.

Tom Clancy’s The Division also keeps on trucking, with an easy third place in a rather slow week dominated by re-releases of old games.