Nintendo platforms dominated holiday sales for the Golden Week period. Mario Party 9 remained basically level with its debut week, taking first place this week as Resident Evil Operation Raccoon City fell to number two. Long sellers like Wii Party and Mario Kart Wii also made it back into the top 20.
Here's the full Media Create top 20, covering April 30 through May 6. Life to date sales are in parentheses.
- [WII] 01. Mario Party 9 (Nintendo, 04.26.2012): 144,585 (297,468)
- [PS3] 02. Resident Evil Operation Raccoon City (Capcom, 04.26.2012): 52,428 (304,953)
- [3DS] 03. Fire Emblem Awakening (Nintendo, 04.19.2012): 42,347 (345,260)
- [3DS] 04. Super Mario 3D Land (Nintendo, 11.03.2011): 28,528 (1,563,527)
- [3DS] 05. Mario Kart 7 (Nintendo, 11.03.2011): 22,881 (1,695,305)
- [3DS] 06. Kid Icarus Uprising (Nintendo, 03.22.2012): 18,788 (261,883)
- [3DS] 07. Monster Hunter 3G (Capcom, 12.10.2011): 16,496 (1,433,370)
- [3DS] 08. Mario & Sonic at London Olympics (Nintendo, 03.01.2012): 13,810 (157,337)
- [PSP] 09. Conception Please Give Birth to My Children (Spike Chunsoft, 04.26.2012): 10,193 (40,039)
- [WII] 10. Wii Sports Resort Wiimote Plus Pack (Nintendo, 11.11.2010): 10,058 (935,555)
- [PSP] 11. Pro Baseball Spirits 2012 (Konami, 03.29.2012): 9,843 (128,409)
- [3DS] 12. Kingdom Hearts 3D (Square Enix, 03.29.2012): 9,532 (308,484)
- [3DS] 13. Pokemon + Nobunaga's Ambition (Pokemon, 03.17.2012): 9,069 (318,067)
- [3DS] 14. Dynasty Warriors VS (Tecmo Koei, 04.26.2012): 8,614 (24,192)
- [3DS] 15. Wii Party (Nintendo, 07.08.2012): 8,503 (2,345,476)
- [PS3] 16. Pro Baseball Spirits 2012 (Konami, 03.29.2012): 6,853 (152,934)
- [WII] 17. Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo, 04.10.2008): 6,783 (3,561,199)
- [PSP] 18. 2nd Super Robot Wars Z Saisei Volume (Namco Bandai, 04.05.2012): 6,546 (328,432)
- [3DS] 19. Harvest Moon Hajimari no Daichi (MAQL, 02.23.2012): 6,408 (179,148)
- [WII] 20. Go Vacation (Namco Bandai, 10.20.2011): 6,002 (271,087)
3DS and Wii both saw holiday hardware sales boosts. Vita fell a bit from the prior week, but still remained above the 10,000 mark.
Here's the full hardware chart for April 30 through May 6. The previous week's sales are in parentheses.
- 1. 3DS: 91,868 (74,282)
- 2. PS3: 23,478 (21,114)
- 3. PSP: 20,033 (22,457)
- 4. Wii: 15,789 (9,200)
- 5. PSV: 10,583 (12,299)
- 6. PS2: 1,611 (1,395)
- 7. X360: 1,420 (1,327)
- 8. DSi LL: 1,097 (895)
- 9. DSi: 814 (717)
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