Media Create charts, February 14-20: Catherine moves over 163,000 units

News by Stephany Nunneley-Jackson Former News Editor

Published on Feb. 23, 2011

Media Create has released its Japanese sales figures for the retail week of February 14 - 20, and it finds Catherine moving 163,762 units when combining both PS3 and Xbox 360 sales.

Catherine dominates the chart

Atlus' trippy Catherine moved 141, 816 units on PS3, taking the top spot for the week, while its Xbox 360 version moved 21,936 units and came in at the seven spot.

Debuts this week, other than Catherine were Marvel vs Capcom 3 and Two Worlds II, both of which were available on PS3 and Xbox 360. Combined sales for each were 80,966 and 32,549, respectively, with the PS3 versions of each game the dominate platform.

Hakuouki: Zuisouroku also debuted on DS for the week, as well as DJ Max Portable 3 on PSP.

Below is the full software chart for the week. The previous week’s figures can be found here.

Catherine (PS3) - 141,826 - NEW
Marvel Vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds (PS3) - 67,187 - NEW
Samurai Warriors 3 Z (PS3) - 58,089
Monster Hunter Freedom 3 (PSP) - 39,727
Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 3 (PSP) - 26,504
Two Worlds II (PS3) - 24,324 - NEW
Catherine (360) - 21,936 - NEW
Marvel Vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds (360) - 13,779 - NEW
Hakuouki: Zuisouroku DS (DS)- 13,373 - NEW
Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth 2 (DS) - 13,186
Donkey Kong Country Returns (Wii) - 10,824
Samurai Warriors 3: Xtreme Legends (Wii) - 9,638
Pokemon Black / White (DS) - 9,502
DJ Max Portable 3 (PSP) - 8,990 - NEW
Two Worlds II (360) - 8,225 - NEW
Kenka Bancho 5: Laws of Manhood (PSP) - 8,193
Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare (PS3) - 7,861
Wii Party (Wii) - 7,472
World Soccer Winning Eleven 2011 (PSP) - 6,312
Ni no Kuni: The Ebony Wizard (DS) - 6,174

Software chart offerings per system

PSP – 5
PS3 – 5
NDS - 4
Wii - 3
360– 3
PS2 - 0

PSP tops hardware despite lack of new software

Sony's PSP continued to dominate the Japanese hardward charts, despite the fact there weren't any game debuts for the system in the top 10. Continued sales of Monster Hunter Freedom 3 and Radiant Mythology 3 were likely the contributing factors to the 63,330 units moved. PS3 moved 25, 242 units for the week, which is down 1,524 units over last week. PSPgo moved 2,487 units, and PS2 moved another 1,863.

The public also seems to be gearing up for the release of 3DS on February 26, as Nintendo's handheld division moved a combined 19,032 units while Wii moved 12,221 units.

Xbox 360 moved 2,183 units for the week, which is up 65 units over last week's 2,118 units. For comparisson, during the same period last year, Xbox 360 moved 2,453 units meaning console sales for Microsoft continue to be a bit flat over in Japan.

Japanese hardware, January 3 – February 20, 2011 (combined SKUs, running tally)