Media Create Sales Charts: Wii U Soars in Japan Thanks to Strong Pikmin 3 Debut

Giuseppe Nelva July 17, 2013 9:02 AM EST

Last week’s Media Create hardware charts have been released (showing sales results from July the 8th to July the 14th), showing a very strong week for the previously shaky Wii U, thanks a strong debut of Nintendo’s Pikmin 3, that dominates the software chart, helped by a decent performance of New Super Luigi U.

Here is the detailed chart:

3DS LL – 29,594 Wii U – 22,199 Vita – 15,662 3DS – 13,841 PS3 – 12,698 PSP – 5,830 Wii – 1,434 Xbox 360 – 396

For the sake of comparison, here’s what the chart looked like last week.

3DS LL – 29,716 Vita – 20,776 3DS – 14,506 PS3 – 11,683 Wii U – 8,251 PSP – 5,768 Wii – 1,334 Xbox 360 – 313

On the software side Pikmin 3 easily ranked ranked 1st with 92,720 copies sold, while New Super Luigi U Ranked 5th with 24,881, giving the Wii U the boost it so direly needed. It’s also to be noted that Pikmin 3 launched on saturday, so the number is the result of only two days of sales. Here’s the full software chart (new games released last week are bolded):

Pikmin 3 (Wii U) – 92.720 / NEW Youkai Watch (3DS) – 53.654 / NEW Earth Defense Force (PS3) 2025 – 37.024 / 191.713 Tomodachi Collection: New Life (3DS) – 26.065 / 1.259.847 New Super Luigi U (Wii U) – 24.881 / NEW Toukiden (PS Vita) – 20.853 / 186.963 Toukiden (PSP) – 19.262 / 118.404 Dead Island: Riptide (PS3) – 18.462 / NEW Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection (PS4) – 17.599 / NEW Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D (3DS) – 12.963 / 206.322 Gundam Breaker (PS3) – 10.224 / 242.819 Animal Crossing: New Leaf (3DS) – 10.088 / 3.325.123 Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon (3DS) – 9.184 / 825.026 The Last of Us (PS3) – 9.158 / 173.181 Hanayaka Kana, Ware ga Ichizoku – Tasogare Polarstar (PSP) – 9.046 / NEW Dangan-Ronpa (PSP) – 6.106 / 91.204 Digimon World Re:Digitize Decode (3DS) – 5.912 / 50.952 Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millenium Girl (3DS) – 5.870 / 106.914 Taiko no Tatsujin Wii: Super Deluxe Edition (Wii) – 5.203 / 516.866 Atelier Escha & Logy: The Alchemist of Empty Twilight (PS3) – 5.031 / 72.873

While the Wii U is only at the beginning of its path to recovery and we’ll have to see what the effect on the long run will be, it’s at the very least encouraging to see this kind of results. Will it last? We can only hope, but for now someone at the top of Nintendo’s ivory tower is probably toasting with a cup of sake.