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A quiet but good week for Vita sales in Japan

Week 41 on the Media Create chart was a fairly restrained one, with no Vita new entries in the top 20. Tokyo Xanadu drops from No. 1, but passes the 100,000 mark. The next games of interest are Yomawari and God Eater Resurrection out on the 29th, see the release schedule for the impressive line up out to the end of the year.

01./06. [3DS] Yo-Kai Watch Busters (Level 5) - 28.244 / 1.627.659 (-14%)
02./00. [3DS] Famista Returns (Bandai Namco) - 25.597 / NEW
03./00. [PS4] Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection (Sony) - 24.867 / NEW
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07./01. [PSV] Tokyo Xanadu # (Nihon Falcom) - 15.535 / 104.415 (-83%)
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16./19. [PSV] Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition (Sony) - 7.574 / 359.173 (-7%)
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19./05. [PSV] Yoru no Nai Kuni # (Koei Tecmo) - 5.743 / 38.647 (-83%)

Despite that inactivity, Vita sales were firm, just above 15,000 for the week. If you want some good news, a peek at the chart shows the Vita tracking above last year's numbers for the last four weeks now.



See last week's sales info.

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