This Week In Sales Ace Attorney Returns As Strong As Ever

Period: The week of July 22nd – July 28th (2013)

Top-seller: Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies – 250,216

Nintendo 3DS sales: 18,625 | Total sales: 8,449,730

Nintendo 3DS XL sales: 36,350 | Total sales: 3,465,056

PlayStation Vita sales: 19,866 | Total sales: 1,741,787

Wii U sales: 11,373 | Total sales: 1,016,391

<< Last week’s software sales chart

Last week saw the release of a game that’s been a long time coming—Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies, the fifth game in the main Ace Attorney series, which brings back a number of the series’ popular characters alongside new ones. Capcom sold 250,216 copies of Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies in the game’s first week on store shelves.

That figure is very well similar to how Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney sold back in 2007. In its first week, Apollo Justice sold 250,186 copies. Considering that there’s been a gap of six years between the two games, Dual Destinies’ sales are rather impressive and indicate that any fans that were lost in the interim have been made up for by new fans.

[Note: For much more Ace Attorney sales data, check out this report.]

Also released last week was Dragon’s Crown, Vanillaware’s multiplayer brawler. The game enjoyed a very respectable debut, with 104,359 copies sold on PS3 and another 71,083 copies on PlayStation Vita.

Finally, Nippon Ichi Software released The Witch and the Hundred Knights last week as well, and the game sold close to 50,000 copies. That puts it close to the sales of 2008’s Disgaea 3, which is pretty good, considering the low sales of Nippon Ichi’s other non-Disgaea games.

The top-20 chart for the week was as follows:

LwTwTitleWeekly SalesTotal SalesSys.PublisherNew01.Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney ' Dual Destinies250,216New3DSCapcomNew02.Dragon's Crown104,359NewPS3AtlusNew03.Dragon's Crown71,083NewPSVAtlusNew04.The Witch and the Hundred Knights49,209NewPS3Nippon Ichi01.05.Mario & Luigi: Dream Team43,721143,6943DSNintendo05.06.Tomodachi Collection: New Life22,2811,309,4673DSNintendo02.07.Youkai Watch18,543101,2993DSLevel 5New08.Fantasy Life Link!18,234New3DSLevel 5New09.LEGO City Undercover18,199NewWiiUNintendo03.10.Pikmin 314,161135,393WiiUNintendo06.11.Earth Defense Force 202510,879222,847PS3D3 Publisher04.12.The Little Battlers W Super Custom10,79638,0383DSLevel 511.13.Animal Crossing: New Leaf9,9663,345,1643DSNintendo10.14.Donkey Kong Country Returns9,547226,6953DSNintendoNew15.Toki No Kizuna: Hanamusubi Tsuzuri9,252NewPSPIdea FactoryNew16.Hoppe-chan Tsukutte Asonde Puni Puni Town!!8,837New3DSNippon Columbia07.17.Toukiden8,253208,170PSVTecmo Koei12.18.Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon8,147842,5383DSNintendo14.19.Danganronpa (PSP the Best!)7,507105,158PSPSpike09.20.Toukiden7,428136,840PSPTecmo Koei

Sales data acquired from 4Gamer, Media Create and Geimin.net.

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