Last week brought the arrival of The Wonderful 101 to the Wii U, which in our view is a terrific and unique exclusive for the system. Unfortunately for PlatinumGames' bombastic action title it's had a major struggle to earn early sales in the UK, with this week's UKIE all-format chart showing the new title making its entry in 22nd place.
It was a week with three new multi-platform releases — Saints Row IV, Splinter Cell Blacklist and Disney Infinity dominated the top three positions. In the case of Disney Infinity, the breakdown by platform places the Wii at 21% of sales, Wii U at 10% and 3DS at 4%. What should be noted of The Wonderful 101's 22nd place is that it won't include sales directly on the Wii U eShop, which did include a 30% off promotion for those that also purchased Pikmin 3 on the platform.
While being outgunned by multi-platform games is inevitable, the position of the Wii U exclusive is put in some level of context by the continuing top-10 presence of Animal Crossing: New Leaf, which is in 7th position. A number of other 3DS releases are hanging on further down the charts — Luigi's Mansion 2 and Mario Kart 7 are in 29th and 30th positions, respectively, while Mario & Luigi: Dream Team Bros. is in 34th position. Disney Planes, which is available only on Nintendo systems, squeezes into 37th place.
Not a headline grabbing week for The Wonderful 101 in the face of major third-party titles new to the market. We can only hope for reasonable momentum into next week, and wonder just how long Animal Crossing: New Leaf will stay in the top 10.
This week’s Japanese sales charts are in courtesy of Media Create. Sadly, it has been a terrible week for the recently released The Wonderful 101. The game only managed to sell a dismal 5.258 copies, placing it at number fourteen in the software charts. Wii U sales have dropped again, this week the console only sold 7,030 units compared to the previous week when it sold 12,047 units. Here’s the Japanese software and hardware top ten.
[PS3] Super Robot Wars OG Saga: Masou Kishin III – Pride of Justice
[3DS] Disney Magic Castle: My Happy Life
[3DS] Mario & Luigi: Dream Team
[PSV] Super Robot Wars OG Saga: Masou Kishin III – Pride of Justice
[PSV] Conception II: Shichisei no Michibiki to Mazuru no Akumu
[3DS] Friend Collection: New Life
[PS3] Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara
[3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf
[3DS] Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon
[3DS] Youkai Watch
Nintendo 3DS: 51.097
PlayStation 3: 12.689
PlayStation Vita: 11.507
Wii U: 7.030
PSP: 5.735
Wii: 1.103
Xbox 360: 196
I heard a lot of bad things about it and it's control.. I need a reason to buy a Wii U, I think I'll wait for Bayonetta 2
I don't want to buy a new system to play ports (Wind Waker and Earthbound)
To me it looked like a Pikmin rehash with 100x the amount of screen clutter. the HUD took up about 70% of the screen space, it's a mess. I don't know what Nintendeo are thinking right now but they should be working on new Legend Of Zelda, Pokemon and Super Mario games.
