Japan: New Animal Crossing boosts 3DS sales as Vita slips to record low

Japanese 3DS sales doubled during the week ended November 11 as system exclusive Animal Crossing: New Leaf sold over 600,000 copies to storm the software chart.
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Elsewhere on the latest software chart, the PS3 version of Dynasty Warriors 7: Empires debuted at No.2, one place ahead of fellow new entry Halo 4, which helped more than double weekly Xbox 360 sales to 2,900 units.
Software sales November 5-11 (lifetime total)

1. Animal Crossing: New Leaf (3DS, Nintendo) - 603,064 / New
2. Dynasty Warriors 7: Empires (PS3, Koei Tecmo) - 70,102 / New
3. Halo 4 (Xbox 360, Microsoft) - 39,312 / New
4. Tales of Xillia 2 (PS3, Bandai Namco) - 34,789 / 399,228
5. New Super Mario Bros. 2 (3DS, Nintendo) - 23,224 / 1,343,554
6. Bravely Default: Flying Fairy (3DS, Square Enix) - 14,847 / 249,260
7. Silent Hill: Downpour (PS3, Konami) - 13,516 / New
8. World Soccer Winning Eleven 2013 (PSP, Konami) - 12,335 / 50,722
9. Okami HD (PS3, Capcom) - 11,013 / 79,657
10. Yakuza 1 & 2 HD Edition (PS3, Sega) - 10,073 / 68,211

Weekly hardware sales (previous week)

1. 3DS - 187,077 (93,989)
2. PS3 - 18,043 (21,310)
3. PSP - 12,076 (13,868)
4. Vita - 4,021 (4,842)
5. Wii - 2,921 (3,806)
6. Xbox 360 - 2,908 (1,339)
7. PS2 - 1,187 (1,351)
8. DSi - 424 (568)

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