Gran Turismo 6 sells 200k in first week in Japan

Sony's racer steals the spotlight, but Dragon Quest X pushes Wii U to another strong week

News by Matthew Handrahan Editor-in-Chief

Published on Dec. 11, 2013

Gran Turismo 6 enjoyed an impressive debut in Japan, selling more than 200,000 copies in its first week on sale.

The sixth full game in Sony's long-running racing series sold just under 205,000 units in Japan last week, almost doubling the performance of the game in second place: Square Enix's elaborately monickered Dragon Quest X: The Sleeping Hero and the Guiding Sworn Friend Online, which sold a startling 117,000 copies on the Wii. Had the Wii U version's sales been added to the Wii, Dragon Quest X would have sold almost 190,000 copies.

The other high new entries were Spike Chunsoft's Attack on Titan: The Last Wings of Mankind and Level-5's Inazuma Eleven Go Galaxy Big Bang / Supernova, both of which placed in the top 5 with more than 90,000 sales.

The software top 10 is below, with lifetimes sales in parentheses:

1. [PS3] Gran Turismo 6 (SCEJ, 12/06/13) - 204,784 (New)
2. [Wii] Dragon Quest X: The Sleeping Hero and the Guiding Sworn Friend Online(Square Enix, 12/05/13) - 117,432 (New)
3. [3DS] Pokemon X and Y (Nintendo, 10/12/13) - 111,790 (3,200,919)
4. [3DS] Attack on Titan: The Last Wings of Mankind (Spike Chunsoft, 12/05/13) - 93,471 (New)
5. [3DS] Inazuma Eleven Go Galaxy Big Bang / Supernova (Level-5, 12/05/13) - 91,643 (New)
6. [Wii U] Dragon Quest X: The Sleeping Hero and the Guiding Sworn Friend Online (Square Enix, 12/05/13) - 70,648 (New)
7. [Wii U] Super Mario 3D World (Nintendo, 11/21/13) - 43,844 (183,245)
8. [3DS] Bravely Default: For the Sequel (Square Enix, 12/05/13) - 35,617 (New)
9. [3DS] Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal: Duel Carnival (Konami, 12/05/13) - 26,497 (New)
10. [PS3] Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII (Square Enix, 11/21/13) - 21,600 (358,755)

In the hardware chart, the Wii U continued its strong run of form, adding 20,000 sales to reach more than 48,000 for the week - presumably due to the strong debut of Dragon Quest X.

The full hardware chart is below, with the previous week's sales in parentheses: