Tsutaya's weekly game sales ranking chart for Mar 4-10 is out, and there's a rather big surprise this week...

Tsutaya is a large retailer in Japan with over 500 affiliated game shops. They do not post hardware or actual sales figures.

Always nice to see these, I wonder what will be #1 for all of Japan. SS or Hastune. COMG had SS 2nd but COMG is fairly small so who knows what all of Japan decides.DW8 should drop to around 50-60k so we know SS did better then that.

Soul Sacrifice doing well.

It has a fair chance, at Tsutaya the regular pack sold better than Miku by itself. Adding in the double pack (which also charted) and limited editions (did not chart), I would not be surprised at all.

SS doing great!

Animal Crossing released 4 months ago...at this rate, the game will run out of 3DS owners and people will start to buy second copies.....

Ah, that's nice to see. I've been worried. And the double pack at #12 is pretty awesome, as well.

About 30% of all 3DS owners have the game in Japan, that's a huge tie ratio. It's especially been key to pushing the female non-gamer demographic into buying the handheld. Bandai Namco recently suggested they recognized this growing market potential in the 3DS. Expect to see casual female targeted games. Maybe even some BL.

Whats BL?

Far Cry 3 beating Crysis 3? That is a surprise!

Nah, but seriously, very pleasing to see. Though I wish Hearts R was doing better.