Release date:  2012/2/23, so you would be correct. 

Well the expectations were very big for 3DS as it was successor to the DS, the machine that sold over 33 million in Japan peaking with 8.5 million in a year. For pretty much every other console 3DS numbers last year would have been solid.

Why should Japan buy the Vita over the PSP when they still keep getting so many PSP games, god damn. Pretty soon SRW Z2-2 will be out also I believe.

Great opening for Harvest Moon! That's one of the biggest openings ever for a Harvest Moon game in Japan.

I believe milkyjoe is right with around 17k being the lowest the 3DS hit without price cut effect. ( I LOVE MilkyJoe! Isolation, isolation). But the 16k the week of the price cut is fair game too I suppose.

Vita is in BIG trouble in Japan, looking like it will go sub-10k soon. Likely to keep dropping after that. There still isn't a massive hit like monster hunter etc on the horizon. As VicViper said all we know so far is Persona 4 in June (over 3months away) and FFX at some point. Persona 4 is a port of a console game, it should sell well but not going to be a smash hit million seller. Likewise FFX is a port and that will also be available on the PS3 at the same time. So both will probably hit a few hundred thousand but they aren't going to be million sellers that massively help hardware.

Ciel no surge might do okay however the companies other similar games have only ever done a few hundred thousand at best and that has been on systems with big install bases. It should end up over 100k, but I don't think it's going to give hardware that much of a boost.

Theatrhythm is very supply constrained at the moment. Won't have the next shipment for next week either. It should have reasonable legs when new shipments come in.

Love Plus is very front loaded however at the same time the game should reach over 200k. The first game and it's updated version hit 260k and 230k. This one will do similar figures as it's just the type of fanbase.

Harvest moon opened strong. Vgchartz was saying how until kingdom hearts there were no real titles for the 3DS but that was way out. Going to be a steady stream of games hitting 100k in a couple of weeks of launch.

Did you make this?

I love it and want to add it to the CatchUp thread (beside the media create links), it is extremely useful.

Thank you by the way.

Nice link!

And wow, DS Lite was a monster and the Original DS not so much. Great hopes for 3DS Lite going by this.

Ciel at most will reach Ragnarok/Tales/GD sales region imho so the efect if any on hardware will be minimal.

Love Plus is not going to reach 200k.  Not with this kind of drop in second week.

Vita has has no killer releases yet so people shouldn't be surprised. It WILL drop below 10k soon that's a given but once the big names start flowing these numbers will just be a memory,Just like the 3ds.. 3ds and ps3 doing well as usual and psp doing decent.