Yokai Watch 2 holds top spot in Japan

Despite being a new entry, Yoshi's New Island was no match on the Japanese charts for Yokai Watch 2: Ganso / Honke which held on to the top spot.

In fact Yokai Watch 2 managed more than double the sales of Yoshi's New Island, which had to make do with second place.

1. [3DS] Yokai Watch 2: Ganso / Honke - 180,880 (Lifetime sales - 1,829,533)
2. [3DS] Yoshi's New Island - 58,285 (New entry)
3. [Wii U] Mario Kart 8 - 18,129 (560,487)
4. [PSV] Oreshika: Tainted Bloodlines - 17,690 (111,465)
5. [PSV] Tokyo New World Record: Operation Abyss - 15,242 (New entry)

In hardware the sales of the top device, the 3DS XL, stayed consistent with last week.

1. 3DS XL - 31,789 (Last week - 31,192)
2. PlayStation Vita - 21,875 (27,352)
3. Wii U - 9,429 (8,209)
4. PlayStation 3 - 7,175 (7,389)
5. 3DS - 6,656 (6,185)
6. PlayStation 4 - 5,581 (6,456)
7. PlayStation Vita TV - 1,767 (2,249)
8. PSP - 489 (556)
9. Xbox 360 - 122 (129)

Charts collated by Media Create and published by Gematsu.