Labo

Figures are in for the Japanese gaming charts, covering the 10th - 16th of September, and Nintendo's major new release of the week - the Nintendo Labo Vehicle Kit - managed to snag a debut spot at number five. Sales figures show that it failed to reach the lofty heights of the previous Labo designs, however.

Unsurprisingly, Spider-Man is top of the list again this time around, shifting another 80,000 copies to keep it well out of the reach of its competitors. Nintendo titles take up 13 of the top 20 chart positions, with the only new entries being the aforementioned Vehicle Kit and Undertale - which managed to sell just under 6,000 copies at retail.

For the sake of comparison, the new Nintendo Labo release sold 11,659 copies during its opening week in Japan; back in April, the Robot Kit sold 28,629 copies during its opening week, and the Variety Kit shifted a very impressive 90,410 units.

Here's a look at the top 20 (first numbers are this week's sales, followed by total sales in brackets):


1) [PS4] Marvel’s Spider-Man (SIE, 09/07/18) – 80,832 (205,986)
2) [PS4] Shadow of the Tomb Raider (Square Enix, 09/14/18) – 32,172 (New)
3) [NSW] Splatoon 2 (Bundle Version Included) (Nintendo, 07/21/17) – 14,094 (2,618,333)
4) [NSW] Minecraft: Nintendo Switch Edition (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 13,479 (277,745)
5) [NSW] Nintendo Labo Toy-Con 03: Vehicle Kit (Nintendo, 09/14/18) – 11,659 (New)
6) [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 10,689 (1,757,864)
7) [PS4] NBA 2K19 (Limited Edition Included) (Take-Two Interactive, 09/11/18) – 9,536 (13,215)
8) [PS4] Pro Evolution Soccer 2019 (Konami, 08/30/18) – 9,46 (103,695)
9) [PS4] Conan Exiles (Spike Chunsoft, 08/23/18) – 8,528 (68,757)
10) [NSW] Undertale (8-4, 09/15/18) – 5,990 (New)
11) [NSW] Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum ‘n’ Fun! (Bandai Namco, 07/19/18) – 5,820 (195,438)
12) [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Limited Edition Included) (Nintendo, 03/03/17) – 5,809 (1,111,535)
13) [NSW] Mario Tennis Aces (Nintendo, 06/22/18) – 5,193 (343,600)
14) [3DS] Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon (The Pokemon Company, 11/17/17) – 4,830 (1,724,983)
15) [PS4] Black Clover: Quartet Knights (Bandai Namco, 09/13/18) – 4,630 (New)
16) [PS4] Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner – MARS (Konami, 09/07/18) – 4,503 (21,816)
17) [3DS] WarioWare Gold (Nintendo, 08/02/18) – 4,018 (93,658)
18) [NSW] Kirby Star Allies (Nintendo, 03/16/18) – 3,944 (615,182)
19) [NSW] Super Mario Odyssey (Bundle Edition Included) (Nintendo, 10/27/17) – 3,859 (1,813,146)
20) [NSW] Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (Nintendo, 07/13/18) – 3,569 (122,376)


On the hardware front, the Switch is still the best-selling console by far, but has seen a drop in sales from last week of around 5,000 units. Here are this week's figures, with last week's in brackets.

1) Switch – 38,738 (43,513)
2) PlayStation 4 – 12,057 (12,281)
3) PlayStation 4 Pro – 4,959 (7,442)
4) New 2DS LL – 4,684 (4,951)
5) New 3DS LL – 2,248 (2,185)
6) PlayStation Vita – 1,973 (2,348)
7) 2DS – 359 (347)
8) Xbox One X – 159 (30)
9) Xbox One – 58 (19)

< Last week's charts


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