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We have a bumper edition of the Japanese charts to share with you this week, as Media Create sales for the last week of 2018 and first week of 2019 are now in.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is consistently knocking it out of the park, remaining on top spot every week in the region ever since it released just over a month ago. Go Vacation, Diablo III: Eternal Collection, and Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story + Bowser Jr.’s Journey also launched in Japan over the last couple of weeks with varying levels of success - we've already discussed Mario & Luigi's disappointing start. Twice, in fact.

Here are the top 20 for both weeks (first numbers are that week's sales, followed by total sales in brackets):

24th December - 30th December 2018

Software Sales:

  1. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 12/07/18) – 275,417 (2,355,186)
  2. [NSW] Super Mario Party (Nintendo, 10/05/18) – 98,682 (841,037)
  3. [NSW] Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Let’s Go, Eevee! (Bundle Editions Included) (Nintendo, 11/16/18) – 65,497 (1,331,287)
  4. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 41,872 (2,000,142)
  5. [NSW] Dragon Quest Builders 2 (Square Enix, 12/20/18) – 34,589 (132,262)
  6. [NSW] Splatoon 2 (Bundle Version Included) (Nintendo, 07/21/17) – 30,669 (2,839,787)
  7. [PS4] Dragon Quest Builders 2 (Square Enix, 12/20/18) – 29,877 (140,161)
  8. [PS4] Judgment (Sega, 12/13/18) – 27,549 (213,438)
  9. [NSW] Minecraft: Nintendo Switch Edition (Bundle Version Included) (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 27,140 (506,909)
  10. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Limited Edition Included) (Nintendo, 03/03/17) – 15,250 (1,227,293)
  11. [PS4] God Eater 3 (Limited Edition Included) (Bandai Namco, 12/13/18) – 14,338 (189,900)
  12. [NSW] Go Vacation (Bandai Namco, 12/27/18) – 13,310 (New)
  13. [NSW] Super Mario Odyssey (Bundle Version Included) (Nintendo, 10/27/17) – 12,553 (1,914,779)
  14. [NSW] Kirby Star Allies (Nintendo, 03/16/18) – 10,935 (702,874)
  15. [NSW] Diablo III: Eternal Collection (Blizzard Entertainment, 12/27/18) – 10,143 (New)
  16. [NSW] Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum ‘n’ Fun! (Bandai Namco, 07/19/18) – 9,814 (269,677)
  17. [3DS] Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story + Bowser Jr.’s Journey (Nintendo, 12/27/18) – 9,436 (New)
  18. [NSW] Mario Tennis Aces (Nintendo, 06/22/18) – 7,778 (400,534)
  19. [PS4] Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII (SIE, 10/12/18) – 6,692 (505,455)
  20. [3DS] Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon (The Pokémon Company, 11/17/17) – 6,257 (1,796,584)

Hardware Sales (last week’s sales in brackets):

  1. Switch – 174,770 (278,701)
  2. PlayStation 4 – 58,203 (57,948)
  3. PlayStation 4 Pro – 14,227 (17,845)
  4. New 2DS LL – 9,649 (19,096)
  5. New 3DS LL – 3,576 (7,116)
  6. PlayStation Vita – 3,566 (3,939)
  7. 2DS – 374 (724)
  8. Xbox One X – 189 (195)
  9. Xbox One – 169 (182)

31st December - 6th January 2019

Software Sales:

1) [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 12/07/18) – 258,974 (2,614,160)
2) [NSW] Super Mario Party (Nintendo, 10/05/18) – 95,102 (936,140)
3) [NSW] Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! / Let’s Go, Eevee! (Bundle Editions Included) (Nintendo, 11/16/18) –68,308 (1,399,595)
4) [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 55,758 (2,055,899)
5) [NSW] Dragon Quest Builders 2 (Square Enix, 12/20/18) – 47,176 (179,438)
6) [NSW] Splatoon 2 (Bundle Version Included) (Nintendo, 07/21/17) – 43,033 (2,882,819)
7) [NSW] Minecraft: Nintendo Switch Edition (Bundle Version Included) (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 42,845 (549,754)
8) [PS4] Dragon Quest Builders 2 (Square Enix, 12/20/18) – 38,969 (179,130)
9) [NSW] Go Vacation (Bandai Namco, 12/27/18) – 21,826 (35,136)
10) [PS4] Judgment (Sega, 12/13/18) – 20,018 (233,456)
11) [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Limited Edition Included) (Nintendo, 03/03/17) – 19,363 (1,246,656)
12) [NSW] Super Mario Odyssey (Bundle Version Included) (Nintendo, 10/27/17) – 16,896 (1,931,675)
13) [NSW] Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum ‘n’ Fun (Bandai Namco, 07/19/18) – 16,600 (286,278)
14) [NSW] Kirby Star Allies (Nintendo, 03/16/18) – 14,769 (717,643)
15) [PS4] God Eater 3 (Limited Edition Included) (Bandai Namco, 12/13/18) – 10,610 (200,510)
16) [NSW] Mario Tennis Aces (Nintendo, 06/22/18) – 10,469 (411,002)
17) [PS4] Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII (SIE, 10/12/18) – 8,726 (514,181)
18) [PS4] Battlefield V (Electronic Arts, 11/20/18) – 8,155 (167,514)
19) [NSW] Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (Nintendo, 07/13/18) – 7,718 (177,872)
20) [NSW] Dragon Ball FighterZ (Bandai Namco, 09/27/18) – 7,554 (73,861)

Hardware Sales (last week’s sales in brackets):

1) Switch – 199,982 (174,770)
2) PlayStation 4 – 87,669 (58,203)
3) PlayStation 4 Pro – 29,513 (14,227)
4) New 2DS LL – 22,645 (9,649)
5) PlayStation Vita – 4,138 (3,566)
6) New 3DS LL – 3,281 (3,576)
7) 2DS – 557 (374)
8) Xbox One X – 102 (189)
9) Xbox One – 53 (169)


< Last week's charts (17th December - 23rd December)

Are you surprised by Mario & Luigi's launch? How long do you think Smash will stay at number one? Let us know in the comments.

[source gematsu.com]