The latest Japanese charts are in and there are several newcomers to take note of this week, but first, Super Mario Bros. Wonder has officially passed 1 million in physical sales. Wahoo!
It marks another significant milestone for a game that is seemingly showing no signs of slowing down. With that said, it misses the top spot this week, with both Momotaro Dentetsu World: Chikyuu wa Kibou de Mawatteru! and Super Mario RPG sneaking in ahead. The latter has gotten off to a pleasingly strong start in Japan, selling a total of 301,334 copies.
Elsewhere, Hogwarts Legacy marks its Switch release with a respectable total of 47,717 copies sold, while Persona 5 Tactica on Switch has outsold its PS5 counterpart by 11,081 copies.
Finally, Naruto X Boruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm Connections manages to scrape into the ninth position this week, shifting 9,004 copies for its debut.
So let's take a peek at this week's top ten software sales in full:
- [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu World: Chikyuu wa Kibou de Mawatteru! (Konami, 11/16/23) – 314,699 (New)
- [NSW] Super Mario RPG (Nintendo, 11/17/23) – 301,334 (New)
- [NSW] Super Mario Bros. Wonder (Nintendo, 10/20/23) – 50,545 (1,025,821)
- [NSW] Hogwarts Legacy (Warner Bros. Games, 11/14/23) – 47,717 (New)
- [NSW] Persona 5 Tactica (ATLUS, 11/17/23) – 26,794 (New)
- [PS5] Persona 5 Tactica (ATLUS, 11/17/23) – 15,713 (New)
- [PS4] Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name (SEGA, 11/09/23) – 11,535 (71,669)
- [NSW] WarioWare: Move It! (Nintendo, 11/03/23) – 10,487 (53,411)
- [NSW] Naruto x Boruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm CONNECTIONS (Bandai Namco, 11/16/23) – 9,004 (New)
- [PS5] Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name (SEGA, 11/09/23) – 8,812 (72,131)
Hardware this week sees the disc version of the PS5 on top with the new 'Slim' model clearly marking its territory in the region. The Switch OLED Model isn't too far behind though, with just 3,662 units separating the pair.
Here are the latest numbers on the hardware side of things:
- PlayStation 5 – 51,282 (4,070,473)
- Switch OLED Model – 47,620 (6,088,734)
- PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 11,630 (622,778)
- Switch Lite – 10,893 (5,582,776)
- Switch – 7,042 (19,508,122)
- Xbox Series X – 2,937 (237,163)
- PlayStation 4 – 646 (7,906,675)
- Xbox Series S – 189 (293,475)
- New 2DS LL (including 2DS) – 22 (1,192,627)
What do you make of this week's Japanese charts? Let us know in the comments.
[source famitsu.com, via gematsu.com]
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Well get use to seeing Momotaro Dentetsu World cause that game may likely be on the Japanese chart for a while longer. Nice seeing the PS5 picking up momentum again when the Slim model PS5 launch. Wonder why the Slim did not had its own sales number separate from the main and digital edition?
Konami trains and RPG did good in Japan as expected. Wonder doing 1 million just from Japan physicals is wonderful. Hogwarts Legacy did alright for a late port.
P5T honestly underperformed compared to most other Persona spin-offs but it’s not hard to see why. Chibi, niche genre, and P5 characters only + sparce content for a Persona spin-couldn’t get it into Q game range
Also another odd detail from the NL writer here that makes it out like PS5 is #1 again this week (it’s not. Switch combined is higher then PS5 combined) which is ironic because even during the times the Switch OLED was #1 place (but combined PlayStation was higher) the focus was on PlayStation was still #1. Funny how you can catch these little biases after awhile here during the HW section.
@Serpenterror My assumption is that Sony isn't treating it as a separate SKU. In other words, the 'Slim' is the only PS5. The original will be phased out.
Switch console sales in total ahead of PS5 is wild.
PS: 51282 + 11630 + 646 = 63,558
Nintendo: 47620 + 10893 + 7042 + 22 = 65, 577
Nintendo wins. 😝
Momotaro is always going to do well in Japan, the last game was one of the most successful third party games in Japan for a long time, even more so for Konami!
What, it just passed 1 million in Japan now?
That seems slow/low to me. But, to be fair, I don't have a clue how the Mario games typically sell there.
This is Wonderful and not a ODDyssey at all.
As much as I like Mario Odyssey.
Second week with the Slim and the Switch is back on top already. The Switch is awesome.
Those Persona 5 Tactica sales are pretty poor, added to the abysmal UK sales as well it seems fans are now tired of Sega milking the P5 series, hopefully this is the last we see of the phantom thieves.
I knew PS5 Slim will make PS5 sales better. ☺
Wonder will probably move 5 million units in the next month.
@nimnio Yeah it’s funny to note because you definitely don’t see this kind of crap in PushSquare.
Good week for Switch hardware in general. Wonder already at 1M units alone is a great thing to see. And yeah, Switch hardware overall already back on top.
@RetroGames well Japan is also a MUCH smaller country than, say, the US or all of Europe, not to mention this is just in physical sales. When you factor in digital the number is probably a little higher.
I imagine PlayStation will will continue to reign from here on in.
@Lord it's only taken them three years to make a slight dent...but yeah that's it, the Switch is on its knees...trade em in gang, it's over!
@dcon11 True, but it's worth noting that Splatoon 3 sold 3.5 million copies in 3 days in Japan. So it is interesting it took a mainline mario game a month to get 1m.
@HatenoLife is that total or physical? Not arguing, that’s just a crazy number lol. I knew Splatoon was big there but damn
@milonorth That was including digital.
Love to see Wonder already passing a million in Japan alone and great start for Super Mario RPG!
Not surprised to see Momotaro Dentetsu first but good for it, not bad for Hogwarts Legacy considering it's already on other systems while unfortunately not that great of a start for Tactica.
It'll be plus one for me for my birthday next year. (Yeah, I'm holding off on buying new games for a year)
Who is still buying the 2DS???
@Arawn93 Just like the sun rising and setting, your "NL vs Push Square" rantings on a sales article. It's comforting, really.
@HatenoLife well, Mario games historically haven’t sold as much at launch, so even considering the absolutely huge launch sales of more recent games like Splat3 and ScarVi, I think 1mil for the first week is pretty impressive
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