Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Nintendo Switch Stay on Top in Japan

Dang that drop happened faster to the Switch's sales then I would like but then again Japan needs their Monster Hunter, Pokemon, and Yokai Watch to be happy

It's interesting to think that Nintendo's sales are only limited by their inventory right now. Hopefully they have a plan for the Holiday Season..........

Love how 75% of the software Top 20 is Nintendo. :')

Switch sales have dropped. Dooooooooomed!

Right now they're selling whatever Nintendo ships. Good to cap sales each week to spread out momentum consistently all year

@ieatdragonz I'm not sure what Switch supplies are like there, but around me the stock got built up for the release of MK8D, but have all since vanished again. That could very well have something to do with the lower sales numbers on the system...people can't find them.

I would assume they had a bunch to sell last week when Kart 8 launched and shipments went back to normal. We will see a boost again at E3 then for Arms.

Was there an xbone clearance sale last week?

I hope Mario Kart 8 Deluxe gets some DLC announced at e3 this year

4 more cups and 8 more battle arenas with 6 new characters and a few new Kart options at $14.99 would be a pretty slick deal to me.

Nice, Numbers 1-9 Nintendo, hope it keeps up

Good for Nintendo. Even with limited top tier Switch games, they are still selling well. I imagine they would be setting company records though if they only released more of the games that we want!

I'm hoping they announce a few surprises this year.

As someone who didn't buy the Wii U, I'm more than ok with seeing the cream of that console's crop come over to the Switch. Especially as we're waiting for major releases, like Odyssey.

@crackafreeze I've unlocked the GLA and 300SL Roadster on MK8 Deluxe. Keep racing, they'll unlock eventually. ☺

New 3DS XL needs a bit booster from Hey ! Pikmin and newest Dragon Quest for 3DS.
Even now I own some PS4 games but I wanna see New 3DS XL kick PS4 butt, again.
Sorry PS4. New 3DS XL must going higher than PS4.

If Japan adopts this thing as well as the Vita, then hopefully we'll get all those tasty japanese exclusives!

Doooomed!

Xbox One is making a comeback guys!

@Fooligan Brilliant news, the Japanese are finally opening up to "AAA" western stubblers.

@crackafreeze

The Mercedes stuff is unlockable. I unlocked one at ~800 coins, ~1600, and ~2400 coins.

Zelda and Nier deserve to sell so many more copies than they have

@Fooligan Yeah why has Xbone done so well (relatively) this week? There's no X1 games in the top 20. Maybe price cuts?

@crackafreeze actually they are unlockable, I already got them all in MK8D, pretty easy to use too

MK8D should outsell BotW (Switch only version) in 2 weeks time, which really isn't a surprise, but shows the strength of a "port".

Another solid week! Plus D5 and SF2 this month still to come

Good job Nintendo

It will be interesting to see how well Switch sales hold, as weekly Switch sales thus far have yet to dip below 40,000 even two months after launch.

At this point in their respective lifecycles, the 3DS was selling ~25,000 units per week, while the Wii U was selling ~10,000 units per week.

Wow it was golden week and switch dropped sales, where as everything else went up, even xbox. Ninty should have had more units available. Well xbox beat wii u, it's officially dead done and dusted when the xbox in Japan beats wii u sales. I must say well done to Minecraft on Vita, still charting after 2 years, most games in Japan don't last a couple of weeks or months, shame I don't like the game though

Those are some weird numbers. I guess you can chalk that up to stock issues. Nintendo really needs to address them, which is not surprising given the Wii U was never in demand the same way Switch is now.

XBox One is coming after you New Nintendo 3DS!

@NewAdvent
It's about 824 thousand so far

Xbox One finally did good this time.

http://i1342.photobucket.com/albums/o763/hiska-kun/switch_zpsu3wgf6hr.jpg

The Switch line will probably cross the 3DS line pretty soon.

Mario Maker 3DS is still hanging in there...good work.

Hey, Xbone had a banner week this week!

Nintendo is..... DOOOOOOOMED

@ieatdragonz The drop in sales is because that is about the number of Switches that Nintendo distributed for the week. They distributed 70000 last week because of Mario Kart's release. Whenever I go to the store, the Switch is sold out.

@Equinox I see. Thanks for the explanation!

Nintendo has an unfair advantage in terms of the software top 20.

1) switch games will be up there because there are only like 5 of them, so the masses who gobbled up all the switches will be getting those, while other systems have much larger libraries, thus the probability if everyone selecting one game in particular is fairly low.

2) nintendo switch by default can't hold many digital games, same with 3DS, though not as bad as the switch. Sony and Microsoft consoles come with space for a digital library, especially with digital sales and subscription insentives, people are far more likely to buy the game digitally. The charts are only for physical copies of the game.

personally, I find these software charts to be fairly worthless without digital sale numbers. I'm sure nintendo's software would not be dominating the chart as much if it were included.