Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon Lead Japanese Charts As Switch Dominates Again

We already get such great news concerning Switch numbers I can only imagine what it will be like when the first Pokemon comes out for the system.

Awesome

New 2DS XL kicked PS4 butt ??
Hah !
In your face, ps4 !

And look at xbox one x.
Dropped Drastically.
A "Clown" machine as usual in Japan.

Love seing the whole list. Still expecting to see a list for the UK next time

The Pokemon Double Pack sold ridiculously well relative to the normal versions.
Anyways, Pokemon on Switch will be a monster.

Battlefront 2 launch sales are down 68% over Battlefront 1, much like in the UK.

Crap... To bad I traded in my 3DS. The Ultra games look good.

@Krest_arisen

I was surprised too, but I suppose the Wii U has a higher install base at this point, even though that fact won't last much longer.

Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon were never going to match the success of the prior games especially with only a year in-between.

900 thousand for Pokemon...? I mean, if you don't count the fact that the dual packs are purchasing two games per unit, I guess so?

USUM are fun games but they’re very same-y. I hear they depart a bit more toward the end but I can’t help but feel like I’ve done this all before.

Man I love my Switch! Still playing BotW!

Thomas you must add another 247k Pokémon sales to the total because the double pack is two copies of the game, actually. So it's 1.162.000

Wow, Xbox 1 X must have terrible supply issues.

Must admit, didn't expect Ultra Sun/Moon to sell that good. Basically 1,000,000+ individual units.

Already beat Breath of the Wild's lifetime sales in Japan so far.

Wonder if Odyssey will reach 1 Mil?

its the first time a pokemon main title sells under a million at launch. How many units pokemon black/white 2 shifted at launch?

@Rhaoulos They've always shown the whole list for Japan sales. Its the UK ones that they tend not to.

@dimi Doesn’t surprise me that USUM had a weaker launch than other titles in the series. The 3DS is slowly losing steam, plus they’re retreads of games that only released a year ago. Still, those numbers are fairly impressive all things considered.

@thesilverbrick Still Pokemon Black/White 2 shipped 1.56 million units through the first week of sales at 2012 (1.29 mil pre-orders). DS was near dead then. Black/white 2 were sequels and not enchanted versions though, true.

Star Wars Battlefront totally bombed! I haven't read much about the Japanese reaction to the Loot crate issue but it seems it would amount to the same as here in the West. . .

@dimi Difference is, the 3DS played DS games, so even people who had moved on to new hardware could play a DS title through backwards compatibility. A lot of people have shelved their 3DS in favor of a Switch and can’t play a 3DS game on their new console.

@FX102A I don't think there's any doubt that Odyssey will top 1m in Japan. Switches are still selling like hot cakes, and Odyssey is already closing in on the (re-released) Mario Kart 8 figures. The only question is whether or not it hits 1m by the end of the year - could be touch and go.

Interesting considering USUM are the lowest reviewed Pokemon main series games in the franchise's history on Amazon (Most stating it should have been DLC), so we'll see how next week's results vary.

@Angelic_Lapras_King You actually trust game reviews on Amazon? An alarming number of reviews for video games on Amazon are written by trolls who have never played the game in question. Not exactly a hive of journalistic integrity.

@thesilverbrick I'm talking about Amazon Japan. Those arnt as troll-ish.

[brings popcorn]

Don't mind me. I'm just here for the "down with PS4!!!" Anti-Matter comments.

@Angelic_Lapras_King Ah, gotcha. I imagine you’re right. My mistake. Americans are terrible, haha.

Xbox One X. All that power. And Japan just says "meh" in a Larry David fashion.

Switch decimating everything else combined. ^^

The iron grip Nintendo continues to hold on the Japanese market is impressive.

I cant help but wonder what those Switch sales numbers would be if Nintendo was releasing a new Pokemon title on Switch.

If Sony cares about Japan (how could they not, right?) there will be a portable PSP/Vita successor by the end of 2018. You can't watch sales like these for very long without reconsidering.

I'm also betting it won't contain the name PSP or Vita in it, whatever it is. Sony Switchback, maybe?

@aaronsullivan
Sony couldn't care less about dedicated portable gaming unless the Switch somehow cannibalizes PS4 sales (it hasn't, and it won't).

Wow, Dragonquest X Wii U version outsold the Switch version

@Angelic_Lapras_King true, it should have been DLC, (20 $ if not free). We're not in 1998 anymore

@dimi Think the probably with that is we'd have such high level Pokemon by then in our Sun/Moon games (Either trained or transferred via Bank) that any story DLC would be breezed through in no time. Can't make the opponents' Pokemon the level 100 mark either as that would put later adapters on a grinding marathon.

I think at the very least, these games should have been sequels akin to B2W2, not just a 3rd version times 2. Thing about 3rd versions is the older generations used to last longer, here we get the 3rd version just a year after SM came out when the games and story are still quite fresh in our memories.

Oh well, at least hopefully gen 8 on Switch will be followed by lovely 4th gen remakes before anymore 3rd versions/sequels..... X3

Woah. Not used to seeing Xbox sales in 4 digits, even if it's a week old. Thank God it's back to three digits, seemed odd.

Btw GG Wii U, shows that the Wii U has some life in it yet (at least in Japan)

@Angelic_Lapras_King i still play platinum and i don't see much the point of a 4th gen (DS) remake. I would prefer a pokemon yellow re-imagining -instead of a remake- with new content and secrets. Lets not forget that Firered/leafgreen were on GBA.

@dimi Well when you think about it, you can't play D/P on a Switch, much like you couldnt play Ruby/Sapphire on a 3DS, Gold/Silver on a DS, etc. If the remake pattern carries on, it'll be Gen 4 next.

As for Yellow, I think Gen 1's been milked enough lately, what with the 20th anniversary last year, Alolan Forms, RBY Virtual Console releases, and the anime's 20th anniversary and film with the new movie....

The thing about the Xbox One X sales are, that 1300 last week and the 100 this week were probably Japan's full allotment for the entire country. It looks really good for Microsoft to say, "Xbox One X Sold Out in Japan!" Even if they've sold less than 1500 of the things since launch.

@westman98
tl;dr Sony actually likes money.

So, let's play this theory out for a minute. Sony, a company that is teetering on returning to gains with barely profitable divisions has a great success with PS4 (and camera sensors) and is not interested in more money from that division. Sure, there's money right there on the table. Piles of cash just sitting there being steadily taken by Nintendo out in the open with the way to grab it explored and proven. Sony has been down the portable path before and had mixed results, meaning it does have the experience, but — no. Sony doesn't like money, or safe investments and "couldn't care less about dedicated portable gaming unless it somehow cannibalizes PS4 sales..."

So, it seems you are suggesting that Sony can only react to sales lost. How did it get into the console business, in the first place, then?

If you'd argue that the company is tightening and closing in on profits and is pressured not to make even semi-risky investments, that has some merit and would be a good reason we don't see it happen.

But, then, there's Sony VR which is evidence they are willing to stick their necks out with their success.

I'd argue that looking out some years, the next "generation" of dedicated home consoles has some serious issues to overcome now that there is the half step release for both Sony and Microsoft, and diminishing returns on graphical and processing enhancements make each generation harder to stand out.

It seems that the portable and hybrid space has more opportunity for generational leaps that are notable and marketable.

Maybe Sony intends to keep advancing VR as a way to stand out. That is another technology which has many big steps ahead of it. Don't really see why Sony wouldn't want both, though.

I will admit that end of 2018 would be maybe too impressive a turnaround for new hardware, though, and perhaps Sony is tired of the Nintendo portable beat down.

Side note: Switch cannot "cannibalize" PS4 sales because they are from different companies. Switch can cannibalize 3DS and Wii U sales, PS4 Pro can cannibalize PS4 sales but it's not cannibalism if you're different companies/animals. At least, this how the term has been traditionally used as a caution for internal product development t for at least 30 years. <a rel="nofollow" class="external" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibalization_(marketing)">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibalization_(marketing))</a> (Sorry about that ugly link, the parser here doesn't like parenthesis at the end of urls)