The Snack World Scoffs Its Way To Number One In The Japanese Charts

No console purchases this week?

What does it mean?

From pushsquare which posted all the details yesterday. What's going on with NL lately. VERY slow to post news, like insanely slow. No staff or something?

http://www.pushsquare.com/news/2018/04/japanese_sales_charts_ps4_falls_further_as_japan_suffers_seriously_slow_week

Hardware sales

Switch – 36,308 (40,016)
PlayStation 4 – 9,491 (9,530)
New 2DS LL – 4,564 (5,006)
New 3DS LL – 3,366 (3,865)
PlayStation Vita – 2,921 (2,929)
PlayStation 4 Pro – 1,473 (4,970)
2DS – 616 (551)
Xbox One – 55 (72)
Xbox One X – 17 (47)

Edit: also, what's Snack world? A little blurb on what the game is, in the article might help.

Edit2: here we go.... https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/01/the_food-obsessed_rpg_the_snack_world_trejarers_to_cook_up_a_storm_on_switch

Why is it called "Snack World"?

Not the biggest numbers coming from Japan. They are down quite a bit from last year as well. Don’t think snack world is a system seller

Weird, it seems like there's some sort of supply issue with the PS4. Plucky old Xbox One X bringing up the rear as always, and decent numbers there for Kirby.

I want The Snack World in the west!

It's Level-5 doing what it does best. Bring Snack World, Yokai Watch 4 and a new Little Battlers Experience (LBX)

Who broke Nintendo Life?? This is 2 days late!

@readyletsgo thanks for posting the rest of the info. Maybe Nintendo life is busy reviewing all the indie releases. I know I am waiting for a manticore review myself (hint hint). @dom.

and nintendo life slides further from relevance week by week, very sad

@PuppyToucher Watch this space

@readyletsgo Hey mate, we've covered Snack World plenty of times already, it's not practical to explain the concept of each game mentioned in every instance. I'm sure you're capable of navigating our website

@readyletsgo this in formation is made available on Gematsu.com around 15.00 hours CET every Wednesday so NL is very slow.

@JaxonH Honestly that sounds like the holy trinity of Level 5!

Still find it incredible That is vita continues to sell so steadily

Meh, Snack World is an old game, it's the port of a 3DS game that was launched last year.

@lemonjellydude Switch has made people realised how good portable gaming can be... so PS Vita is selling again.

@Nincompoop
Snack World Switch version is a Polished old games in HD.
Take a look.

@ThatNyteDaez Fantasy Life. Screw Layton, FL is one of the best games ever made, Level 5 or otherwise!

Seeing Cities Skylines on PS4 REALLY makes me want it on Switch now... I really liked it on Steam and was actually just thinking the other day that I would like a city building sim like Cities Skylines on Switch. I have no reason to buy it on PS4 since I have it on Steam but man, getting it on Switch - that portability factor would make me double dip in a heartbeat!

Also Splatoon 2 is evergreen here in Japan. It is the go-to title I hear my kids talk about all the time. They draw Splatoon squids and inklings in art class. They doodle them on homework. They lose their minds when I bring my Splatoon 2 file to class holding their homework worksheets. In-fact, I had to stop using that file in the elementary school classes because half the class would rush to the front of the room to get a better look!

Next week's charts are going to be a lot more interesting with Labo releasing today.

@Dom oh absolutely I am. Which I did when I saw that it was at no.1 on the Japanese charts. It's in bold in the article but not linked to anything, like other games in all other articles on your site.

Might be an idea to link it to the 'game page' since it's not released outside japan and people can quickly find out what it is, on your site, as apposed to going to a different site to find out what it is and why it's at no.1.

Of course I don't expect you, or any site for that matter to put full details about each game in the charts 🙄, but when it's a No1 best selling game in Japan, a little mention of what it is, can be helpful for your readers.

Just an opinion, don't shoot me.

@Nincompoop wouldn't it be great if Sony relaunched the psvita with a few extra buttons, bit of extra power maybe and a dock. I'd buy it!

Seems like a no brainer.

They could use it as a stop gab between PS4 and ps5 for a couple years.

@NEStalgia I love Fantasy Life. The story was so cute and heartwarming. Some story segments actually made me misty. Truly one of the gems of the 3DS.

I'd love to see a localized version of The Snack World here in the west. But I'm not sure who Level-5 and Nintendo would contract to manufacture the toys-to-life portion.

Impressive launch sales for The Snack World Gold. The game sold 95,000 copies at launch on the 3DS last year, so the Switch version selling 35,000 copies at launch is pretty darn good for an enhanced port.

These PS4 sales are really underwhelming. Selling sub-15,000 units weekly is not something I'd imagine seeing after Monster Hunter's massive launch in January.

Trying not to buy this. I have other games to beat...no don't do it....don't!

@Nincompoop "old". Is the age of a game is really that important a factor? Did something happen between last year and this that changed the face of the industry and all games to make some that originated before this year less fun and worthwhile? I mean, I'm chuckling to myself about it, but it might be worthwhile to adjust your standards a bit, because it's likely that you are seriously missing out.