Mario

Super Mario Party has just faced its second week in stores, and Japanese figures (from 8th - 14th October) report that its sales have remained relatively high, despite dropping to second place in the charts.

The new rival taking over that prized top spot is, of course, the newly-released Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII, selling a very impressive 228,775 retail sales in the region. For the sake of comparison, Super Mario Party managed 142,868 sales in its first week, with this week's total at a lower number of 63,451.

Elsewhere, things have been rather quiet in the Japanese charts, with no new major Nintendo releases to speak of. The Switch's heavy-hitters are still sitting in and around the top of the charts, however, as is usually the case.

Here's a look at the top 20 (first numbers are this week's sales, followed by total sales in brackets):

1) [PS4] Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII (SIE, 10/12/18) – 228,775 (New)
2) [NSW] Super Mario Party (Nintendo, 10/05/18) – 63,451 (206,319)
3) [PS4] Assassin’s Creed Odyssey (Limited Edition Included) (Ubisoft, 10/05/18) – 19,037 (64,204)
4) [PS4] Warriors Orochi 4 (Limited Editions Included) (Koei Tecmo, 09/27/18) – 13,224 (138,060)
5) [NSW] Minecraft: Nintendo Switch Edition (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 10,402 (326,018)
6) [NSW] Splatoon 2 (Bundle Version Included) (Nintendo, 07/21/17) – 8,767 (2,663,744)
7) [PS4] Varnir of the Dragon Star: Ecdysis of the Dragon (Compile Heart, 10/11/18) – 8,652 (New)
8) [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 8,352 (1,797,018)
9) [PS4] Marvel’s Spider-Man (Bundle Version Included) (SIE, 09/07/18) – 7,590 (286,668)
10) [PS4] FIFA 19 (Limited Editions Included) (Electronic Arts, 09/28/18) – 5,355 (76,553)
11) [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Limited Edition Included) (Nintendo, 03/03/17) – 5,091 (1,134,189)
12) [PS4] The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV ~The End of Saga~ (Limited Editions Included) (Falcom, 09/27/18) – 4,768 (101,961)
13) [NSW] Dragon Ball FighterZ (Bandai Namco, 09/27/18) – 4,496 (35,885)
14) [3DS] Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon (The Pokémon Company, 11/17/17) – 4,032 (1,742,905)
15) [NSW] Super Mario Odyssey (Bundle Version Included) (Nintendo, 10/27/17) – 3,504 (1,828,729)
16) [NSW] FIFA 19 (Limited Editions Included) (Electronic Arts, 09/28/18) – 3,382 (24,820)
17) [NSW] Warriors Orochi 4 (Limited Editions Included) (Koei Tecmo, 09/27/18) – 3,333 (34,014)
18) [NSW] Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum ‘n’ Fun! (Bandai Namco, 07/19/18) – 3,258 (213,085)
19) [PS4] Astro Bot: Rescue Mission (SIE, 10/04/18) – 3,196 (8,160)
20) [NSW] Kirby Star Allies (Nintendo, 03/16/18) – 2,971 (629,157)

The Switch is still top of the hardware sales this week by a comfortable margin, although the PS4 Pro has seen a significant boost, no doubt thanks to Call of Duty's latest offering. Here are this week's figures, with last week's in brackets.

1) Switch – 44,070 (45,762)
2) PlayStation 4 Pro – 15,442 (2,490)
3) PlayStation 4 – 10,030 (11,575)
4) New 2DS LL – 4,665 (4,788)
5) PlayStation Vita – 2,506 (2,635)
6) New 3DS LL – 1,976 (2,073)
7) 2DS – 305 (535)
8) Xbox One X – 157 (747)
9) Xbox One – 76 (242)

< Last week's charts

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[source gematsu.com]