Japanese Charts: Monster Hunter Rise Stays Top In A Nintendo-Dominated Top Ten

The Switch Lite alone sold more than double of every other console combined... regular Switch aside. Nintendo has created a monster.

3DS first 14 weeks of years 5, 6 and 7 combined: 1.794k

Switch year 5: 1.880k

Looks like the attraction of a portable Monster Hunter has really given Switch Lite sales a lift. It isn’t often that near parity to OG Switch.

Outriders, though? Ouch... Square can’t even blame Game Pass for those figures, given how few Xboxes are in the wild in Japan.

Nintendo ripping up that sales chart! Good on MH keeping that top spot. Best game ive played in a long while despite kicking my ass countless times.

@SwitchplayerJohn I think that's pretty much it - military bases...the thing is even Gamepass, which is praised widely in the west, still offers pretty much nothing to Japanese people.

@Yosher I mean, yeah, but by the time the lite came out the majority of people already had a PS4 and Xbox One and people stopped buying them as the new consoles were coming out.

Dont get me wrong i love my Switch its a fantastic system, but its hard to compare the 3 system sales

It's pretty embarrassing I find that nothing for the PS5 ever breaks into the top 10

@lewiscallum

Maybe Japanese gamers are beginning to realize Sony doesn't care about their region?

@lewiscallum well, FFXVI certainly will. And way before that, presumably RE Village as well.

@lewiscallum could be worse you could be a Xbox owner.

@nhSnork for sure. They've just not gotten off to the strongest start

@Lord valid lol

So that could mean that MHR has shipped another 5th of last weeks sales, this week. 6million sales total after week 2

Outsiders sales, as far as physical games goes at least.... are unbelievably low in Japan

@earthinheritor But these sales figures also include even newer consoles than the Switch (Lite), being the PS5 and Xbox series. I dunno how big the console shortage still is for these though (well, mostly PS5, Japan never has been an Xbox country) but it's still kinda funny to see that only one variant of the Switch is outselling everything else that isn't the Switch in more than double the sales of everything else combined.

I wonder what it’s like to be a huge Xbox fan in Japan.

@outsider83 lonely 😂

@outsider83 how Wii u owners felt so not too long ago

Those xbox sales though 😬
More people living in my street
...

@Yosher There is still a major shortage of both system. There is a world wide shortage of silicone chips. There was likely a stock pile of the lite to keep selling but the Ps5 and Xbox being new tech there wouldnt have been.

Poor Microsoft. They've tried so hard for so long to get the Japanese to love their consoles, and nothing works. Not even their ultra-aggressive strategy during the 360 era worked.

Weird to see Switch Lite sales almost reaching their big brother. I wonder if that's down to a shortage on the bigger one, or if Monster Hunter is bringing in the portable-only crowd?

I'm glad to be one of those to purchase a Nintendo Switch Lite (even though I own a Nintendo Switch) and Monster Hunter Rise. This is my first MH game and I am in love with this game. In fact, it might actually be my favorite Switch game of all time. I'm genuinely addicted to this game.

WOW Monster Hunter Rise is selling like a Nintendo exclusive.

Anyone not suprised by this at this point in time? Alot of NinteDoomed fandom was say how bad the game would be for releasing on Switch but obviously they were only reading their own tea leaves. Oh and I got the CE with all 3 Amiibos as well with the extra dragon just as a extra to keep around.

[NSW] Splatoon 2 (Nintendo, 07/21/17) – 6,027 (3,831,996)
And look at this one released in 2017 and still in the charts???

@Giancarlothomaz Right now it is a Switch-only exclusive, but it'll be released on PC in 2022

Monster Hunter Rise digital sales should be at 800,000-900,000 copies given that is has shipped 2.5+ million total retail + digital copies in Japan.

I picked up a copy of Monster Hunter Rise at Walmart earlier this week while grabbing a couple other items that I urgently needed. They had two copies left; the employee who retrieved it from the game case stated he just stocked eight copies that morning! You know a game is a hot item when it becomes hard to find in one's own piece of nowhere. XD Unless it's a limited edition or a store exclusive, games typically aren't too hard to find where I live.

Five million copies shipped is amazing, but I'm looking forward to seeing some actual sales numbers before long.

@Ralizah I honestly don't get why they even bother with Japan. I think they could save some money if they stopped selling the Xbox in Japan and devoted those resources (which are wasted quite frankly) to regions like North America and Europe where the Xbox does well.

@outsider83 I get the impression that most Xbox sales in Japan are to Americans or Westerners who are loyal to the brand.

There are alot of American service members over there.

What happen to the PS4 Pro or did they just combined it with the base PS4's numbers cause it's too low?

What does "shipped" actually mean these days when there's digital copies available 24/7?
Does "shipped" mean physical copies actually shipped + number of digital copies sold?

I know I'm a bit obsessed with especially Capcom's sales numbers, and follow their quartely announcement of how many copies their platinum (million sellers) titles have sold LTD (always look forward to that - yeah, I'm a bit weird).

It's just that I find it interesting to see how my favourite games are doing. And no other companies really seem to do it (probably something to do with business - it's not generally seen as a good thing to reveal to much to your competitors, I think).

@Krull To be fair Outriders was never to sell well in Japan anyway considering its a very much a western game that has a tone and visual side what Japanese gamers tend to avoid.

I think Xbox was doomed at the very start of the first console in Japan. Microsoft just sorta brute forced their way into the market and what they had to show from the very start were Western games.

It pleases me to see the disc-PS5 outselling the digital-PS5 by so much.

@SwitchplayerJohn Never thought of that before, but it is totally people in the service buying that console.

@eatdogs Yeah it wasn't until the Xbox 360 they payed a bunch of money for Japanese developed exclusives like Blue Dragon. But it didn't go anywhere.

@Dang69 I was really surprised by how many shmups the 360 got in Japan. Didn't make sense to me. They got a ton of Cave shmups like Dodonpachi and Mushihimesama...

Outriders is excellent, really enjoying the game. Shame more people are not hopping onto Gamepass, as a long time Nintendo fan & day one owner of a Switch have to say I'm honestly blown away by the Xbox Series X and Gamepass. They have a ton of indies, sports games, shooters, AAA games, etc I held out on getting for the Switch and it paid off. Perfect pair for me (don't have to spend $25 on Narita Boy for example), will get a PS5 Digital some time down the road at a lower price / smaller size for the Sony exclusives but keep cross-platform on the XSX. Absolutely fantastic time to be a gamer! Wish Xbox had more penetration in that market but it's doing well in others. Totally fine, poor MSFT 😂

@Torterra i aware of this, i following closely the game news.

@WiltonRoots,

Yes the Xbox is as popular as a rattlesnake in a lucky dip, in Japan.

@johnvboy About as welcome as a fart in a space suit.

@WiltonRoots,

Then again looking at those figures I wish I was there, as it looks like you would have a much better chance of buying a PS5 there, that store in Tokyo where they were pushing each other, looks like a PR stunt to me.

@WiltonRoots

Ha! I was watching a youtube clip of Billy Connolly saying that on Parkinsons last night!

Monster Hunter Rise's massive success gives me hope for later potential collaborations between Nintendo and Capcom. I'm hoping that at least one of those happen to be remakes of Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons.

@TheFullAndy Yep that's where I nicked it from...you know Angie Dickinson was his that night...

@WiltonRoots

I'd say so! Her reaction was brilliant!

Nintendo Switch is on a roll ！！！

@shgamer Yes. Shipped includes number of physical copies sent to retail plus all digital sales. The reason publishers talk about shipped rather than sold is because its all the same on a publisher level. If a retailer orders 100k copies the publisher gets paid upfront or recieves a partial payment for those shipped units.

@ModdedInkling
The director of the Oracle games is now working at Nintendo as the director of the mainline flagship Zelda games (Skyward Sword, Breath of the Wild 1 and 2).

Grezzo will be the ones handling any Zelda remakes.

Pretty tired looking list that tbh. Minecraft, mario kart, animal crossing, ring fit adventure, smash, splatoon - great games but been around for a while now

@Kilamanjaro yeah Gamepass is where the future of gaming really is. The value for money, ability to stream games on any device and the ever growing library.

Gamepass is becoming unavoidable for any gamer.

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