Japanese Charts: Rune Factory 5 Beats Miitopia To Number One

Very nice to see! Hopefully Rune Factory 5 does well over here too, it’s always been a niche series but the Switch audience seems to love these sorts of games.

Come on guys, give us a release date already.

I wonder what's the feedback from RF5, is it good?

I'm glad for Rune Factory 5! It looks like a pretty solid game, I'm looking forward to it.

Rune factory already has 2/3 of Resident Evil sales?

Wow.

Yeah what about those on the other side of the seas????? And nice to see the sales and consoles numbers are keeping paces even as people said oh they they have supply issues but for some odd reason Switch is still being produced. Go Figure

Way to go, Rune Factory! OK, Marvelous, now get Hashimoto on the Story of Seasons patches! =>)

@SwitchForce I mean, Nintendo is the one who said they can't keep up with demand, not just random people, and if you truly look at the demand of the consoles, the systems aren't selling like they would've by now.

compare monster hunter rise to RE VILLAGE. . three weeks in a row at number 1. RE has fallen to 5th on the ps4 and SHOCK. The ps5 version fell out of the top 10 already. think capcom is still full force for sony in japan?
MH rise has had 6 presentations stories has had 2. rise is getting huge updates. CAPCOM did 3 for Re 8 and only 2 updates.
And what does Capcom have planned for ps5? Ace Attorney is coming to PS4 and Switch, and not the PS5. Switch has this year gotten Rise, Stories 2 ghost and goblins and now Ace Attorney. PS5 IS NOT GETTING ANY OF THESE, for those who think Japanese sales charts mean nothing? If japanese companies start abondaning the PS5 in Japan, it will hurt their lineup. EA and Activision alone. Sony is ignoring indie devs and Japanese devs. The PS5 cannot last on that.

From bankruptcy to number 1 in debut week, what a comeback! I love this series and this whole situation is almost surreal to see, in a really good way of course.

No MK8D....maybe it’s finally slowing down and we can finally get MK9!

WESTERN RELASE DATE....... please

Miitopia would had done better if it wasn't just a lame port, also poor Resident Evil Village up there all alone on that chart as the only PS4 game wishing that it was a Switch game instead. Nice to finally see Rune Factory 5 rise to the top, can't wait for that to hit west soon.

So I am assuming Nintendo is building a new pool to fill with yen?

So next week Switch will have most likely sold 20 million units in Japan alone. That's quite insane. This beast cannot be stopped.

What a great week for the Switch. It is doing so well. Rune Factory 5 is a huge hit. That is all great news. 💚💚 I am glad Miitopia did better than expected.

Can not wait for it to get localized.

If I didn't know better, I'd say this is yet more proof against Nintendo releasing a new model Switch so soon. With the current one showing no signs of slowing down, why would they need to release an upgrade?

On the other hand, I've heard some of the parts that Nintendo uses in the original Switch may be going out of production and that could be a reason for releasing the new model despite the roaring success of the current machines.

Also, I think people need to set aside their doom and gloom arguments about Sony in Japan. We need to remember, the Switch had a bunch of dry months after it launched too. We got BOTW and a few AA titles at launch, then we went months until the next major release. Wait for E3 and see what Sony has coming and then judge.

Even though I prefer Nintendo vastly to Sony or MS, I think it's better for people to have more options, not less. I don't want Sony or MS to fail.

Not a big surprise for me.

Yessss, Rune Factory! Been having fun watching people play it. Hoping the frame rate gets smoothed out. Very glad they kept it pretty similar to 4.

@Yosher and people said the Switch will flop lol

@tntswitchfan68 cracks me up that every week you go on a rant about the ps5 and how bad its doing in Japan! I thought this was a Nintendo site. I go on push Square and they talk about PlayStation, don't see people mentioning the switch. Strange obsession you have.
I'm sure the next mainline monster hunter will be on ps5. And like I said last week, why would they do a ps5 version of ace attorney when it will play the ps4 version? It's not like they need to add ray tracing eh. Sony don't need Japanese games to survive, their business model is exclusives and the main 3rd party games that sell the most world wide, like your CODS, battlefield, Fifa and the like. Apart from a select few, most Japanese games aren't massive sellers. But they do have some big deals coming from Square Enix. Anyway you only have to look at the amount of games Sony sold last year compared to the rest to know they are in great shape.

But it's great to see the switch still doing so well, I do hope Nintendo start using all this money to start cracking out some great new games and new IPs.

Rise still doing well! Must be time for a new global sales goal.

Need US release of Rune Factory 5.

@Ulanda nInTeNdOoMeD and all that.

Though to be fair, they did have a lot to make up for after the Wii U, so you can't blame people for being sceptical.

Never gave any of the rune factory games a shot, but they seem to be decent games. It's sort of like a spin off of harvest moon or something?

If Rune Factory 5 wouldn’t run like poo, I’d gladly buy it.

But that’s an awful frame rate: https://youtu.be/DVFKgVvmKOw

You mean Glitch Factory 5
I don't think it'll stay on top for very long lol

@Lando_ That's almost as smooth as Trials of Mana on Switch and I love that game so I don't think that framerate would bother me that much.

@Serialsid Rant? The PS5 is in the Japanes charts. Why do so many on here get defensive or upset when I point out the facts?

@VoidofLight Nintendo is the one who said they can't keep up with demand, not just random people
Not keeping up with demand is far different from we don't have enough hardware to make them. Two different problems.

@SwitchForce They can't keep up with demand because they can't manufacture enough. There's an article on the site about it, read that if you wish to know.

@tntswitchfan68 forget those Trolls it hurts their bungwhole when you tell them the truth and it hurts.

@VoidofLight again making enough is different then having supply chain issues. You can find and read anything one wants but the fact is Nintendo Switch has more demands for it.

@SwitchForce They can't make enough because there are supply chain issues. There's a literal chip shortage going on effecting the whole industry right now.

@SwitchForce I know. Thank you.

@tntswitchfan68 what facts? That sony isn't prioritising Japan? Shocker! Most of their business now is in the west! Most of their exclusives are catered for western audiences. That capcom haven't released 20 games on the ps5 yet so it's doomed! Never mind that from SE they have FF7 part 2, FF 16 and a new FF game that's apparently a Souls like game, all exclusive to Sony. That they have just sponsored Asobu, a community hub for Japanese indies, that should help get their games on the platform.
As someone else said, it's early days, they are sending most of their stock abroad (amazon UK apparently had 60k in one go). I'm sure they want to do well in Japan but it's not their priority. The switch has the country locked down, hell nearly 25% of all switches in the wild are in Japan.

@SwitchForce what truths? I'm not hurt in the slightest, I have all 3 machines and play them all. Sony not doing well in Japan means nothing to their bottom line, you just like to think it does. I find it funny you think I'm a troll, I bet I've spent more money on Nintendo products and games over the years than you have. I just don't kneel at their feet, they are just another billion dollar company that wants to make money. I play games not corporations.

@Serialsid That is the point and it is not a smart move. Japan is a bog gaming market and not getting a lot of Japanese support will hurt whether or not Sony fans want to admit it.

@tntswitchfan68 we'll have to agree to disagree. Yes Japan is a big gaming market, but it does seem to favour handheld gaming. Sony makes the majority of its money abroad, so it is prioritising that, which makes good business sense. Does it lose some of its soul, maybe, but companies have to evolve to the market place.
And for a Nintendo fan that should be great to hear, more Japanese developers will look to the switch. More great games for the switch.

@Yosher that is true, but it is always funny how they fall onto their noses once they're wrong lol

@Serialsid That is cool. I know, but I still stand by what I believe. And, it is good for Nintendo.