Metroid Dread

Famitsu's Japanese chart figures are now in for the week ending 17th October, revealing that Metroid Dread has fallen to second place in its second week on sale.

The game sold another 22,221 physical copies in the region this week, but that was no match for the incoming Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Hinokami Chronicles which sold more than 100,000 copies across PS4 and PS5. Dread did, however, fend off the threat of several other newcomers, including Bandai Namco's Back 4 Blood.

Elsewhere, Monark entered the top ten for Switch, landing in sixth place in its opening week.

Here are the top ten (first numbers are this week's estimated sales, followed by total sales):

  1. [PS4] Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Hinokami Chronicles (Aniplex, 10/14/21) – 94,849 (New)
  2. [NSW] Metroid Dread (Nintendo, 10/08/21) – 22,221 (109,019)
  3. [PS5] Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba: The Hinokami Chronicles (Aniplex, 10/14/21) – 20,187 (New)
  4. [PS4] The Idolmaster: Starlit Season (Bandai Namco, 10/14/21) – 15,597 (New)
  5. [PS4] Back 4 Blood (Warner Bros. Games, 10/12/21) – 13,112 (New)
  6. [NSW] Monark (FuRyu, 10/14/21) – 10,521 (New)
  7. [PS4] Far Cry 6 (Ubisoft, 10/07/21) – 9,917 (44,136)
  8. [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 9,648 (2,234,813)
  9. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 9,615 (4,095,124)
  10. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 12/07/18) – 9,402 (4,460,356)

In the hardware charts, the new Switch OLED has remained (narrowly) on top. After shifting 138,409 units in its opening week, sales are down to 32,494 this time around. Here are this week's figures, followed by lifetime sales in brackets:

  1. Switch OLED Model – 32,494 (170,903)
  2. Switch – 30,869 (17,229,015)
  3. PlayStation 5 – 16,580 (939,509)
  4. Switch Lite – 9,581 (4,098,365)
  5. Xbox Series S – 3,553 (41,860)
  6. PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 2,129 (180,103)
  7. Xbox Series X – 634 (64,918)
  8. PlayStation 4 – 613 (7,814,080)
  9. New 2DS LL (including 2DS) – 373 (1,175,323)

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[source famitsu.com, via gematsu.com]