Mario Party Superstars

Famitsu's Japanese chart figures are now in for the week ending 16th January, revealing that Mario Party Superstars has once again taken top spot.

The game sold a further 22,108 physical copies to stay in first place, with Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl shifting 19,129 copies between them to land in second. Once again, the entire top ten is made up of Switch games, with plenty of the console's evergreen hits being present and correct as usual.

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


  1. [NSW] Mario Party Superstars (Nintendo, 10/29/21) – 22,108 (793,683)
  2. [NSW] Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl (The Pokémon Company, 11/19/21) – 19,129 (2,454,455)
  3. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 12/07/18) – 18,505 (4,713,464)
  4. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 17,684 (4,373,799)
  5. [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 12,986 (2,475,523)
  6. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo, 03/20/20) – 11,948 (7,149,014)
  7. [NSW] Big Brain Academy: Brain vs. Brain (Nintendo, 12/03/21) – 10,895 (223,428)
  8. [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure (Nintendo, 10/18/19) – 10,064 (3,044,438)
  9. [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! (Konami, 11/19/20) – 9,864 (2,570,479)
  10. [NSW] Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics (Nintendo, 06/05/20) – 6,845 (906,012)

The Switch continues to lead in the hardware charts, too, with the OLED model being the most popular. Here are this week's figures, followed by lifetime sales in brackets:

  1. Switch OLED Model – 48,824 (993,807)
  2. Switch – 29,131 (17,867,356)
  3. Switch Lite – 16,568 (4,497,478)
  4. PlayStation 5 – 12,996 (1,090,990)
  5. Xbox Series S – 1,848 (57,446)
  6. PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 1,457 (204,152)
  7. New 2DS LL (including 2DS) – 489 (1,180,714)
  8. Xbox Series X – 419 (74,265)
  9. PlayStation 4 – 17 (7,819,277)

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[source famitsu.com, via gematsu.com]