Famitsu's Japanese chart figures are now in for the two weeks spanning 20th December to 2nd January, revealing that Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl are still performing very strongly indeed at the top of the pile.
The two games sold a further 231,275 retail copies combined in Japan over the holidays, taking their total physical sales count to almost 2.4 million. Once again, they're followed by a top ten made up exclusively of Nintendo Switch titles, with Mario Party Superstars coming in second place with 206,145 physical sales over the period.
Here are the top ten (first numbers are estimated sales for the last two weeks combined, followed by total sales):
- [NSW] Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl (The Pokémon Company, 11/19/21) – 231,275 (2,393,972)
- [NSW] Mario Party Superstars (Nintendo, 10/29/21) – 206,145 (725,701)
- [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 104,540 (4,323,883)
- [NSW] Big Brain Academy: Brain vs. Brain (Nintendo, 12/03/21) – 89,970 (191,786)
- [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 12/07/18) – 83,491 (4,662,764)
- [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! (Konami, 11/19/20) – 78,350 (2,542,546)
- [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo, 03/20/20) – 78,311 (7,116,432)
- [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 74,644 (2,440,427)
- [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure (Nintendo, 10/18/19) – 46,111 (3,016,499)
- [NSW] Pokémon Sword and Shield (The Pokémon Company, 11/15/19) – 35,411 (4,277,522)
Unsurprisingly, given the recent stats regarding the console's dominance in Japan throughout 2021, the Switch is also leading the hardware charts, with the OLED model selling particularly well over the past couple of weeks. Here are this week's figures, followed by lifetime sales in brackets:
- Switch OLED Model – 190,111 (875,765)
- Switch – 116,919 (17,797,974)
- Switch Lite – 86,950 (4,451,688)
- PlayStation 5 – 62,764 (1,069,179)
- PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 9,300 (200,833)
- Xbox Series S – 1,688 (55,520)
- New 2DS LL (including 2DS) – 670 (1,179,616)
- Xbox Series X – 471 (73,661)
- PlayStation 4 – 68 (7,819,245)
Any surprises this week? Let us know in the comments.
[source famitsu.com, via gematsu.com]
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400,000 Nintendo consoles
75,000 Sony
2,000 Microsoft
I wonder how the ratios look for the rest of the world?
lol, even just the Switch lite is outselling the competition. Combined.
According to Wikipédia, it says Minecraft has sold 2.8 million by December 2021 world wide. In Japan alone it has sold 2.4 million by January 2022.
Knowing how popular the series is, no way these numbers add up. I like looking at the numbers and wish I knew where it lands and if it hit 10 million sales. Especially as its 3rd party on a nintendo console.
On other news so happy Superstars is doing great, love that game and hoping for some DLC in the future for it
Glad Big Brain Academy is still on a roll.
Hm... Can I say NintenDOMINATE? Ha...
I wonder when games makers will start getting a decent return on making games for the PS5, surely there isn't enough in the world for them to make any money yet?
@dew12333 there's enough PS5 sold in rest of the world (near 17mil) to make profit. PS5 games outsell PS4 games already, its not only the installed numbers but most of PS5 owners -under these circuimstances- are hardcore gamers
Happy to see Mario Party doing well!
I really REALLY hope the good sales for Superstars will lead to free DLC, if we had just a few more boards, characters, and minigames, this would objectively be the best Mario Party due to the QOL improvements and crisp graphics.
So 3 weeks and the OLED model will have out sold PS5.......shortages, yeah but wow.
@Bailey5000 there's definitely a problem with the numbers. The 2.8m number on Wikipedia seems strange, as it indicates 2.3m lifetime in Japan (citing an article that claims to reference Famitsu numbers), and 500,000 in Europe, no other sales worldwide being indicated. That European number looks wrong on its face as the article it's cited from just says it's sold more than 500,000 in Europe. Other articles (I saw one in October, 2021) do indicate lifetime worldwide Minecraft Switch sales around that 2.5m number, so where the problem is seems unclear. My guess is that Famitsu has incorrectly given Minecraft's total worldwide sales as its Japanese sales, but it's hard to say where the problem is.
We should all know by now that Japan loves its handheld gaming and nintendo games. Hopefully this scares nintendo into keeping the switch hybrid design for all its futures consoles
@dimi there's enough PS5 sold in rest of the world (near 17mil) to make profit.
Where those numbers coming from? They were selling at a loss to start with how did it go profit besides the Scalpers.
Top 10 is Switch. You have to wonder why does a UnderPowered Hybrid beat PS5, Xbox at something they should be leading with all their GPU power behind them.
@SwitchForce because all that GPU power can only impress when the machine actually leaves sleep mode.
Animal crossing at 7 million sold in Japan, such a beast.
@Bailey5000 Click on the link, a 'c' next to the 2.81 million number. There you find a break down of the sales which are just all confirmed sales. We never got any total numbers. It's definitely over 15 million worldwide in the Switch.
@UltimateOtaku91 I don’t think "scares" is the right word. They are making money hand over fist. They have no incentive to drop the hybrid model as it is now
Who would have guessed, am I right?
@Sunface There is no problem. The editors who added it in the list just zook all publicly known numbers from reliable sourced and put them there. This obviously aren't the total worldwide sales of Minecraft on Switch. And Famitsu doesn't have anything to do with Wikipedia, I don't get your last sentence. Famitsu's number is just the weekly physical sales added up since it's release.
@Bizzyb @Bizzyb yeah you're right sorry, maybe the word "persuaded" would of been better
Can't keep Momotaro Dentetsu down.
@nhSnork or what happens when you unplug the xbox/psx then you got no Power.....No portable xbox/psx.
The OLED is gonna outsell the PS5 on its own. Amazing.
“Don’t get too excited everyone. Even though this is the millionth time in a row that Nintendo has dominated the market, it’s only because no one can find the systems they really want (PS5 and XSX)!”
Did I do it right?
@SwitchForce or the many related stories where the console gets "unplugged" by a sudden blackout. All the reports where the familiar gloomy moments of "crap, when did I save last?" turn to the realization of the in-game music still quietly playing from the dock. Hybrid format is really a game changer in more ways than we may even immediately think of.
Suddenly PS5 sales way better than XBOX Series X/S sales in Japan.
XBOX brand is dead in Japan.
Microsoft must have made more money with Minecraft NSW, than with having their own consoles at the Japanese market.
And of course, another reminder that Japanese people buy game hardware for the games. Western audiences buy game hardware for hardware.
Idk why people are mad Switch is selling well. It really doesn't affect your life if you don't want one.
According to the VGChart, the Switch just need a few more thousands of units sold to beat the Wii and then it's PS1 and PS4 next.
https://www.vgchartz.com/analysis/platform_totals/
Awesome! Such is the Power of Nintendo!
@SwitchForce oh you meant profit from hardware, thought u meant from games. Ok thats another thing
@IronMan30
Because some peoples were jealous to see their beloved video game machines got beated in term of hardware and software sales.
They felt Nintendo Switch was a threat for them.
Update: As of 1-08-2022, the Nintendo Switch had beat the Wii in the VGChart hardware sales chart. It's only a matter of time until it trumps PS1 as well.
https://www.vgchartz.com/analysis/platform_totals
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