
The monster has been slain! In this week's Japanese charts — shared by Gematsu and published in Famitsu — Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak has lost the top spot courtesy of a group of people all from different time periods.
Live A Live, Square Enix's HD-2D remake of its 1994 cult classic, has stormed into first place on its debut with an impressive 71,137 units sold in the week of 18th to 24th July. That's more than double the game's next-closest competition, Nintendo Switch Sports — which has been doing extremely solid sales numbers since it entered the charts in April/May.
Monster Hunter Rise + Sunbreak has had to settle for fourth this week, though the top five are all extremely close together in sales — all selling between 21,000 and 25,000 units each. This week's only other new entry is Koei Tecmo's latest entry in the Nobunaga franchise, Nobunaga’s Ambition: Rebirth, which was released on both PS4 and Switch.
Outside of that big shake-up in the top five, the rest of the chart features our usual favourites. So let's have a little look at this week's top ten:
- [NSW] Live A Live (Square Enix, 07/22/22) – 71,137 (New)
- [NSW] Nintendo Switch Sports (Nintendo, 04/29/22) – 24,869 (598,527)
- [PS4] Nobunaga’s Ambition: Rebirth (Koei Tecmo, 07/21/22) – 23,425 (New)
- [NSW] Monster Hunter Rise + Sunbreak Set (Capcom, 06/30/22) – 22,871 (200,263)
- [NSW] Nobunaga’s Ambition: Rebirth (Koei Tecmo, 07/21/22) – 21,753 (New)
- [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 11,976 (4,734,067)
- [NSW] Kirby and the Forgotten Land (Nintendo, 03/25/22) – 9,746 (812,708)
- [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 9,542 (2,717,993)
- [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure (Nintendo, 10/18/19) – 9,380 (3,221,140)
- [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 12/07/18) – 5,841 (4,930,600)
There's a few changes in Japan's hardware sales for the past week, too. The Switch Lite is back in third place after being taken over by the PlayStation 5 last week, which means we return to our usual Switch 1-2-3. That should be the 1-2 Switch sequel's name, shouldn't it? Though the classic model has just outsold the OLED model by nearly 2,000 units this week. The other noteworthy story is the Xbox Series X outselling the much smaller, digital-only Series S, to be the fifth best-selling console of the week. Not bad, Microsoft!
- Switch – 30,182 (18,526,938)
- Switch OLED Model – 28,715 (2,055,364)
- Switch Lite – 10,477 (4,816,631)
- PlayStation 5 – 9,804 (1,512,433)
- Xbox Series X – 2,884 (127,800)
- Xbox Series S – 2,128 (146,237)
- PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 1,390 (252,212)
- New 2DS LL (including 2DS) – 125 (1,187,874)
- PlayStation 4 – 11 (7,819,769)
As always, you can share your thoughts on the latest Japanese charts with us in the comments.
[source gematsu.com]
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Aww forgot about Nobunaga’s Ambition. Dangit gotta get an eshop card. Good on Live A Live though.
Great going for Live A Live
How does that compare to Octopath and Triangle's debut numbers?
Great to see that Kirby is still rocking in the charts on every continent since the release in March, lovely game. Cant still wrap my mind how Mario Kart 8 Deluxe can still be that strong despite years after its initial release, its for sure a juggernaut for Nintendo. I do hope that Nintendo dont sleep for years relaying on 8 Deluxe version and we hear something in the near future about Mario Kart 9.
Ring Fit Adventure keeps on ticking!
Ring Fit 2 for New Year?
Next week, Xenoblade is gonna be a juggernaut on these charts!
@KindofaBigDeal
1) [NSW] Octopath Traveler (Square Enix, 07/13/18) – 110,111 (New)
1. [NSW] Triangle Strategy (Nintendo, 04/03/22) – 86,298 / NEW
I wish the Japanese peoples show some appreciation for PS5 games even the cartoonish PS5 games such as Kao the Kangaroo, Time on Frog Island, The Smurfs, Mission Vileaf, etc. Those games are still as fun as Nintendo games.
Man, that State of Play just doesn't have the legs we thought it would. Amirite?
Nintendo Life: " Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak has lost the top spot courtesy of a group of people all from different time periods."
Me, who's been playing and enjoying both this week: "Not even mad, yo "
Heck yeah! This games real good, it deserves the attention.
Such a good game. Glad it’s selling well.
@Quarth
Cheers. Still very decent numbers for Live A Live but releasing just one week before possibly the biggest RPG of the year maybe not a wise idea.
Well done. Still unsure if I should play it.
Wonder how well Xenoblade Chronicles 3 that comes out tomorrow will do in sales? I am picking up my copy first thing tomorrow morning.
@Anti-Matter I'm sure they do but look at the install bases for each. 25.5 million Switch users vs either 1.5m PS5 or 7.8m PS4 users, it's easy to see why the charts are dominated with Switch titles when they have 3x the install base.
@Anti-Matter The reason why nobody care about those games is that even if they do start caring about those, the companies will not care about those and won't support those regardless. This is why not many support those no name games cause why support them when the companies themselves aren't embracing them. No marketing, no focus, no hype for any of them, if companies are too lazy to do that then customers aren't gonna care despite being as decent a game some of them are.
@radic202 Sad Live-A-Live won't live long in the top ten once Xenoblade Chronicles 3 arrive in the chart next week.
@KindofaBigDeal Tbh Nintendo screw Square Enix on purpose cause originally Xenoblade Chronicles 3 was suppose to launch in September.
@Quarth Reason why Live-A-Live probably didn't do so well compare to those two was cause it's just a remake. Those who play it before on Super Famicom probably weren't that excited to rebuy it again despite the upgraded graphics and new contents.
@Serpenterror
That seems counter productive as they have a great relationship these days.
Just bad timing.
@KindofaBigDeal I blame Nintendo on that one, as the Live A Live release date was set before they swapped XC3 and Splatoon 3.
I bought both though. 😉
@Serpenterror Yeah, that might be the case. It's only "new" to us over here after all.
Interested in Live A Live but Xenoblade takes priority. I think I'm good for RPGs for a while once I'm finished with Xenoblade 3 but I'd still like to play Live A Live before the year ends.
Switch sports at almost 600,000 which is a great game and earns those Japanese numbers
You blew it... you had the perfect chance for an ironically-titled article reading "Live A Live Comes Alive"... and you didn't do it. Why?!? Haha.
@AlanaHagues I've just tagged Ollie so now it's your turn, I'm desperate to know how Xenoblade did in the UK charts this week... any chance you know why they're delayed?
@Otoemetry I saw Ollie replied already but yeah, all we know is that the data is delayed 😅 we all are eager to find out how Xeboblade did! But we'll get the charts up as soon as we can when the data is in.
@AlanaHagues thanks Alana, much appreciated 🙂
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