Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe
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This week's Japanese charts are now in from Famitsu and it's yet another win for Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe which once again comes out on top this time around, selling 16,458 copies (thanks, Gematsu).

If you are thinking that this seems lower than previous weeks, you would be correct (the game had 21,014 sales last week), but with the absence of any new titles in the top ten, the chart is mostly undisturbed. The PS4 version of Resident Evil 4 beat its PS5 counterpart to second place this week and the rest of the table is a Nintendo-fest.

The usual suspects of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, Splatoon 3 and Minecraft continue to sell well, but this week also sees a reappearance from both Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and Mario Party Superstars which land in ninth and tenth positions with weekly sale numbers of 4,916 and 4,019 respectively.

Full the full rundown, here's your look at the week's Japanese software top ten:

  1. [NSW] Kirby’s Return to Dream Land Deluxe (Nintendo, 02/24/23) – 16,458 (373,615)
  2. [PS4] Resident Evil 4 (Capcom, 03/24/23) – 11,472 (113,447)
  3. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 9,991 (5,234,484)
  4. [NSW] Pokemon Scarlet / Pokemon Violet (The Pokemon Company, 11/18/22) – 9,812 (4,981,875)
  5. [NSW] Splatoon 3 (Nintendo, 09/09/22) – 8,712 (3,978,347)
  6. [PS5] Resident Evil 4 (Capcom, 03/24/23) – 8,301 (116,473)
  7. [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 7,718 (3,098,860)
  8. [NSW] Nintendo Switch Sports (Nintendo, 04/29/22) – 5,556 (1,050,826)
  9. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 12/07/18) – 4,916 (5,160,598)
  10. [NSW] Mario Party Superstars (Nintendo, 10/29/21) – 4,019 (1,208,034)

Over on the hardware side of things, this week sees Sony's PS5 narrowly secure first place with 39,836 sales, putting it ahead of the Switch OLED's 37,536 — though solid figures from the standard Switch and Switch Lite add up to a higher number than the combined total of all PlayStation models.

The remaining standings are as you might expect, jumping between Sony and Nintendo models with the Xbox Series X/S and New 2DS XL bringing up the rear.

Here's the Japanese hardware charts for this week:

  1. PlayStation 5 – 39,836 (2,826,327)
  2. Switch OLED Model – 37,536 (4,181,349)
  3. Switch – 8,991 (19,261,351)
  4. PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 6,369 (455,911)
  5. Switch Lite – 5,983 (5,270,208)
  6. PlayStation 4 – 1,211 (7,864,825)
  7. Xbox Series X – 739 (184,436)
  8. Xbox Series S – 178 (251,277)
  9. New 2DS LL (including 2DS) – 64 (1,191,170)

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[source famitsu.com, via gematsu.com]