Japanese Charts: Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom's Strong Sales Continue Into Week Two

A clean sweep. Nice!

It's only been two weeks? I have over 110 hours in already....what year is it?! Nintendo's brand momentum sure is flat-lining.

massive drop off from week one.

The evergreen titles are still selling well for Nintendo.

Let’s hope megaman is one of them.

It's amazing the Switch keeps selling so well six years into it's lifecycle.

@johnedwin pretty standard for such high launch sales. now it is down to normal momentum for a popular game. Plus it doesn’t include digital.

This is what 53% looks like huh.

@johnedwin That's how it goes. Launch day is practically always going to be the biggest sales by far in a game's lifetime.

Look how it is sucking sales from other titles.

Sony continues it's disasterous generation. This cycles console wars is one of the most fun in decades.

Zelda is going to be top until Pikmin 4 comes out I recogn. Unless FF16 de thrones it, but even then zelda will be back on top the week after.

How is Mario Kart still up on top? Who is left to sell it to?

Expected and well deserved. My copy took a long time to arrive, but I'm finally enjoying the game and it has been an improvement over BOTW in almost every way and that game was already fantastic.

Not a single PS5 games in the top 10. Well seem like Sony is a western company now.

PS4 outselling the new xbox consoles by 300% 😬.

If xbox announce any Japanese exclusives at their show then they're basically DOA.

Nicely done.

Imagine what will happen if Nintendo continues with the hybrid console market.

I mean, the Switch has already done so well, getting a Switch 2 that can at least run current-gen titles (albeit with some cutbacks) will be insane in Japan.

I kind of hope Nvidia is able to get DLSS 3 capabilities in the next Switch SoC as that will be a huge benefit for developers with regards to where to make cutbacks and get games to appear as "4K" and 60fps - especially since DLSS 3 is more for getting into the 120fps+ range on PC (or something beyond 60fps with real-time RT enabled) - an arena I doubt Nintendo will bother working with: Nintendo seems more about achieving the framerate it wants to achieve and leaving it at that.

I don't foresee Nintendo bothering with "Quality" and "Performance" modes for its games. The system just needs to get to "4K"/60 at most when docked and "720"/60 in handheld (as that seems to be a great sweet spot for a small screen).

I also don't see Nintendo bothering with real-time RT, so the CPU/GPU only have to worry about rasterized graphics.

Of course, this assumes that utilizing DLSS isn't a battery hog.

Apart from TotK you could say the software chart is chugging along. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is selling a little over 8000 copies this week, which is not much on the surface. But when you consider it has been in the charts for more than 260 weeks, it's not bad at all.

6 year old Switch outsells 2.5 year old PS5 by 230%. Last night's showcase tells you this is why no one is developing for their dying system 😬
Brand momentum is a solid 64 though so that's nice

Hm... 🤔
Despite of very great Switch sales, but when talking about the games that bought by Japanese peoples during that week, it shown how too mainstream the games choices they bought and how picky they choose the version that in my opinion, PS5 games still have the cartoonish games that still have some appeal for Japanese gamers.
I would to see the Japanese gamers can give some support with PS5 not just by hardware sales but also from software sales. It will not hurt to play PS5 3rd party games.

@Ryu_Niiyama If this is Nintendo with flat brand momentum, does that mean Sony's is in the dirt now?

And well deserved. Best zelda game ever created.

@johnedwin “yes but Ragnarok, digital sales on PS5, technically Nintendo is behind in Japan etc etc” isn’t that what your usual posts are? This site has a sister site for all things Playstation called PushSquare. Right up your street. 👍🏻

1. Switch OLED Model – 69,341 (4,574,041)
2. PlayStation 5 – 32,553 (3,053,149)

Now if TOTK wasn't the reason then I don't know....???

@eaglebob345 I hate to say it but that would be xbox. I really need MS to pull out a win this gen. At this point I am going back to PC/Nintendo after this gen since Sony is putting their exclusives on PC. Might get a steam deck now.

@Pirate1 5million is still only a fraction of the switch user base. MK8DX can keep going. Kinda like GTA.

TotK already quickly approaching BotW's total numbers, great to see Zelda do this well in Japan.

Someone has to explain to me how Sony can sell 33000 consoles, but not manage to sell 3500 copies if any single game to enter the top ten.
I understand this doesn't track digital sales, but if I enter a store to pick up a system, you pick up a game with it.
Further proof that despite the increased hardware sales, Sony has serious issues in Japan.

@Nourldean could be digital-only PS5s as a factor. You can’t buy a game with those

@burgerkingsauce Ok, but then the digital edition isnt the console being sold. These consoles are bought physically too. 3500 copies of a game isn't alot

People can make excuses all they want, and personally I like my PS5 for what it does, but for the sake of this article, one simply can't escape the fact that the Switch (in Japan) has outsold the PS3, PS4 and PS5 combined by about 6M. And that's fine, it's alright to be second if you make money, but let's not pretend there is any real war going on in Japan. For whatever reason, be it software, form factor, or likely both, the Japanese people simply prefer Nintendo.

My first thought on reading the charts was, wow, Megaman Battle Network has sold over a million?!! Then I realised its total sales must actually belong to Switch Sports - unless they are identical by some freakish coincidence.

@Ryu_Niiyama Haha, that's fair. I only buy Nintendo and Sony (if they would put out a real handheld) consoles, but I've been pulling for Microsoft to one up Sony for years now. Both Sony and Microsoft do better when they are firing on all cylinders, but Microsoft keeps tripping over its own feet. I'm hoping they manage to snag Activision/Blizzard only so they look like less of a joke going against Sony.

@Nourldean Movies and GaaS?

@johnedwin 70-80% second week drop is completely normal.