Japanese Charts: Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Dominates The Competition, Once Again

I'd imagine Final Fantasy XVI wins the first week of sales up against TotK, maybe even stays ahead into weeks 2 and 3 but will be interesting to see what happens after.

Zelda domination!

Wow, i would think a game like Street Fighter VI would be a lot bigger and sell a lot more copies in Japan than just around 30 000 copies the first few weeks.

Maybe the japanese audience thinks SF VI is to adjusted to american or european standards both graphically and in the content?

Or maybe they prefer playing their fighting games in arcades?

Or could it be.. they prefer 2D fighting games?

Smart money is on Sony having a good week for hardware and FF hitting top spot, next week.

What, Xbox Series S and Series X has only sold about 0,46 million units in Japan?!

Not very much. So far behind PS5 it is ridiculous almost.

But i guess it is a tighter race in U.S.A. ??

FF will likely take top slot next week. Wonder how long it will stay though.

@GrailUK smart money if you could bet on it. But there is no bet for console sales i think.

@PtM tears of the Sony empire.

Are they Duping these articles lol

@Ryu_Niiyama maybe Pikmin 4 could get the next 1st place after FF XVI.

Where could one buy a new 2DS LL?

I think it is remarkable how so many games on the list are for Switch. Even Minecraft! Minecraft is bigger for Switch than for Xbox in Japan even though it is a Microsoft title. Well of course it is.. not enough Xboxes are sold there. But what about Minecraft for Playstation? For PC?

Is the list only for physical games or is it also for the digital copies?

I wonder why Nintendo Switch Sports is selling so well. I mean it is not like it is the most obvious big-selling switch game, at least not to me. It would be more logical if other Switch games sold many copies. Like pokemon or animal crossing.

What about Hogwarts legacy? Did it sell well in Japan?

I'm kind of obsessed with checking the sales of the New 2DS LL each time one of these is posted - 47 this week!!

tears of the kingdom has been dropping like a rock a continuous decline only 31 thousand physical sales this week final fantasy will easily win next week..

ps5 has been increasing will overtake the oled next week those final fantasy fans need a ps5 to play final fantasy 16

@Ryu_Niiyama at least 3 weeks maybe more if totk sales continue to decline

Where are those 2DS units coming from?

@Simon97
I wonder ... if audiences are still a bit skeptical about buying SF 6 at launch, considering all the shenanigans Capcom did with SF 5 during its troubled launch and troubled commercial run.

Personally, I am loving it. Really cool SF game. I wouldn´t rank it among my favorites in this franchise, but so far, it seems to offer a good package of content for a fighting-game launch

@Simon97 Lol, it was a figure of speech, silly.

@Simon97 PS5 version was in the charts for several weeks and PS4 version for a couple, I think. Couple of hundred thousand sales, istr, so depends what “well” means.

Are these numbers physical only?

The enormous sales numbers Nintendo achieves really throws my ability to decide whether or not other things are selling well... FFXVI may well help me recalibrate.

Good week for Switch hardware and software. Not long until all Switch SKUs hit 30M in Japan alone, crazy.

Mk8dx at number 2 is so funny. Who's even left to buy it???

Another week of people shocked how well Nintendo is doing in its homeland. All’s normal, I suppose. I predict FF and PS5(disc) will chart #1 for only two weeks before dropping again. Western-style is a hard sell over there, and FF branding won’t help it that much.

@Mr_Zurkon Right? Almost double the units than last week, too.

@Simon97 I thought it sold well. But the dedicated fanbase likely already got their copies by now, so sales dropped.

@tgt Japanese sales are a different beast. Look towards the UK or NPD rankings.

Next week Diablo IV and/or Street Fighter 6 will be gone from the chart to make room for Final Fantasy XVI. Also Nintendo making the 2DS LL region lock was the biggest mistake ever cause now it looks like they are having trouble getting rid of remaining stocks of that handheld. Can't sell those outside Japan either cause they will only play Japanese cartridges and Japan already had enough of the 3DS line. No eShop support also doesn't help sell those 2DS LL units either.

@Simon97 Microsoft has never sold well in Japan. I'm almost certain of that.

now that the hype is wearing off for me, I can definitely say TOTK has some flaws that deserve to be criticized. Particularly the fact that it feels like "Collecting Materials: Zelda Edition".

buuuut...that being said...for me, it's always content over gameplay. And I LOVE the content. There has never been a more necessary sequel in that regard, and TOTK mainly made it so that BOTW was just one part of something much bigger. BOTW had a story that seemed sparse during its time. But as it turns out, it was simply the first half of the overall story.

I wonder what the total number is by now (not just Japan, but worldwide). All we heard is that “10m in the first 3 days” report, but that surely included all the preorders. So you can’t really extrapolate from that.

@T317 Yeah. I must say TOTK builds quite heavily on obsessive-compulsive game mechanics that I thought were not Nintendo’s style. Those nested collect-a-thons.. I frequently feel like the game is deliberately wasting my time.

And, as Yahtzee put it in his “Zero Punctuation” review: „TOTK also doestn’t fix the BOTW problem of so much of it feeling like it was generated by algorithms“.

FFXVI will top next week and depending on how much Tears drop could lose #1 spot the week after since JRPG games that are just on a PS5 could be bad for legs.

Wait, you can still buy 2ds’s In Japan?

@Alpha008 Apparently, but not for much longer.

@Serpenterror That’s a weird story (bro) take on 2DS hardware sales if I ever saw one. It’s been selling somewhat consistently >100 for a long time now. Now if you walk back through the charts week-by-week you’ll reach the 3DS eShop closure in March, a prime time for a rush, yet sales are average. The last time multiple hundreds of units were sold was in January, at 400 units, AFTER the holidays. Back further into the holidays, average in the low 30’s. That tells me, instead, that there may only be a handful, or less, of boutique stores left that are still able to source new stock and they’ve been selling through whatever they can get, when they get it. The demand for backup 2(3)DS systems still seems high, but the supply is definitely running out.