Japanese Charts: Master Detective Archives Claims Victory As Zelda: TOTK Takes Third

I'd love to see a skyward sword remaster on switch. I want to buy it for the 4th time. Got to add it to my BACKLOG when it comes out though. Heehee!

Great sales! More than double of ps5!

How dare FF XVI invade my top ten Switch list! Actually that's a pretty good showing for Master Detective, a new IP.

Atleast one country realises how great Master Detective Archives is, a bit low on those numbers though. Just completed chapter 2 which was unique but the best so far, so glad there's 4 lots of dlc for the game as well.

FF16 doing well as well, I fully expected Zelda to be back above it in Japan but nope.

@Kiliomp

There is a Skyward Sword Remaster on Switch.

Not amazing numbers, but hopefully within the developer's predicted range. I want more games like this on Nintendo platforms in the future.

100,000 Switch units again in a week. It is quite staggering at this point in the lifecycle with no major releases for a while.

That's great to hear! I havent seen a lot of buzz about this Rain Code online or people talking about it on YouTube so I was worried the game might under-perform. Good to see it's doing well!

@Anti-Matter each to their own but ones own taste doesn't necessarily translate to a bad game.

@SBandy1 yes I know! I want a second one! Like I said I want to buy it again on switch but I want it to be "worth it"! I don't mind buying the same game 6 times as long as it was redone some type of way heehee!

I actually have 5 different versions of resident evil 4 on my backlog heehe!!

Playing it right now and so far it’s pretty fun, so I’m glad to see it’s doing well.

matter of time before tears retakes first again.

Well FF16's screwed.. At this rate it won't even reach FF15s 1st week sales in Japan

I can't say that I'm excited about this new FF game. Aesthetically, it looks good but it seems to have removed a lot of RPG elements. I'm not against real time combat, in fact I prefer it, but it seems like a generic hack n' slash now. I might be missing something so I'll check more about it later.

It's a shame because I really like these character designs instead of the usual spiky hair guy that seems to come out from an acid trip of a K Pop fan.

Really happy to see Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective crack the top ten in fifth place. Such a wonderful little game. Really hoping it does well so Capcom green light a sequel of some description.

Was hoping Rain Code sales would be higher but this is still a good result.

Great to see Rain Code get some of the recognition it deserves. It’s a bit jank, especially when it comes to the presentation, but the story is really good as far as I am.

Surely those Switch numbers are unprecedented at this point in any hardware’s life? Unbelievable, bravo Nintendo.

@Duncanballs I'm throwing 50 red pikmin at you!!!

The only thing more powerful than Zelda are Danganronpa fans

Nice to see RainCode there, game has some minor issues and could run a little bit better on Switch but awesome to see that for what has been a stellar game thus far.

@GrailUK soon but not quite yet.

@Kiliomp

Okey dokey

Damn FFXVI couldn’t even hold the #1 spot for 2 weeks. That is an immense drop.

Raincode doing 50k~ range isn’t bad either on launch.

Switch casually doing another 100k+ week feels like business as usual at this point.

Hopefully the Tokyo Xanadu ex+ port Switch port comes soon over here. It’s a nice game to play from Falcom that isn’t milked to death like Ys and LoH.

Also FYI you didn’t post the weekly sale numbers for 10th place Smash Ultimate just the total.

Cool to see Raincode at the top. I was wondering how popular this game was gonna be, because I don’t see a lot of people talking about it, but I have it ready to play once I finish Fire Emblem.

@UltimateOtaku91 glad to hear that the game is really good, not enough people are talking about it. I’ve had the collector’s edition preordered since the game was first announced. Between the art style and the fact that it’s a spiritual successor to the Danganronpa series I had a lot of faith in it. When reviews started coming out to mostly 7’s I started thinking maybe I should cancel my collectors edition and just get the game later on discount. I ended up keeping it though and still waiting for it to arrive. I think it’s coming today actually. Looking forward to checking it out hopefully after work today.

Ha Sony steal all the Final Fantasy and still gets whoop in Japan by Switch and the non-Final Fantasy games. With Stranger of Paradise and Final Fantasy XVI both failed to live up to expectation, PS5's only trump card now is Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, the unfinished 2 disc second story of the no longer a remake sequel to a game that was suppose to be a remake of FFVII.

@Darthmoogle if you liked danganronpa you will like this game, the only negative I can think of is the characters faces can look a little low res throughout the game whilst the Locations/Areas in the game and during cutscenes look great.

The best I can explain it is the character models during gameplay look 420p whilst everything else is HD.

@UltimateOtaku91 - Honestly still feels better than Danganronpa to me. Where that series sort of anchored to one partocular school, and the sequels feel tacked on, MDA looks to cement a sense of a broader story structure, each "archive" (sequel) can pull from other areas and be an enclosed story while still tying them all together.

It's like the creator came at this idea with that intent being made possible.

@Paraka Yeah I agree it's a great game and a massive improvement over danganronpa in evey way, and to add to what you said this series can go even further and more can be done with it, in future titles they can focus on different sets of Master Detectives with different abilities and set in a different locations. I just hope they don't tie this game into danganronpa somehow, even if it's just cameos.

@Anti-Matter well you only like cutesy games for 5 year olds, doesn't surprise me.

@UltimateOtaku91 - Well, they already reference Monokuma's laugh in the very first chapter. So it wouldn't surprise me if they indirectly do such cameos if they immediately go for the mascot of the original out the gate like that.

I do agree though, they will likely focus on new detectives going forward, allowing the series to have room Danganronpa didn't. But I am willing to bet they will all be tied to Shinigami in some way or another. Seems like she is lokely going to be the "face" of the series so they can market it further.

I was hoping for better Ghost Trick sales, but the fact that it placed here at all definitely counts for something.

Play Ghost Trick. It isn't a terribly long game, but its story will stick with you for a long, long time.

@Serpenterror Don't gloat. Nintendo fans are better than that O.<

Master Detective Archives looks cool, but Im gonna wait for Decapolice instead, looks a bit more down to earth.

I always like to see such enthousiasm for the Switch, it can only mean more cool games coming up!
But really, in one week doing a fifth of the lifetime Xbox sales ... what a bummer for MS. 2DS sold more than double .. aouch!

Hopefully those are some good opening week sales for Rain Code. Obviously a niche title, so at least the sales expectations shouldn't be too high.

Also nice to see Zelda have some decent legs nearly two month in.

I need to play more on Rain Code, thus far I'm pretty, "Eh, it's good but I have issues," on it. Think it kind of started helping when I realized to stop looking at it as an extension of Danganronpa or Kodaka's version of AITSF and instead realize it's basically Kodaka making his own version of an Ace Attorney game.

@Lizuka nintendo life gave it a 7...

@Serpenterror you do realize a lot of switch owners also have a ps5 so they can play os5 exclusives..gone are the days when people just owned one console..

I like Nintendo but as a gamer first I prefer a healthy competition instead of a total dominance. New Final Fantasy is a great game and it deserves better

@dimi It wouldn't be a healthy competition if something that largely gave up on the market was artificially still competitive there.

FF used to be big in Japan. They decided to appeal exclusively to the west and now it's significantly less popular in Japan and other IP have since taken its place at the top of the pile.

Really It deserves to sell less and less until they make an actual effort in Japan to actually win back their audience.

I can't believe Switch Lite sells so well. That's crazy. I wonder what percentage of those buyers are getting it as a second switch system in their home. Surely it can't be their primary switch....

I'm loving RainCode! I've been playing it nonstop. There is so much great style, writing, music, voice acting, neat gameplay ideas all wrapped up into one extremely cool city. I would definitely hope to see this be the start of a series.