Japanese Charts: Pikmin 4 Retains Its Crown For The Third Week In A Row

Wow, these Switch OLED sales numbers

Great game but it felt like it dragged in some places. I don't know, maybe its just me but 40+ hours for a Pikmin game is just too much.

Pikmin 3 is still my favorite though.

PS5 is the best selling console that I like, so Sony wins again!

Such is the Power of Nintendo, Pikmin and Dandori!

Awesome to see Pikmin finally earning the recognition it deserves.

Natsu-Mon on number 4. 😀
I knew the game will be looks interesting.
Also, Go PS5 !

Another week of Nintendomination. Pikmin 4 still hanging on @ number 1, love to see it.

Wow, Xbox Series X is really shooting up in Japan!

The past 2 weeks have been in the 1000s, and this week it's in the 3000s.

Sorry, I know this is a Nintendo site, but "Nintendo dominating sales in Japan" isn't really news anymore - and that's a good thing for Nintendo!

@IronMan30 "These charts are a farce, everyone knows PS5 is way in front with digital sales in both consoles sold and software, FFXVI has sold 15 million copies etc etc..." "Japan is irrelevant, Ragnarok will save the day..."

@YoshiF2 I know the feeling. Pikmin 3 was a perfected Pikmin 1, while Pikmin 4 is just a better Pikmin 2. Pikmin 1 and 3 are what the series should be. The dungeons (and night "explorations") extend the length of the game, but they don't really add to the fun, only the frustration. I would gladly trade them all for 3-5 more opens areas to explore. That would be awesome. If they add DLC, I hope it's not more dungeons.

The Nintendo DS must be starting to sweat right now lol. I sincerely do hope Switch goes on to be Nintendo's best selling console. I can't think of a more fitting tribute to the late Mr Iwata. If it beats PS2 (I reckon it will eventually) I'll raise a glass to the man.

curious why no european or us sales to see what the switch is doing?

My Switch game of the year. But yeah, I could do without the Night Expeditions and Dondoori Battles. Just let me explore.

@johnedwin NA and EU doesn't track their sales every week. The NPD doesn't show monthly sales result until the next month so if you want to know US sales for Switch, PS5, PS4, and Xbox Series X/S for the month of August you had to wait til the end of September for that. Even if they do show though they won't show it in nice chart like this, instead you get a list and some numbers. Games that are multiplat are combined and platforms that are different SKUs are also combined so Xbox Series X and S are just listed under Xbox while Switch base, Switch OLED, and Switch Lite are all one numbers. Same for PS5 both physical and digital edition.

74,000 copies is pretty ballin' for week 3 in Japanland.
I did recently read that the game was $40 over there while a game like FF16 was $70. I would have picked it up right away at that price as well - no hesitation.

I wonder if xbox sales are getting ready for starfall.

Shocking news: Switch still selling loads in Japan and games dominate the top 10
Don't expect any PS titles in the top 10 until Armored Core

@EaglyPurahfan What makes you think everyone here are Nintendo fans? Do you also visit Push Square and Pure Xbox and noticed the same accounts?

@Ryu_Niiyama could be. Or maybe with Japan's love of Minecraft MS is getting the word out on gamepass. I'll be totally honest - until SF6 came out I wasn't interested in the xbox this gen. It dropped and I chose that one because of Sony's abhorrent showcase. I had no idea what gamepass even was. It never occurred to me to look it up - because why would I?

Now I have it - and I get it. It is a rock solid console in terms of function and reliability (from what I've read ps vs ms). Maybe the Japanese are the same way.

that is a tripling of sales. kind of significant. If they ever break 10,000 then that might be a thing.

@eaglebob345 @YoshiF2 Agree w/ that. Pikmin was great, I didn’t really like 2, and 3 was really good, except w/ only half the fruit collected they blasted me off the planet w/o post game so I suppose I only played like half the game. Then they added 2 player co-op on Switch but made Pikmin 4 single player again. So Pikmin 4 is basically 2 again. Fortunately they did the post game right this time and the 4 hour “Olimar” game made me happy again. And I still actually want to collect the castaways, think I have 9 remaining.

But for a game 10 years in the making it was certainly a step back. I feel like it even looked better on Wii U,
but it has been 10 years since I played it.

Glad to see it doing well, maybe in only 5 years we can get a better Pikmin 5 on Super Switch.

@YoshiF2 I started playing Pikmin 3 Deluxe after fully completing Pikmin 4, and I was surprised by how much better the level design is. I would definitely recommend playing Pikmin 4 first, since it seems to be the best beginners Pikmin, but I don't see why I can't ride on a lily pad in Pikmin 4.
EDIT: I feel like it's necessary to mention, but I've only played Pikmin 1 and 2, but never got far into Pikmin 3 on the Wii U, and I'm now realizing I've been sleeping on Peak-min this entire time!

@rjejr taking out the co-op of 3, which is one of my favorite co-ops maybe of all time, is absolutely baffling to me. It feels so anti-nintendo to step back from couch co-op.

I really hate the fake "co-op" where the other person shoots stars, or corn or whatever. It feels like it was created as a gateway for babies and adds nothing to gameplay. I let my "babies" play it (Mario Odyssey)while I drove when they were around 4 years old and they were bored within minutes. As was I. Not with Mario but with the shooting stars thing that Pikmin has.

@EaglyPurahfan ??

Congrats to Pikmin 4, it's a really fun game to play and is kinda relaxing exploring each zone to get 100%. I bet this will be the best selling Pikmin game to date.

How cool would it be if, instead of Minecraft randomly showing up in the top 10, it was Metroid Prime and/or Dread? I choose to believe that I live in that universe.

Great game, it deserves these sales numbers for sure.

Those are INCREDIBLE hardware sales at this point. Is this unprecedented?

@Cashews Yeah Nintendo and their fake "co-op". There's no way that should be called "co-op" it should be called "player 2 assist" or some such. My wife couldn't even be bothered. And we were on a roll lately w/ It takes Two, Sackboy Adventure and Luigi's Mansion 3, all played the past year or so. At least we have Mario Wonder to 4 player w/ the kids over the holidays.

What's weird about Pikmin 4 is Oatchie, and Moss later, would be a perfectly acceptable 2nd player. Sure it's limited, but no more so than player 2 in Astral Chain which only got to play about 35% of the time in battle. My wife could have been a decent Oathci. 😢

Really nice to Pikmin 4 still doing well in Japan. No doubt it'll become the best selling in the series.

@rjejr if you ever get married to your wife again when you age and you re-write your vows may I recommend, "Babe, you would have made a decent Oathci."?

@EaglyPurahfan I'm looking at the comments before yours and struggling to see where you've come to that conclusion ?

@WiltonRoots that's a good angle. I'll shoot for it next time.

Pikmin 4, Tears Of The Kingdom and Mario Kart 8 on top, awesome! Still playing Tears Of The Kingdom. No wonder it sold 18 million. I love this game so much.

@IronMan30 Cope

Good numbers for Pikmin 4, but it is a bit sad to see TotK barely keeping up with a game that came out in 2017 (which itself is a port of a 2014 game). It should pass 2 million physical by the end of the year.

@GamingFan4Lyf Overall XB numbers have hit 3000 several times before. There was even a week about a year ago when it outsold PS5. The only notable thing here is that Series X is outselling Series S.

60% increase in 2DS LL sales over last week, I’ll be watching this trend closely

MP Superstars and Switch Sports are still selling so well despite not having updates with new content still.

Glad to see Pikmin 4 doing so well. I love the series but I thought it would have dropped down the charts after the first week. Nintendo has been doing so well with the Switch and their games. I wish them all the best in the future.

Great numbers for Minecraft though, Microsoft must be happy with that, it rarely leaves the top 10 in Japan.

@Cashews Oh she knows, she's the Rinoa to my Squall.

@Max_the_German I think a lot of tourists in japan buy a switch oled, I got mine for 37990 yen (-10% tax free ) or around 215 euro, at amazon they sell for 325 euro.