Japanese Charts: Detective Pikachu Cleans Up For His Switch Debut

PS5 sales is still great. 😊
I think the announcement of PS5 Slim will boost PS5 sales even more.

Surprise surprise, Anti-Matter compliments PS5 sales instead of praising Nintendo 100K OLED sales lmao. In other shocking news, today is Thursday.

Let's see how many people bought Detective Pikachu to actually play it vs to obtain that exclusive TCG card.

Wow, more than 110K Switch units sold in total! I like it.

Wow 100K units sold on just the Switch OLED alone. Also another week of no Minecraft in the top ten, finally the Japanese put priority on other games this time. Still find it interesting that Takara Tomy still exist, Takara is the same company that handle the Battle Arena Toshinden series and port SNK games to consoles and handhelds at the time, wonder what other games they are working on nowadays.

100K OLEDs? Maaaan, we are never getting a next gen Switch at this rate...

@westman98 hahaha. I didn't even think of that. I've seen reviews are mixed at this point. But, for myself, I never intended to buy it regardless. I'm glad it did well for the series.

Laugh at it now, but Detective Pikachu Switch is going to be a high-valued collectors item in like 5 years. You could probably resell it for double the value.

What a strong week for the OLED, seems like people are getting ready for Mario Wonder.

PS4 still going strong, sold more than the new xbox's combined lol, surely Sony will stop selling new ps4 consoles soon.

I think it's going to be awhile before we hear talks of a new console after how well the switch is preforming. And that's fine why fix what isn't broken.

Those numbers HAVE to be unprecedented at this point in any previous consoles life?

Are there any US charts? As much as I love hearing about how video games are selling in other countries I’d love to see what’s happening in America

@Anti-Matter I don't think the PS5 announcement has been that well received. £50 more for the digital version plus another £30 to stand it vertical. Same price for disc version but you don't get the stand. Not sure the sale volumes are going to change as a result

Damn that is pitifully low for SAO games. They used to clear 100k+ at least back when the series still cared about handhelds (that isn’t late ports)

@Johnny44 What do you expect? NL has some weird biases here that that they don’t even pretend to conceal. You would think they lost their way from PushSquare.

@westman98 I bought the exclusive card through Ebay and the game in the US. Enjoying the game quite a bit!! It's so incredibly charming.

@Axecon I can get behind this sentiment for sure.

Goodness, what's happened here? Seemingly in conjunction with the launch of Detective Pikachu Returns, the Switch OLED Model has seen a surge in sales, surpassing 100,000 this week, easily beating out the rest of the competition.

What happened here was the Mario special edition OLED was released on the 6th, which explains the huge sales increase. Doubtful it has much to do with Detective Pikachu Returns.

Anyways, great week for Japan! Lots of new games charting, Switch still doing great, and PS5 showing there's still a market for home consoles. And nice to see Xbox back in the 3 digit range. After those leaked Phil Spencer emails, the best thing for Japanese companies is for MS to fail as much as possible in Japan.

Mario edition of the switch. Who writes these articles lol

@Arawn93
Bias who?

I will likely get the game of life as well. Mirage did better than I expected. Switch is just eating the competition.

@Duncanballs the digital version is the same price in the UK, same with the disc version. Its only America I believe that is having a price increase, but then they didn't have the price jump last year like the rest of the world.
But charging extra for the stand is a joke.

@Ryu_Niiyama definitely eating the competition in Japan. Not the rest of the world though.

@Serialsid this is an article about Japanese sales so it was implied I was only talking about Japanese sales.