The latest Japanese charts are in courtesy of Famitsu (via Gematsu) and it has been yet another strong week for Switch, with nine out of the top ten coming from Nintendo's hybrid console.
Super Mario Bros. Wonder and Super Mario RPG continue to be big hitters, landing in second and third place this time around with another 62,896 and 54,321 copies sold respectively. It is last week's champion once again takes the top spot, however, as Momotaro Dentetsu World: Chikyuu wa Kibou de Mawatteru! shifts another 98,311 copies in its second week.
No new releases creep into the standings this time, leaving a chance for WarioWare: Move It! and Pikmin 4 to hold onto spaces in the top five (which is more than can be said for their performance in the UK).
Let's take a peek at this week's top ten software sales in full, shall we?
- [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu World: Chikyuu wa Kibou de Mawatteru! (Konami, 11/16/23) – 98,311 (413,010)
- [NSW] Super Mario Bros. Wonder (Nintendo, 10/20/23) – 62,896 (1,088,717)
- [NSW] Super Mario RPG (Nintendo, 11/17/23) – 54,321 (355,655)
- [NSW] WarioWare: Move It! (Nintendo, 11/03/23) – 11,271 (64,682)
- [NSW] Pikmin 4 (Nintendo, 07/21/23) – 10,510 (965,317)
- [NSW] Hogwarts Legacy (Warner Bros. Games, 11/14/23) – 9,345 (57,062)
- [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 7,058 (5,548,088)
- [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 6,858 (3,317,981)
- [PS4] Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name (SEGA, 11/09/23) – 6,253 (77,922)
- [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo, 03/20/20) – 6,070 (7,583,926)
Onto hardware now, and Sony's PS5 once again comes out on top with the new 'Slim' model continuing to be a popular option as another 49,833 units were snatched up this week. It is a close-fought contest, though, as the Switch OLED just slips into second with only 453 sales separating it from first place.
Combining the three SKUs for Switch this week still puts the Nintendo console above Sony, mind you, with the OLED, Lite and standard edition combining for 71,684 compared to the PS5's standard and Digital Edition combined total of 59,235.
Here are the latest numbers on the hardware side of things:
- PlayStation 5 – 49,833 (4,120,306)
- Switch OLED Model – 49,380 (6,138,114)
- Switch Lite – 13,364 (5,596,140)
- PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 9,402 (632,180)
- Switch – 8,940 (19,617,062)
- PlayStation 4 – 2,080 (7,908,755)
- Xbox Series X – 1,834 (238,997)
- Xbox Series S – 299 (293,774)
- New 2DS LL (including 2DS) – 33 (1,192,660)
What do you make of this week's Japanese charts? Let us know in the comments.
[source famitsu.com, via gematsu.com]
Comments 19
Eh, seems about right.
the one ps4 title in there is so funny to me for no reason.
Happy to see that Wonder and Super Mario RPG are still selling well in Japan, just behind the incredibly popular Momotaro Dentetsu!
Move It isn't selling as much as I hoped even in Japan while Pikmin 4 is doing fine considering it came out much earlier and if it keeps on selling like this it will relatively soon reach 1 million copies in Japan alone!
Well back to the usual suspects of games on the chart. Now Momotaro joins the weekly chart until everyone got a copy.
Oh new momotetsu is out? Yeah that’s gonna stay for a while. I need to get the first one.
Yeah, I don't get it, but Momotetsu is a big deal in Japan.
i wonder wat goombas taste like-wonder flower
Trains gonna hang around for awhile in top 10
Man the switch is a beast and GO MARIO RPG ITS MY FAVORITE GAME OF ALL TIME
It's a shame to see WarioWare: Move It not really lighting up the sales charts, I understand its a niche title but it's way better than Get It Together and I had hoped a strong reception would have meant we would see more of these motion based games from Nintendo in the future.
Hopefully, this shows Nintendo that we actually like Mario RPGs.
@N0SEGaming The PS5 version outsold it on launch week. But it’s the old PS4 that has got the legs to stay in the chart.
@Ryall sony moment
@bluemage1989 Never played Warioware. Had no idea it was a niche series. I'm still holding out hope Nintendo revives the Wario Land adventures.
@Vexx234 I would say it's niche compared to a lot of Nintendo's other franchises and the fact it is motion based as well but I thought there would be more interest than what we have seen. If you are looking for a good starting point then Move It is ideal. Also, 100% on board with the return of platforming Wario.
@RiasGremory
To be fair, if you include all Switch sales as a collective, then they're still on top by a wide margin.
The fact Animal Crossing has outsold Mario Kart by such a margin in Japan is eye-opening.
At the beginning I found the game great until I reached the Jump&Run/QuizPuzzle section. This is just annoying and stupid.
Not the Quiz/Puzzle stuff, but the way it handles. You fail at the quiz and boom: Do all the puzzles you already did again. And of course you only have 10 lives in the 3d mario section. I did not buy Mario Wonder, 3D World what ever for a reason.
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