In this week's Famitsu boxed charts for Japan (courtesy of Gematsu), Super Mario Bros. Wonder has once again beaten the competition to claim the top spot (only just, mind, with 359 units separating the top two entries), selling an additional 25,523 copies.
Elsewhere, Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince has dropped out of the top ten entirely, while The Game of Life for Nintendo Switch sneaks in at number ten, selling 6,313 copies.
Kudos to Marvel's Spider-Man 2 for the PlayStation 5, which not only represents the only non-Nintendo platform release in the charts but has actually managed to move up two spaces to claim the bronze.
Here's your look at this week's top ten in full:
- [NSW] Super Mario Bros. Wonder (Nintendo, 10/20/23) – 25,523 (1,670,688)
- [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu World: Chikyuu wa Kibou de Mawatteru! (Konami, 11/16/23) – 25,164 (920,203)
- [PS5] Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 (SIE, 10/20/23) – 18,867 (213,392)
- [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 10,098 (5,672,514)
- [NSW] Pikmin 4 (Nintendo, 07/21/23) – 7,311 (1,155,920)
- [NSW] Pokémon Scarlet / Pokémon Violet (The Pokémon Company, 11/18/22) – 7,285 (5,273,318)
- [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 7,261 (3,418,956)
- [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo, 03/20/20) – 6,549 (7,667,761)
- [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 12/07/18) – 6,413 (5,424,782)
- [NSW] The Game of Life for Nintendo Switch (Takara Tomy, 10/06/23) – 6,313 (173,651)
Looking at hardware this week, it's undoubtedly a familiar picture, though overall sales have seemingly slowed down in January so far; nothing to be alarmed about, though. Switch OLED still sits ahead of the pack, while Nintendo's Switch platform has sold a total of 46,604 across its three SKUs.
Here is the updated hardware chart in full:
- Switch OLED Model – 29,524 (6,531,223)
- PlayStation 5 – 26,719 (4,360,407)
- Switch Lite – 11,553 (5,704,265)
- PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 9,787 (682,082)
- Switch – 5,527 (19,702,323)
- Xbox Series X – 727 (245,895)
- PlayStation 4 – 562 (7,916,635)
- Xbox Series S – 437 (296,073)
- New 2DS LL (including 2DS) – 14 (1,192,770)
Note: Famitsu has also posted the chart figures for the first week of 2024 (Jan 1st-7th), which we unfortunately missed. You can check it out directly via Famitsu.
What do you make of this week's Japanese charts? Let us know in the comments.
[source famitsu.com, via gematsu.com]
Comments 15
I’m assuming this is the notorious low print run that has knocked Dragon Quest Monsters out of the charts. I’d say Square are leaving money on the table, but they’d much rather make more money selling it digital.
Well guess Square Enix couldn't keep up with more print copies of Dragon Quest Monsters: the Dark Prince. Would be nice to see how the digital version is doing.
Unsurprising but still, love to see Wonder still at the top!
Nice to see all those other Switch games in the chart as well but yeah, Dragon Quest Monsters is most certainly missing because Square Enix hasn't printed more copies of it yet or if they ever intend to do so in the first place.
PS4 in trouble there, that xbox x coming for the crown!
Pikmin 4 being such an evergreen title is a really delightful surprise.
The Switch is simply a beast in Japan, hard to imagine it's successor not bringing home the bacon as well.
I love that the N2DS XL/LL keeps charting. Such a remarkable family of systems.
The idle thought of a hypothetical Momotaro Dentetsu and Mario crossover title almost scares me.😏😎
The Game of Life at #10. Looks like Japan got a special localized version. Super cute. 😊
Japan has good taste in games lol
@nhSnork Add Dragon Quest to that mix up and it would shut Japan down for a week.
Doesn't Nintendo NOT report on physical sales? If that's the case, why would a limited print run matter?
Yup, Mario Wonder being a strong evergreen seller is no surprise. Also nice to see Pikmin 4 still doing quite well.
Famitsu reported the previous week's numbers for the first week of the year on Tuesday. Those were very big numbers. You seem to have missed that @Nintendolife.
HAA! That thumbnail is so perfect! 😂
It only needs like a small translucent wind effect coming out of Mario's mouth and it would have been even funnier 🤣
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