Japanese Charts: New Japan-Only Visual Novel Takes The Crown From Princess Peach

Princess Peach Showtime actually sold a bit better than I thought it would.

Good for Broccoli

And this chart just shows what Nintendo thinks.

Why bring out a Switch 2 and bother with the next MarioKart when the original console and game is still selling this well

Where the F are the 2DS LLs?? Is this the fateful day that they drop off this chart?

It looks like Rise of the Ronin is soon to be Fall of the Ronin. It's falling from its position in the chart every week.

@Manguy888A All remaining leftover stocks of the handheld are probably sold out which means it's done. Nintendo doesn't had any trace of the 3DS family of hardware in warehouse or on store shelves anymore.

PS5 sales still good in Japan, even by 16K unit sold. 😊
Also, I keep finding more new kids games on PS5 added and more reason to consider PS5 machine.

@Bunkerneath in japan i do not think it is selling real well outside of japan

we need switch 2 . switch 1 is so outdated think of all the great third party games that skipped switch 1..

That's a shame, sort of hoped Peach would have at least a 4 week run, such is life...

@johnedwin Like what, what about all the great third party games that also skipped those so call powerful consoles? You can't have everything ya know.

70k for the Switch in it's 8th year on the market vs 20k for the PS5. Hmm, not too shabby. 😆

@somnambulance
We don't need to consider the Top 10 charts for experience with new games.
There are a lot of other games to play and it might be become your choice despite not on the Top 10 chart.
Top 10 chart is not always a parameter to tell the games we must play. If we don't have interest with the games from the Top 10 chart, just play something else that interesting for you.

Honestly, seeing an otome game top the charts is pretty cool.

This happens just cause it was first the week 1 doesn't mean week 2 is a guarantee it will remain there as well.

Very surprised with the peach numbers. Seem especially low for the country of cuteness!

@johnedwin
Thats one of my hopes for switch 2, there was a decent amount of games which missed out on the original switch over the past couple of years especially which are hopefully viable to port to a theoretical "switch 2", even some of the ones i played i would be okay with double dipping since i generally prefer playing handheld.

again this is under the assumption the next system will be another switch, while i wouldnt be surprised if it was im still waiting for official confirmation before getting hopes up.

if it is another switch im hoping its backwards compatible.

@Manguy888A That was last week. This is the second week they aren't tracking them. They basically tracked them up until March 31st.

Pretty wild that the 7+ year old Switch can still pull in 70k+ while the PS5 can barely inch past 20k.

Given the break-down on hardware, if anyone is expecting multiple SKUs of Switch 2, I wouldn't hold your breath.

It looks like princess Peach will struggle to reach the 150k copies sold in japan, maybe it's doing better on the west.

@Anti-Matter
I'd say those sales are abysmal. And I'm a big fan of PlayStation.

Probably similar demographics for both games. That being said I am really stoked by showtime’s overall performance. Budget got wonky this month but I hope to pick it up next month.

Eh picked it up today.

@Serpenterror nah, they just stopped reporting the numbers. Still selling some every month I think

@Gamer83
I'm already content to see that PS5 sales number despite not really big numbers as I already knew Switch is still outselling PS5, but at least PS5 will be my next cute machine to play PS4 / PS5 kids games.
At least the sales number of PS5 is way much better than XBOX machine in Japan.

@Anti-Matter
True, but, Xbox doesn't have much of a market in Japan. If PS5 was getting outsold by the Series consoles, that would be a major concern.

@johnedwin please list them and I’ll let you know if they interest me.

elden ring tales of arise the like a dragon games baldur's gate 3 diablo 4 red red redemption 2 numerous other titles and many final fantasy games....

Doesn't look like they should release a new console at all. 9 out of 10 games is a Switch game and they sold 71,213 to Sony's 20,941, that's over 3 times as many. If shoppers thought it was so outdated, they wouldn't be selling like this. The system hasn't even had a price drop since it launched. Sure, game nerds want to play more advanced games, but I just don't see what incentive there is for Nintendo if they're already dominating the competition like this.

@johnedwin Thing is, I want to play Elden Ring, Cyberpunk (again lol) Dragon's Dogma 2, Baldur's Gate 3 etc etc...but there is so much to play these days, I can more than happily wait till they eventually come to whatever is next for Nintendo. I don't NEED a Switch 2, I would just like one

@johnedwin a lot of those games are massive time sinks. I don’t have the time for any of those - at a push Elden Ring perhaps…