Famitsu's latest look at the Japanese gaming charts is in and it's another clean sweep for the Switch.
Luigi's Mansion 2 HD holds onto the top spot for the third week in a row — way to go, bro — but there are also two new entries this time around which have snuck into the proceedings. Aerial action was clearly a popular choice this week, as Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown Deluxe Edition flew into second place with 14,322 sales in its debut. Princess Maker 2 Regeneration also nabbed a spot in the top ten, with 3,685 units sold.
Elsewhere, it's business as usual in this Switch-heavy picture. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Animal Crossing: New Horizons continue to show that there's no slowing them down, and it's still steady sales for Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, which has dropped one place from last week and now finds itself in seventh.
For the full breakdown, here's a look at this week's top ten in full:
The Switch lovin' carries over to the hardware charts this week too. Nintendo's OLED model leads the pack with an additional 36,451 sales, while the PS5 crosses the big five milly milestone with 23,298 sales. Throwing that in with the PS5 Digital Edition (which has once again outsold the standard Switch this week) gives Sony's latest a total of 29,304, while the three Switch SKUs combine for 53,487.
Down at the bottom, Xbox is still struggling. Neither the Series X nor S model has managed to make it past 1,000 sales this week and you'll notice that the latter was even outsold by Sony's PS4. Yikes.
Here's your look at this week's Japanese hardware chart in full.
| Position |
Console |
Unit Sales (1st - 7th July) |
Total Unit Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Switch - OLED Model |
36,451 |
7,525,062 |
| 2 |
PlayStation 5 |
23,298 |
5,004,910 |
| 3 |
Switch Lite |
11,801 |
5,929,663 |
| 4 |
PlayStation 5 - Digital Edition |
6,015 |
810,481 |
| 5 |
Switch |
5,253 |
19,828,554 |
| 6 |
Xbox Series X |
397 |
287,023 |
| 7 |
PlayStation 4 |
391 |
7,927,775 |
| 8 |
Xbox Series S |
363 |
316,181 |
What do you make of this week's charts? Let us know your thoughts with a comment down below.
[source famitsu.com]
Comments 12
Wow that’s some low software numbers! 😮
Nice to see Smash Bros. on the top ten, it’s such an amazing game and definitely one everyone should play, so seeing people are still purchasing copies of it after all the updates makes me happy! Unsurprising seeing Mario Kart is up so high, cuz I’m also sure that the game has gotten up high in the top ten about a million times before lol
20+ K sales from PS5.
Still good. 😊
Well, I don't really have much to say for Switch 1st party Switch games.
I don't really have big hype with them but I still keep my eyes on them.
I saw some great sales, but my attention is on the PS5 sales number.
That's the indicator for me to tell the support of 3rd party kids games for PS5.
Love to see Luigi's Mansion still on top, Ace Combat immediately behind it and Wonder, TTYD and Princess Maker in the top 10 other than the usual suspects!
My god! Almost 2 million SMB Wonder, and that's only in Japan. And only physical! 🤩
Switch on it's way to number one! (Mind you, alrady is in Japan lol.)
Luigi reigns supreme!!
Wow it seems all that's left for Sony now is Astro Bot.
Switch OLED likely to take over PS4 by the holidays which will be another significant milestone. A mid gen sku taking over a previous gen total.
Xbox deserves a little bit better to be fair as I do think it is a good console. Their games just don't appeal to the JP market.
Switch 2 is going to do some insane numbers on launch day. If Nintendo could work with Square to have DQ12 as a launch title, Japan would go into meltdown. Probably a national holiday.
Switch back at another 10 sweep.
Sony really needs to make some first party games that isn’t always a high spec cinimatic experience that takes years to get vomited out. Some good faster released modest budget 1st parties can turn things around for them better.
@GrailUK
does make me curious and exited to see how things go with the "switch 2" since it feels like there could potentially be a lot more Japanese developers on board from the get go who were maybe a bit more hesitant with the original.
i wouldn't be surprised to see some good square enix and falcom support from day 1 and maybe even some more sega and/or atlus support. (such as the Yakuza/like a dragon franchise or re fantazio) .
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