We are back with the latest look at the Japanese gaming charts thanks to Famitsu and, unusually, a new Nintendo release has not taken the top spot.
Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition winds up in third in its debut week, only shifting 27,391 copies. It's hardly the biggest number for a physical debut (particularly from Nintendo) and it wasn't nearly enough to topple the Japan-only Powerful Pro Baseball 2024-25, which sold 166,947 copies on Switch and 49,210 on PS4.
This means Luigi's Mansion 2 HD has finally been dethroned after three weeks at the top spot. It finds itself in fourth this week while its predecessor (or 'successor', kind of) Luigi's Mansion 3 has popped back into proceedings at number eight.
This week also saw another new Japan exclusive (for the time being) break the top 10 as the visual novel Mistonia no Kibou -The Lost Delight- snuck in at ninth with 5,276 sales.
For the full breakdown, here's a look at this week's top ten in full:
Things haven't been quite so shaken up on the hardware side of things. The Switch OLED still has a commanding lead over the PS5, with an additional 45,108 units sold this week. Combining the three Switch SKUs gives a total of 66,503 while the PS5 standard and digital editions combine for 38,255.
This week also sees an unusual boost for the Xbox Series X, which has pulled in 4,268 sales in the last seven days. It's hardly record-breaking numbers, but considering it sold 397 units last week, that's not bad going!
Here's your look at this week's Japanese hardware chart in full.
| Position |
Console |
Unit Sales (15th - 21st July) |
Total Unit Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Switch - OLED Model |
45,108 |
7,571,700 |
| 2 |
PlayStation 5 |
30,949 |
5,035,859 |
| 3 |
Switch Lite |
15,003 |
5,944,666 |
| 4 |
PlayStation 5 - Digital Edition |
7,306 |
817,787 |
| 5 |
Switch |
6,392 |
19,834,946 |
| 6 |
Xbox Series X |
4,268 |
291,291 |
| 7 |
Xbox Series S |
468 |
316,649 |
| 8 |
PlayStation 4 |
266 |
7,928,041 |
What do you make of this week's charts? Let us know your thoughts with a comment down below.
[source famitsu.com]
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Kind of makes sense that this didn’t sell super well since this list only counted physical copies and it’s more expensive to get physical over digital (since it comes with some extra stuff)
Unsurprising considering how much Japan loves baseball (also unsurprising that Powerful Pro Baseball 2024-25 sold way more on Switch than PS4, around 3 times as much to be precise and the same applies to hardware sales as usual) so personally I'm quite happy to see Nintendo World Championships and Luigi's Mansion 2 right behind it and selling more than 10k in a single week just like 8 Deluxe (in the former's case almost 30k which is nothing to sneeze at)!
NES Championships seems like a limited physical release, with most of the sales focused the much cheaper digital version, of which sales figures in Japan does not track (only physical for Nintendo). In fact, these charts are starting to become fairly mis-leading, since the physical/digital split is probably close to 50/50 at this point.
Considering a lot of Sony's game lineup are live service titles only, it now make sense why all their games aren't on the chart.
really sad that nwc isnt doing well, its so fun !!
PS5 sales is still good. 😊
Btw, i wish Japanese developers want to bring K-1 kickboxing tournament to modern consoles as the sport event is still popular in Japan despite Baseball is way more popular than K-1.
The dream that never ever happened.
Funny that a console that's been on the market for nearly four years is still missing out on current generation physical releases (kind of like how FIFA 14 and 15 were released on the Wii, but skipped the Wii U).
But I never quite understood why they even bothered with separate PS4/PS5 physical releases in most cases (except for larger-scale games that would benefit from the larger capacity UHD discs).
NWC already outsold the lifetime retail sales of NES Remix 1+2 in Japan on Wii U, which sold 27.124 copies.
Man, I wish Powerful Pro Baseball would get another North American release. MLB Power Pros 2008 is still my pick for the best baseball game ever.
The numbers outside of that Top10 must be morbidly low, I’m talking couple of hundred copies for things on the lower reaches of the Top40. Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD selling so well is great and I’d imagine Nintendo are happy with the NWC NES Edition sales, that would have been a comparatively low budget project.
@BTB20 : Dang. Mediocrity wins again.
Was there a sale on Series X? That's quite a bump.
I'd really like to get another Power Pro Baseball over here. It's nice that Konami gave us that 99 cent esport game, but I really want to get into the career mode and all.
@AmplifyMJ Famitsu always publishes the top 30 a bit later. Last week the 30th game had sold 1475 copies and the 20th had sold 2065 copies. It drops off more softly the further down you go.
@BTB20 ah, interesting. Thanks for that
Baseball storming the charts doesn’t surprise me at all, I didn’t realise how big baseball is in Japan until the first time I went there back in the 90s. It’s on TV all the time. It’s huge. Another winner from Konami! You’d think they’d learn from this. 😀
@squidmantle
And an EU release!
The day Power Pros comes back or Taito finally brings Densha De Go stateside will be the day the world is going to end.
Japan doesn’t play about America’s favorite pastime.
@Anti-Matter
I fought K1 had died along a few years after Pride. They had some of the best end of year shows.
Rizin is sweet as but it is no Pride
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