The latest Japanese charts are in, courtesy of Famitsu, and as expected, Super Mario Party Jamboree has taken the region by storm, selling an impressive 227,569 units at launch. Remember these charts only account for boxed copies too, so digital sales will drive the total number up nicely.
It's a solid week for the PlayStation 5, mind, with Professional Baseball Spirits 2024-2025 coming in second place with 69,078 units sold, while Metaphor: ReFantazio finds representation on both the PS4 and PS5 in the top ten.
Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is still performing reasonably well, though it's safe to say that the initial boom of interest is beginning to dwindle, as the latest title sells an additional 13,273 units.
For the full breakdown, here's a look at the latest top ten in full:
Hardware for this week is another familiar image. The Switch OLED leads the pack with a further 37,294 units sold, followed by the Switch Lite with 16,911. PS5 has just about managed to cross the 10K threshold across its two SKUs, but Xbox is once again floundering near the bottom of the pile.
Here's your look at this week's Japanese hardware chart in full.
Position | Console | Unit Sales (14th - 20th Oct) | Total Unit Sales |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Switch OLED | 37,294 | 8,046,039 |
2 | Switch Lite | 16,911 | 6,151,877 |
3 | PlayStation 5 | 9,649 | 5,232,593 |
4 |
Switch |
4,648 |
19,922,508 |
5 |
PlayStation 5 - Digital Edition |
1,666 |
861,219 |
6 |
Xbox Series S |
1,460 |
321,288 |
7 |
Xbox Series X |
147 | 307,834 |
8 |
PlayStation 4 |
34 |
7,928,618 |
What do you make of this week's charts? Let us know your thoughts with a comment down below.
[source famitsu.com]
Comments 33
Nintendo Life, What exactly are your referencing with that title?
PS5 sales is still stable at 9,000+ unit. 🙂
Not bad. ☺
And PS4 is still selling in Japan too despite of very low number.
you have to wonder if the state of the japanese economy is causing sales numbers to be lower for some of these games..or the percentage of game sale are becoming more digital with each passing day...
Considering that Alarmo possibly prevented the Switch 2 from being a victim of the Nintendo Console Curse, I wonder how well that will sell when it launches.
PS: That is an insane title.
Love to see Jamboree in first with more than 200k copies physically in Japan alone!
Also happy to see Echoes of Wisdom in third, Sparking Zero in fourth, Metaphor in fifth and Silent Hill 2 at least still in the top 10 apart from the usual Switch suspects and that Switch itself keeps on selling well!
@HotGoomba Why it's just an innocent 30 Rock reference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LqeTgQHwCA
This game is selling really well already, and it usually sells well slowly over time. I believe it has a better debut week than the other Mario Parties on Switch, which shows Switch is still going strong!
Article title is DIABOLICAL
@syrupdash totally forgot about this scene lmao. Time to rewatch 30 Rock again
Er, why is everyone talking about the title? Am I missing a double meaning?
Edit: nvm, just found out. The freaky factor is strong in this one.
Come along and sing a song and join the Jamboree! S-U-P-E-R M-A-R-I-O!
Awesome game. The Koopathlon and Bowser Kaboom Squad are so far my favorite modes, perhaps even more than the Mario Party main mode.
30 Rock? I thought it was an S-Club reference.
Am I out of touch? No, it is the children who are wrong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZkgtgr7LhE
Also, well done to Mario Party¬!¬
Wow, I'm not sure I will ever look at a Nintendolife censor on comments the same again after reading this articles title. Looks like someone needs to do a little soul searching at the good ole NL.
@HotGoomba Remember this the next time you see someone's comment removed here for a difference in opinion to what some feel is acceptable or not.
That's quite a difference in sales between top spot and #2.
@Anti-Matter not great either. It just proves that form factor and a decent catalogue of games over graphics proves dividends. It's all about the games at the end of the day.
Wow Silent Hill 2 is hanging in there. I wonder if Japan celebrate Halloween too cause surely a game that fit the Halloween month should had done well.
@Cipher36 ???
I'm sorry, I'm not watching your mojo, I have no idea what you're talking about.
@Mana_Knight I thought it was S Club too 😅
@johnedwin It’s a tricky one, Japan doesn’t take part in the graphics arms race which is plateauing big time, plus Sony doesn’t push games out to appease their home crowd. Big angry western power-hungry games tend to go down like a lead balloon in a culture based on convenience. Part of the reason Final Fantasy is dying in Japan. Japanese people don’t care about hair physics and pores. They want a great playing game.
All of the Playstation games that launched the previous week dropped 80-85% (pretty big drops) but still managed to stay in the top 10.
@HotGoomba Did the title get changed? Or am I missing something?
@BTB20 It's a reference to "ain't no party like a diddy party".
@Duncanballs
That's why I said the PS5 sales was not bad.
It's not as great as Switch sales but at least still selling better than XBOX. 😉
@chapuH @cipher36
Or, the more likely, "Ain't no party like an S Club party".
@chapuH Dang, that's quite something.
@PikminMarioKirby Indeed, Super Mario Party launched with 126k copies and Superstars with 163k copies. The biggest retail launches in the franchise were Mario Party 8 with 282k and DS with 242k. So with digital this one should be the biggest launch in the franchise.
@Gatorclops first thing that came to my mind was "ain't no party like a Donner party."
@BTB20 No, the title's unchanged. It's just crappy modern day internet humor (i love crappy modern day internet humor).
It's a meme where people use the catchphrase "ain't no party like a ...", but now that blank has been filled in with a controversial individual. I won't get into it, but search up "ain't no party like a meme" on Google, and you might get the gist of it. If you don't, don't worry about it, just appreciate that your brain isn't as rotted as mine.
Diddy Kong was never heard from again
@Gatorclops
I highly doubt it's "more likely" as the current meme trending is "aint no party like a Diddy party"... considering it's probably the most popular meme right now, I'd be hard pressed to believe they are referencing a 25 year old song that is totally irrelevant in 2024. Even if it were, it's in bad taste at this moment in time given the current trending meme and its disgusting meaning.
Ghetto boys, make some noise!
Hoochie mamas, show your nanas!
@Cipher36
I mean they're a British site and it's a British pop band, and even myself who lives in Canada, immediately thought of S Club 7 and has never even heard of whatever "ain't no party like a Diddy party" is.
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