Japanese Charts: Mario Party Jamboree Is The Star Player, Once Again

For those wondering why Ys X Nordics isn't on the sales chart, that's cause the game already came out in Japan a year ago. It's nice to see that the Romancing SaGa 2 remake is doing good. Poor Switch version of Sonic X Shadow Generations, you did your best last week.

GOOD! Jamboree is absolutely brilliant...best I have ever played actually. Everyone I know just loves it

What happened to all the Romance that was on the list last week? Has it become Hate?

Anyway, next week's outcome will be interesting now that the PS5 Pro has been released.

Will Animal Crossing hit 8 million before the successor arrives?

I think Jamboree is going to rule the Japanese charts til January. Mario & Luigi will probably beat it 1st week but JRPGs are front-loaded and party games are evergreen.

I could see Jamboree being the Switchs 2nd last 10million+ seller, with Pokemon Legends ZA being the last before Switch 2.

Whatever the reason for the two Series X listings, the first one is what actually sold. No idea what the second one is…Maybe the chart has to have 10 listings? But even so, why have two completely different numbers?

Super Mario Party Jamboree just came out and has 366,484 total sales while The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom has been out for a good while now and has 294,371 total sales. This does not bode well for the new Zelda game. If it doesn't get some traction soon... will there be another one?

I think the thing that blows my mind the most is Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is still racking in the sales as old as it is at this point. Totally amazing.

Switch sales still good. PS5 sales still not good 😄

@Dr_Lugae I expect DQ3 to dethrone it for at least a week or two, but Jamboree does look like it will dominate for a fair bit.

@LavenderShroud Next week the PS5 Pro sales may be on the chart making it an actual 10.

Absolutely wild that the Switch is still the #1 selling console with its successor just a few months away

Seems like Echoes of wisdom's disappointing sales probably won't be encouraging Nintendo to make another 2d Zelda for a while.

Didn't Astrobot come out? Thought would be dominating sales charts.

@DonutPie It's only out for one and a half months now, likely it'll probably sell many more numbers during the holiday season. Nintendo is saving any info about the Switch 2 for early next year so to not overshadow the Switch holiday rush.

@Serpenterror With over 34 million Switch units sold (across all versions), who exactly is rushing to buy another one this holiday season? Pretty much anybody who plays games has a Switch at this point.

@somnambulance To be expected. Mario Party has been selling massively on Switch, significantly more than 2D Zelda ever did. Especially in Japan.

@DonutPie What makes you think EoW is selling disappointingly?

@PharoneTheGnome This is Jamboree's third week and EoW's sixth week. Not that big of a difference.

EoW is well ahead of Link's Awakening launch aligned and has a bigger digital share. It's Japanese sales are way up. WW it shipped 2.58 million in five days. That is by no means a number that would lead to them giving up on 2D Zelda. Especially not after Link's Awakening remake became the best selling 2D Zelda game ever.

Mario Party has two multi-million selling games on Switch in Japan and is at it's all time popularity peak. Jamboree is massively up over the previous two entries in it's first three weeks.

@LavenderShroud Yeah the second Series X listing doesn't exist on Famitsu. Nintendolife added that.

@BTB20 Would've expected it a bit higher on the charts and it doesn't seem like it's going to pass Link's Awakening in total sales.

@somnambulance I think Mario Party games consistently sell over 10 million copies. Top-down Zelda games don't sell nearly that many. So Jamboree is the big game this holiday season.

I'm so happy for Jamboree, but EOW will do great. About 10 million copies.

@LavenderShroud @BTB20 The second Series X is last week's sales numbers. My guess is that they accidently added another line instead of deleting the last one when updating the chart.

@AnnoyingFrenzy I had a feeling it was last week’s numbers. I just didn’t get around to checking it…But at least you let us know!

@PharoneTheGnome According to folks I know, only 60% of them only had Switch and very few had two or three of em. Of the 40% that didn't had one yet, 25% of those want one but are waiting for a good deal to get one so yes there are still some that had not bought one yet but would gladly get one if the deal is there. My brother also had a few friends who just realize that the Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection and Yakuza is on Switch now so they too are interest in getting one if a good deal exist. Because the Switch is a handheld, some folks who already own one are still looking for some to get as gift for their love ones to especially the kids and gramps. Even my aunt who doesn't play games at all now want one so she could watch her daughter on YouTube since her daughter recently open a channel there now.

@PharoneTheGnome I’m pretty sure these are just sales figures from Japan. I recall reading elsewhere that EoW had sold over 2.5 million units so far.

Why did Nintendo stop their Nintendo Select line?

@Duncanballs Oh yeah I forgot about DQ3, that'll definitely knock Mario Party down for a bit.

@Dr_Lugae it's my winter JRPG. Holding out on Metaphor, hoping it will release on Switch 2.

@LavenderShroud I think it may be a copy and paste error. Its totals sales last week were 307,942. Adding the 276 it sold this week leads to a total of 308,218.

If the OG Switch sells this many units every week it will pass the 20 million mark in less than 4 months, considering its age and the fact that the OLED is so popular this is astonishing!

@UmbreonsPapa ah ok that makes more sense.