If the pre-release backlash regarding the price of Donkey Kong Country Returns HD was anything to go by, we might have expected the game to crash and burn mere days after it launched. Alas, the internet is and forever will be its own little bubble, and the game has topped the Japanese charts once again with a total of 35,256 copies sold.
The only newcomer this week is the sublime metroidvania ENDER MAGNOLIA: Bloom in the Mist, which naturally performed much better on the Switch than the PS5, though both managed to crack the top 10. Otherwise, Super Mario Party Jamboree continues to perform well, while Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake is inching ever closer to that 1 million unit milestone.
For the full breakdown, here's a look at the latest top ten:
| Position | Game | Platform | Unit Sales (20th-26th Jan) | Total Unit Sales |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Donkey Kong Country Returns HD |
Switch |
35,256 | 142,349 |
| 2 |
Super Mario Party Jamboree |
Switch |
18,444 |
1,139,854 |
| 3 | Dynasty Warriors: Origins |
PS5 |
17,391 | 81,196 |
| 4 | Ender Magnolia: Bloom in the Mist |
Switch |
9,586 | NEW |
| 5 | Animal Crossing: New Horizons |
Switch |
6,606 | 8,058,448 |
| 6 | Mario Kart 8 Deluxe |
Switch |
5,859 | 6,221,842 |
| 7 |
Switch |
5,532 | 31,233 | |
| 8 |
Ender Magnolia: Bloom in the Mist |
PS5 |
5,290 |
NEW |
| 9 |
Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake |
Switch |
4,605 |
984,585 |
| 10 | Switch | 4,553 | 3,796,855 |
Hardware is a familiar sight this week, with the official announcement of the Switch 2 seemingly having minimal impact on Nintendo's performance in Japan. Sales across all three SKUs for the Switch total an impressive 45,327, while Sony managed to shift 12,341 PS5s across the standard, digital, and pro models.
Here's your look at this week's Japanese hardware chart in full:
| Position | Console | Unit Sales (20th-26th Jan) | Total Unit Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Switch OLED | 31,816 | 8,682,778 |
| 2 | Switch Lite |
8,772 |
6,426,960 |
| 3 | PlayStation 5 | 6,372 | 5,446,090 |
| 4 | Switch | 4,739 | 20,046,468 |
|
5 |
PlayStation 5 Pro |
4,608 |
144,510 |
|
6 |
PlayStation 5 - Digital Edition | 1,361 | 909,993 |
|
7 |
Xbox Series S |
589 | 328,600 |
|
8 |
Xbox Series X | 353 | 314,888 |
|
9 |
Xbox Series X - Digital Edition | 145 | 17,485 |
|
10 |
PlayStation 4 |
31 |
17,485 |
What do you make of this week's charts? Let us know your thoughts with a comment down below.
[source famitsu.com]
Comments 40
But I thought nobody was going to buy it since it was a lazy port?
Guess most people don't really care, I know I don't.
They put Animal Crossing: New Horizons on the PS5?
Animal Crossing has PS5 in the platform column just fyi
DKCR HD is $45 on Woot right now (in the States). 😊
It’s a great game! Richly deserved.
Glad DK going so good. Expensive or not, this is the best way to play one of the best 2d plattformers of all time.
@MKHarmony nah people just have a low bar for good ports lol
@TheBigK @charlix12323 Not yet, but It will.
Unless it won't.
Anyway, I got lost, these are the sales of the first week or the second after the Switch 2 tease?
I just hope somehow this success will lead to a re-release or remakes of the snes games (with the snes controls 🤞).
I beat it again and the select levels and never looked back. Started up TF again and now I know why it's better of the two.
Love to see Country Returns on top also this week in the Japanese charts - the game itself is still overall great despite the issues of the Switch version (but of course I hope those will eventually be fixed, especially the multiplayer one)!
Also happy to see Jamboree in 2nd, Dynasty Warriors Origins in 3rd, Ender Magnolia surprisingly in 4th and 8th and selling the most on Switch unsurprisingly, Tales of Graces f in 7th, Dragon Quest III in 9th, the usual Switch suspects in the rest of the top 10 and Switch itself still selling more or less like usual despite Switch 2's announcement as mentioned by the article, too!
@Olliemar28 There's a mistake as @charlix12323 and @TheBigK also pointed out, "PS5" as the platform for New Horizons.
@charlix12323 Nintendo didn’t, but someone else did.
Keep it up guys, if we want to see DKCTF on Switch 2.
@HammerGalladeBro Second
To be honest, these aren’t very big sales numbers.
@somnambulance I think this week was kind of light on new releases.
@mikegamer nah I think people see a good product.
@JohnnyMind Appreciate you tagging me! I'd have missed this otherwise.
@Olliemar28 You're welcome!
Wow, OLED model on its own outselling the PS5 family of systems, more than 2.5 times over.
Ha! I knew sales would be heavily impacted after the reveal of Switch 2. Instead of the regular 50K weekly sales, it's slumped to checks notes 46K...
...like seriously, what the heck??? Even Nintendo's own next generation isn't impacting sales lol.
I'm seeing locally on places like FB marketplace that as soon as the switch reveal happened, prices dropped hard on used switches. I'm seeing switch lites in newish condition for $80, oleds for $200, with regular switches hovering in between. Some even come with the boxes.
Anyone still wanting a switch who's willing to do some leg work could do a lot better than the store retail price.
PS5 sales is still on number 3. 😊
Well, with just 6K units shipped. 😕
I thought everyone was supposed to be boycotting this until Nintendo updated the credits?
More DK Nintendo!
PS5 rhetoric back to normal. Like clockwork, dependable and I suppose at least consistent 😉
I do think it's not really deserved due to it being merely an HD port with no real additions. But on the other hand it still is a really good game, so in that sense it does deserve it.
At the end of the day though, who really cares? It's a video game, there's worse things in the world than "muh lazy port outsold actual effort".
Personally I'm just gonna wait for a big price drop that may or may not ever happen, tbh. I still have the Wii game if I really want to play this again. Which I honestly don't really have the desire to. lol
Nice to see the Switch versions of Ender Magnolia: Bloom in the Mist in the top 5 and Dragon Quest III HD-2D still in the top 10. Well DQIII is getting close to that 1 million units selling numbers, I guess if we count the PS5 numbers it may had been there already but the Switch DQIII sales numbers should hit 1 million by the end of February.
The Switch is outselling the PS5 even though the Switch 2 has been revealed, Nintendo won.
Not only do I not care, but I'm glad to see DKCR HD's success because that tells Nintendo people still care about DK. Even Luigi's Mansion 2 HD sold rather well in spite of itself, and that's also good for us who want more Luigi's Mansion.
Says more about the quantity of fun quality games coming out lately than whatever arbitrary price point is correct for a port of a wii game.
@MKHarmony That's subjective
Ender magnolia at number 4 is pretty good, I like the first game and it seems the sequel is good too 😃
It's a wonderful game so doesn't surprise me. Even if it's just an HD port of a Wii game, I'd also rather buy something that's just fun, polished and complete at launch instead of all this unfinished live service microtransaction crap spreading like the plague out there, so good on them. Feels like Nintendo is the only one upholding that standard anymore though, aside from indies. At least I still trust Nintendo enough to buy their games at launch, unlike every other 'AAA' publisher pretty much. Helps that they also retain their value like gold lol
@bluemage1989 Maybe CreditGate didn't reach Japanese shores...what a day that was.
Wow $60 for a inferior version, and its unlikely that the major bug this new version created will be fixed.
Who doesn't have Mario Kart 8 still???
@XXWeskerXX more than half of all Switch owners? 😃
@XXWeskerXX People who haven't bought a Switch yet.
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