It’s Wednesday so it is time to find out how the various software and hardware releases have performed this week in Japan. It’s been a decent week for the Nintendo Switch as it has toppled the PlayStation 4’s reign at the top of the hardware charts for the past few weeks. Nintendo Switch software sales are good as well as Splatoon 2, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Odyssey continue to sell well. Here’s the best-sellers this week in Japan:
Software Sales (followed by lifetime sales)
- [PS4] Monster Hunter: World (Limited and Bundle Editions Included) (Capcom, 01/26/18) – 53,982 (1,890,273)
- [PS4] Girls und Panzer: Dream Tank Match (Limited Edition Included) (Bandai Namco, 02/22/18) – 46,411 (New)
- [PS4] Metal Gear Survive (Konami, 02/21/18) – 31,359 (New)
- [PS4] Senran Kagura Burst Re:Newal (Marvelous, 02/22/18) – 24,118 (New)
- [NSW] Splatoon 2 (Bundle Version Included) (Nintendo, 07/21/17) – 19,501 (2,062,345)
- [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04,28,17) – 17,259 (1,363,646)
- [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Limited Edition Included) (Nintendo, 03/03/17) – 12,252 (883,780)
- [NSW] Super Mario Odyssey (Bundle Version Included) (Nintendo, 10/27/17) – 11,639 (1,626,145)
- [PS4] Dynasty Warriors 9 (Limited Edition Included) (Koei Tecmo, 02/08/18) – 8,959 (147,634)
- [PSV] Harukanaru Toki no Naka De Ultimate (Limited Edition Included) (Koei Temo, 02/22/18) – 8,833 (New)
- [NSW] Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle (Nintendo, 01/18/18) – 8,634 (151,225)
- [3DS] Pokemon Ultra Sun / Ultra Moon (Nintendo, 11/17/17) – 8,614 (1,566,656)
- [PS4] Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet (Limited Edition Included) (Bandai Namco, 02/08/18) – 6,027 (94,631)
- [NSW] Bayonetta 2 (Nintendo, 02/16/18) – 5,443 (14,975)
- [PS4] Secret of Mana (Square Enix, 02/15/18) – 5,336 (41,378)
- [PSV] Tokimeki Restaurant: Project Tristars (Limited Edition Included) (Koei Tecmo, 02/22/18) – 4,319 (New)
- [3DS] Mario Party: The Top 100 (Nintendo, 12/28/17) – 4,271 (165,894)
- [NSW] 1-2-Switch (Nintendo, 03/03/17) – 4,215 (403,972)
- [PS4] Dragon Ball FighterZ (Bandai Namco, 02/01/18) – 3,992 (92,935)
- [PS4] Star Wars Battlefront II (Limited Edition and Bundle Versions Included) (EA, 11/14/17) – 3,898 (89,486)
Hardware Sales (followed by last week’s sales)
- Switch – 39,696 (39,303)
- PlayStation 4 – 29,392 (41,496)
- New 2DS LL – 6,693 (5,778)
- PlayStation 4 Pro – 5,383 (8,006)
- PlayStation Vita – 5,017 (4,959)
- New 3DS LL – 3,693 (3,424)
- 2DS – 850 (959)
- Xbox One X – 139 (133)
- Xbox One – 135 (57)
I still haven’t found a Switch game that’s as fun, huge, interesting, or as epic as Breath Of The Wild (though I haven’t played Skyrim yet). I’m starting to wonder if I ever will.
There’s tons of options in games and plenty more coming. You asking for a bit too much on one little thing. Oh and to answer your question; Skyrim. It’s as close to BotW as it’s gonna get for now.
Personally I like Skyrim just a little bit more because of the RPG elements. The funny thing is when I first played Skyrim in 2014 I wanted Zelda to be as opened ended and it is now.
Have you tried Xenoblade ? Lots of people prefer it over Zelda.
Zelda, Skyrim and Xenoblade are 3 huge games in less then a year… The first year of the console… This is pretty big !
And some indie games deserve a shot too. The library is way bigger than people try to make it sound.
I haven’t played the new Xenoblade. But I played an hour or two (maybe more) of the original Wii version, and I wasn’t liking anything about it. I couldn’t stop complaining.
When you see people buying MGS…
The MHW PS4 bump lasted longer than I anticipated. That game just keeps pulling beastly numbers, too.
Each time Monster Hunter World stays in the top 10, the more I enjoy watching people squirm because they thought Monster Hunter was screwed on anything but a portable system. MH3 & MH4 will be outdone in the sales department soon enough.
I though Zelda has surpassed 1mill in Japan , Why’s this showing 880k ?Perhaps not including digital sales ?
They included the sales from the Wii U version of the game and that’s what made surpass 1mill in japan
One thing I noticed with PS4, they release a lot of remixes.