Nintendo continues to see massive success in Japan. Today saw the release of Japan’s Top 20 best-selling games so far this year. Out of these 20 titles, 11 were games that Nintendo published. One of them is Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon on the 3DS, charting at #7. The rest of the Nintendo titles that charted are Switch games, with one of them being the Labo. At the moment, the Nintendo title that has charted the highest is Splatoon 2. In fact, in the Top 5 alone, the only position that doesn’t have a Nintendo game is #1. Here are the charts:
| 1 | Monster Hunter: World | 1.949.592 | 1.949.592 | Capcom |
| 2 | Splatoon 2 | 631.298 | 2.383.394 | Nintendo |
| 3 | Kirby Star Allies | 536.881 | 536.881 | Nintendo |
| 4 | Mario Kart 8 Deluxe | 450.206 | 1.553.950 | Nintendo |
| 5 | Super Mario Odyssey | 389.680 | 1.713.960 | Nintendo |
| 6 | The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild | 292.459 | 980.503 | Nintendo |
| 7 | Pokemon Ultra Sun / Ultra Moon | 240.135 | 2.243.742 | Pokรฉmon Co. |
| 8 | Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2018 | 217.178 | 217.178 | Konami |
| 9 | Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle | 200.131 | 200.131 | Nintendo |
| 10 | Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze | 179.179 | 179.179 | Nintendo |
| 11 | Nintendo Labo Toy-Con 01: Variety Kit | 174.792 | 174.792 | Nintendo |
| 12 | Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise | 174.744 | 174.744 | SEGA |
| 13 | Dynasty Warriors 9 | 171.195 | 171.195 | Koei Tecmo |
| 14 | Mario Party: The Top 100 | 153.015 | 199.203 | Nintendo |
| 15 | Dissidia: Final Fantasy NT | 150.250 | 150.250 | Square Enix |
| 16 | Far Cry 5 | 144.455 | 144.455 | Ubisoft |
| 17 | Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet | 126.585 | 126.585 | Bandai Namco |
| 18 | Mario Tennis Aces | 122.070 | 122.070 | Nintendo |
| 19 | Dark Souls Remastered | 112.974 | 112.974 | From Software |
| 20 | Super Robot Wars X | 107.866 | 107.866 | Bandai Namco |
Sweet baby rays!
Those that wanted Monster Hunter World to fail are probably pissed.
I’m impressed about Kirby Star Allies
Yeah it’s also gonna be the last year since it’s just the after sales of 2017 games and since 2018 had no games on the Switch you can also play on iOS or stream years ago, it’s gonna be a dry year in sale numbers next year charts
^– Sad attempt at bait.
This is in Japan though. They’re notorious for only buying their games and products. The only non-Japanese game I see on there is Far Cry 5. I’d say Japanese sales are by far the worst stats to look at if you want the big picture of how sales are doing worldwide.