It is Wednesday so it is time to see how video game software and hardware have performed this week in Japan. The Media Create chart shows that this week Nintendo have an impressive nine games in the top ten and that the Nintendo Switch system is easily continuing to outsell the PlayStation 4.
Software Sales (followed by lifetime sales)
- [PS4] Devil May Cry 5 (Capcom, 03/08/19) – 116,202 (New)
- [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 12/07/18) – 23,407 (2,932,439)
- [NSW] New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe (Nintendo, 01/11/19) – 20,101 (499,543)
- [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 12,301 (2,166,999)
- [NSW] Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! / Let’s Go, Eevee! (Bundle Editions Included) (Nintendo, 11/16/18) – 11,394 (1,526,105)
- [3DS] Kirby’s Extra Epic Yarn (Nintendo, 03/07/19) – 10,607 (New)
- [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Limited Edition Included) (Nintendo, 03/03/17) – 9,838 (1,317,346)
- [NSW] Super Mario Party (Bundle Version Included) (Nintendo, 10/05/18) – 9,230 (1,046,789)
- [NSW] Minecraft: Nintendo Switch Edition (Bundle Version Included) (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 8,350 (632,871)
- [NSW] Splatoon 2 (Bundle Version Included) (Nintendo, 07/21/17) – 7,739 (2,955,316)
- [PS4] Dead or Alive 6 (Koei Tecmo, 03/01/19) – 5,223 (31,665)
- [PS4] Anthem (Limited Edition Included) (Electronic Arts, 02/22/19) – 5,204 (103,510)
- [PS4] Kingdom Hearts III (Limited Edition Included) (Square Enix, 01/25/19) – 4,518 (785,569)
- [PS4] Jump Force (Bandai Namco, 02/14/19) – 4,492 (107,512)
- [PS4] Left Alive (Square Enix, 02/28/19) – 3,530 (21,152)
- [PS4] Resident Evil 2 (Z Version and Limited Edition Included) (Capcom, 01/25/19) – 3,415 (352,193)
- [PS4] NieR: Automata Game of the YoRHa Edition (Square Enix, 02/21/19) – 3,363 (31,313)
- [PS4] Far Cry: New Dawn (Ubisoft, 02/15/19) – 2,859 (47,527)
- [NSW] Kirby: Star Allies (Nintendo, 03/16/18) – 2,788 (740,899)
- [NSW] Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo, 10/27/17) – 2,693 (1,960,058)
Hardware Sales (followed by last week’s sales)
- Switch – 69,766 (68,666)
- PlayStation 4 – 25,154 (11,871)
- PlayStation 4 Pro – 7,208 (7,986)
- New 2DS LL – 4,424 (6,202)
- PlayStation Vita – 3,002 (3,287)
- New 3DS LL – 1,182 (1,203)
- 2DS – 112 (116)
- Xbox One X – 83 (67)
- Xbox One – 14 (23)
https://youtu.be/ArNxvgiMKeE?t=25
Wow I think that’s the most I’ve seen since switch was released.
That’s some great sell for Devil May Cry 5, as expected.
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and Splatoon 2 are killing it. Looking forward to them hitting the 3 million mark.
And surprisingly, we don’t hear so much noise from Minecraft yet its sales performance is still alive.
Place your bets to how long Kirby will stay on the charts! So, far every 3DS game released the last 2 years has only lasted 2 to 3 weeks before no longer placing.
I am counting 8
3DS is over.
Now that I’ve beaten the game, I can see why Kingdom Hearts III dropped off the top 10 charts as quick as it did. I give the game a 7/10 myself. Lost a point for not having Oathkeeper & Oblivion as keyblades, lost a point for being mostly a Disney game with a bit of KH sprinkled in, & lost a point for not having any god damn Final Fantasy characters. Nomura better not be trying to move away from that aspect of the first 3 games because one of the reasons I’m sure a lot of people loved the franchise was the crossover between Disney & Final Fantasy characters. Take away the Final Fantasy characters & you risk losing half of the fanbase.
Nomura: “I didn’t add Final Fantasy characters because I didn’t want them to distract people from the story.” Don’t you mean you didn’t add them because you didn’t want them to take attention away from the Disney characters? Thus winning some points with Disney by *censor* them off?
Kind of destroys the point of the “crossover”, huh?
Microsoft is only surviving in Japan because of the Switch
GIVE US RARE BACK
I repeat… GIVE US RARE BACK!!!! 😍
That’s fresh!