It’s that time again, the latest Famitsu reader most wanted chart has gone live and the upcoming Monster Hunter Rise steals the top spot once again with 917 votes. It’s The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD‘s first appearance in the chart and it’s come in at number 26; Breath of The Wild once again crops up taking a spot higher than last month at number 4. The entirety of the listed games include titles for Nintendo Switch, PS4/PS5 but no software for Xbox has been chosen. All votes were cast from 25th February to 3rd March 2021 and you can check out the full list of titles below.
1. [NSW] Monster Hunter Rise – 917 votes
2. [PS5] Final Fantasy XVI – 628 votes
3. [PS4] Tales of Arise – 618 votes
4. [NSW] Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2 – 507 votes
5. [PS5] Resident Evil Village – 498 votes
6. [NSW] Shin Megami Tensei V – 347 votes
7. [NSW] Bayonetta 3 – 329 votes
8. [NSW] Rune Factory 5 – 299 votes
9. [NSW] New Pokemon Snap – 254 votes
10. [NSW] Ushiro – 225 votes
11. [PS4] NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139… – 191 votes
12. [PS4] Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – Hinokami Keppuutan – 189 votes
13. [NSW] Jack Jeanne – 186 votes
14. [PS5] Pragmata – 161 votes
15. [PS4] R-Type Final 2 – 141 votes
16. [PS4] Nayuta no Kiseki Kai – 138 votes
17. [PS4] The Idolmaster: Starlit Season – 130 votes
18. [PS4] Anonymous;Code – 129 votes
19. [PS4] Resident Evil Village – 127 votes
20. [PS5] Gran Turismo 7 – 120 votes
21. [PS4] Elden Ring – 117 votes
22. [NSW] Fuuraiki 4 – 106 votes
23. [NSW] A-Train: All Aboard! Tourism – 104 votes
24. [NSW] Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin – 101 votes
25. [NSW] SaGa Frontier Remastered – 98 votes
26. [NSW] Zelda: Skyward Sword HD – 95 votes
27. [NSW] Densha de GO!! Hashirou Yamanote Sen – 90 votes
28. [PS4] Granblue Fantasy Relink – 88 votes
29. [PS4] SaGa Frontier Remastered – 85 votes
30. [PS4] Maglam Lord – 74 votes
Rise is so close… I almost can’t wait
Love how the readers are still hanging on for Bayo 3.
In the meantime, noone cares about Metroid Prime 4… 😞
Though that shouldn’t be surprising. Famitsu is a Japanese magazine, after all, and from what I’ve heard, the Prime games were never too big in Japan.
Not just the Prime games but Metroid as a whole from my recollection. It’s always been more of a franchise for people outside of Japan, especially the US.
Maybe, although if I remember correctly, Metroid Prime was an even more severe case, because apparently Japanese people tend to not like first-person shooters very much or something like that. Can’t really find any sales numbers to back up my claims, though. The only info I could find was that the first Metroid was apparently the only one to surpass over a million sales in Japan (so at the very least, it’s likely that there’s at least some Japanese players who are nostalgic for Metroid, thanks to the first one).
I heard about that, too. It was because of motion sickness if I remember right.