Japan: Monster Hunter Rise sells 1.3 million and Switch family sells 267k

The latest physical video game software and hardware charts are now with us from Japan, thanks to the sales tracking team at Famitsu. It has been a momentous week for Capcom who released the timed-exclusive Monster Hunter Rise for the Nintendo Switch platform. The game shifted 1.3 million physical copies alone and the Nintendo Switch family of systems sold an incredible 267K units. For comparison, Capcom’s last Monster Hunter game, Monster Hunter World, shifted 1.5 million at launch on PlayStation 4. Here’s the best-sellers for the week of 22nd March, 2021 to 28th March, 2021 in Japan:

Software Sales (followed by lifetime sales)

1. [NSW] Monster Hunter Rise (Capcom, 03/26/21) – 1,302,132 (New)
2. [NSW] Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury (Nintendo, 02/12/21) – 37,166 (592,683)
3. [NSW] The Quintessential Quintuplets ∬: Summer Memories Also Come in Five (Mages., 03/25/21) – 20,374 (New)
4. [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! (Konami, 11/19/20) – 20,179 (2,072,296)
5. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 13,207 (3,751,594)
6. [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure (Nintendo, 10/18/19) – 12,632 (2,479,573)
7. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo, 03/20/20) – 11,145 (6,710,861)
8. [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 11,096 (1,872,739)
9. [PS4] The Quintessential Quintuplets ∬: Summer Memories Also Come in Five (Mages., 03/25/21) – 10,378 (New)
10. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 12/07/18) – 10,270 (4,218,939)

Hardware Sales (followed by lifetime sales)

1. Switch – 190,133 (15,558,365)
2. Switch Lite – 77,364 (3,526,983)
3. PlayStation 5 – 51,931 (485,476)
4. PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 10,364 (94,735)
5. PlayStation 4 – 2,174 (7,775,056)
6. New 2DS LL (including 2DS) – 933 (1,160,124)
7. Xbox Series S – 847 (9,373)
8. Xbox Series X – 432 (30,636)
9. PlayStation 4 Pro – 15 (1,575,723)

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