The latest Japanese boxed-video game hardware and software charts have been released for October 9th, 2023 to October 15th, 2023. The best-selling game this week in the Land of the Rising Sun is the delightful Detective Pikachu Returns, which sold an additional 16K copies on the Nintendo Switch and it is followed by the charming Pikmin 4 Speaking of the Nintendo Switch, it was the best-selling platform, selling a comfortable 44,469 units. Here’s the best-sellers in the land of the rising sun:
Software Sales (followed by lifetime sales)
- [NSW] Detective Pikachu Returns (The Pokemon Company, 10/06/23) – 16,248 (101,887)
- [NSW] Pikmin 4 (Nintendo, 07/21/23) – 14,114 (912,398)
- [NSW] The Game of Life for Nintendo Switch (Takara Tomy, 10/06/23) – 13,443 (43,710)
- [NSW] Rear Sekai (Bushiroad Games, 10/12/23) – 6,464 (New)
- [NSW] Pokemon Scarlet / Pokemon Violet (The Pokemon Company, 11/18/22) – 6,381 (5,157,822)
- [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 6,253 (5,514,955)
- [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 5,898 (3,286,698)
- [NSW] River City: Rival Showdown (Arc System Works, 10/12/23) – 5,722 <strong(New)
- [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 12/07/18) – 4,566 (5,304,914)
- [NSW] EA Sports FC 24 (Electronic Arts, 09/29/23) – 4,557 (27,046)
Hardware Sales (followed by lifetime sales)
- Switch OLED Model – 34,471 (5,832,653)
- PlayStation 5 – 18,565 (3,920,351)
- Switch – 5,170 (19,571,417)
- Switch Lite – 4,828 (5,522,561)
- PlayStation 4 – 2,054 (7,900,950)
- PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 1,144 (588,041)
- Xbox Series X – 609 (224,410)
- Xbox Series S – 477 (289,738)
- New 2DS LL (including 2DS) – 85 (1,192,508)
omg no zelda totk??? :o
Don’t worry next week TotK will be in top 10
While Nintendo has a clean sweep of the top 10, the sales numbers are really low. It’s understandable for some of the games as they’re old and have sold millions already. But look at the 2 new entries, two 3rd party entries and typically they’re complete failures.
[NSW] Rear Sekai (Bushiroad Games, 10/12/23) – 6,464 (New)
[NSW] River City: Rival Showdown (Arc System Works, 10/12/23) – 5,722 (New)
There’s no other word for those sales numbers, they’re FLOPS!
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Glad to see Pikmin doing well.
Idk I love Pikmin is getting the attention the game deserves but I’m not happy how easy Otchin addition let the game
I’m glad Pikmin is doing well too so they can immediately get started on Pikmin 6 while they are currently working on Pikmin 5. Nearly 1 million in a Non Mario/Non Zelda 1st party Nintendo game is impressive. Now tell the morons at Nintendo when we going to get an Astral Chain 2?
Wow, this has to be a record all these home console sales dominating Japan! I believe the Wii was the last one, which followed PS4 as the Japan-dominating home console! Good job winning the Japanese market with a home console, Nintendo!
The popularity of games can vary over time, so it’s always advisable to check recent rankings and user reviews to discover the current top games.