Japan: Mario & Luigi Brothership debuts at #1

It’s that time of the week again where its time to find out how video gaming hardware and physical gaming software did in Japan. Famitsu has decided to release the latest boxed video game and hardware charts. This time, it’s for for the week of November 4th to 11th. As usual, both of these sales charts are followed by lifetime sales.

This week was a very successful one for Nintendo. Out of the 10 games listed on the software sales chart, 9 of them are Switch games. One of them is Mario & Luigi: Brothership, which released last week and has made its debut appearance on the charts at the #1 spot. Meanwhile, the PlayStation 5 Pro was #1 on the hardware sales charts. Both software and hardware sales charts can be seen down below.

Software Sales (followed by lifetime sales)

1. [NSW] Mario & Luigi: Brothership (Nintendo, 11/07/24) – 63,441 (New)
2. [NSW] Super Mario Party Jamboree (Nintendo, 10/17/24) – 43,347 (409,831)
3. [NSW] Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven (Square Enix, 10/24/24) – 6,729 (91,742)
4. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 6,245 (6,050,284)
5. [NSW] Battle Spirits CrossOver (FuRyu, 11/07/24) – 5,355 (New)
6. [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 5,230 (3,671,568)
7. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo, 03/20/20) – 5,015 (7,948,548)
8. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (Nintendo, 09/26/24) – 4,907 (299,278)
9. [PS5] Slitterhead (Bokeh Game Studio, 11/08/24) – 4,697 (New)
10. [NSW] Nintendo Switch Sports (Nintendo, 04/29/22) – 4,472 (1,457,553)

Hardware Sales (followed by lifetime sales)

1. PlayStation 5 Pro – 78,086 (78,086)
2. Switch OLED Model – 42,297 (8,174,441)
3. Switch Lite – 16,140 (6,199,385)
4. PlayStation 5 – 8,571 (5,262,559)
5. Switch – 5,575 (19,938,430)
6. Xbox Series X Digital Edition – 1,505 (6,641)
7. PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 1,503 (867,237)
8. Xbox Series S – 668 (323,078)
9. Xbox Series X – 232 (308,450)
10. PlayStation 4 – 49 (7,928,758)

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