The latest Japanese boxed software and hardware charts have come through courtesy of the team at Famitsu and there’s a new No.1 this week. The charming Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time for the Nintendo Switch arrived at the top spot with 82K physical copies sold on the platform. On the hardware side of things it was the Nintendo Switch family of systems which was the best-selling system, shifting an additional 24,289 units, the PlayStation 5 family sold 6,738 units, the Xbox Series family sold 370 units, and the PlayStation 4 family sold 25 units. Here’s this week’s best-sellers in The Land of the Rising Sun:
Software Sales (followed by lifetime sales)
- [NSW] FANTASY LIFE i: The Girl Who Steals Time (LEVEL-5, 05/21/25) – 82,968 (New)
- [NSW] Mobile Suit Gundam SEED: Battle Destiny Remastered (Bandai Namco, 05/21/25) – 26,130 (New)
- [PS5] FANTASY LIFE i: The Girl Who Steals Time (LEVEL-5, 05/21/25) – 10,730 (New)
- [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 5,911 (3,895,674)
- [NSW] Ys Memoire: Memories of Celceta (Nihon Falcom, 05/21/25) – 5,596 (New)
- [NSW] Nintendo Switch Sports (Nintendo, 04/29/22) – 4,522 (1,590,124)
- [NSW] Super Mario Party Jamboree (Nintendo, 10/17/24) – 4,511 (1,304,912)
- [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 4,127 (6,332,032)
- [PS5] Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Kepler Interactive, 04/24/25) – 4,098 (19,337)
- [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo, 03/20/20) – 4,051 (8,132,631)
Hardware Sales (followed by lifetime sales)
- Switch OLED Model – 15,349 (9,041,585)
- Switch Lite – 6,902 (6,569,728)
- PlayStation 5 – 3,832 (5,665,805)
- PlayStation 5 Pro – 2,119 (210,408)
- Switch – 2,038 (20,104,021)
- PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 787 (970,550)
- Xbox Series S – 197 (337,333)
- Xbox Series X Digital Edition – 101 (20,710)
- Xbox Series X – 72 (320,528)
- PlayStation 4 – 25 (7,929,577)
My God, in Japan, Sony is really out of favor… or perhaps it’s typical for home consoles. I would be curious to know the number of units sold by the new Switch in two weeks; it’s going to hurt for Sony.
For Fantasy Life The Girl Who Steals Time, anyone know how you increase the amount of “gold celestial flowers” you get for the butterfly quest. Currently i get one gold celestial flower each day, but i read that if you increase the islanders affinity and do other stuff on your island you can increase the amount of gold celestial flowers you get each day.
Daily quest found in the activities tab for flowers also pick up the blue flowers that spawn once each day for about 100 total.
Didn’t know the Switch got Ys Memoire: Memories of Celceta, of course it’s Japan and this means the west is getting it localized soon. Currently i have every Ys game that is on Switch in the west.