Data compiled by Famitsu shows the clear dominance of the Nintendo Switch and its games in this week’s top sales in Japan.
One more week, here we offer you sales of games and consoles in Japan, one of the major markets for the video game industry. On that note, it’s safe to say that Nintendo has hit the table, on all levels.
In the first months of 2023, PlayStation performed very well, and even Xbox managed to outperform its main competitor several times, which is very commendable when it comes to this market.
However, the Nintendo Switch and its games They took the situation under control againwhich is reflected in data collected by Famitsu (via Gematsu).
We have a new release at the top of the top 10, but all of its titles are owned The Nintendo Switch. There are no PS5, PS4, or Xbox games.
We review the best selling games and consoles last week (November 27 to December 3) in Japanese stores.
Dragon Quest is tasked with Pokemon… and it’s doing really well
The best-selling game of the week in Japan is Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince, a proper experiment that brings together Square Enix’s JRPG universe in an offering similar to Game Freak’s saga.
It may not be as good as we expected, but The Dark Prince is killing it in terms of sales. In just a few days, this Switch exclusive it sold 346,583 copies in Japan alone.
On the second position of the new Momotaro Dentetsu World: Chikyuu wa Kibou de Mawatteru! by Konami achieved good sales (almost 65,000 copies), and already has almost half a million games sold.
Rounding out the podium, we have Super Mario Bros. Wonder, the latest plumbing game for Nintendo Switch. It sold just over 61,000 copies, and 1.15 million games have already been sold in the said country.
Not much news since then. Super Mario RPG Remake ranks fourth after selling more than 24,000 copies, surpassing Pikmin 4 (which has already sold nearly a million games in Japan alone). WarioWare: Move! (almost 10,000 copies sold this week).
They round out the top 10 in this order, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Minecraft, Animal Crossing New Horizons and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. All of them are from Nintendo, except for Minecraft, which is from Microsoft.
At the hardware level, More than 79,000 Nintendo Switch consoles have been soldand far surpassing all PS5 models, with nearly 43,000 consoles sold this week.
In third place in the competition is the Xbox Series X|S, which sold 2,190 units this week, surpassing the long-standing PS4. What do you think of this week’s Japanese sales? We remember that a physical edition of Baldur’s Gate 3 for PS5 will be released soon, which may well make it to the rankings.
