This week's Japanese charts are in from Famitsu (via Gematsu) and things are looking rather PlayStation-heavy compared to what we are used to seeing.
It's the new releases that are dominating the competition this time around. Persona 3 Reload's PS5 version tops the charts with 76,368 copies sold, while its PS4 counterpart takes the bronze. Another PS5 title, Granblue Fantasy: Relink slots into the podium line-up, leaving the only Switch newbie, Jujutsu Kaisen: Cursed Clash to take bronze with 25,242 sales in its opening week.
In fact, only four of the top ten this week come from the Switch, with the PlayStation's Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth even beating the likes of Super Mario Bros. Wonder.
Here's your look at this week's top ten in full:
- [PS5] Persona 3 Reload (ATLUS, 02/02/24) – 76,368 (New)
- [PS5] Granblue Fantasy: Relink (Cygames, 02/01/24) – 48,765 (New)
- [PS4] Persona 3 Reload (ATLUS, 02/02/24) – 40,024 (New)
- [NSW] Jujutsu Kaisen: Cursed Clash (Bandai Namco, 02/01/24) – 25,242 (New)
- [PS4] Granblue Fantasy: Relink (Cygames, 02/01/24) – 22,083 (New)
- [NSW] Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island (Spike Chunsoft, 01/25/24) – 18,103 (103,527)
- [PS4] Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth (SEGA, 01/26/24) – 16,503 (93,637)
- [PS5] Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth (SEGA, 01/26/24) – 15,388 (118,328)
- [NSW] Super Mario Bros. Wonder (Nintendo, 10/20/23) – 14,140 (1,715,110)
- [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu World: Chikyuu wa Kibou de Mawatteru! (Konami, 11/16/23) – 11,464 (960,282)
Despite Sony's dominance on the software side of things, it is Nintendo that comes out on top of the Japanese hardware charts this week.
The Switch OLED leads the pack with 30,419 sales while the PS5 follows behind with 27,066. Unlike last week, the combined SKUs also fall in Nintendo's favour this time around. The OLED, Lite and standard Switch have pulled in a total of 41,966 sales, while Sony has 34,484.
Here's your look at this week's hardware chart:
- Switch OLED Model – 30,419 (6,625,872)
- PlayStation 5 – 27,066 (4,474,632)
- PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 7,418 (710,189)
- Switch Lite – 7,376 (5,729,137)
- Switch – 4,171 (19,714,895)
- Xbox Series S – 1,613 (299,893)
- Xbox Series X – 1,564 (251,045)
- PlayStation 4 – 605 (7,918,515)
- New 2DS LL (including 2DS) – 12 (1,192,813)
What do you make of this week's Japanese charts? Let us know in the comments.
[source famitsu.com, via gematsu.com]
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I would happily contribute to the success of Persona 3 Reload. Please port to Nintendo consoles asap. Thanks.
Just started playing Persona 3 Reload on Gamepass, can say it’s worthy of its number one position so far!
Not too far in yet, but I've been having a lot of fun with Granblue Fantasy ReLink.
Absolutely smitten with Granblue Fantasy Relink. The campaign totally surpassed my modest expectations, but the co-op has been practically addicting. I've been lucky enough to have a full group of friends to play with. We're all hoping it does well enough that Relink 2 will come out in the next 8 years!
I'll circle back for Persona 3 Reload, before or after Unicorn Overlord, I'm not sure. And then there's FF7 Rebirth, Dragon's Dogma 2, and Rise of the Ronin... The PS5 is finally making an effort. After 500 switch hours, 30 PS5 hours last year, I'm happy to see the thing pull its own weight.
Looks like a John Edwin utopia this week!
No UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH II [Sys:Celes] again?! 😟
Even Granblue Fantasy: Relink got a place in the charts... Sigh
I'd wager the charts will include some Playstation games for a while now as February/March are stacked with Japanese games for the console.
@Vyacheslav333 Granblue is significantly bigger. And Under Night In-Birth II launched on January 22nd, it would have charted the week before this one if it had.
@WiltonRoots lol
@Notsoavid I can see them importing it to the Switch successor. The devs said it's not in the cards right now. But that doesn't mean it's a no
@BTB20 Only because of it's original mobile game, I think.
«...it would have charted the week before this one if it had.»
I would like to believe in it... Sigh
Love to see Reload starting so well - please port it to a Nintendo system sooner rather than later Atlus!
Also happy to see at least Shiren the Wanderer and Wonder in the charts despite the PlayStation prevalence this week (speaking of, glad that there are some here in the comments enjoying Granblue Fantasy).
@Notsoavid prominent Atlus leaker already confirmed that its on its way to Switch 2 alongside Metaphor Refantazio.
Watching granblue. I have the first and not sure if i wanna dive back in.
@Ryu_Niiyama I played the demo for Relink on PS5. It was pretty fun. I was hoping for a more ambitious multiplayer experience, but that could just be the quests in the demo. The single player was visually lovely and the combat was fine.
@Itachi2099 I hate missing out on hype haha, just a foible of mine. It would be foolish for Atlus not to bring in extra revenue by adding a switch 2 port, but I’m a little bummed that I’ll probably have to wait until 2025 to play it. Thanks for the bringing that to my attention though 👍
Nice to see the passion of the PS owners showing up in the charts this time around.
The Switch lineup is recovering from 2023
its real good so far i think youre still better off starting with 5 royal if youre new to the series, but this totally makes sense as a second choice. I guess what im trying to say is PLAY PERSONA 5 ROYAL
@Notsoavid who knows, maybe Persona 3 Reload is a launch title for Switch 2 since Sega had the devkits for a while 👀
@JohnnyMind
yeah i would love to see reload on some form of switch.
Though one thing im exited for with a theoretical "switch 2" is that it would open up the possibility of bringing some of those games which missed out on the current switch and open them up to a potential new audience.
things like star ocean 6, tales of arise, Armored core VI, even that granblue game you mentioned, maybe even potential future games like that new Mana game.
also curious to see what "miracle ports" they could bring with whatever potential optimization sorcery they have going forward, maybe even something like FFVII rebirth (im super exited for that game, while some were not fans of some of the story deviations remake took for me taken as its own game it was one of my favorite modern FF games and going by the demo for rebirth and the footage ive seen it looks to improve on it further)
a lot of this is just theorizing and wishful thinking but really until the successor is revealed we can only guess, either way im very curious about what comes next since i loved the switch and am definitely hoping for a "switch 2" or whatever they call it.
Poor Xbox sales. The only competition they gave in sales was to the PS4. Don't think the company's chatter did it any favors lately, either.
Guess everybody now had their copies of Spider-Man 2 already. Seems like that game is the only game that move the PS5 the past two weeks, other than that Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth and Persona 3 Reload didn't move units at all.
@Vyacheslav333 Heard that the online play was pretty bad which is surprising considering it claims to used rollback (except for the Switch version). A lot of the complaints came from Steam players so I'm not sure either, PS5 and Switch players seems to be satisfied with the game though.
@Serpenterror «Heard that the online play was pretty bad...»
On Steam. Yeah, I know. I read comments on Steam.
«(except for the Switch version)»
Nope. Switch version uses Rollback netcode too. It's not ASW's game after all, lol. So, it has Rollback netcode on Switch, while ASW's games don't. FRENCH-BREAD's Melty Blood: Type Lumina has Rollback netcode on Switch too. It was first FRENCH-BREAD's game on Switch to use Rollback netcode support. Probably, it was first FRENCH-BREAD's game to use Rollback netcode at all!
Come on it's my favorite Persona game just release it on switch already!
Everyone playing P3R and I just got my hands on P3P lol.
@mlt you have to wait until switch 2 gets released for the new version of persona 3 while be awhile..
P3R and Granblue would be excellent launch ganes on the Switch Shift 2 Advance
Played this and the rebirth demo 46 gig for a demo how big is the game going to be.
Persona 3 reloaded on PS Portal is like the first time i played P3P on PSP, such a great experience. I will say again competition is a good thing, hope Nintendo will release the new system this year
@bones according to reports FF7 Rebirth will require 150 GB of storage space to install
As long as it comes on Switch 2 then I will preorder the game. But with my backlogs been sometime before I can entertain playing it at that time.
And yet Switch still moved more hardware.
I'm in a bit of a Persona backlog(amidst the much larger actual backlog,lol) on Switch, so I don't mind waiting for P3R on Switch 2.
@Mgalens It's practically confirmed to be coming, we know it thanks to a prominent leaker as @Itachi2099 reminded us again (and yet again thanks for it) but yeah, I can't wait to see what other games will be able to come to Nintendo systems thanks to Switch 2, absolutely including potentially all the ones you mentioned!
@KryptoniteKrunch Same, I'm currently close to finishing Royal finally, then I'll move to 5's spin-offs before moving to other mainline entries so I definitely have more than enough to play before Reload comes to Switch 2.
That said, I'd like to see it coming to it sooner rather than later regardless!
Btw 20 of the top 30 published by Famitsu are Switch games.
@JohnnyMind i'm like that guy in the meme "I Will Be There No Matter What" just to let people know this and not be saddened by it not being in our grasps just yet but it is on its way, it's happening, we just have to wait a little bit lol
@Itachi2099
@JohnnyMind LMAO this is amazing 🤣
@Itachi2099 Could've been even better if I had the time to make it manually in Photoshop, but I'd say the imgflip meme generator worked well enough!
Kind of bummed Persona 3 Reload wasn't on Switch. I have a PS5 but this just screams Switch game to me. Obviously, a conscious choice they made but the excuse of it needing beefier hardware is ridiculous. Not a chance that a platform that runs P5R wouldn't run this game. Lame.
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