Japanese Charts: Mario Kart Zooms Onto The Podium, But It Can't Overtake Stellar Blade

Why is ring fit adventure here? Maybe there was a sale in Japan?

Can't wait to see TTYD dominate the charts once it releases!

Slow week for games and consoles in japan in seems. When was the last time switch was sub 50k and ps5 was sub 35k?

Good job Stellar Blade, it seems that having a cute Korean girl for a main badass character actually works. I could see the Switch 2 news is taking effect on Switch sales now that people are starting to save money on that soon. Interestingly the software chart is dominated by Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft, not a single third party title made it to the top 10. I could see why Square Enix wanted to do multiplat again.

bit of a dead week this week, yet again Mario Kart proves to be relentless when it comes to sales...

I think those Super Mario Bros Wonder and Princess Peach Showtime lifetime units are incorrect haha (3.5m each would indeed be impressive)

[NSW] Super Mario Bros. Wonder (Nintendo, 10/20/23) – 5,667 (3,521,944)
[NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 5,469 (3,521,944)
[NSW] Princess Peach: Showtime! (Nintendo, 03/22/24) – 5,469 (3,521,944)

Wow, same sales! Impressive numbers, Princess Peach lol.
Be careful when you copy and paste from Gematsu . In Famitsu you'll find the real numbers.

Ring Fit Adventure still making it in the top ten! WOW!
Need a sequel or a third party developer to make a game. The ring con needs more love.

Well, not bad for PS5 sales on this week. 😊

It's stunning to see how well MK8D and the other NS games are selling! I am also shocked by the amount of switch lite sales!

I haven't been following sales percentages. But maybe Nintendo will release the switch 2 2026? I can understand delaying a new console when the current one is still selling.

1.[PS5] Stellar Blade – 13,033 / 80,164
2. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 9,652 / 5,835,236
3. [NSW] Endless Ocean Luminous – 6,951 / 35,296
4. [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure – 6,536 / 3,559,654
5. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 5,932 / 7,765,947
6. [NSW] Super Mario Bros. Wonder – 5,667 / 1,851,743
7. [NSW] Minecraft – 5,469 / 3,521,944
8. [NSW] Princess Peach: Showtime – 5,197 / 165,548
9. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 5,058 / 5,506,269
10. [NSW] Splatoon 3 – 4,550 / 4,297,178

Quiet week. One off or has official confirmation of Switch 2 impacted sales? Guess we'll find out in a few weeks time (sales charts are out of date the moment they are published lol.)

I’m surprised that stellar blade is doing so well since it was censored. I’m guessing people either didn’t mind the censorship or bought the physical and managed to avoid downloading the update that censored stuff.

"Finally, the crown will come to me."

@Greatluigi For all the noise it makes on social media, "censorship" boycotts don't move the needle in sales either way nearly as much as one would think, especially for AAA-funded games like this.

To wit, games like Fire Emblem Fates or Xenoblade Chronicles X would have succeeded with or without their respective censorship debacles. On the other side of the coin, you have games like Tokyo Mirage Sessions, which released on the Japanese Wii U one year prior to its Western debut and still underperformed in that year well before there was a localization to take issue with.

@Greatluigi That censored saga has been put to bed, it was never censored to begin with and anyone who played the game would know as theres way more revealing outfits in the game than those that were apparently "censored".

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2024/05/shift-up-director-puts-stellar-blade-sony-costume-conspiracy-to-bed#comment8117624

@Anti-Matter at this point, I don't know if you're trolling or you actually think these figures are decent for PlayStation SKUs... Because they aren't ....

The numbers for Mario Wonder and Peach Showtime are wrong, very inflated compared to last week.

@FourBs Something is strange about all the console sales numbers. Compared to last week everything is down by 1/2 or more except for Xbox. All sales went off a cliff, even Switch.

@FourBs
Trolling what?
I just praised the PS5 sales in Japan on the 2nd place despite of being outnumbered by Switch sales.
I know Switch sales is way better than PS5 sales, but I just want to give a moment to appreciate PS5 as I will getting PS5 machine on next month and I can't wait to play my PS5 3rd party kids games with better performance than Switch version.

@Koda1000 last week was 2 weeks of sales this week it has returned to one week of sales.

@Koda1000 I believe that was two weeks worth .

@Anti-Matter You just seem to be here every week saying the PS5 figures aren't that bad yet they're dropping to incredible lows week by week. I get you're a bit blinded by the prospect of buying one, but let's not kid around, second place in this race isn't even out of the starting gate.
Sony are pretty lucky that they've managed to shift 55 million of these things in other regions in the World, to myself included . This is a fairly dire generation of consoles, Nintendo aside.
What 3rd party kids games does the PS5 even have that you can't get on the PS4, are there even any differences for the price you're about to pay out for one?

@Johnny44 You could just hit that “Ignore” link on his post.

Sadly this site has decided to protect that person for every price and forever, this is internet, soooo....

I still finds incredibly amusing that he loves PS5 so much despite that more than 90% of the library on PS5 are mature games.
I remember that for some years ago he hated PS4 because it had too many mature games.

Now it's the opposite, despite of that PS5 has som much more violent games than PS4. Well as I said earlier, this is internet....

@Koda1000 Last week was two weeks consolidated as the week prior was Golden Week ( a holiday in Japan) where no figures are published. Hope this helps. It's a quiet week nominally, for sure, but unfair comparing it with last week lol.

@Anti-Matter try to talk about Nintendo games and not PS5 games and console challenge (impossible).

You can like your PS5 and whatever games you got for it 2 years in for advance, but like, if you are ONLY going to talk about that here on NintendoLife, go to PushSquare.

@Johnny44 I just block them, I dont even see their posts.

@FourBs
I know PS5 sales is way below than Switch sales, but at least still way much better than XBOX sales in Japan. Any number shipped from PS5 sales in Japan, as long not way below than XBOX sales, I'm already content to see that.
Btw, are you ready to see my 16 PS5 games I have so far?

My PS5 games are 99.99% dominated by 3rd party kids games with only one Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart as the 1st party Sony games since I only play kids games with a few of Teen games.
The reason I want to play them on PS5 because there are certain games on PS5 running on 60 fps while the PS4 & Switch version is 30 fps and Switch version oftenly get the worst version.
I also have certain PS4 games that will get boosted 60 fps on PS5 like Ratchet & Clank PS4, Cars 3 (Disney Pixar), etc.

@FourBs

It's funny when many on forums were suggesting the PS5 would have sold as many as they could have made, when in reality it was just scalpers creating a fake shortage, when things settled down, so did the sales, and at this rate it will be lucky if it gets to PS4 numbers...

@johnvboy I agree, but Sony are claiming it to be selling really well and tracking near to, if not above PS4 sales for the same sort of time period which I simply can't see how. It doesn't sell in Japan, we know that much so those numbers must be coming from the rest of the world where I guess it's somehow more popular than the PS4 in it's peak in those regions?
Whatever the reasons and figures behind the actual sales, I struggle to find a standout reason to own either a PS5 or XBSX... And that's coming from someone who did actually buy a PS5!