It's time to take a look at the weekly Japanese charts from Famitsu (by way of Gematsu) and it's a rather quiet one this time, folks.
The PS5's Stellar Blade holds onto the crown for the third week in a row (though Paper Mario will surely shake things up next time) and Ring Fit Adventure has clearly been doing its stretches as it has leapt up into second.
Elsewhere, all of the familiar faces come out to play. The Nintendo newbies, Princess Peach: Showtime! and Endless Ocean: Luminous, are still sticking around in the top ten, but it's all rather subdued, with no title making it far above 10,000 sales this week. Are we seeing the calm before the paper storm?
Here's your look at this week's chart in full:
- [PS5] Stellar Blade (SIE, 04/26/24) – 10,935 (91,099)
- [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure (Nintendo, 10/18/19) – 10,536 (3,570,190)
- [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 7,096 (5,842,332)
- [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo, 03/20/20) – 6,007 (7,771,954)
- [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 4,646 (3,526,590)
- [NSW] Endless Ocean Luminous (Nintendo, 05/02/24) – 4,486 (39,782)
- [NSW] Super Mario Bros. Wonder (Nintendo, 10/20/23) – 4,223 (1,855,966)
- [NSW] Splatoon 3 (Nintendo, 09/09/22) – 3,927 (4,301,105)
- [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 12/07/18) – 3,678 (5,509,947)
- [NSW] Princess Peach: Showtime! (Nintendo, 03/22/24) – 3,448 (168,996)
Hardware, on the flip side, is full of surprises! The 3DS has returned to the top spo... Nope, it's just as familiar here too, we're afraid.
The Switch OLED remains in front with an additional 30,579 sales, more than doubling Sony's PS5 on 13,827. Combining the three Switch SKUs gives a total of 40,704 this time. It looks like everyone's in need of some games, huh?
Here's your look at this week's hardware chart:
- Switch OLED Model – 30,579 (7,261,850)
- PlayStation 5 – 13,827 (4,840,901)
- Switch Lite – 6,587 (5,848,036)
- PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 3,738 (774,493)
- Switch – 3,540 (19,793,815)
- Xbox Series X – 1,803 (276,390)
- Xbox Series S – 765 (312,599)
- PlayStation 4 – 53 (7,925,914)
What do you make of this week's Japanese charts? Let us know in the comments.
[source famitsu.com, via gematsu.com]
Comments 29
That’s kinda funny ngl
It's the same usual suspects dominating the top 10 software chart again: Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft. Third parties are dead in Japan.
Removed - trolling/baiting
New Horizons is fourth, despite being four years old. I find that amazing.
PS5 sales still looks good in my opinion. 😊
Ring fit adventure has sold more physical copies than Minecraft 🤯
I recently picked up Ring Fit Adventure too, I’m gonna be so buff 💪
@S83
A great game with cool exercises and a nice atmosphere. Wish you a great time with it!
Happy to see princess peach and endless ocean hanging in there. Both are great games.
I am honestly shocked that there were 10,000 Ring Fit boxes still in Japan. Are these in stores? Are people buying them online? Was there some big $15 each or B1G1 free sale on Ring Fit? Where's Labo on the Top 10 list? 🤷♂️
Full disclosure I do own RF, bought it a couple of years ago, haven't used it in a couple of years. 😁
It must be really slow month for games in Japan then, most of these games in the top 10 are years old.
You know I really should pickup a Switch OLED even knowing of the new console coming out soon, since I've only had my 2017 Switch all this time.
@ShonenJump121 I’m in same boat as you. I’m gonna wait for the Super Switch proper release and hopefully some cheap deals on unwanted OLEDs.
I think it's time for that Ring Fit Adventure Mystery Dungeon spin off we've all been begging for.
TTYD next week!
@iLikeUrAttitude Not really. It's been like this for years really. Maybe not a decade, but definitely for years.
Japan is basically Nintendoland at this point. I can't wait to see the era of Switch 2...
@ShonenJump121 Same here, still using my 2017 Switch. I only play it docked with the pro controller for 95% of the time, so it's still basically like new. However, like yourself, I'm aware it's getting old, so I will likely pick up an Oled Switch whenever I can get a good deal.
@WheresWaveRace @BANJO
The screen on my Switch is has some somewhat noticeable scratches and I do use mine in handheld often enough. Strangely enough I've not had to replace my Joycons despite drift being a big issue.
I'm not sure what has been stopping me, but I'd really like the Zelda or Pokemon OLED.
@dugan Significantly less amazing when you look just 1 spot above. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on Switch is 7 years old, which itself is a port of a 10 year old game on Wii U.
@rjejr Labo flopped, it was a massive bomb. Ring Fit Adventure sold over 15 million copies. And while it has slowed down in sales in the last year or so there's no reason to be shocked that there are still thousands of copies to be found in stores and warehouses across all of Japan. They didn't stop producing them like they did with Labo.
It's maybe a discount or something, idk why it's sales increased that much the last few weeks.
@BTB20 "why it's sales increased that much the last few weeks."
Maybe Japan was having "physical fitness exercise week" or some such. That sounds like something they would do.
Oh and I was just joking about Labo, even though I own most of them as well, sorry to have wasted your time taking it seriously. 😁
It's summer what else would one expect people to do to look good in those tights???? At the Beach....
Interesting to see that in lifetime sales in Japan that Animal Crossing has shifted approx 2 million more sales than Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
@DiamondJim Including digital in terms of shipments according to Nintendo's fiscal year report ACNH was at 11.3 million copies at the end of March (best selling game ever in Japan) and MK8DX was at 8.11 million. So there the difference is even bigger.
i still regularly play RFA, its the only way i can justify sitting for a majority of my day lol. makes me wish it got more updates or DLC, this series is such a heavy hitter id love to see more of what it can do
@ShonenJump121 I was hesitant to upgrade to the OLED at first but then caved and bought one like a week after they came out haha. As someone who plays pretty much exclusively in handheld mode it was 100% worth it, such a big improvement. Bit harder to justify an expensive upgrade now though with a new system being just around the corner.
Nice to see Ring Fit Adventure (finally got back to playing it not that long ago compared to when it came out as one of the games I use to exercise) in second and Endless Ocean, Wonder and Showtime still in the top 10 other than the usual Switch classics!
That said, particularly looking forward to next week's charts as it will be TTYD time, fingers crossed it will be high if not straight up on top!
@FirstEmperor ok, late reply. You make a good point. Yes Mario Kart is incredible, but look what’s below ACNH: Wonder, Princess Peach, Splatoon 3, all newer games with decent sales.
Mario Kart has incredibly amazing sales, but I would argue ACNH has pretty amazing sales itself.
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