Japanese Charts: Mario Party Jamboree Ends Dragon Quest III's Reign

Wait, what ?! 😲
25K from PS5 sales this week ? 😃
Great job! 😊

Wow, I really did not expect Mario Party to reach the top, whilst Dragon Quest falls to the second place. Mario Party even sold 20k more, than last week. The word of mouth must be really good.

The Switch is still cooking the competition 8 years on. Hopefully the Super Switch can also hit the ground running.

And with Nintendo stock being near an all time high. Better days are ahead if Switch 2 can deliver.

That Mario Kart 8 D total unit sales figure is off. Pretty sure its a lil more than 209,444 😅

"Elsewhere, Mario & Luigi: Brothership has continued its downward trend"

It literally sold more than last week lol.

Those PS5 sales are really quite terrible.
Trouble is now, once the PS6 comes along, it’s going to be a hard sell to the Japanese since I can imagine it’ll only be a ‘half gen’ up from the PS5 Pro, which doesn’t look like it’s set the fire in that region….. Unless they copy Nintendo’s homework with a hybrid, which I can see happening.

Now we have 4,000 sales for Xbox in Japan?!
Keep it up and eventually you may do 10,000.

Never would I have imagined that a Mario Party would dethrone a Dragon Quest in Japan, even if it's just for one week.

Might pickup Dragon Quest III if the price drops. Currently playing XI. A little overwhelming, mainly when you grab a bunch of items and I have no clue on their use, but overall enjoying it.

I really like the option for 2D mode. Although I wouldn’t use it, I sure wish Game Freak would apply something like that to new Pokemon games, or branch off to doing 2D-HD remakes/originals like Sonic Mania. That is, unless Square Enix has a patent on this. 2D-HD stuff.

Hang on, the chart says Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has sold a total of only 200k units. Surely it’s a LOT more than that, no?

Wow. The Switch won't stop selling and Mario Party Jamboree is the evergreen of evergreens.

@FourBs ps5 main markets are us and europe...

@KY502ShinyHunter wait a few years and it will come down in price by 10 bucks..

Damn, the Switch is dominating in the land of the rising sun isn’t it.

@johnedwin sounds about right! That's why I picked XI over it since it was on sale, and because the demo was enjoyable.

@johnedwin and this is the Japanese charts..

Super Mario Party Jamboree may beat Dragon Quest III HD 2D in the chart this week but in total unit sales Dragon Quest III HD 2D easily trumps Super Mario Party Jamboree and that's not including the PS5 numbers either. As for the PS5 Pro, now that there's actual videos evidence that the PS5 Pro is worst both in visuals and performance than the base PS5, I guess this cause a downward interest in customers not wanting to get that updated ripoff model of a console. Those low sales numbers doesn't lie, people don't want to buy updated model to make their games look and play worst Sony, they bought it so their games will look and play better.

Nintendo Switch 2 stock shortages in Japan are going to be interesting to read about

Rubbish figures for Sony.

At this rate the Switch 2 will be getting pushed back to end of 2025 lol.

As far as remakes go, DQ3 did well, but with that drop its lifetime sales will struggle to match Pokémon BDSP's week 1 sales of 1.4 million.

@Jhena Just more of a mainstream game, the kind that made Switch popular with all demographics to begin with

@Anti-Matter It increased that much because of a Black Friday sale.

@shining_nexus Nintendo's stock is at an all time high. Not just near. Reached a new all time peak twice today.

@Serpenterror

Exactly. All this chart basically shows is that everyone who is going to buy Dragon Quest got it on day one. Meanwhile people who are waiting for sales picked up a copy of Mario party. I'd be more concerned about lifetime totals than any given week.

Interesting that the PS5 had such a huge jump because of a sale. So quite a lot of people want a PS5 but they went years without buying one because the price was too high.

Make little money on an overpriced console selling less or make more money selling more at a cheaper price. Congratulations, you just passed my MBA course.

@tseliot
I looked it up just now and yes it usually is a top ten bestseller in Japan. The first week sales in Japan were a little better than Superstars.

Still a nice surprise, it makes it more exciting to wait for the next week.

I still haven't got Switch Sports, is it actually worth getting?
I feel like I had my fill when Wii Sports and Wii Sports Resort hit.. Anyone a massive fan?? (It's one of the few titles I feel I should perhaps have in my collection before we move on to next gen)

@BANJO Yeah I'm a massive fan. The game shows up on these top 10 charts every week because it's a great game. The best thing ever is 4v4 online soccer with the leg strap, but otherwise the bowling is great and it's all simultaneous so there's less waiting than ever.

Tennis is great fun, much improved over the 1 to 1 rackets that were constantly needing to be recentered by pushing down on the dpad on Wii Sports Club, and the online is a million times better. Sports Club was so slow, really laggy games every time if you could even find a match. Here they sold many millions of copies so there's always opponents of every skill level (which is great for playing in Pro League mode) and the game has rollback netcode so no more game freezes or stuttering. You need online to play, but it's pretty cheap.

@Nintendo_Thumb Thanks for the indepth response.

It's good to know that the bowling is better than ever. That was my favourite from the past entries. The golf interests me too.

I would likely play it a great deal online, so quick matching helps. It's not a bad price in a few outlets currently in the run up to Christmas. I might have to finally pick it up. Thanks.