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Famitsu has provided our latest look at the boxed charts in Japan, and it's The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales that comes out the big winner this week.
Yes, Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream is once again on top with 34,967 units sold, but if we combine the Switch 2 and PS5 sales for Elliot, Square Enix's new release totals 38,517. Pretty good start!
Otherwise, there are a lot of familiar names in the top ten, but we have to wonder... Did Yoshi and the Mysterious Book flop in Japan? A running total of 68,205 isn't terrible, but it's pretty slim compared to even Kirby Air Riders. Perhaps digital sales tell a different story, but we'd be surprised.
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Here's a look at the top ten in full:
| Position | Game | Platform | Unit Sales (15th - 21st June) | Total Unit Sales |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream |
Switch |
34,957 |
1,382,027 |
| 2 |
Powerful Pro Baseball 2026-2027 |
Switch |
28,409 | 129,385 |
| 3 |
The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales |
Switch 2 |
23,674 | NEW |
| 4 |
The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales |
PS5 |
14,843 | NEW |
| 5 |
Pokémon Pokopia |
Switch 2 |
7,073 | 1,064,055 |
| 6 |
eFootball Kick-Off! |
Switch 2 |
6,835 | 35,025 |
| 7 |
Mario Kart World |
Switch 2 |
4,289 | 2,974,785 |
| 8 |
Mincraft |
Switch |
3,449 | 4,225,771 |
| 9 |
Yoshi and the Mysterious Book |
Switch 2 |
3,403 | 68,205 |
| 10 |
Kirby Air Riders |
Switch |
3,332 | 540,388 |
There's little change with hardware this week. Despite the recent price hike lowering overall Switch 2 sales, it's still dominating the competition at 26,435 units sold.
The PS5 Digital Edition is doing okay though, thanks to its relatively low price. Overall, all three PlayStation SKUs this week totalled 9,449, while the Switch SKUs managed a combined 5,467.
Here's a breakdown of the figures for the week:
| Position | Console | Unit Sales (15th - 21st June) | Lifetime Unit Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Switch 2 |
26,435 |
5,940,500 |
| 2 |
PlayStation 5 Digital Edition |
8,024 |
1,324,185 |
| 3 |
Switch OLED Model |
2,619 | 9,593,258 |
| 4 | Switch Lite | 2,446 | 6,981,943 |
| 5 |
PlayStation 5 Pro |
1,165 |
364,374 |
| 6 |
Switch |
402 | 20,302,138 |
| 7 |
PlayStation 5 |
260 | 5,920,682 |
| 8 |
Xbox Series X |
217 |
327,837 |
| 9 |
Xbox Series X - Digital Edition |
217 |
32,455 |
| 10 |
Xbox Series S |
29 |
342,474 |
What do you make of this week's charts? Let us know in the comments.
[source famitsu.com]
Comments 27
I expected Elliot to do much better in Japan than in the west. I don't know if those numbers will be satisfying for Square-Enix as HD-2D games not from existing IP's are losing a bit of steam.
Tomodachi Life looks like it will comfortably sell past a million and a half units in a few more weeks.
hang on dont these charts usually have 1 entry per title, and then a breakdown of the sales % in a column for multiplatform games?
I was planning to get elliot day 1 but I couldn't find it in stores locally and then checked to order online and it was a game key card so I kind of put it off and then deltarune came out so I haven't even bought it.
And with that Switch 2 sold over 100k units (to be precise 107,038) in four weeks so practically a month even after the price increase while the PlayStation 5 Digital Edition always in 2nd around 28K (27,892) - yeah, Switch 2 is still selling really well despite that, not to mention that this are the results during the summer and before the next major Nintendo release...
Anyway, happy to see Tomodachi Life back on top, Powerful Pro Baseball in 2nd, Elliot debuting in 3rd and 4th (nice that it sold more on Switch 2), Pokopia in 5th, eFootball in 6th, World in 7th, Yoshi in 9th and Air Riders in 10th!
Looks like Switch 1 will end up several millions short of PS2, unless they shake it up with clearance sales or 10th anniversay collectors editions.
Surprising to see the sales number for Elliot on PS5. I didn’t know PlayStation audience was interested in HD-2D art style.
@-wc- Most likely you're thinking of the UK Charts.
Is is just the price hikes? Only 260 PlayStation 5 with disc drive across the entire nation is dire. A single vending machine probably sells more drinks in one week.
@JohnnyMind
I never noticed the difference! how odd.
thanks JM! ✌️
@-wc- You're welcome!
Should we be worried that, save for the Switch 2, no other system is selling more than 10,000 units? Or is it just the season?
When will humans learn, I was going to buy this, until I seen the price. It is way overpriced, why should we pay close to the price of AAA games, for something they have just rehashed from their hd2d engines with slightly better snes graphics. I would even have paid £30, but £55. All everyone is doing is saying; here we will keep paying big bucks for half the effort. So you don't need to bother with AAA titles. We are all shooting ourselves in the foot.
PS5 base model surpassed. It won't be long before the Switch 2 passes all PS5 models in Japan
Tomodachi Life selling more than Pokemon Pokopia is wild! Kudos to its genuine popularity.
Sony are selling the Japan only digital PS5 at a loss in the hope of gaining back some of the market share. Article today on Push Square.
The author makes a point that I agree with. Its not just about the hardware. Sony doesn't have the games to match Nintendo and appeal to the Japanese market.
Nintendo doesn't know we want an aggressive Yoshi where he is the top of the food chain!! Give us what we want, he's a dinosaur like creature 🦖 maybe they should bring in Spielberg...
@BrewsterTea wait until Pokopia 2!
Missing Deltarune, which has sold a Deltillion D$ (invalid currency)
@Duncanballs I was saying this before the PS5 released. They need to win back the Japanese audience but I think the way the tide is turning means that Nintendo is going to win back all the Japanese third parties.
@WiltonRoots it feels like we are back in the golden era of the SNES again. Switch has more than proved itself and any developer with any sense knows this ..... well, maybe not EA 😃
Early predictions for PS6 are that we will see the $1000 mark. Nintendos affordable but more than adequate approach is serving them well. Ignoring the Wii U, they've been printing money since the Wii.
It seems crazy that the PS5 is more or less sitting in Xbox territory these days. I get it, even as a die-hard and angry Xbox fanboy, but still. That Switch 2 sales are so high though? Not really too surprising, even with a price hike. I've gone from a disappointed day one owner a couple of months ago to a born again super fan of the system, thanks to some solid releases as of late (and finding out that I'm a somewhat rare Metroid Prime 4 fan didn't hurt).
@Duncanballs Truth. I don't know what EA's issue with Nintendo is but their output on Nintendo devices has been abysmal for decades now. Oh well. It's not like I really wanted a new Madden every 13 minutes anyway.
@swedetrap I had hopes for the Mass Effect Legendary Edition but in their eyes, they tried ME on Nintendo hardware and it didnt do well .... always someone else's fault.
Nothing to do with the fact they only released the 3rd game in a trilogy???
Not a huge fan myself but never understood Sims not coming to Switch. Im sure it would have done well.
Command and Conquer remastered with mouse mode would be most welcomed ...... building, unable to comply building in progress, building 😃
@Duncanballs The Sims is a natural on the Switch! Someone needs to remind the EA top brass that they're missing out on millions in DLC spend there.
And yeah, ME3 on Wii U was sort of a bad joke. I actually played the games out of order because of that.
PS5 with disc drive is on number 5 and 7 this week.
Keep going, PS5.
I really want to play Elliot, but it's too expensive... Too much for a 2D game.
I'll grab it as soon as I can, though!
In any case, I bet they would've sold much more if it had a reasonable price...
I know you like picking on Yoshi, but it's holding up well. Counting digital, it's in the six figures, so that's not bad.
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