{"id":105798,"date":"2019-12-18T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/12\/japanese_charts_pokemon_sword_and_shield_still_dominate_as_switch_takes_nine_of_top_ten"},"modified":"2019-12-18T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T13:30:00","slug":"japanese-charts-pokemon-sword-and-shield-still-dominate-as-switch-takes-nine-of-top-ten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/18\/japanese-charts-pokemon-sword-and-shield-still-dominate-as-switch-takes-nine-of-top-ten\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Charts: Pok\u00e9mon Sword And Shield Still Dominate As Switch Takes Nine Of Top Ten"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Famitsu’s Japanese chart figures are now in for 9th – 15th December, revealing that Pok\u00e9mon Sword and Shield<\/strong><\/a> has managed to fend off the competition for another week at the top.<\/p>\n

The two titles sold an estimated 231,578 physical copies this week, which is actually higher than last week’s total. Elsewhere, Nintendo has managed to take nine of the top ten places, with PS4 title New Sakura Wars<\/strong> spoiling last week’s full house<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here are the top 10 (first numbers are this week’s estimated sales, followed by total sales):<\/p>\n

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01.\/01. [NSW] Pok\u00e9mon Sword and Shield<\/a> (Pokemon Co.) {2019.11.15} – 231.578 \/ 2.456.459
02.\/00. [PS4] New Sakura Wars<\/strong> (Sega) {2019.12.12} – 140.376 \/ NEW
03.\/03. [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure<\/strong><\/a> (Nintendo) {2019.10.18} – 57.746 \/ 386.257
04.\/02. [NSW] Luigi’s Mansion 3<\/strong><\/a> (Nintendo) {2019.10.31} – 48.449 \/ 367.746
05.\/05. [NSW] Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020<\/strong><\/a> (Sega) {2019.11.01} – 26.677 \/ 103.857
06.\/04. [NSW] Minecraft<\/strong><\/a> (Microsoft Game Studios) {2018.06.21} – 25.036 \/ 1.063.127
07.\/06. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/strong><\/a> (Nintendo) {2017.04.28} – 22.376 \/ 2.580.291
08.\/07. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate<\/strong><\/a> (Nintendo) {2018.12.07} – 21.135 \/ 3.383.582
09.\/10. [NSW] Fishing Spirits: Nintendo Switch Version<\/strong> (Bandai Namco Games) {2019.07.25} – 20.932 \/ 264.845
10.\/09. [NSW] Super Mario Maker 2<\/strong><\/a> (Nintendo) {2019.06.28} – 19.466 \/ 739.734<\/p>\n

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Switch also saw a significant boost in hardware sales this week as we approach the holidays, with the original Switch model now surpassing 10 million lifetime sales in the region. Here are this week’s figures, followed by lifetime sales in brackets:<\/p>\n

Nintendo Switch: 155,516 (10,006,931)
PlayStation 4: 7,368 (7,219,731)
PlayStation 4 Pro: 3,848 (1,339,850)
Xbox One S: 177 (20,440)
Xbox One X: 345 (18,281)<\/p>\n

Nintendo Switch Lite: 81,109 (850,765)
New Nintendo 2DS LL: 3,549 (1,098,280)
New Nintendo 3DS: 145 (5,885,510)
PlayStation Vita: 51 (5,862,931)<\/p>\n

< Last week’s charts<\/a><\/p>\n

Any surprises this week? Let us know in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Famitsu’s Japanese chart figures are now in for 9th – 15th December, revealing that Pok\u00e9mon Sword and Shield has managed to fend off the competition for another week at the top. The two titles sold an estimated 231,578 physical copies this week, which is actually higher than last week’s total. Elsewhere, Nintendo has managed to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}