{"id":109904,"date":"2020-03-04T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/03\/japanese_charts_pokemon_sword_and_shield_return_to_the_top_switch_sales_still_suffering"},"modified":"2020-03-04T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T17:30:00","slug":"japanese-charts-pokemon-sword-and-shield-return-to-the-top-switch-sales-still-suffering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/03\/04\/japanese-charts-pokemon-sword-and-shield-return-to-the-top-switch-sales-still-suffering\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Charts: Pok\u00e9mon Sword And Shield Return To The Top, Switch Sales Still Suffering"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Famitsu’s Japanese chart figures are now in for 24th February – 1st March, revealing that Pok\u00e9mon Sword and Shield<\/strong><\/a> have returned to the top of the pile.<\/p>\n

The two games shifted an estimated 24,886 units between them this week, overtaking last week’s number one, Persona 5 Scramble<\/strong><\/a>. Mega Man Zero\/ZX Legacy Collection<\/strong><\/a> entered the chart in sixth place, debuting with 11,610 sales on Switch.<\/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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1) [NSW] Pok\u00e9mon Sword and Shield<\/a> (Pok\u00e9mon Co.) {2019.11.15} – 24.886 \/ 3.470.674
2) [PS4] Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers (Atlus) {2020.02.20} – 19.504 \/ 135.499
3) [NSW] Minecraft<\/strong><\/a> (Microsoft Game Studios) {2018.06.21} – 12.510 \/ 1.285.095
4) [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/strong><\/a> (Nintendo) {2017.04.28} – 11.958 \/ 2.793.235
5) [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate<\/strong><\/a> (Nintendo) {2018.12.07} – 11.635 \/ 3.581.055
6) [NSW] Mega Man Zero\/ZX Legacy Collection<\/a> (Capcom) {2020.02.27} – 11.610 \/ NEW
7) [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure<\/strong><\/a> (Nintendo) {2019.10.18} – 8.958 \/ 704.963
8) [NSW] Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers<\/a> (Atlus) {2020.02.20} – 8.889 \/ 55.304
9) [NSW] Super Mario Party<\/strong><\/a> (Nintendo) {2018.10.05} – 7.650 \/ 1.354.554
10) [NSW] Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Training for Nintendo Switch<\/strong><\/a> (Nintendo) {2019.12.27} – 7.644 \/ 165.331<\/p>\n

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In the hardware charts, the Nintendo Switch is still struggling as the coronavirus continues to impact distribution<\/a>. The original Switch model did manage to sell more units this week than last, but is still nowhere near its normal totals. Here are this week’s figures, followed by lifetime sales in brackets:<\/p>\n

Nintendo Switch: 15,314 (10,876,722)
PlayStation 4: 5,946 (7,416,245)
PlayStation 4 Pro: 3,637 (1,447,175)
Xbox One S: 35 (20,881)
Xbox One X: 37 (18,999)<\/p>\n

Nintendo Switch Lite: 37,784 (1,423,065)
New Nintendo 2DS LL: 1,064 (1,114,387)
New Nintendo 3DS: 67 (5,886,490)<\/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 24th February – 1st March, revealing that Pok\u00e9mon Sword and Shield have returned to the top of the pile. The two games shifted an estimated 24,886 units between them this week, overtaking last week’s number one, Persona 5 Scramble. Mega Man Zero\/ZX Legacy Collection entered the chart […]<\/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-109904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109904","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=109904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}