{"id":122204,"date":"2020-12-17T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/12\/japanese_charts_momotaro_dentetsu_fends_off_cyberpunk_2077_as_switch_sales_rise_yet_again"},"modified":"2020-12-17T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T17:00:00","slug":"japanese-charts-momotaro-dentetsu-fends-off-cyberpunk-2077-as-switch-sales-rise-yet-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/17\/japanese-charts-momotaro-dentetsu-fends-off-cyberpunk-2077-as-switch-sales-rise-yet-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Charts: Momotaro Dentetsu Fends Off Cyberpunk 2077 As Switch Sales Rise Yet Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/af284b87e8d67\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/af284b87e8d67\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Switch And Switch Lite\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/af284b87e8d67\/switch-and-switch-lite.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/af284b87e8d67\/switch-and-switch-lite.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Switch And Switch Lite\"><\/a><span class=\"image-credit\" title=\"Image Credit\">\u00a9 Nintendo Life<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Famitsu&#8217;s Japanese chart figures are now in for the week ending 13th December, revealing that <strong>Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban!<\/strong> is still at the top of the charts.<\/p>\n<p>The game (detailed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/11\/japanese_charts_momotaro_dentetsu_beats_hyrule_warriors_age_of_calamity_to_number_one\">here<\/a>), now enjoying its fourth week at the summit, managed to fend off CD Projekt&#8217;s <strong>Cyberpunk 2077<\/strong> to claim number one, outselling it by around 62,000 copies despite already being on sale for almost a month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/animal_crossing_new_horizons\">Animal Crossing: New Horizons<\/a> remains Nintendo&#8217;s highest-placing title, selling another 71,455 physical copies as it reaches greater and greater heights. Elsewhere, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/puyo_puyo_tetris_2\">Puyo Puyo Tetris 2<\/a> enters the charts in seventh place, selling more than 26,000 physical copies in its opening week.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the top 10 (first numbers are this week&#8217;s estimated sales, followed by total sales):<\/p>\n<hr>\n<ol>\n<li>[NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! (Konami, 11\/19\/20) \u2013 166,774 (755,084)<\/li>\n<li>[PS4] Cyberpunk 2077 (Spike Chunsoft, 12\/10\/20) \u2013 104,687 <strong>(New)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>[NSW] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/animal_crossing_new_horizons\">Animal Crossing: New Horizons<\/a> (Nintendo, 03\/20\/20) \u2013 71,455 (6,175,256)<\/li>\n<li>[NSW] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/ring_fit_adventure\">Ring Fit Adventure<\/a> (Nintendo, 10\/18\/19) \u2013 49,803 (1,969,790)<\/li>\n<li>[NSW] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_kart_8_deluxe\">Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/a> (Nintendo, 04\/28\/17) \u2013 31,896 (3,344,534)<\/li>\n<li>[NSW] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pikmin_3_deluxe\">Pikmin 3 Deluxe<\/a> (Nintendo, 10\/30\/20) \u2013 30,319 (367,461)<\/li>\n<li>[NSW] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/puyo_puyo_tetris_2\">Puyo Puyo Tetris 2<\/a> (Sega, 12\/10\/20) \u2013 26,346 <strong>(New)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>[NSW] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/minecraft\">Minecraft<\/a> (Microsoft, 06\/21\/18) \u2013 25,427 (1,619,297)<\/li>\n<li>[NSW] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_smash_bros_ultimate\">Super Smash Bros. Ultimate<\/a> (Nintendo, 12\/07\/18) \u2013 22,886 (3,926,512)<\/li>\n<li>[NSW] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_mario_party\">Super Mario Party<\/a> (Nintendo, 10\/05\/18) \u2013 22,414 (1,657,894)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<hr>\n<p>On the hardware front, both Switch models saw yet another week-on-week rise in sales, with the base model selling an impressive 182,364 units. Here are this week&#8217;s figures, followed by lifetime sales in brackets:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Switch \u2013 182,364 (13,834,191)<\/li>\n<li>Switch Lite \u2013 47,334 (2,964,706)<\/li>\n<li>PlayStation 4 \u2013 9,096 (7,692,463)<\/li>\n<li>PlayStation 5 \u2013 9,025 (180,977)<\/li>\n<li>PlayStation 5 Digital Edition \u2013 2,031 (43,407)<\/li>\n<li>Xbox Series X \u2013 1,186 (24,431)<\/li>\n<li>New 2DS LL (including 2DS) \u2013 528 (1,748,492)<\/li>\n<li>Xbox Series S \u2013 225 (6,413)<\/li>\n<li>PlayStation 4 Pro \u2013 58 (1,575,366)<\/li>\n<li>New 3DS LL \u2013 25 (5,888,898)<\/li>\n<li>Xbox One X \u2013 20 (21,052)<\/li>\n<li>Xbox One S \u2013 18 (93,717)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/12\/japanese_charts_animal_crossing_thwarted_by_momotaro_dentetsu_and_derby_stallion\">&lt; Last week&#8217;s charts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Any surprises this week? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a9 Nintendo Life Famitsu&#8217;s Japanese chart figures are now in for the week ending 13th December, revealing that Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! is still at the top of the charts. The game (detailed here), now enjoying its fourth week at the summit, managed to fend off CD Projekt&#8217;s Cyberpunk 2077 to claim [&hellip;]<\/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-122204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122204","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=122204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}