{"id":130889,"date":"2022-12-29T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-143078"},"modified":"2022-12-29T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T15:00:00","slug":"japanese-charts-mario-kart-8-deluxe-surpasses-5-million-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/12\/29\/japanese-charts-mario-kart-8-deluxe-surpasses-5-million-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Charts: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Surpasses 5 Million Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The holiday week Japanese charts are in, and Switch games make up the entire top ten this week! No surprise to see that Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet & Violet<\/a> are again at the top with an impressive 375,665 units sold, with Splatoon 3<\/a> in second with 121,173 units.<\/p>\n

However, the big story is that Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/a> has surpassed five million physical sales in Japan. That means the game has sold just under one million units a year. And it’s still a mainstay in the weekly charts, so those numbers will just keep going up. However, you’ll notice that Pok\u00e9mon is hot on its heels already with over 4.3 million physical copies sold.<\/p>\n

There are no new games in the top ten this week, but Nintendo Switch Sports<\/a> has climbed back up into third place, while Super Smash Bros. Ultimate<\/a> and Minecraft<\/a> are comfortable as always.<\/p>\n

Here’s the top ten in full for the week of 19th December to 25th December:<\/p>\n

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  1. [NSW] Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet & Violet (The Pokemon Company, 11\/18\/22) \u2013 375,665 (4,338,931)<\/li>\n
  2. [NSW] Splatoon 3 (Nintendo, 09\/09\/22) \u2013 121,173 (3,687,814)<\/li>\n
  3. [NSW] Nintendo Switch Sports (Nintendo, 04\/29\/22) \u2013 44,465 (887,722)<\/li>\n
  4. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04\/28\/17) \u2013 41,887 (5,014,375)<\/li>\n
  5. [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06\/21\/18) \u2013 37,935 (2,960,006)<\/li>\n
  6. [NSW] Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope<\/a> (Nintendo, 09\/09\/22) \u2013 25,727 (71,900)<\/li>\n
  7. [NSW] Dragon Quest Treasures<\/a> (Square Enix, 12\/09\/22) \u2013 23,097 (198,403)<\/li>\n
  8. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 12\/07\/18) \u2014 22,148 (5,065,191)<\/li>\n
  9. [NSW] Mario Party Superstars<\/a> (Nintendo, 10\/29\/21) \u2013 22,001 (1,114,132)<\/li>\n
  10. [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban!<\/a> (Konami, 11\/19\/20) \u2013 20,426 (2,782,933)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    For the hardware charts, the Switch isn’t the one dominating the conversation. While the OLED is the best-selling console of the week, the PS5 is once again in second place with 59,352 units sold. That’s two impressive weeks in a row for Sony’s console \u2014 likely holiday gifts for friends and family are to thank for that!<\/p>\n

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    1. Switch OLED Model \u2013 83,975 (3,572,012)<\/li>\n
    2. PlayStation 5 \u2013 59,352 (2,059,945)<\/li>\n
    3. Switch \u2013 42,430 (19,048,341)<\/li>\n
    4. Switch Lite \u2013 37,151 (5,103,694)<\/li>\n
    5. PlayStation 5 Digital Edition \u2013 9,467 (317,444)<\/li>\n
    6. PlayStation 4 \u2013 3,161 (7,842,044)<\/li>\n
    7. Xbox Series S \u2013 778 (225,984)<\/li>\n
    8. Xbox Series X \u2013 331 (172,411)<\/li>\n
    9. New 2DS LL (including 2DS) \u2013 238 (1,189,711)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      < Last week’s charts<\/a><\/p>\n

      As always, let us know what you think of the latest Japanese charts in the comments!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Image: Nintendo The holiday week Japanese charts are in, and Switch games make up the entire top ten this week! No surprise to see that Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet & Violet are again at the top with an impressive 375,665 units sold, with Splatoon 3 in second with 121,173 units. However, the big story is that Mario […]<\/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-130889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130889","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=130889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}