{"id":133804,"date":"2023-05-18T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-149662"},"modified":"2023-05-18T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T16:30:00","slug":"japanese-charts-zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom-dominates-surprising-no-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/05\/18\/japanese-charts-zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom-dominates-surprising-no-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Charts: Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Dominates, Surprising No One"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/dd18a9fe75413\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/dd18a9fe75413\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Ganondorf\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/dd18a9fe75413\/ganondorf.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTA2Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/dd18a9fe75413\/ganondorf.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Ganondorf\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Nintendo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The latest Japanese charts are in, and to no one&#8217;s surprise, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/legend_of_zelda_tears_of_the_kingdom\">The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom<\/a> has come out on top this week. Not only that, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2023\/05\/uk-charts-zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom-is-the-biggest-boxed-launch-of-2023\">but much like the the UK<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/legend_of_zelda_breath_of_the_wild\">Breath of the Wild<\/a> has also benefited from a tasty boost in sales to come in at number three.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, the only non-Switch game this week is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps4\/hogwarts_legacy\" class=\"external\">Hogwarts Legacy<\/a> on the PS4. Only time will tell if the Switch version proves to be as popular, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2023\/05\/hogwarts-legacy-on-switch-has-been-delayed-to-november-2023\">we&#8217;ll have to wait until November to find out<\/a>. We&#8217;ve also got the usual big-hitters like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/kirbys_return_to_dream_land_deluxe\">Kirby&#8217;s Return to Dream Land Deluxe<\/a> at number four, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_scarlet_and_violet\">Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet and Violet<\/a> at number five.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, an incredibly solid week for Nintendo.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/nintendo-switch\/related-articles:149634 @ 2023-05-19T08:43:10+01:00 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p>Here&#8217;s your look at the Japanese software top ten:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>[NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Nintendo, 05\/12\/23) \u2013 1,119,502 <strong>(New)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>[NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04\/28\/17) \u2013 9,794 (5,293,478)<\/li>\n<li>[NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo, 03\/03\/17) \u2013 7,335 (2,182,171)<\/li>\n<li>[NSW] Kirby\u2019s Return to Dream Land Deluxe (Nintendo, 02\/24\/23) \u2013 6,819 (426,789)<\/li>\n<li>[NSW] Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet \/ Pok\u00e9mon Violet (The Pok\u00e9mon Company, 11\/18\/22) \u2013 6,420 (5,028,722)<\/li>\n<li>[PS4] Hogwarts Legacy (Warner Bros. Games, 05\/05\/23) \u2013 6,384 (38,302)<\/li>\n<li>[NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06\/21\/18) \u2013 5,704 (3,135,953)<\/li>\n<li>[NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 12\/07\/18) \u2013 5,061 (5,190,681)<\/li>\n<li>[NSW] Splatoon 3 (Nintendo, 09\/09\/22) \u2013 4,856 (4,014,693)<\/li>\n<li>[NSW] Mario Party Superstars (Nintendo, 10\/29\/21) \u2013 3,746 (1,230,382)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<hr>\n<p>Looking at the hardware for this week, the Switch has comfortably beat out the competition with a total of 83,052 sales across all three SKUs. The PlayStation 5 is nevertheless doing well, though we expect sales will remain stable for the next few weeks and then spike heavily upon the release of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/final_fantasy_xvi\" class=\"external\">Final Fantasy XVI<\/a>. Watch out, Switch!<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, it&#8217;s business as usual this week; shout out to the New 2DS LL &#8211; you hang in there, buddy!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the full Japanese hardware charts:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Switch OLED Model \u2013 65,628 (4,504,700)<\/li>\n<li>PlayStation 5 \u2013 35,899 (3,020,596)<\/li>\n<li>Switch \u2013 11,395 (19,310,530)<\/li>\n<li>Switch Lite \u2013 6,029 (5,297,854)<\/li>\n<li>PlayStation 5 Digital Edition \u2013 5,545 (491,819)<\/li>\n<li>PlayStation 4 \u2013 787 (7,869,824)<\/li>\n<li>Xbox Series X \u2013 167 (185,776)<\/li>\n<li>Xbox Series S \u2013 108 (252,320)<\/li>\n<li>New 2DS LL (including 2DS) \u2013 51 (1,191,604)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2023\/04\/japanese-charts-minecraft-legends-comes-out-on-top-after-a-quiet-week\">&lt; Last week&#8217;s charts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Let us know what you make of this week&#8217;s Japanese charts in the comments below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Nintendo The latest Japanese charts are in, and to no one&#8217;s surprise, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has come out on top this week. Not only that, but much like the the UK, Breath of the Wild has also benefited from a tasty boost in sales to come in at number [&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-133804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133804","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=133804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}