{"id":134134,"date":"2023-08-10T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-153812"},"modified":"2023-08-10T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T14:00:00","slug":"japanese-charts-pikmin-4-retains-its-crown-for-the-third-week-in-a-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/08\/10\/japanese-charts-pikmin-4-retains-its-crown-for-the-third-week-in-a-row\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Charts: Pikmin 4 Retains Its Crown For The Third Week In A Row"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This week’s Japanese charts are in from Famitsu<\/a> (via Gematsu<\/a>) and we are once again seeing Nintendo’s latest big release top the competition, as Pikmin 4<\/a> lands in first place for the third week in a row.<\/p>\n

The plant-plucking RTS game sold another 78,838 copies this time around, comfortably beating Tears of the Kingdom<\/a> in second place on 14,673. There are no new releases this time around, though last week’s silver medalist, Natsu-Mon! 20th Century Summer Vacation<\/strong>, has fallen ever so slightly down to fourth as the unstoppable force that is Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/a> speeds into the top three.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, it’s a top-ten sweep for the Switch. Regular faces like Splatoon 3<\/a>, Nintendo Switch Sports<\/a> and Minecraft<\/a> make an appearance (because of course they do) and we also see Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet and Violet<\/a> climb back into the rankings after missing out last time.<\/p>\n

Here’s your look at this week’s Japanese software charts in full:<\/p>\n

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  1. [NSW] Pikmin 4 (Nintendo, 07\/21\/23) \u2013 78,838 (596,388)<\/li>\n
  2. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Nintendo, 05\/12\/23) \u2013 14,673 (1,804,457)<\/li>\n
  3. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04\/28\/17) \u2013 14,143 (5,410,605)<\/li>\n
  4. [NSW] Natsu-Mon! 20th Century Summer Vacation (Spike Chunsoft, 07\/28\/23) \u2013 13,172 (31,439)<\/li>\n
  5. [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06\/21\/18) \u2013 8,486 (3,216,083)<\/li>\n
  6. [NSW] Splatoon 3 (Nintendo, 09\/09\/22) \u2013 6,921 (4,078,880)<\/li>\n
  7. [NSW] Nintendo Switch Sports (Nintendo, 04\/29\/22) \u2013 6,491 (1,143,918)<\/li>\n
  8. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 12\/07\/18) \u2013 6,044 (5,250,701)<\/li>\n
  9. [NSW] Mario Party Superstars (Nintendo, 10\/29\/21) \u2013 4,951 (1,273,753)<\/li>\n
  10. [NSW] Pokemon Scarlet \/ Pokemon Violet (The Pokemon Company, 11\/18\/22) \u2013 4,799 (5,085,843)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    Onto hardware now and it has been another strong showing from Nintendo as the Switch OLED stays out in front with 73,626 units sold ahead of the PS5 on 48,463. With the standard Switch and Lite model taking third and fourth respectively, it should come as no surprise that the combined lifetime sales figure across all Switch SKUs continues to shoot upwards after passing the 30-million mark last week \u2014 this time it sits at 30,166,729.<\/p>\n

    Here is the Japanese hardware chart in full:<\/p>\n

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    1. Switch OLED Model \u2013 73,626 (5,241,389)<\/li>\n
    2. PlayStation 5 \u2013 48,463 (3,543,790)<\/li>\n
    3. Switch \u2013 11,467 (19,483,778)<\/li>\n
    4. Switch Lite \u2013 8,117 (5,441,552)<\/li>\n
    5. PlayStation 5 Digital Edition \u2013 1,895 (553,134)<\/li>\n
    6. Xbox Series X \u2013 3,132 (209,686)<\/li>\n
    7. PlayStation 4 \u2013 789 (7,891,739)<\/li>\n
    8. Xbox Series S \u2013 144 (269,006)<\/li>\n
    9. New 2DS LL (including 2DS) \u2013 56 (1,192,024)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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

      What do you make of the Japanese charts this week? Let us know in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Image: Nintendo This week’s Japanese charts are in from Famitsu (via Gematsu) and we are once again seeing Nintendo’s latest big release top the competition, as Pikmin 4 lands in first place for the third week in a row. The plant-plucking RTS game sold another 78,838 copies this time around, comfortably beating Tears of the […]<\/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-134134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134134","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=134134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}