{"id":137188,"date":"2026-05-14T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-201200"},"modified":"2026-05-14T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T15:00:00","slug":"japanese-charts-tomodachi-life-overtakes-pokopia-as-the-best-selling-2026-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/05\/14\/japanese-charts-tomodachi-life-overtakes-pokopia-as-the-best-selling-2026-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Charts: Tomodachi Life Overtakes Pokopia As The Best-Selling 2026 Release"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Famitsu<\/a>‘s weekly physical hardware and software charts are in, and it’s a bumper one as we’re covering two weeks<\/em> worth of sales thanks to Golden Week (via Gematsu<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Starting with the games, as you can probably tell from the headline, number one hasn’t changed at all: Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream<\/a> is the clear victor, selling almost 300,000 units between 27th April and 10th May 2026.<\/p>\n

This means the life-sim has sold over 1 million physical units in Japan alone, a huge chunk of the game’s 3.8 million units worldwide<\/a>. Oh, and Tomodachi Life has now leapfrogged Pok\u00e9mon Pokopia<\/a> to become the best-selling 2026 physical release in Japan.<\/p>\n

Speaking of Pokopia, the adorable spin-off sits comfortably in second place, selling an impressive 51,662 units. It hasn’t quite<\/em> hit the million mark yet, but it will by next week, if we had to guess. The rest of the top ten are all returners, with Mario Kart World<\/a>, Momotaro Dentetsu 2<\/a>, and Pragmata<\/a>‘s PS5 release (the Switch 2 version has slipped out of the top ten) completing the top five.<\/p>\n

Last thing of note, Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2<\/a> has returned to seventh, likely boosted by the Japanese release of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie<\/strong>; it arrived in cinemas there on 24th April, so only two days before the cut-off point for the last charts.<\/p>\n

Anyway, enough from us; here’s this (two) week’s top ten in full:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Position<\/th>\nGame<\/th>\nPlatform<\/th>\nUnit Sales<\/strong> (27th Apr – 10th May<\/strong><\/th>\nTotal Unit Sales<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
1<\/td>\n\n

Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Switch<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

299,619<\/td>\n1,043,557<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\n\n

Pok\u00e9mon Pokopia<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Switch 2<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

51,662<\/td>\n978,706<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\n\n

Mario Kart World<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Switch 2<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

19,479<\/td>\n2,925,858<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\n\n

Momotaro Dentetsu 2: Anata no Machi mo Kitto Aru \u2013 Higashi Nihon Hen + Nishi Nihon Hen<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Switch<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

11,950<\/td>\n355,691<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\n\n

Pragmata<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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PS5<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

10,262<\/td>\n59,518<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\n\n

Minecraft<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Switch<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

10,208<\/td>\n4,203,737<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\n\n

Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Switch<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

9,847<\/td>\n179,024<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\n\n

Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Switch 2<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

8,257<\/td>\n116,869<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\n\n

Animal Crossing: New Horizons<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Switch<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

7,411<\/td>\n8,433,456<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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10<\/td>\n\n

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Switch<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

6,892<\/td>\n5,910,721<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Golden Week hasn’t just been a boon for Tomodachi Life: the Switch 2 continues to soar, selling a staggering 214,438 units over the two-week period.<\/p>\n

Of course, Nintendo announced a Switch 2 console price increase in Japan on 8th May<\/a>, two days before the cut-off date for Famitsu’s latest charts. So while it may have influenced some sales here, the vast majority of these will be Golden Week purchases.<\/p>\n

The Switch OLED just barely outside the PS5 Digital Edition over the holiday period, but otherwise, the Switch’s SKUs have dominated Sony’s console pretty handily.<\/p>\n

Here’s a breakdown of the figures:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Position<\/th>\nConsole<\/th>\nUnit Sales<\/strong> (27th Apr – 10th May<\/strong><\/th>\nLifetime Unit Sales<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
1<\/td>\nSwitch 2<\/td>\n\n

214,438<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

5,367,660<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\n\n

Switch OLED<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

16,850<\/td>\n\n

9,571,489<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

3<\/td>\n\n

PlayStation 5 Digital Edition<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

16,539<\/td>\n1,283,342<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nSwitch Lite<\/td>\n16,039<\/td>\n6,958,407<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\n\n

Switch<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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7,960<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

20,292,060<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\n\n

PlayStation 5 Pro<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

5,248<\/td>\n355,220<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\n\n

PlayStation 5<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

1,973<\/td>\n5,918,111<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\n\n

Xbox Series X Digital Edition<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

352<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

30,490<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\n\n

Xbox Series S<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

97<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

341,958<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

10<\/td>\n\n

Xbox Series X<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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64<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

326,386<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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