{"id":1445,"date":"2017-10-04T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T13:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/10\/nintendo_switch_surges_in_japanese_charts_as_fire_emblem_warriors_makes_debut"},"modified":"2017-10-04T13:55:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T13:55:00","slug":"nintendo-switch-surges-in-japanese-charts-as-fire-emblem-warriors-makes-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/04\/nintendo-switch-surges-in-japanese-charts-as-fire-emblem-warriors-makes-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Switch Surges in Japanese Charts as Fire Emblem Warriors Makes Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Fire Emblem Warriors.JPG\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/10\/nintendo_switch_surges_in_japanese_charts_as_fire_emblem_warriors_makes_debut\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/10\/nintendo_switch_surges_in_japanese_charts_as_fire_emblem_warriors_makes_debut\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Fire Emblem Warriors.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The Media Create results are in for the Japanese charts, and last week was relatively busy &#8211; it&#8217;s was also another solid seven days for Nintendo.<\/p>\n<p>Every title missed out to <strong>The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III\u00a0<\/strong>on PS4 in first place, but it was a mixed debut for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/new-3ds\/fire_emblem_warriors\"><strong>Fire Emblem Warriors<\/strong><\/a>; on Switch it secured third place with 41,491 sales, while on New Nintendo 3DS \/ New 2DS it only shifted 18,357 copies. The combined total is less than\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wiiu\/hyrule_warriors\"><strong>Hyrule Warriors<\/strong><\/a> managed in its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2014\/08\/wii_u_sales_continue_to_rise_with_the_release_of_hyrule_warriors_n_3ds_sales_also_strong\">debut week<\/a>, while\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/hyrule_warriors_legends\"><strong>Hyrule Warriors Legends<\/strong><\/a> shifted 54,479 copies when it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2016\/01\/hyrule_warriors_legends_secures_third_place_in_japanese_charts_with_sales_below_wii_u_predecessor\">arrived in early 2016<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Moving on,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/splatoon_2\"><strong>Splatoon 2<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>keeps ticking along while\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokken_tournament_dx\"><strong>Pokk\u00e9n Tournament DX<\/strong><\/a> had a relatively modest second week. Also of note is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/fifa_18\"><strong>FIFA 18<\/strong><\/a>; the PS4 version secured second spot, while the Switch iteration (admittedly working with a smaller userbase) only managed less than a quarter of the PS4 sales with 12,616 units. FIFA was given a big push for Switch in Japan; in fact the earliest real footage of the game earlier this year was in a Japanese commercial.<\/p>\n<p>The top 20 is below with lifetime sales in brackets.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>[PS4] <em>The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III<\/em> (Limited Edition Included) (09\/28\/17) \u2013 87,261 <strong>(New)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>[PS4] <em>FIFA 18<\/em> (Electronic Arts, 09\/29\/17) \u2013 55,919 <strong>(New)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>[NSW] <em>Fire Emblem Warriors<\/em> (Nintendo, 09\/28\/17) \u2013 41,491 <strong>(New)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>[NSW] <em>Splatoon 2<\/em> (Nintendo, 07\/21\/17) \u2013 29,704 (1,190,563)<\/li>\n<li>[NSW] <em>Pokken Tournament DX<\/em> (Nintendo, 09\/22\/17) \u2013 23,543 (76,938)<\/li>\n<li>[NEW 3DS] <em>Fire Emblem Warriors<\/em> (Nintendo, 09\/28\/17) \u2013 18,357 <strong>(New)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>[NSW] <em>Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/em> (Nintendo, 04,28,17) \u2013 15,098 (720,741)<\/li>\n<li>[NSW] <em>FIFA 18<\/em> (Electronic Arts, 09\/29\/17) \u2013 12,616 <strong>(New)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>[PS4] <em>Genkai Tokki: Castle Panzers<\/em> (Compile Heart, 09\/28\/17) \u2013 10,389 <strong>(New)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>[PS4] <em>Pro Evolution Soccer 2018<\/em> (Konami, 09\/14\/17) \u2013 10,250 (91,446)<\/li>\n<li>[NSW] <em>The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild<\/em> (Limited Edition Included) (Nintendo, 03\/03\/17) \u2013 7,615 (598,670)<\/li>\n<li>[PS4] <em>Destiny 2<\/em> (SIE, 09\/06\/17) \u2013 7,371 (88,688)<\/li>\n<li>[PS4] <em>Fallout 4: Game of the Year Edition<\/em> (Bethesda Softworks, 09\/28\/17) \u2013 6,507 <strong>(New)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>[NSW] <em>Monster Hunter XX<\/em> (Capcom, 08\/25\/17) \u2013 6,350 (146,883)<\/li>\n<li>[PS4] <em>Coven and Labyrinth of Refrain<\/em> (NIS, 09\/28\/17) \u2013 5,681 <strong>(New)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>[3DS] <em>Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age<\/em> (Square Enix, 07\/29\/17) \u2013 5,639 (1,733,552)<\/li>\n<li>[3DS] <em>The Snack World: Trejarers<\/em> (Level-5, 08\/10\/17) \u2013 5,073 (172,833)<\/li>\n<li>[PSV] <em>Shinobi, Koi Utsutsu: Kanmitsu Hana Emaki<\/em> (Idea Factory, 09\/28\/17) \u2013 4,629 <strong>(New)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>[NSW] <em>Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 for Nintendo Switch<\/em> (Bandai Namco, 09\/07\/17) \u2013 4,419 (36,085)<\/li>\n<li>[PS4] <em>Everybody\u2019s Golf<\/em> (SIE, 08\/31\/17) \u2013 4,213 (148,645)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Moving on to hardware sales, the Switch saw a healthy boost to increase its already sizeable lead. The New 3DS LL (XL) also saw a small jump, and it was closely followed by the New 2DS LL; results are below with last week&#8217;s sales in brackets.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Switch \u2013 73,231 (43,426)<\/li>\n<li>PlayStation 4 \u2013 22,822 (18,396)<\/li>\n<li>New 3DS LL \u2013 9,915 (8,726)<\/li>\n<li>New 2DS LL \u2013 8,359 (8,508)<\/li>\n<li>PlayStation 4 Pro \u2013 6,547 (5,418)<\/li>\n<li>PlayStation Vita \u2013 3,732 (3,707)<\/li>\n<li>2DS \u2013 1,655 (1,659)<\/li>\n<li>New 3DS \u2013 392 (379)<\/li>\n<li>Xbox One \u2013 71 (76)<\/li>\n<li>Wii U \u2013 68 (56)<\/li>\n<li>PlayStation 3 \u2013 64 (87)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>A solid week for Nintendo all around, with no sign yet of the Switch hardware momentum dropping away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Media Create results are in for the Japanese charts, and last week was relatively busy &#8211; it&#8217;s was also another solid seven days for Nintendo. Every title missed out to The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III\u00a0on PS4 in first place, but it was a mixed debut for\u00a0Fire Emblem Warriors; on Switch [&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-1445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445","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=1445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}