{"id":17123,"date":"2018-04-11T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/kirby_star_allies_gobbles_up_the_top_spot_again_in_the_japanese_charts"},"modified":"2018-04-11T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T14:45:00","slug":"kirby-star-allies-gobbles-up-the-top-spot-again-in-the-japanese-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/04\/11\/kirby-star-allies-gobbles-up-the-top-spot-again-in-the-japanese-charts\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirby Star Allies Gobbles Up The Top Spot Again In The Japanese Charts"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"news6.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/kirby_star_allies_gobbles_up_the_top_spot_again_in_the_japanese_charts\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/kirby_star_allies_gobbles_up_the_top_spot_again_in_the_japanese_charts\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"news6.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>It&#8217;s been another big week for Nintendo in the Land of the Rising Sun as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/kirby_star_allies\"><strong>Kirby Star Allies<\/strong><\/a> storms back into first place following a drop to number four last week. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/splatoon_2\">Splatoon 2<\/a><\/strong> jumps back into the top three now that the PS4 and PS Vita versions of <strong>Super Robot Wars X<\/strong> have dropped further down the charts.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/legend_of_zelda_breath_of_the_wild\">The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild<\/a><\/strong> has also re-entered the top ten (it was stuck at 11 last week), while <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_mario_odyssey\"><strong>Super Mario Odyssey<\/strong><\/a> jumps all the way from 13 to number seven in one week. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_kart_8_deluxe\"><strong>Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/strong><\/a> also had a strong week, moving from nine to fourth place with almost 14,000 units sold. Here&#8217;s the top 20 (with lifestyle sales shown in brackets):<\/p>\n<p><strong>1\u00a0<\/strong>[NSW] Kirby: Star Allies \u2013 35,319 (392,413)<br \/><strong>2\u00a0<\/strong>[PS4] <strong>Far Cry 5<\/strong> \u2013 26,732 (102,206)<br \/><strong>3<\/strong> [NSW] Splatoon 2 (Bundle Version Included) \u2013 21,890 (2,213,576)<br \/><strong>4<\/strong> [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe \u2013 13,849 (1,460,835)<br \/><strong>5<\/strong> [PS4] Super Robot Wars X (Limited Edition Included) \u2013 11,063 (100,322)<br \/><strong>6<\/strong> [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Limited Edition Included) \u2013 8,551 (947,541)<br \/><strong>7<\/strong> [NSW] Super Mario Odyssey (Bundle Version Included) \u2013 8,211 (1,684,107)<br \/><strong>8<\/strong> [PS4] <strong>Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom<\/strong> (Limited Edition Included) \u2013 8,202 (83,067)<br \/><strong>9<\/strong> [3DS] <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/detective_pikachu\">Detective Pikachu<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 6,959 (64,556)<br \/><strong>10<\/strong> [PSV] Super Robot Wars X (Limited Edition Included) \u2013 6,564 (60,606)<br \/><strong>11<\/strong> [PS4] <strong>Monster Hunter: World<\/strong> (Limited and Bundle Editions Included) \u2013 5,189 (1,999,415)<br \/><strong>12<\/strong> [3DS] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/pokemon_ultra_sun_and_ultra_moon\">Pokemon Ultra Sun \/ Ultra Moon<\/a> \u2013 5,062 (1,610,978)<br \/><strong>13<\/strong> [NSW] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/hyrule_warriors_definitive_edition\"><strong>Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 4,789 (37,338)<br \/><strong>14<\/strong> [PS4] <strong>Valkyria Chronicles 4<\/strong> (Limited Edition Included) \u2013 4,749 (76,778)<br \/><strong>15<\/strong> [PS4] <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/attack_on_titan_2\">Attack on Titan 2<\/a><\/strong> (Limited Edition Included) \u2013 4,630 (49,279)<br \/><strong>16<\/strong> [PS4] <strong>Shining Resonance Refrain<\/strong> \u2013 3,951 (27,005)<br \/><strong>17<\/strong> [NSW] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/1-2-switch\"><strong>1-2-Switch<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 3,795 (427,721)<br \/><strong>18<\/strong> [PS4] <strong>Hokuto ga Gotoku<\/strong> (Limited Edition Included) \u2013 3,757 (160,562)<br \/><strong>19<\/strong> [PS4] <strong>Rainbow Six Siege Advanced Edition<\/strong> \u2013 3,596 (35,276)<br \/><strong>20<\/strong> [NSW] <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/dragon_ball_xenoverse_2\">Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2<\/a> for Nintendo Switch<\/strong> \u2013 3,531 (141,100)<\/p>\n<p>All those Switch software sales have secured another strong week for Switch. Despite selling 4,000 fewer units than last week, it sold four times as many consoles as PS4 in the same time frame. Check out the official list below (with last week&#8217;s sales shown in brackets):<\/p>\n<p><strong>1<\/strong> Switch \u2013 40,016 (44,033)<br \/><strong>2<\/strong> PlayStation 4 \u2013 9,530 (17,457)<br \/><strong>3<\/strong> New 2DS LL \u2013 5,006 (5,517)<br \/><strong>4<\/strong> PlayStation 4 Pro \u2013 4,970 (7,868)<br \/><strong>5<\/strong> New 3DS LL \u2013 3,865 (3,936)<br \/><strong>6<\/strong> PlayStation Vita \u2013 2,929 (3,992)<br \/><strong>7<\/strong> 2DS \u2013 551 (756)<br \/><strong>8<\/strong> Xbox One \u2013 72 (76)<br \/><strong>9<\/strong> Xbox One X \u2013 47 (77)<\/p>\n<p><em>So there you have it, another week of strong sales for Switch software and hardware in Japan. Let us know what you make of these tasty figures below&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been another big week for Nintendo in the Land of the Rising Sun as Kirby Star Allies storms back into first place following a drop to number four last week. Splatoon 2 jumps back into the top three now that the PS4 and PS Vita versions of Super Robot Wars X have dropped further [&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-17123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17123","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=17123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}