{"id":2762,"date":"2017-10-18T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/10\/lost_sphear_makes_modest_debut_in_japan_but_switch_stays_on_top"},"modified":"2017-10-18T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T14:00:00","slug":"lost-sphear-makes-modest-debut-in-japan-but-switch-stays-on-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/18\/lost-sphear-makes-modest-debut-in-japan-but-switch-stays-on-top\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost Sphear Makes Modest Debut in Japan But Switch Stays on Top"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Lost Sphear.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/10\/lost_sphear_makes_modest_debut_in_japan_but_switch_stays_on_top\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/10\/lost_sphear_makes_modest_debut_in_japan_but_switch_stays_on_top\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Lost Sphear.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The Japanese Media Create chart results are out, and it proved to be a relatively quiet week in the market &#8211; there are some reasonable results for Nintendo, nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p>Starting with software we have\u00a0<a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps4\/middle-earth_shadow_of_war\"><strong>Middle-earth: Shadow of War<\/strong><\/a> taking top spot on PS4, though its actual sales numbers weren&#8217;t great in what was a slow week all around. The rest of the top five includes some evergreen titles, though there may be some disappointment with the performance of\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/mario_and_luigi_superstar_saga_plus_bowsers_minions\">Mario &amp; Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser&#8217;s Minions<\/a><\/strong> and particularly <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/new-3ds\/fire_emblem_warriors\">Fire Emblem Warriors<\/a><\/strong>, which have both failed to add too much to modest launch sales. Further down we have\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/lost_sphear\">Lost Sphear<\/a><\/strong>, a spiritual successor to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/i_am_setsuna\"><strong>I Am Setsuna<\/strong><\/a>; it did better on PS4 but still only managed four figures, while it took 9th place with 5,770 sales on Switch.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>[PS4] <em>Middle-earth: Shadow of War<\/em> (Warner Bros., 10\/12\/17) \u2013 20,144 <strong>(New)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>[NSW] <em>Splatoon 2<\/em> (Nintendo, 07\/21\/17) \u2013 19,622 (1,232,523)<\/li>\n<li>[NSW] <em>Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/em> (Nintendo, 04,28,17) \u2013 13,321 (747,454)<\/li>\n<li>[3DS] <em>Mario &amp; Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser\u2019s Minions<\/em> (Nintendo, 10\/05\/17) \u2013 12,215 (38,003)<\/li>\n<li>[NSW] <em>Pokken Tournament DX<\/em> (Nintendo, 09\/22\/17) \u2013 8,367 (97,135)<\/li>\n<li>[PS4] <em>Lost Sphear<\/em> (Square Enix, 10\/12\/17) \u2013 7,363 <strong>(New)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>[PS4] <em>FIFA 18<\/em> (Limited Editions and Bundles Included) (Electronic Arts, 09\/29\/17) \u2013 6,703 (75,791)<\/li>\n<li>[NSW] <em>The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild<\/em> (Limited Edition Included) (Nintendo, 03\/03\/17) \u2013 6,088 (610,953)<\/li>\n<li>[NSW] <em>Lost Sphear<\/em> (Square Enix, 10\/12\/17) \u2013 5,770 <strong>(New)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>[PS4] <em>No Heroes Allowed! VR<\/em> (SIE, 10\/14\/17) \u2013 5,457 <strong>(New)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>[PS4] <em>The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III<\/em> (Limited Edition Included) (Falcom, 09\/28\/17) \u2013 5,457 (105,298)<\/li>\n<li>[PS4] <em>Pro Evolution Soccer 2018<\/em> (Konami, 09\/14\/17) \u2013 4,307 (102,018)<\/li>\n<li>[PS4] <em>Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3<\/em> (Ubisoft, 10\/05\/17) \u2013 4,093 (14,919)<\/li>\n<li>[NSW] <em>Fire Emblem Warriors<\/em> (Nintendo, 09\/28\/17) \u2013 4,016 (53,531)<\/li>\n<li>[NSW] <em>Monster Hunter XX<\/em> (Capcom, 08\/25\/17) \u2013 3,966 (155,634)<\/li>\n<li>[3DS] <em>The Snack World: Trejarers<\/em> (Level-5, 08\/10\/17) \u2013 3,939 (180,898)<\/li>\n<li>[NSW] <em>Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 for Nintendo Switch<\/em> (Bandai Namco, 09\/07\/17) \u2013 3,815 (44,239)<\/li>\n<li>[3DS] <em>Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age<\/em> (Square Enix, 07\/29\/17) \u2013 3,659 (1,741,582)<\/li>\n<li>[3DS] <em>Animal Crossing: New Leaf Amiibo+<\/em> (Nintendo, 11\/23\/16) \u2013 3,497 (253,665)<\/li>\n<li>[PSV] <em>Yoshiwara Higanbana: Kuon no Chigiri<\/em> (Prototype, 10\/12\/17) \u2013 3,396 <strong>(New)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In terms of hardware we see a continuation of recent trends, with the Switch staying comfortably on top and increasing its sales slightly; the New 2DS LL and New 3DS LL (XL) swap places but still sit 3rd and 4th. Results are below with last week&#8217;s sales in brackets.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Switch \u2013 40,803 (38,204)<\/li>\n<li>PlayStation 4 \u2013 16,933 (16,680)<\/li>\n<li>New 2DS LL \u2013 10,569 (8,534)<\/li>\n<li>New 3DS LL \u2013 8,369 (12,658)<\/li>\n<li>PlayStation 4 Pro \u2013 5,773 (5,869)<\/li>\n<li>PlayStation Vita \u2013 3,938 (3,545)<\/li>\n<li>2DS \u2013 1,565 (1,594)<\/li>\n<li>New 3DS \u2013 242 (265)<\/li>\n<li>Xbox One \u2013 71 (186)<\/li>\n<li>PlayStation 3 \u2013 65 (72)<\/li>\n<li>Wii U \u2013 58 (45)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>A rather quiet week, overall, and Nintendo may be slightly disappointed with the low momentum of a couple of recent game releases &#8211; in terms of hardware, though, there&#8217;s plenty for the Kyoto-based company to celebrate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Japanese Media Create chart results are out, and it proved to be a relatively quiet week in the market &#8211; there are some reasonable results for Nintendo, nonetheless. Starting with software we have\u00a0Middle-earth: Shadow of War taking top spot on PS4, though its actual sales numbers weren&#8217;t great in what was a slow week [&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-2762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762","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=2762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}