{"id":33242,"date":"2018-07-16T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T14:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/nintendos_dominance_in_japan_continues_publishing_over_half_of_2018s_top-selling_games"},"modified":"2018-07-16T14:35:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T14:35:00","slug":"nintendos-dominance-in-japan-continues-publishing-over-half-of-2018s-top-selling-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/16\/nintendos-dominance-in-japan-continues-publishing-over-half-of-2018s-top-selling-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo&#8217;s Dominance In Japan Continues, Publishing Over Half Of 2018&#8217;s Top-Selling Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/nintendos_dominance_in_japan_continues_publishing_over_half_of_2018s_top-selling_games\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/nintendos_dominance_in_japan_continues_publishing_over_half_of_2018s_top-selling_games\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"mario.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/nintendo_dominates_in_japan_publishing_over_half_of_this_years_top-selling_games\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/nintendo_dominates_in_japan_publishing_over_half_of_this_years_top-selling_games\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"mario.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Last year was a fantastic one for Nintendo &#8211; the Switch launched in March, gaining universal excitement from the off, and a splattering of truly brilliant experiences like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/legend_of_zelda_breath_of_the_wild\"><strong>The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_mario_odyssey\"><strong>Super Mario Odyssey<\/strong><\/a> took the world by storm. As it turns out, despite not feeling quite as dramatic so far, 2018 isn&#8217;t playing out to be all that bad, either.<\/p>\n<p>The figures below show the top 20 best-selling games of Japan so far this year. As you can see, eleven of these titles are published by Nintendo and are exclusive to the Switch and 3DS platforms, with every spot from number two to number seven secured. Nintendo has always performed well in Japan, with its games often finding themselves at the top of lists like this, but the sheer amount of titles and the sales they&#8217;re generating is still impressive to behold.<\/p>\n<p>The first set of numbers show this year&#8217;s Japanese sales, with those in brackets indicating how many it has sold in its entire lifetime for the region (if the two figures are the same, this simply means that the game released this year).<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>1) <strong>Monster Hunter: World<\/strong> 1.949.592 [1.949.592] Capcom<br \/>2) <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/splatoon_2\">Splatoon 2<\/a><\/strong> 631.298 [2.383.394] Nintendo<br \/>3) <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/kirby_star_allies\">Kirby Star Allies<\/a><\/strong> 536.881 [536.881] Nintendo<br \/>4) <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_kart_8_deluxe\">Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/a><\/strong> 450.206 [1.553.950] Nintendo<br \/>5) <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_mario_odyssey\">Super Mario Odyssey<\/a><\/strong> 389.680 [1.713.960] Nintendo<br \/>6) <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> 292.459 [980.503] Nintendo<br \/>7) <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/pokemon_ultra_sun_and_ultra_moon\">Pok\u00e9mon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon<\/a><\/strong> 240.135 [2.243.742] Nintendo \/ Pok\u00e9mon Co.<br \/>8) <strong>Jikkyou Powerful Pro Basebal<\/strong>l <strong>2018<\/strong> 217.178 [217.178] Konami<br \/>9) <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_plus_rabbids_kingdom_battle\">Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle<\/a><\/strong> 200.131 [200.131] Nintendo<br \/>10) <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/donkey_kong_country_tropical_freeze\">Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze<\/a><\/strong> 179.179 [179.179] Nintendo<br \/>11) <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/nintendo_labo_toy-con_01_-_variety_kit\">Nintendo Labo: Toy-Con 01 &#8211; Variety Kit<\/a><\/strong> 174.792 [174.792] Nintendo<br \/>12) <strong>Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise<\/strong> 174.744 [174.744] SEGA<br \/>13) <strong>Dynasty Warriors 9<\/strong> 171.195 [171.195] Koei Tecmo<br \/>14) <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/mario_party_the_top_100\">Mario Party: The Top 100<\/a><\/strong> 153.015 [199.203] Nintendo<br \/>15) <strong>Dissidia: Final Fantasy NT<\/strong> 150.250 [150.250] Square Enix<br \/>16) <strong>Far Cry 5<\/strong> 144.455 [144.455] Ubisoft<br \/>17) <strong>Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet<\/strong> 126.585 [126.585] Bandai Namco<br \/>18) <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_tennis_aces\">Mario Tennis Aces<\/a><\/strong> 122.070 [122.070] Nintendo<br \/>19) <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/dark_souls_remastered\">Dark Souls: Remastered<\/a><\/strong> 112.974 [112.974] From Software<br \/>20) <strong>Super Robot Wars X<\/strong> 107.866 [107.866] Bandai Namco<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>If only Monster Hunter: World had released on Switch as well, huh?\u00a0We&#8217;ll leave that argument for another day.<\/p>\n<p><em>Are you surprised by any of these inclusions? Are you happy to see Nintendo&#8217;s games performing well in its home region? Feel free to throw us a comment below.<br \/><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year was a fantastic one for Nintendo &#8211; the Switch launched in March, gaining universal excitement from the off, and a splattering of truly brilliant experiences like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Odyssey took the world by storm. As it turns out, despite not feeling quite as dramatic [&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-33242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33242","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=33242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}