{"id":5936,"date":"2017-11-22T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/11\/pokemon_ultra_sun_and_ultra_moon_lead_japanese_charts_as_switch_dominates_again"},"modified":"2017-11-22T15:45:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T15:45:00","slug":"pokemon-ultra-sun-and-ultra-moon-lead-japanese-charts-as-switch-dominates-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/22\/pokemon-ultra-sun-and-ultra-moon-lead-japanese-charts-as-switch-dominates-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon Lead Japanese Charts As Switch Dominates Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Ultra Sun and Moon.png\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/11\/pokemon_ultra_sun_and_ultra_moon_lead_japanese_charts_as_switch_dominates_again\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/11\/pokemon_ultra_sun_and_ultra_moon_lead_japanese_charts_as_switch_dominates_again\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Ultra Sun and Moon.png\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>It&#8217;s the middle of the week, which means it&#8217;s time for the Media Create chart results out of Japan. It was a big week all told and one that certainly boosted Nintendo&#8217;s coffers.<\/p>\n<p>The results bring us the launch sales of\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/pokemon_ultra_sun_and_ultra_moon\">Pok\u00e9mon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon<\/a><\/strong>, though the combination of it being a mid-gen series release and a late-gen 3DS title has seemingly affected the numbers. Between them the games sold 915,221 copies, which is impressive on its own merits &#8211; however that&#8217;s well down on equivalent launch sales for previous releases.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/pokemon_sun_and_moon\">Pok\u00e9mon Sun and Moon<\/a><\/strong> shifted\u00a01,742,008 units at launch,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/pokemon_x_and_y\"><strong>Pok\u00e9mon X &amp; Y<\/strong><\/a> managed 1,866,580 sales in its opening week, while\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/pokemon_omega_ruby_and_alpha_sapphire\">Pok\u00e9mon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>managed 1,327,621 units at launch. As mentioned above, mid-gen iterations typically sell less that new-gen &#8216;main&#8217; entries, so that should be taken into account.<\/p>\n<p>There are some interesting results elsewhere, not least being the Wii U version of\u00a0<strong>Dragon Quest X: 5,000 Year Journey to a Faraway Hometown Online<\/strong> outselling equivalents on Switch and PS4. Crikey.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the top 20 with lifetime sales in brackets.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>[3DS] <em>Pokemon Ultra Sun<\/em> \/ <em>Ultra Moon<\/em> (Nintendo, 11\/17\/17) \u2013 667,439 <strong>(New)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>[3DS] <em>Pokemon Ultra Sun<\/em> \/ <em>Ultra Moon<\/em> Double Pack (Nintendo, 11\/17\/17) \u2013 247,782 <strong>(New)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>[NSW] <em>Super Mario Odyssey<\/em> (Nintendo, 10\/27\/17) \u2013 62,024 (714,308)<\/li>\n<li>[PS4] <em>Star Wars Battlefront II<\/em> (Deluxe Edition Included) (EA, 11\/17\/17) \u2013 38,769 <strong>(New)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>[PS4] <em>Call of Duty: WWII<\/em> (SIE, 11\/03\/17) \u2013 34,116 (269,483)<\/li>\n<li>[NSW] <em>Splatoon 2<\/em> (Nintendo, 07\/21\/17) \u2013 25,118 (1,343,255)<\/li>\n<li>[Wii U] <em>Dragon Quest X: 5,000 Year Journey to a Faraway Hometown Online<\/em> (Square Enix, 11\/16\/17) \u2013 24,836 <strong>(New)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>[NSW] <em>Dragon Quest X: 5,000 Year Journey to a Faraway Hometown Online<\/em> (Square Enix, 11\/16\/17) \u2013 18,444 <strong>(New)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>[NSW] <em>Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/em> (Nintendo, 04,28,17) \u2013 16,532 (819,004)<\/li>\n<li>[PS4] <em>Dragon Quest X: 5,000 Year Journey to a Faraway Hometown Online<\/em> (Square Enix, 11\/16\/17) \u2013 13,657 <strong>(New)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>[NSW] <em>The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild<\/em> (Limited Edition Included) (Nintendo, 03\/03\/17) \u2013 7,004 (641,853)<\/li>\n<li>[NSW] <em>Pokken Tournament DX<\/em> (Nintendo, 09\/22\/17) \u2013 6,642 (122,333)<\/li>\n<li>[3DS] <em>Style Savvy: Styling Star<\/em> (Nintendo, 11\/03\/17) \u2013 6,523 (48,349)<\/li>\n<li>[PS4] <em>Need for Speed: Payback<\/em> (EA, 11\/10\/17) \u2013 6,440 (27,404)<\/li>\n<li>[PS4] <em>ARK: Survival Evolved<\/em> (Spike Chunsoft, 10\/26\/17) \u2013 6,178 (109,978)<\/li>\n<li>[PS4] <em>Assassin\u2019s Creed Origins<\/em> (Ubisoft, 10\/27\/17) \u2013 5,593 (88,336)<\/li>\n<li>[PS4] <em>Gran Turismo Sport<\/em> (Limited Edition Included) (SIE, 10\/19\/17) \u2013 5,063 (187,503)<\/li>\n<li>[PS4] <em>.hack\/\/G.U. Last Recode<\/em> (Limited Edition Included) (Bandai Namco, 11\/02\/17) \u2013 3,738 (72,214)<\/li>\n<li>[3DS] <em>Animal Crossing: New Leaf Amiibo+<\/em> (Nintendo, 11\/23\/16) \u2013 3,444 (270,765)<\/li>\n<li>[PS4] <em>The Sims 4<\/em> (Bundle Editions Included) (EA, 11\/14\/17) \u2013 3,428 <strong>(New)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The hardware results also tell an interesting story. The Switch continues to dominate and outsell all other systems combined, even without a big-hitting new release. The New 2DS LL (XL) benefitted the most from the Pok\u00e9mon releases to take second place, with smaller increases for the other members of the 3DS family. Results are below with last week&#8217;s sales in brackets.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Switch \u2013 86,999 (79,958)<\/li>\n<li>New 2DS LL \u2013 29,013 (10,323)<\/li>\n<li>PlayStation 4 \u2013 18,126 (20,021)<\/li>\n<li>New 3DS LL \u2013 11,074 (7,296)<\/li>\n<li>PlayStation 4 Pro \u2013 8,176 (6,037)<\/li>\n<li>2DS \u2013 3,113 (1,484)<\/li>\n<li>PlayStation Vita \u2013 3,090 (3,210)<\/li>\n<li>New 3DS \u2013 280 (266)<\/li>\n<li>Xbox One X \u2013 143 (1,344)<\/li>\n<li>Xbox One \u2013 104 (121)<\/li>\n<li>PlayStation 3 \u2013 46 (41)<\/li>\n<li>Wii U \u2013 43 (36)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So there you have it, a lucrative week for Nintendo and The Pok\u00e9mon Company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the middle of the week, which means it&#8217;s time for the Media Create chart results out of Japan. It was a big week all told and one that certainly boosted Nintendo&#8217;s coffers. The results bring us the launch sales of\u00a0Pok\u00e9mon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, though the combination of it being a mid-gen series [&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-5936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5936","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=5936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}