{"id":7764,"date":"2017-12-13T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/12\/nintendo_switch_is_still_number_one_in_the_japanese_charts"},"modified":"2017-12-13T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T13:30:00","slug":"nintendo-switch-is-still-number-one-in-the-japanese-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/12\/13\/nintendo-switch-is-still-number-one-in-the-japanese-charts\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Switch is Still Number One in the Japanese Charts"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>It&#8217;s the middle of the week, which means we get an updated look at what&#8217;s hot and what&#8217;s not in Japan; though the software charts have new challengers to Nintendo games, hardware is still very much the dominion of a certain hybrid system.<\/p>\n<p>Kicking off with software, two new releases on PS4 push <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/pokemon_ultra_sun_and_ultra_moon\">Pok\u00e9mon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon<\/a><\/strong> down to third place, though the standard editions have now passed one million physical retail sales (the combined pack has added plenty more). There are three evergreen Switch releases up next, with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_mario_odyssey\">Super Mario Odyssey<\/a><\/strong> creeping towards the one million landmark in Japan; results are below with lifetime sales in brackets.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>[PS4]\u00a0<em>Yakuza: Kiwami 2<\/em>\u00a0(Limited Edition Included) (Sega, 12\/07\/17) \u2013 131,931\u00a0<strong>(New)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>[PS4]\u00a0<em>Earth Defense Force 5<\/em>\u00a0(D3 Publisher, 12\/07\/17) \u2013 111,075\u00a0<strong>(New)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>[3DS]\u00a0<em>Pokemon Ultra Sun<\/em> and <em>Ultra Moon<\/em>\u00a0(Nintendo, 11\/17\/17) \u2013 106,094 (1,050,168)<\/li>\n<li>[NSW]\u00a0<em>Super Mario Odyssey<\/em>\u00a0(Nintendo, 10\/27\/17) \u2013 95,816 (949,470)<\/li>\n<li>[NSW]\u00a0<em>Splatoon 2<\/em>\u00a0(Nintendo, 07\/21\/17) \u2013 50,594 (1,460,370)<\/li>\n<li>[NSW]\u00a0<em>Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/em>\u00a0(Nintendo, 04,28,17) \u2013 33,315 (894,553)<\/li>\n<li>[PS4]\u00a0<em>Kamen Rider: Climax Fighters<\/em>\u00a0(Limited Edition Included) (Bandai Namco, 12\/07\/17) \u2013 21,971\u00a0<strong>(New)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>[NSW]\u00a0<em>Xenoblade Chronicles 2<\/em>\u00a0(Limited Edition Included) (Nintendo, 12\/01\/17) \u2013 19,678 (117,409)<\/li>\n<li>[3DS]\u00a0<em>Kirby: Battle Royale<\/em>\u00a0(Nintendo, 11\/30\/17) \u2013 19,325 (47,348)<\/li>\n<li>[NSW]\u00a0<em>The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild<\/em>\u00a0(Limited Edition Included) (Nintendo, 03\/03\/17) \u2013 14,342 (682,992)<\/li>\n<li>[PS4]\u00a0<em>Dead Rising 4: Frank\u2019s Big Package<\/em>\u00a0(Capcom, 12\/07\/17) \u2013 13,029\u00a0<strong>(New)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>[3DS]\u00a0<em>Animal Crossing: New Leaf Amiibo+<\/em>\u00a0(Nintendo, 11\/23\/16) \u2013 11,878 (306,517)<\/li>\n<li>[PS4]\u00a0<em>Call of Duty: WWII<\/em>\u00a0(SIE, 11\/03\/17) \u2013 11,589 (318,089)<\/li>\n<li>[3DS]\u00a0<em>Pokemon Ultra Sun<\/em> and <em>Ultra Moon<\/em>\u00a0Double Pack (Nintendo, 11\/17\/17) \u2013 11,198 (290,149)<\/li>\n<li>[3DS]\u00a0<em>Style Savvy: Styling Star<\/em>\u00a0(Nintendo, 11\/03\/17) \u2013 9,649 (70,704)<\/li>\n<li>[NSW]\u00a0<em>Sumikko Gurashi: Sumikko Park he Youkoso<\/em>\u00a0(Nippon Columbia, 12\/07\/17) \u2013 9,435\u00a0<strong>(New)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>[NSW]\u00a0<em>Pokken Tournament DX<\/em>\u00a0(Nintendo, 09\/22\/17) \u2013 8,362 (139,637)<\/li>\n<li>[PS4]\u00a0<em>Nioh Complete Edition<\/em>\u00a0(Koei Tecmo, 12\/07\/17) \u2013 8,021\u00a0<strong>(New)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>[NSW]\u00a0<em>1-2-Switch<\/em>\u00a0(Nintendo, 03\/03\/17) \u2013 7,604 (295,470)<\/li>\n<li>[PS4]\u00a0<em>Horizon: Zero Dawn Complete Edition<\/em>\u00a0(SIE, 12\/07\/17) \u2013 7,309\u00a0<strong>(New)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Moving on to hardware the Switch has gained more sales once again, likely the result of increasing availability. It&#8217;s particularly impressive momentum, and in second place there&#8217;s a revived PS4 Pro courtesy of a <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps4\/monster_hunter_world\"><strong>Monster Hunter: World<\/strong><\/a> edition that was released last week (though the game isn&#8217;t included). Switch still out-performed both PS4 models despite their increases, and momentum is positive for most systems with New 2DS LL and New 3DS LL (XL) also improving sales. Results are below with last week&#8217;s sales in brackets.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Switch \u2013 164,908 (124,770)<\/li>\n<li>PlayStation 4 Pro \u2013 45,163 (8,244)<\/li>\n<li>PlayStation 4 \u2013 40,524 (25,163)<\/li>\n<li>New 2DS LL \u2013 27,074 (20,712)<\/li>\n<li>New 3DS LL \u2013 15,059 (12,431)<\/li>\n<li>PlayStation Vita \u2013 8,483 (6,127)<\/li>\n<li>2DS \u2013 3,192 (2,747)<\/li>\n<li>Xbox One \u2013 406 (295)<\/li>\n<li>New 3DS \u2013 248 (348)<\/li>\n<li>Xbox One X \u2013 75 (213)<\/li>\n<li>Wii U \u2013 70 (45)<\/li>\n<li>PlayStation 3 \u2013 48 (48)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Despite the absence of big-hitting new retail games it was still a good week for Nintendo, especially in terms of Switch hardware sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the middle of the week, which means we get an updated look at what&#8217;s hot and what&#8217;s not in Japan; though the software charts have new challengers to Nintendo games, hardware is still very much the dominion of a certain hybrid system. Kicking off with software, two new releases on PS4 push Pok\u00e9mon Ultra [&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-7764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7764","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=7764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}