{"id":832,"date":"2017-09-27T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/09\/pokken_tournament_dx_and_nintendo_switch_lead_the_way_in_japan"},"modified":"2017-09-27T18:45:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T18:45:00","slug":"pokken-tournament-dx-and-nintendo-switch-lead-the-way-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/09\/27\/pokken-tournament-dx-and-nintendo-switch-lead-the-way-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Pokk\u00e9n Tournament DX and Nintendo Switch Lead the Way in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Pokken DX screen.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/09\/pokken_tournament_dx_and_nintendo_switch_lead_the_way_in_japan\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/09\/pokken_tournament_dx_and_nintendo_switch_lead_the_way_in_japan\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Pokken DX screen.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>It&#8217;s the middle of the week, which means it&#8217;s time for the\u00a0Media Create chart results out of Japan. It was a notable week with a couple of new Switch releases, so let&#8217;s get to it.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokken_tournament_dx\">Pokk\u00e9n Tournament DX<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>was the main arrival, and it secured top spot; its 53,395 physical retail sales didn&#8217;t hit the heights of the original on Wii U, which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2016\/03\/pokken_tournament_beats_digimon_to_number_one_in_japan_and_boosts_wii_u_sales\">shifted nearly 70,000 units when it launched<\/a>. Reasons can include the smaller install base of the Switch (for now, at least) and the fact that not all who bought the original will want to double dip.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere a Dragon Quest X &#8216;all in one&#8217; release only managed four figures on its Switch debut; in general it was a quiet week in the top 20.\u00a0<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>[NSW] <em>Pokk\u00e9n Tournament DX<\/em> (Nintendo, 09\/22\/17) \u2013 53,395 <strong>(New)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>[NSW] <em>Splatoon 2<\/em> (Nintendo, 07\/21\/17) \u2013 21,897 (1,160,859)<\/li>\n<li>[PS4] <em>Pro Evolution Soccer 2018<\/em> (Konami, 09\/14\/17) \u2013 16,854 (81,196)<\/li>\n<li>[PS4] <em>NBA 2K18<\/em> (Take-Two Interactive, 09\/21\/17) \u2013 14,487 <strong>(New)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>[NSW] <em>Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/em> (Nintendo, 04,28,17) \u2013 11,457 (706,642)<\/li>\n<li>[PS4] <em>Destiny 2<\/em> (SIE, 09\/06\/17) \u2013 11,036 (81,317)<\/li>\n<li>[NSW] <em>Dragon Quest X: All In One Package<\/em> (Square Enix, 09\/21\/17) \u2013 9,482 <strong>(New)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>[PS4] <em>Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite<\/em> (Capcom, 09\/21\/17) \u2013 8,273 <strong>(New)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>[PS4] <em>Everybody\u2019s Golf<\/em> (SIE, 08\/31\/17) \u2013 7,738 (144,432)<\/li>\n<li>[3DS] <em>Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age<\/em> (Square Enix, 07\/29\/17) \u2013 7,482 (1,727,913)<\/li>\n<li>[PS4] <em>Project Cars 2<\/em> (Bandai Namco, 09\/21\/17) \u2013 7,359 <strong>(New)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>[NSW] <em>Monster Hunter XX<\/em> (Capcom, 08\/25\/17) \u2013 6,911 (140,533)<\/li>\n<li>[3DS] <em>Metroid: Samus Returns<\/em> (Nintendo, 09\/15\/17) (Limited Edition Included) \u2013 6,206 (37,061)<\/li>\n<li>[3DS] <em>The Snack World: Trejarers<\/em> (Level-5, 08\/10\/17) \u2013 5,952 (167,759)<\/li>\n<li>[NSW] <em>The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild<\/em> (Limited Edition Included) (Nintendo, 03\/03\/17) \u2013 5,502 (591,055)<\/li>\n<li>[PSV] <em>Nil Admirari no Tenbin: Kuroyuri En\u2019youtan<\/em> (Idea Factory, 09\/21\/17) \u2013 5,450 <strong>(New)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>[PS4] <em>Uncharted: The Lost Legacy<\/em> (SIE, 09\/14\/17) \u2013 4,666 (27,797)<\/li>\n<li>[PS4] <em>Yakuza: Kiwami<\/em> (New Price Edition) (Sega, 09\/21\/17) \u2013 4,596 <strong>(New)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>[PS4] <em>Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age<\/em> (Square Enix, 07\/29\/17) \u2013 4,104 (1,347,582)<\/li>\n<li>[PS3] <em>Pro Evolution Soccer 2018<\/em> (Konami, 09\/14\/17) \u2013 4,068 (16,845)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In\u00a0terms of hardware there were small dips for most systems, though the Switch is still comfortably ahead of the rest, with New 3DS and 2DS LL still sitting behind the PS4.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Switch \u2013 43,426 (44,052)<\/li>\n<li>PlayStation 4 \u2013 18,396 (19,322)<\/li>\n<li>New 3DS LL \u2013 8,726 (10,650)<\/li>\n<li>New 2DS LL \u2013 8,508 (8,761)<\/li>\n<li>PlayStation 4 Pro \u2013 5,418 (5,338)<\/li>\n<li>PlayStation Vita \u2013 3,707 (3,847)<\/li>\n<li>2DS \u2013 1,659 (1,726)<\/li>\n<li>New 3DS \u2013 379 (428)<\/li>\n<li>PlayStation 3 \u2013 87 (99)<\/li>\n<li>Xbox One \u2013 76 (57)<\/li>\n<li>Wii U \u2013 56 (86)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>A reasonable week for\u00a0Pokk\u00e9n Tournament DX and Nintendo in general, albeit the fighting title didn&#8217;t set the charts alight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the middle of the week, which means it&#8217;s time for the\u00a0Media Create chart results out of Japan. It was a notable week with a couple of new Switch releases, so let&#8217;s get to it. Pokk\u00e9n Tournament DX\u00a0was the main arrival, and it secured top spot; its 53,395 physical retail sales didn&#8217;t hit the heights [&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-832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832","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=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}