{"id":92145,"date":"2019-04-17T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/04\/japanese_charts_nintendo_labo_vr_constructs_a_second_place_debut"},"modified":"2019-04-17T14:15:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T14:15:00","slug":"japanese-charts-nintendo-labo-vr-constructs-a-second-place-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/04\/17\/japanese-charts-nintendo-labo-vr-constructs-a-second-place-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Charts: Nintendo Labo VR Constructs A Second Place Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c13653a259f3a\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c13653a259f3a\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Labovr\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c13653a259f3a\/labovr.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c13653a259f3a\/labovr.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Labovr\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Japanese chart figures are now in for 8th &#8211; 14th April, revealing that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/nintendo_labo_toy-con_04_vr_kit\">Nintendo Labo VR<\/a><\/strong> has managed to enter the charts in second place in its opening week.<\/p>\n<p>The game managed to sell more units that this week&#8217;s other big Switch release, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/final_fantasy_x_x-2_hd_remaster\">Final Fantasy X\/X-2 HD Remaster<\/a><\/strong>, with Famitsu&#8217;s estimates reporting a total of 26,634 sales. This debut puts it ahead of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/nintendo_labo_toy-con_03_vehicle_kit\"><strong>Nintendo Labo: Vehicle Kit<\/strong><\/a>&#8216;s opening week sales, but still significantly behind the sales experienced by the first two Labo kits.<\/p>\n<p>It was <strong>Earth Defense Force: Iron Rain<\/strong> which managed to take the top spot, though, with an estimated 55,573 sales. Labo VR released a day later than both Earth Defense Force and Final Fantasy, potentially causing the VR kit&#8217;s sales to look a little weaker than they might have done.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the top 10 (first numbers are this week&#8217;s sales, followed by total sales):<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>1) [PS4] Earth Defense Force: Iron Rain (D3Publisher) {2019.04.11} &#8211; 55.573 \/ NEW<br \/>2) [NSW] Nintendo Labo Toy-Con 04: VR Kit (Nintendo) {2019.04.12} &#8211; 26.634 \/ NEW<br \/>3) [NSW] Final Fantasy X\/X-2 HD Remaster (Square Enix) {2019.04.11} &#8211; 16.839 \/ NEW<br \/>4) [NSW] <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_dragon_ball_heroes_world_mission\">Super Dragon Ball Heroes: World Mission<\/a><\/strong> (Bandai Namco Games) {2019.04.04} &#8211; 14.132 \/ 85.122<br \/>5) [NSW] <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/yoshis_crafted_world\">Yoshi&#8217;s Crafted World<\/a><\/strong> (Nintendo) {2019.03.29} &#8211; 13.197 \/ 91.672<br \/>6) [NSW] <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_smash_bros_ultimate\">Super Smash Bros. Ultimate<\/a><\/strong> (Nintendo) {2018.12.07} &#8211; 11.346 \/ 3.018.497<br \/>7) [PS4] <strong>Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice<\/strong> (From Software) {2019.03.22} &#8211; 11.034 \/ 223.995<br \/>8) [NSW] <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/minecraft\">Minecraft<\/a><\/strong> (Microsoft Game Studios) {2018.06.21} &#8211; 9.123 \/ 728.968<br \/>9) [NSW] <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/new_super_mario_bros_u_deluxe\">New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe<\/a><\/strong> (Nintendo) {2019.01.11} &#8211; 8.447 \/ 568.545<br \/>10) [NSW] <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_kart_8_deluxe\">Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/a><\/strong> (Nintendo) {2017.04.28} &#8211; 7.834 \/ 2.254.250<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>As for hardware, Switch is still sitting at the top of the chart, selling an estimated 54,101 units this week. Here are this week&#8217;s figures, followed by last week&#8217;s in brackets:<\/p>\n<p>1) Switch \u2013 54,101 (46,850)<br \/>2) PlayStation 4 \u2013 6,662 (8,347)<br \/>3) PlayStation 4 Pro \u2013 5,131 (5,507)<br \/>4) New 2DS LL \u2013 2,676 (3,469)<br \/>5) New 3DS \u2013 664 (919)<br \/>6) PlayStation Vita \u2013 575 (482)<br \/>7) Xbox One X \u2013 47 (60)<br \/>8) Xbox One S \u2013 19 (33)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/04\/japanese_charts_yoshis_crafted_world_secures_another_number_one\">&lt; Last week&#8217;s charts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Any surprises this week? Did you expect Labo VR to reach number two? Let us know in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese chart figures are now in for 8th &#8211; 14th April, revealing that Nintendo Labo VR has managed to enter the charts in second place in its opening week. The game managed to sell more units that this week&#8217;s other big Switch release, Final Fantasy X\/X-2 HD Remaster, with Famitsu&#8217;s estimates reporting a total of [&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-92145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92145","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=92145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}