{"id":93929,"date":"2019-05-22T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/05\/japanese_charts_nintendo_switch_games_take_up_eight_of_the_top_ten_spots"},"modified":"2019-05-22T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T17:30:00","slug":"japanese-charts-nintendo-switch-games-take-up-eight-of-the-top-ten-spots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/05\/22\/japanese-charts-nintendo-switch-games-take-up-eight-of-the-top-ten-spots\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Charts: Nintendo Switch Games Take Up Eight Of The Top Ten Spots"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Famitsu’s Japanese chart figures are now in for 13th May – 19th May, revealing that eight out of this week’s top ten games are on Nintendo Switch.<\/p>\n

It’s a familiar story as a new PS4 game enters the chart at number one this week, followed by a Switch-heavy list full of Nintendo-published titles. The game to secure number one this time around is Ys: Memories of Celceta – Kai,<\/strong> which managed an estimated 13,895 sales this week.<\/p>\n

Here are the top 10 (first numbers are this week’s sales, followed by total sales):<\/p>\n

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1) [PS4] Ys: Memories of Celceta – Kai (Nihon Falcom) {2019.05.16} – 13.895 \/ NEW
2) [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate<\/a><\/strong> (Nintendo) {2018.12.07) – 8.507 \/ 3.085.499
3) [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/a><\/strong> (Nintendo) {2017.04.28} – 7.258 \/ 2.302.993
4) [NSW] Minecraft<\/a><\/strong> (Microsoft Game Studios) {2018.06.21} – 6.954 \/ 783.332
5) [PS4] Days Gone<\/strong> (Sony Interactive Entertainment) {2019.04.26} – 6.276 \/ 166.459
6) [NSW] Pok\u00e9mon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! \/ Let’s Go, Eevee!<\/strong><\/a> (Pok\u00e9mon Co.) {2018.11.16} – 5.991 \/ 1.530.747
7) [NSW] New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe<\/strong><\/a> (Nintendo) {2019.01.11} – 5.087 \/ 616.477
8) [NSW] Splatoon 2<\/a><\/strong> (Nintendo) {2017.07.21} – 4.524 \/ 3.067.711
9) [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild<\/a><\/strong> (Nintendo) {2017.03.03} – 4.518 \/ 1.319.464
10) [NSW] Yoshi’s Crafted World<\/a><\/strong> (Nintendo) {2019.03.29} – 4.068 \/ 134.812<\/p>\n

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On the hardware side of things, Switch remains at the top of the pile, albeit with a slightly lower sales tally than usual. Here are this week’s figures, followed by last week’s in brackets:<\/p>\n

1) Switch \u2013 32,564 (41,736)
2) PlayStation 4 \u2013 5,572 (8,823)
3) PlayStation 4 Pro \u2013 3,988 (6,179)
4) New 2DS \u2013 2,160 (4,420)
5) New 3DS \u2013 369 (756)
6) PlayStation Vita \u2013 290 (544)
7) Xbox One X \u2013 60 (98)
8) Xbox One S \u2013 52 (93)<\/p>\n

< Last week’s charts (actually 29th April – 5th May)<\/a><\/p>\n

Any surprises this week? Let us know in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Famitsu’s Japanese chart figures are now in for 13th May – 19th May, revealing that eight out of this week’s top ten games are on Nintendo Switch. It’s a familiar story as a new PS4 game enters the chart at number one this week, followed by a Switch-heavy list full of Nintendo-published titles. The game […]<\/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-93929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93929","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=93929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}