Japanese Charts: Ni no Kuni II Enters The Top Ten, But Switch Hardware Sales Are Down

Famitsu’s Japanese chart figures are now in for the week ending 19th September, revealing that WarioWare: Get It Together! is still Switch’s highest-charting title.

The game sold another 32,131 physical copies in its second week which was almost enough to net it that coveted number one spot; the PS4 version of Tales of Arise just edged it with an extra 1,000 sales this week.

Elsewhere, both BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! and Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom – Prince’s Edition debuted in the top ten, joining a healthy list of popular Switch titles.

Here are the top ten (first numbers are this week’s estimated sales, followed by total sales):

1. [PS4] Tales of Arise (Bandai Namco, 09/09/21) – 33,128 (184,444)
2. [NSW] WarioWare: Get It Together! (Nintendo, 09/10/21) – 32,131 (104,408)
3. [PS4] Neptunia x Senran Kagura: Ninja Wars (Compile Heart, 09/16/21) – 18,789 (New)
4. [NSW] BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! for Nintendo Switch (Broccoli, 09/16/21) – 15,398 (New)
5. [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure (Nintendo, 10/18/19) – 11,784 (2,830,643)
6. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 11,751 (4,051,139)
7. [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 11,107 (2,191,918)
8. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 12/07/18) – 6,987 (4,423,047)
9. [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! (Konami, 11/19/20) – 6,968 (2,374,578)
10. [NSW] Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom – Prince’s Edition (Level-5, 09/16/21) – 6,673 (New)

In the hardware charts, we can see that the Switch has actually had one of the largest weekly declines in sales that we’ve seen in some time – the original model shifted 31,290 units this week, down from last week’s total of 56,177. Here are this week’s figures, followed by lifetime sales in brackets:

1. Switch – 31,290 (17,096,974)
2. PlayStation 5 – 13,289 (875,557)
3. Switch Lite – 8,778 (4,061,754)
4. PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 2,795 (170,158)
5. Xbox Series X – 2,792 (61,343)
6. Xbox Series S – 1,584 (31,023)
7. PlayStation 4 – 747 (7,809,932)
8. New 2DS LL (including 2DS) – 643 (1,173,483)

< Last week’s charts

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