Japanese Charts: Pokémon Diamond And Pearl Remakes Stay Top, Big Brain Academy Lands In Top Three

Famitsu’s Japanese chart figures are now in for the week ending 5th December, revealing that Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl have remained on top for a third consecutive week.

The two games sold another 164,580 physical copies combined in Japan last week, taking their total physical sales count to just over 1.9 million. After two weeks on the market, the titles were actually outpacing the sales set by Sword and Shield back in 2019, but as their third week comes to an end, Sword and Shield’s three-week sales total of 2,023,043 leaves the Diamond and Pearl remakes playing catch up.

Elsewhere, Big Brain Academy: Brain vs. Brain is the highest-charting new release of the week, landing in third place. It finds itself in a top ten made up entirely of Switch games – not a bad week for Nintendo, then.

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

1. [NSW] Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl (The Pokémon Company, 11/19/21) – 164,580 (1,915,268)
2. [NSW] Mario Party Superstars (Nintendo, 10/29/21) – 40,668 (405,177)
3. [NSW] Big Brain Academy: Brain vs. Brain (Nintendo, 12/03/21) – 36,928 (New)
4. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo, 03/20/20) – 18,640 (6,987,075)
5. [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 18,308 (2,309,889)
6. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 16,160 (4,169,449)
7. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 12/07/18) – 14,728 (4,532,477)
8. [NSW] Disney Magical World 2: Enchanted Edition (Bandai Namco, 12/02/21) – 13,348 (New)
9. [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure (Nintendo, 10/18/19) – 9,387 (2,942,720)
10. [NSW] Pokémon Sword and Shield (The Pokémon Company, 11/15/19) – 8,998 (4,215,022)

The Switch has once again locked out the top three places in the hardware charts, too, with the OLED model coming out on top. Here are this week’s figures, followed by lifetime sales in brackets:

1. Switch OLED Model – 99,195 (492,172)
2. Switch – 53,752 (17,575,223)
3. Switch Lite – 49,990 (4,284,885)
4. PlayStation 5 – 1,814 (997,605)
5. Xbox Series S – 454 (52,870)
6. New 2DS LL (including 2DS) – 423 (1,178,253)
7. PlayStation 4 – 116 (7,819,013)
8. PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 105 (19,546)
9. Xbox Series X – 104 (70,548)

< Last week’s charts

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