Japanese Charts: Switch Continues To Dominate In A Largely Unchanged Lineup

Famitsu’s Japanese chart figures are now in for the week ending 23rd January, revealing that Mario Party Superstars is still leading the pack.

With another 20,340 physical sales under its belt, Mario’s latest hit has managed to fend off Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl for another week. Pokémon remains in second place, with Super Smash Bros. Ultimate holding onto third.

In fact, the entire top ten is almost identical to last week’s chart, with just a minor place swap taking place towards the bottom end.

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

1. [NSW] Mario Party Superstars (Nintendo, 10/29/21) – 20,340 (814,023)
2. [NSW] Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl (The Pokémon Company, 11/19/21) – 13,696 (2,468,151)
3. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 12/07/18) – 13,347 (4,726,811)
4. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 13,340 (4,387,139)
5. [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 9,892 (2,485,415)
6. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo, 03/20/20) – 9,257 (7,158,271)
7. [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure (Nintendo, 10/18/19) – 7,668 (3,052,106)
8. [NSW] Big Brain Academy: Brain vs. Brain (Nintendo, 12/03/21) – 6,994 (230,422)
9. [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! (Konami, 11/19/20) – 6,948 (2,577,427)
10. [NSW] Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics (Nintendo, 06/05/20) – 5,301 (911,313)

The Switch continues to dominate the hardware charts, too, although Sony and Microsoft’s next-gen machines are still experiencing stock issues, as they have since launch. Here are this week’s figures, followed by lifetime sales in brackets:

1. Switch OLED Model – 36,534 (1,030,341)
2. Switch – 27,609 (17,894,965)
3. PlayStation 5 – 15,729 (1,106,719)
4. Switch Lite – 13,076 (4,510,554)
5. PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 3,128 (207,280)
6. Xbox Series X – 1,620 (75,885)
7. Xbox Series S – 1,007 (58,453)
8. New 2DS LL (including 2DS) – 325 (1,181,039)
9. PlayStation 4 – 14 (7,819,291)

< Last week’s charts

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