Japanese Charts: Pokémon Scarlet & Violet Will get Slight Enhance From DLC Launch

It’s time to cowl the weekly Japanese charts as soon as once more. The newest figures from Famitsu (through Gematsu) have are available in, and the Switch is again to filling out all spots within the prime ten.

Pikmin 4 is extremely nonetheless at primary, promoting one other regular 23,489 models within the week of eleventh to seventeenth September. It’s now simply shy of shifting 850,000 bodily copies in Japan alone. Pokémon Scarlet & Violet — a mainstay within the JP charts since its launch final yr — has jumped up a number of locations to 3rd, shifting 9,319 models, seemingly because of the launch of the primary half of the Expansion cross, The Teal Mask.

There are a few newcomers this week, too. The highest-charting new launch is Konami’s Super Bomberman R 2 in second, which was the one different recreation to promote over 10,000 bodily copies this week. Baten Kaitos I & II HD Remaster swoops into fifth with 7,975 models offered, whereas One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 Deluxe Edition (which received a bodily model in Japan this week) charts proper behind it in sixth.

Here’s this week’s prime ten software program gross sales in full:

1. [NSW] Pikmin 4 (Nintendo, 07/21/23) – 23,489 (841,335)
2. [NSW] Super Bomberman R 2 (Konami, 09/14/23) – 11,588 (New)
3. [NSW] Pokémon Scarlet & Violet (The Pokémon Company, 11/18/22) – 9,319 (5,128,233)
4. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 8,844 (5,484,620)
5. [NSW] Baten Kaitos I & II HD Remaster (Bandai Namco, 09/14/23) – 7,975 (New)
6. [NSW] One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 Deluxe Edition (Bandai Namco, 09/14/23) – 6,041 (New)
7. [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 5,981 (3,263,470)
8. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Nintendo, 05/12/23) – 4,899 (1,859,685)
9. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 12/07/18) – 4,581 (5,285,999)
10. [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure (Nintendo, 10/18/19) – 4,277 (3,462,838)

This week’s {hardware} gross sales are mainly the identical as final week’s, with the Switch dominating the competitors once more. The OLED is as soon as once more the best-selling console of the week with 52,998 models shifted, with all three SKUs promoting a complete of 71,578 models — a drop of round 9,000 models from final week. PlayStation 5 gross sales additionally dropped all the way down to 35,865 models (with the Digital Edition dropping to 2,746 models this week). Xbox gross sales too have slipped with the Series X going again beneath 700 models.

Here are the figures in full:

1. Switch OLED Model – 52,998 (5,601,803)
2. PlayStation 5 – 35,865 (3,785,913)
3. Switch – 9,503 (19,543,666)
4. Switch Lite – 9,077 (5,497,333)
5. PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 2,746 (576,341)
6. Xbox Series S – 1,010 (277,697)
7. Xbox Series X – 660 (220,784)
8. PlayStation 4 – 383 (7,896,751)
9. New 2DS LL (together with 2DS) – 21 (1,192,302)

< Last week’s charts

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