Japanese Charts: Super Mario RPG Slips Into Third As Wonder Jumps Forward

The newest Japanese charts are in courtesy of Famitsu (through Gematsu) and it has been yet one more robust week for Switch, with 9 out of the highest ten coming from Nintendo’s hybrid console.

Super Mario Bros. Wonder and Super Mario RPG proceed to be large hitters, touchdown in second and third place this time round with one other 62,896 and 54,321 copies bought respectively. It is final week’s champion as soon as once more takes the highest spot, nevertheless, as Momotaro Dentetsu World: Chikyuu wa Kibou de Mawatteru! shifts one other 98,311 copies in its second week.

No new releases creep into the standings this time, leaving an opportunity for WarioWare: Move It! and Pikmin 4 to carry onto areas within the prime 5 (which is greater than may be mentioned for his or her efficiency within the UK).

Let’s take a peek at this week’s prime ten software program gross sales in full, we could?

1. [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu World: Chikyuu wa Kibou de Mawatteru! (Konami, 11/16/23) – 98,311 (413,010)
2. [NSW] Super Mario Bros. Wonder (Nintendo, 10/20/23) – 62,896 (1,088,717)
3. [NSW] Super Mario RPG (Nintendo, 11/17/23) – 54,321 (355,655)
4. [NSW] WarioWare: Move It! (Nintendo, 11/03/23) – 11,271 (64,682)
5. [NSW] Pikmin 4 (Nintendo, 07/21/23) – 10,510 (965,317)
6. [NSW] Hogwarts Legacy (Warner Bros. Games, 11/14/23) – 9,345 (57,062)
7. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 7,058 (5,548,088)
8. [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 6,858 (3,317,981)
9. [PS4] Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name (SEGA, 11/09/23) – 6,253 (77,922)
10. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo, 03/20/20) – 6,070 (7,583,926)

Onto {hardware} now, and Sony’s PS5 as soon as once more comes out on prime with the brand new ‘Slim’ mannequin persevering with to be a well-liked possibility as one other 49,833 items have been snatched up this week. It is a close-fought contest, although, because the Switch OLED simply slips into second with solely 453 gross sales separating it from first place.

Combining the three SKUs for Switch this week nonetheless places the Nintendo console above Sony, thoughts you, with the OLED, Lite and commonplace version combining for 71,684 in comparison with the PS5’s commonplace and Digital Edition mixed complete of 59,235.

Here are the most recent numbers on the {hardware} aspect of issues:

1. PlayStation 5 – 49,833 (4,120,306)
2. Switch OLED Model – 49,380 (6,138,114)
3. Switch Lite – 13,364 (5,596,140)
4. PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 9,402 (632,180)
5. Switch – 8,940 (19,617,062)
6. PlayStation 4 – 2,080 (7,908,755)
7. Xbox Series X – 1,834 (238,997)
8. Xbox Series S – 299 (293,774)
9. New 2DS LL (together with 2DS) – 33 (1,192,660)

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