It’s that time of the week again, and Media Create released its charts painting the portrait of the Japanese market between Dec. 10 and Dec 16.
Below you can check out the top-twenty software chart. As usual, the second number for each game represents lifetime sales.
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – Switch – 406,617/1,627,152
- God Eater 3 – PS4 – 150,523/New
- Judgment – PS4 – 148,246/New
- Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Pokemon: Let’s Go, Eevee! – Switch – 108,773/1,121,020
- Super Mario Party – Switch – 97,529/587,295
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – Switch – 29,422/1,911,174
- Minecraft – Switch – 27,625/431,410
- Splatoon 2 – Switch – 27,035/2,767,712
- Super Mario Odyssey – Switch – 14,417/1,880,842
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – Switch – 13,670/1,195,951
- Kirby Star Allies – Switch – 12,027/670,296
- Peach Ball: Senran Kagura – Switch – 10,321/New
- Luigi’s Mansion – 3DS – 9,575/64,375
- Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum ‘n’ Fun! – Switch – 8,063/244,283
- Battlefield V – PS4 – 6,846/148,170
- Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon – 3DS – 6,665/1,780,187
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 – PS4 – 6,536/492,033
- Nintendo Labo – Toy-Con 3: Vehicle Kit – Switch – 5,938/49,389
- Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker – Switch – 5,640/154,936
- Mario Tennis Aces – Switch – 5,318/381,800
Now, take a look at the hardware chart.
- Switch: 281,213
- PS4: 62,580
- PS4 Pro: 19,014
- New 2DS XL: 14,510
- New 3DS XL: 5,132
- PS Vita: 2,647
- Xbox One X: 847
- 2DS: 395
- Xbox One: 204
The Switch is continuing to sell extremely well as the Holiday Shopping Battle (as analysts like to call it in Japan) enters its most active period, even if sales are essentially flat compared to the prior week according to Media Create’s report.
For a console past its prime, the PS4 managed to sell very solid quantities, actually growing week-on-week thanks to two new releases, God Eater 3 and Judgement, that manage to move roughly 150,000 units left and to push Pokemon Let’s Go down in fourth place.
Of course, that’s not nearly enough to beat the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate behemoth to the top, as Nintendo’s crossover game manages to fly past 1.5 million units sold-through to customers.
With the Switch well past six million units sold in Japan, it’s now just a little more than a million sales shy of the PS4 on the local market. It’ll be interesting to see Media Create’s total when the Holiday smoke clears in January.
