Japanese Charts: Pokémon And Nintendo Switch Dominate The Holiday Period

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Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl

Famitsu’s Japanese chart figures are now in for the two weeks spanning 20th December to 2nd January, revealing that Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl are still performing very strongly indeed at the top of the pile.

The two games sold a further 231,275 retail copies combined in Japan over the holidays, taking their total physical sales count to almost 2.4 million. Once again, they’re followed by a top ten made up exclusively of Nintendo Switch titles, with Mario Party Superstars coming in second place with 206,145 physical sales over the period.

Here are the top ten (first numbers are estimated sales for the last two weeks combined, followed by total sales):

  1. [NSW] Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl (The Pokémon Company, 11/19/21) – 231,275 (2,393,972)
  2. [NSW] Mario Party Superstars (Nintendo, 10/29/21) – 206,145 (725,701)
  3. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 104,540 (4,323,883)
  4. [NSW] Big Brain Academy: Brain vs. Brain (Nintendo, 12/03/21) – 89,970 (191,786)
  5. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 12/07/18) – 83,491 (4,662,764)
  6. [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! (Konami, 11/19/20) – 78,350 (2,542,546)
  7. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo, 03/20/20) – 78,311 (7,116,432)
  8. [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 74,644 (2,440,427)
  9. [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure (Nintendo, 10/18/19) – 46,111 (3,016,499)
  10. [NSW] Pokémon Sword and Shield (The Pokémon Company, 11/15/19) – 35,411 (4,277,522)

Unsurprisingly, given the recent stats regarding the console’s dominance in Japan throughout 2021, the Switch is also leading the hardware charts, with the OLED model selling particularly well over the past couple of weeks. Here are this week’s figures, followed by lifetime sales in brackets:

  1. Switch OLED Model – 190,111 (875,765)
  2. Switch – 116,919 (17,797,974)
  3. Switch Lite – 86,950 (4,451,688)
  4. PlayStation 5 – 62,764 (1,069,179)
  5. PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 9,300 (200,833)
  6. Xbox Series S – 1,688 (55,520)
  7. New 2DS LL (including 2DS) – 670 (1,179,616)
  8. Xbox Series X – 471 (73,661)
  9. PlayStation 4 – 68 (7,819,245)

< Last week’s charts

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