Today is Wednesday and like every week, Media Create released its sales charts for the Japanese market, giving us a look at how the Holiday shopping period is pushing consoles and games.

Below you can read the software charts for the period between December 11th and December 17th.

Yo-kai Watch Busters 2: Sword/Magnum – 3DS – 208,540/New
Super Mario Odyssey – Switch – 133, 180/1,082,650
Pokémon Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon – 3DS – 119, 005/1,169,173
Splatoon 2 – Switch – 70, 489/1,530,859
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – Switch – 50,679/945, 232
Earth Defense Force 5 – PS4 – 33, 333/144, 408
Yakuza Kiwami 2 – PS4 – 26,650/158, 581
Kirby Battle Royale – 3DS – 25, 180/72, 528
Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth Hacker’s Memory – PS Vita – 24,636/New
Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth Hacker’s Memory – PS4 – 20,890/New
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – Switch – 19, 469/702, 460
Harvest Moon: Twin Villages – 3DS – 15,612/New
Resident Evil 7 biohazard: Gold Edition – PS4 – 14,787/New
Girls Mode 4 Star Stylist – 3DS – 13,532/84,236
Pokémon Ultra Sun/Pokémon Ultra Moon Double Pack – 3DS – 12, 117/302, 266
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 – Switch – 12,017/129, 426
Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Welcome amiibo – 3DS – 12, 007/318, 524
Pokkén Tournament DX- Switch – 11, 144/150, 782
ARMS- Switch – 10, 714/272, 206
Sumikko Gurashi: Koko, Dokonan Desu? – 3DS – 10,072/92,586

And here is the hardware chart:

Switch – 221, 210
PS4 – 45, 161
New 2DS XL – 31, 653
New 3DS XL – 19, 115
PS4 Pro – 17,804
PS Vita – 9,049
2DS – 4, 324
Xbox One – 2,175
New 3DS – 421
Xbox One X – 132
Wii U – 75
PS3 – 44

The first obvious element is that pent-up demand for the Switch is making sales explode now that Nintendo is managing to put more units on the shelves. Over 220,000 units in a week is a very flattering result, and the console has sold 2,908,416 units in Japan life-to-date. This means that it’ll probably be over three million units this week.

While the Yo-kai Watch Busters 2 topped the software sales, showing once more the popularity of Level-5’s child-friendly IP, exceptional Switch sales pushed the most successful games on the console, including Super Mario Odyssey, Splatoon 2 and Super Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.

Super Mario Odyssey also passed a million units sold in Japan this week, even if Splatoon 2 appears to still be unreachable as the Switch’s best selling game in the country.

Posted: Dec 20, 2017 11:26 pm
Related Forum: Gaming Discussion

Source: https://www.dualshockers.com/nintendo-switch-sells-220000-units-japan-week-according-media-create/