Japanese Charts: Nintendo Switch And Pokémon Diamond And Pearl Remakes Continue To Dominate

Famitsu’s Japanese chart figures are now in for the week ending 12th December, revealing that Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl have remained on top for a fourth consecutive week, in the process passing two million physical copy sales.

It was a quiet week overall with no new releases in the top 10, but once again it’s a Switch lockout. Nintendo’s system and games are enjoying a dominant period at present, and it’s worth noting that this isn’t necessarily the peak shopping season yet in Japan – that’ll come in January.

Here are the top ten games (first numbers are this week’s estimated sales, followed by total sales):

1. [NSW] Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl (The Pokémon Company, 11/19/21) – 130,772 (2,046,040)
2. [NSW] Mario Party Superstars (Nintendo, 10/29/21) – 53,824 (459,001)
3. [NSW] Big Brain Academy: Brain vs. Brain (Nintendo, 12/03/21) – 33,092 (70,020)
4. [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 26,256 (2,336,145)
5. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo, 03/20/20) – 23,786 (7,010,861)
6. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 21,819 (4,191,268)
7. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 12/07/18) – 20,364 (4,552,841)
8. [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! (Konami, 11/19/20) – 14,709 (2,448,283)
9. [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure (Nintendo, 10/18/19) – 13,765 (2,956,485)
10. [NSW] Pokémon Sword and Shield (The Pokémon Company, 11/15/19) – 12,825 (4,227,847)

The Switch continues to dominate in terms of hardware as well; that said the low number of PlayStation 5 sales in particular is likely due to increasingly strained supplies. Here are this week’s figures, followed by lifetime sales in brackets:

1. Switch OLED Model – 90,076 (582,248)
2. Switch – 59,460 (17,634,683)
3. Switch Lite – 42,799 (4,327,684)
4. PlayStation 5 – 1,020 (998,625)
5. Xbox Series X – 450 (70,908)
6. New 2DS LL (including 2DS) – 391 (1,178,644)
7. Xbox Series S – 355 (53,225)
8. PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 113 (190,659)
9. PlayStation 4 – 103 (7,819,116)

< Last week’s charts

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