Japanese sales charts Jan 17 – Jan 23: Nintendo Switch dominates

Nintendo has kicked off the year with strong sales in Japan, dominating the physical-release charts with Nintendo Switch games and consoles.

The latest data from Famitsu shows that Mario Party Superstars was the highest-selling game for this period, with over 20,000 titles sold to bring its lifetime total to 814,023. Can it surpass Super Mario Party, which came in at number 28 this week? This 2018 title moved over 1000 units itself to contribute to lifetime sales of 2,054,912.

Pokémon features prominently, too, with Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl coming in second place with 13,696 sales. It will be interesting to see how Pokémon Legends: Arceus fares in the next round of data.

In terms of consoles, the OLED model is the Switch of choice in Japan, selling the most units during this period. The regular ol’ Switch follows, with the Lite in third place, and all three topped the console charts overall.

Check out the full list of sales data from Japan below. Which games surprised you the most this week?

Software Sales (followed by lifetime sales)

1. [NSW]  Nintendo [15,781 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/platforms/nintendo”>Nintendo, 10/29/21) – 20,340 (814,023)
2. [NSW] Pokémon The Pokemon Company [359 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/companies/the-pokemon-company”>The Pokémon Company, 11/19/21) – 13,696 (2,468,151)
3. [NSW]  Animal Crossing: New Horizons [39 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/games/animal-crossing-new-horizons”>Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo, 03/20/20) – 9,257 (7,158,271)
4. [NSW] Ring Fit  Big Brain Academy: Brain vs. Brain [4 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/games/big-brain-academy-brain-vs-brain”>Big Brain Academy: Brain vs. Brain (Nintendo, 12/03/21) – 6,994 (230,422)
5. [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! ( Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Extraction [10 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/games/tom-clancys-rainbow-six-extraction”>Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Extraction ( Splatoon” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/games/splatoon”>Splatoon 2 (Nintendo, 07/21/17) – 3,706 (4,018,837)
6. [NSW] Dying Light: Platinum Edition ( Dragon Quest [12 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/series/dragon-quest”>Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age – Definitive Edition (New Price Version) ( Bandai Namco Entertainment [6,074 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/companies/bandai-namco-entertainment”>Bandai Namco, 07/19/18) – 2,139 (63,909)
7. [NSW] Splatoon 2 + Octo Expansion (Nintendo, 10/08/21) – 2,139 (63,909)
8. [NSW] Human Fall Flat ( Rhythm [20 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/genres/rhythm”>Rhythm & Exercise (Imagineer, 12/03/20) – 1,796 (178,649)
9. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild + Expansion Pass (Nintendo, 10/08/21) – 1,701 (59,125)
10. [NSW] Kirby: Star Allies (Nintendo, 03/16/18) – 1,559 (959,632)
11. [NSW] Super Mario  Disney Magical World 2: Enchanted Edition [3 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/games/disney-magical-world-2-enchanted-edition”>Disney Magical World 2: Enchanted Edition (Bandai Namco, 12/02/21) – 1,533 (53,740)
12. [NSW] Luigi’s Mansion 3 (Nintendo, 10/31/19) – 1,503 (825,376)

Hardware Sales (followed by lifetime sales)

1. Switch OLED Model – 36,534 (1,030,341)
2. Switch – 27,609 (17,894,965)
3. Switch Lite – 13,076 (4,510,554)
4. PlayStation 5 – 15,729 (1,106,719)
5. PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 3,128 (207,280)
6. Gematsu

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