Japan’s sales charts Jan 31 – Feb 6: Arceus still on top

The latest sales data from Japan has been revealed, and it’s no surprise that Pokémon Legends: Arceus remains steadily on top. The latest Pokémon title moved another 359,064 units, reaching a new total of 1,783,721 sales. It’s a tremendous debut for the title, ensuring it will become one of the best-selling Switch games over time.

Switch titles make up 28 of the top 30 games, with Mario Party Superstars, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Super Smash Bros. rounding out the top five.

In hardware, the Nintendo Switch remains the dominant console, moving almost 90,000 units across its three models to take the first three positions.

There’s a lot of love for Nintendo right now, so check out the charts below to see all the details. Are there any games in the list that surprise you? Any that seem to be missing? Let us know all your thoughts on the sales data in the comments section below.

Software sales (followed by lifetime sales)

1. [NSW] Pokemon Legends: Arceus ( Spike Chunsoft [747 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/companies/spike-chunsoft”>Spike Chunsoft, 02/04/22) – 24,160 (New)
2. [NSW]  Nintendo [15,873 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/platforms/nintendo”>Nintendo, 10/29/21) – 17,503 (850,695)
3. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 13,908 (4,414,111)
4. [NSW]  Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl [18 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/games/pokemon-brilliant-diamond-shining-pearl”>Pokemon Brilliant Diamond / Shining Pearl (The Pokemon Company, 11/19/21) – 11,661 (2,494,763)
5. [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 9,090 (2,505,168)
6. [NSW]  Adventure [173 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/genres/adventure”>Adventure (Nintendo, 10/18/19) – 7,286 (3,067,125)
7. [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! ( Big Brain Academy: Brain vs. Brain [5 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/games/big-brain-academy-brain-vs-brain”>Big Brain Academy: Brain vs. Brain (Nintendo, 12/03/21) – 5,235 (242,784)
8. [NSW] Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury (Nintendo, 02/12/21) – 4,442 (1,014,439)
9. [NSW]  Splatoon” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/games/splatoon”>Splatoon 2 (Nintendo, 07/21/17) – 4,018 (4,027,147)
10. [NSW] New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe (Nintendo, 01/11/19) – 3,183 (1,155,810)
11. [NSW]  Capcom [2,281 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/companies/capcom”>Capcom, 12/16/21) – 2,943 (20,478)
12. [NSW] The Battle Cats Unite! (Ponos, 12/03/20) – 2,339 (120,382)
13. [NSW]  Rockstar Games [443 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/companies/rockstar-games”>Rockstar Games, 01/27/22) – 2,334 (8,080)
14. [NSW]  Square Enix [4,847 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/companies/square-enix”>Square Enix, 12/04/20) – 2,307 (184,971)
15. [NSW] Human Fall Flat ( Bandai Namco Entertainment [6,078 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/companies/bandai-namco-entertainment”>Bandai Namco, 07/19/18) – 2,080 (694,149)
16. [NSW]  Nippon Ichi Software [862 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/companies/nippon-ichi-software”>Nippon Ichi Software, 01/27/22) – 2,004 (8,282)
17. [NSW] Super Mario  Electronic Arts [1,651 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/companies/electronic-arts”>Electronic Arts, 10/01/21) – 1,621 (66,415)
18. [NSW] Fitness Boxing 2:  Xbox Series [1,824 articles]” href=”https://www.gematsu.com/platforms/xbox/xbox-series”>Xbox Series S – 2,919 (61,970)
19. PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 1,788 (210,536)
20. New 2DS LL (including 2DS) – 264 (1,181,570)
21. PlayStation 4 – 8 (7,819,310)

Source: Gematsu

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