Japan Charts: Baseball Takes Crown in a Turbulent Event
Latest Famitsu Magazine The charts are in and as expected, it was another strong week for the Switch, with just Strong Professional Baseball 2024-2025 represents a competitive gaming console in the top ten software.
This week there are also two new arrivals, with One Piece Adventure entered the rankings in second place – not to be taken lightly – while Heroic Legend: Trail Through Dawn II almost reached ninth place.
Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD saw another slight decline, as did the recent release Nintendo World Championship: NES Versionboth bowed before the infinite power of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.
For details, check out this week’s top ten:
Hardware is down a bit this week, but nothing to worry about. The OLED Switch is once again at the top, followed not too closely by the PlayStation 5. Total Switch sales across all three SKUs were 57,133, while the PS5 and PS5 Digital Edition combined for 25,795; quite a gap indeed.
Here’s the full Japanese hardware rankings for this week.
| Position | Dashboard | Unit Sales (July 15-21) | Total units sold |
|---|---|---|---|
| first | Conversion – OLED Model | 37,273 | 7,606,893 |
| 2 | PlayStation 5 | 20,232 | 5,506,091 |
| 3 | Lite Converter | 11,836 | 5,956,502 |
| 4 | Switch | 8,024 | 19,842,970 |
| 5 | PlayStation 5 – Digital Edition | 5,563 | 823,350 |
| 6 | Xbox Series X | 5,294 | 296,585 |
| 7 | Xbox Series S | 387 | 317,036 |
| 8 | Playstation 4 | 93 | 7,928,134 |
