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Japan Leaderboard: Switch enjoys bumper week thanks to Pokémon Legends: Arceus
Nearly 100,000 consoles have been sold.
Appearance Pokémon Legend: Arceus had a predictable positive effect on the Switch’s fortunes in its home country last week.
From January 24 to January 30, Arceus sold 1,424,657 copiesa great contribution to the amazing 6.5 million units It has been sold so far all over the world. The hit helped the Switch family ship nearly 100,000 hardware units in Japan in the same time frame – a modest increase from the 77,219 consoles sold in the last week.
As usual recently, the entire top ten is made up of Nintendo Switch software (first number is estimated sales for this week, followed by total sales):
- Pokemon Legend: Arceus (Pokemon Company, 28/01/22) – 1,424,657 (New)
- Mario Party Superstars (Nintendo, 10/29/21) – 19,169 (833,192)
- Pokemon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl (Pokemon Company, 11/19/21) – 14,951 (2,483,102)
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 4/28/17) – 13,064 (4,400,203)
- Super Smash Bros. (Nintendo, 12/07/18) – 12,986 (4,739,797)
- Minecraft (Microsoft, 6/21/18) – 10,663 (2,496,078)
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo, 3/20/20) – 8,695 (7,166,966)
- Ring Fit Adventure (Nintendo, October 18, 19) – 7,733 (3,059,839)
- Big Brain Academy: Brain vs. Brain (Nintendo, 12/03/21) – 7,127 (2,307,549)
- Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! (Konami, 11/19/20) – 6,749 (2,5814,176)
Here are this week’s hardware numbers for Japan, followed by lifetime sales in parentheses:
- OLED Model Conversion – 46,947 (1,077,288)
- Conversion – 32,331 (17,927,296)
- Switch Lite – 19,800 (4,530,354)
- PlayStation 5 – 21,871 (1,128,590)
- PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 1,468 (208,748)
- Xbox Series X – 1,098 (76,983)
- Xbox Series S – 598 (59,051)
- New 2DS LL (2DS included) – 267 (1,181,306)
- PlayStation 4 – 11 (7,819,302)
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