Japanese graphics: Switch Games make up the top 20

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Animal Crossing Switch New Horizons© Nintendo Life

Update: Now more graphics data from last week has arrived in Japan, showing that the Nintendo Switch managed to claim all the top 20 places on the software lists. In fact, Switch games account for 28 of all the top 30, with only two PS4 titles ruining Nintendo’s party.

An updated chart can be found below.

Original article (Thursday, January 21, 2021 at 13:35 GMT): Famitsu’s Japanese chart figures are now available for the week ending January 17, revealing that the top ten have been completely filled by Nintendo Switch titles once again.

Momotaro Dentetsu it’s still at the top of the stack in what becomes an increasingly familiar list; Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Ring Fit Adventure also remain in second and third place respectively, while other heavyweight Nintendo players do business elsewhere. This is the fourth week in a row that Nintendo Switch games have reached the top ten.

Here are the top 30 (first figures are this week’s estimated sales, followed by total sales):

  1. [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! (Konami, 19/11/20) – 107,064 (1,617,601)
  2. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo, 20/03/20) – 36,009 (6,553,618)
  3. [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure (Nintendo, 10/18/19): 35,397 (2,237,398)
  4. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 28/04/17): 26,636 (3,601,699)
  5. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 12/07/18) – 17,099 (4,109,327)
  6. [NSW] Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics (Nintendo, 05/06/20) – 15,295 (601,384)
  7. [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 21/06/18): 14,430 (1,774,814)
  8. [NSW] Splatoon 2 (Nintendo, 07/21/17) – 11,640 (3,743,798)
  9. [NSW] Super Mario Party (Nintendo, 10/05/18) – 10,069 (1,797,617)
  10. [NSW] Pokémon Sword and Shield (The Pokemon Company, 11/15/19) – 9,882 (3,929,246)
  11. [NSW] Pikmin 3 Deluxe (Nintendo, 10/30/20) – 8,283 (521,508)
  12. [NSW] Sakuna: Rice and Ruin (wonderful, 12/12/20) – 7,117 (117,058)
  13. [NSW] Super Mario 3D All-Stars (Nintendo, 18/09/20) – 6,623 (543,257)
  14. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo, 03/03/17) – 6,339 (1,755,290)
  15. [NSW] Pokémon Sword and Shield + No Expansion (The Pokemon Company, 11/15/19) – 6,302 (188,086)
  16. [NSW] Fitness Boxing 2: Rhythm and Exercise (Imagineer, 12/03/20) – 6,175 (56,055)
  17. [NSW] New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe (Nintendo, 01/11/19) – 5,870 (1,019,072)
  18. [NSW] Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity (Koei Tecmo, 20/11/20) – 4,593 (331,047)
  19. [NSW] Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 (Sega, 10/12/20) – 4,453 (81,545)
  20. [NSW] Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age Definitive Edition (new price version) (Square Enix, 12/04/20) – 4,270 (50,841)
  21. [NSW] Family trainer (Bandai Namco, 17/12/20) – 3,937 (35,990)
  22. [NSW] Human Fall Flat (Teyon, Japan, 25/06/20) – 3,530 (105,230)
  23. [NSW] Super Mario Maker 2 (Nintendo, 28/06/19) – 3,394 (1,057,732)
  24. [NSW] Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo, 10/27/17) – 3,253 (2,200,682)
  25. [PS4] Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War (SIE, 13/11/20) – 3,029 (165,304)
  26. [PS4] Sakuna: Rice and Ruin (wonderful, 12/12/20) – 2,809 (71,161)
  27. [NSW] Kawashima’s Brain Training for Nintendo Switch (Nintendo, 12/27/19) – 2,773 (357,813)
  28. [NSW] Ace Angler: Nintendo Switch version (Bandai Namco, 7/25/19) – 2,645 (562,051)
  29. [NSW] Monster Hunter Generations Final “Best Price” (Capcom, 11/15/08) 2,593 (123,316)
  30. [NSW] Luigi’s Mansion 3 (Nintendo, 31/10/19) – 2,545 (740,510)

Things are still working fun for Switch on the hardware front, too, with another strong week for both the original model and the Switch Lite. Below are this week’s figures, followed by lifetime sales in parentheses:

  1. Switch: 142,748 (14,789,817)
  2. Switch Lite: 27,943 (3,200,965)
  3. PlayStation 5 – 6,496 (230,645)
  4. PlayStation 4 – 3,405 (7,743,443)
  5. PlayStation 5: 832 Digital Edition (53,629)
  6. New 2DS LL (including 2DS): 546 (1,152,567)
  7. Xbox Series X – 143 (25,180)
  8. Xbox S Series – 17 (6,647)
  9. PlayStation 4 Pro – 17 (1,575,565)

Any surprises this week? Let us know in the comments.

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