Nintendo Switch Sells Over 220,000 Units in Japan in a Week According to Media Create

Nintendo Switch Sells Over 220,000 Units in Japan in a Week According to Media Create

Giuseppe Nelva December 20, 2017 5:11 PM EST

The Nintendo Switch and its top games sell like bowls of hot ramen and baked sweet potatoes combined in the Japanese winter season.

Today is Wednesday and like every week, Media Create released its sales charts for the Japanese market, giving us a look at how the Holiday shopping period is pushing consoles and games.

Below you can read the software charts for the period between December 11th and December 17th.

Yo-kai Watch Busters 2: Sword/Magnum – 3DS – 208,540/New Super Mario Odyssey – Switch – 133, 180/1,082,650 Pokémon Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon – 3DS – 119, 005/1,169,173 Splatoon 2 – Switch – 70, 489/1,530,859 Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – Switch – 50,679/945, 232 Earth Defense Force 5 – PS4 – 33, 333/144, 408 Yakuza Kiwami 2 – PS4 – 26,650/158, 581 Kirby Battle Royale – 3DS – 25, 180/72, 528 Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth Hacker’s Memory – PS Vita – 24,636/New Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth Hacker’s Memory – PS4 – 20,890/New The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – Switch – 19, 469/702, 460 Harvest Moon: Twin Villages – 3DS – 15,612/New Resident Evil 7 biohazard: Gold Edition – PS4 – 14,787/New Girls Mode 4 Star Stylist – 3DS – 13,532/84,236 Pokémon Ultra Sun/Pokémon Ultra Moon Double Pack – 3DS – 12, 117/302, 266 Xenoblade Chronicles 2 – Switch – 12,017/129, 426 Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Welcome amiibo – 3DS – 12, 007/318, 524 Pokkén Tournament DX- Switch – 11, 144/150, 782 ARMS- Switch – 10, 714/272, 206 Sumikko Gurashi: Koko, Dokonan Desu? – 3DS – 10,072/92,586

And here is the hardware chart:

Switch – 221, 210 PS4 – 45, 161 New 2DS XL – 31, 653 New 3DS XL – 19, 115 PS4 Pro – 17,804 PS Vita – 9,049 2DS – 4, 324 Xbox One – 2,175 New 3DS – 421 Xbox One X – 132 Wii U – 75 PS3 – 44

The first obvious element is that pent-up demand for the Switch is making sales explode now that Nintendo is managing to put more units on the shelves. Over 220,000 units in a week is a very flattering result, and the console has sold 2,908,416 units in Japan life-to-date. This means that it’ll probably be over three million units this week.

While the Yo-kai Watch Busters 2 topped the software sales, showing once more the popularity of Level-5’s child-friendly IP, exceptional Switch sales pushed the most successful games on the console, including Super Mario Odyssey, Splatoon 2 and Super Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.

Super Mario Odyssey also passed a million units sold in Japan this week, even if Splatoon 2 appears to still be unreachable as the Switch’s best selling game in the country.

The one Nintendo Switch game that appears to have run out of steam early is Xenoblade Chronicles 2, that is doing a bit better than its predecessor, but is close to dropping out of the chart only three weeks after its release. For some reason, it seems that Monolith Soft’s excellent games haven’t yet found as much purchase among Nintendo’s fanbase in Japan as those created by other first party studios.