
Update: Hardware sales (from Famitsu) have now been added to the bottom of the article.
Original article: After a slight delay, Famitsu (via Gematsu) has published the week's estimated physical game charts for Japan and things are looking a little different this time around.
Yes, after dominating the competition for weeks on end, Super Mario Bros. Wonder has dropped down to third this week (only just), with another 16,654 copies sold. This puts it just one place above Nintendo's first published title of 2024, Another Code: Recollection, which makes its chart debut in fourth with 15,741 sales.
It's Marvel's Spider-Man 2 that has swung back into first place this time and as the only non-Switch title in the top ten, that's not bad going. Momotaro Dentetsu World: Chikyuu wa Kibou de Mawatteru! — a Japanese release not too dissimilar from The Game of Life — takes silver once again, with another 16,733 units sold.
Here's your look at this week's top ten in full:
- [PS5] Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 (SIE, 10/20/23) – 30,220 (243,612)
- [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu World: Chikyuu wa Kibou de Mawatteru! (Konami, 11/16/23) – 16,733 (936,936)
- [NSW] Super Mario Bros. Wonder (Nintendo, 10/20/23) – 16,654 (1,687,342)
- [NSW] Another Code: Recollection (Nintendo, 01/19/24) – 15,741 (New)
- [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 8,267 (5,680,781)
- [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo, 03/20/20) – 5,790 (7,673,551)
- [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 5,788 (3,424,744)
- [NSW] Pokemon Scarlet / Pokemon Violet (The Pokemon Company, 11/18/22) – 5,670 (5,278,988)
- [NSW] Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince (Square Enix, 12/01/23) – 5,581 (534,841)
- [NSW] Pikmin 4 (Nintendo, 07/21/23) – 5,438 (1,161,358)
Hardware sales are also in for Japan, and the PS5 is top of the pile here — likely due to some Spider-Man 2 bundles. The standard PS5 shifted 45,971 units, with the Digital Edition shifting a further 11,932, which means Sony has shifted 57,903 PS5s this week.
Nintendo's numbers aren't too shabby either, with the Switch OLED being the second best-seller of the week, selling 30,942 units. Add in the Lite and standard model sales and the Switch shifted 43,692 units in total. The Xbox Series model managed to shift just under 2,000 units, while 16 New 2DS LL models sold this week. Keep on keeping on, little guy!
- PlayStation 5– 45,971(4,406,378)
- Switch OLED Model – 30,942(6,562,165)
- PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 11,932(694,014)
- Switch Lite – 8,505(5,712,770)
- Switch – 4,245(19,706,568)
- Xbox Series X – 1,428(247,323)
- PS4 – 620(7,917,255)
- Xbox Series S – 460(296,533)
- New 2DS LL – 16(1,192,786
What do you make of this week's Japanese charts? Let us know in the comments.
[source famitsu.com, via gematsu.com]
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Finished Spidey 2 last week after getting it for Christmas. 35 hours to do everything. Very much a "one and done" game but I enjoyed it a lot. Been playing Mario Wonder alongside it which I'm also enjoying a lot.
Unsurprisingly Another Code started much better in Japan but still, love to see it!
Surprising to see Spider-Man 2 on top, but happy for it and glad that Wonder is at least in 3rd, not 2nd because Momotaro Dentetsu is back to being ahead of it if slightly so.
It's not bad, but the crisis in gaming is real.
Glad Another Code has at least one market it's doing decently in. Feel like Nintendo's really failed with advertising it, and is probably charging too much to boot, though admittedly doing a remake of the less well known, less regarded of the Cing games first was kind of their first mistake. Enjoying it in either case but wish it looked more likely to lead to Hotel Dusk being remade or a sequel or something.
As for Spider-Man 2, eh, it's good. I kind of have a lot of issues with its story and I don't think gameplay-wise there's really much of anything it does better than the first game other than the somewhat improved enemy variety, but it's still fun.
@Serpenterror Usually Famitsu publish the top 10 and hardware on Thursday and then the top 30 on Friday. This time they just skipped the former and just published the top 30 software. Their website seems to have had technical issues yesterday.
@Princess_Lilly How so?
@imadeanaccount biggest release of January didn't do well, could be that people are less and less interested in gaming after the end of lockdowns
I think some people tend to grossly overestimate how well the average game sells over its lifetime.
Even half a million in lifetime sales for Another Code would be a great success considering the modest sales figures of past games, and there's also the fact that these charts are for physical releases only, and this game can continue to sell long after the physical release is out of print (a luxury that past games didn't have).
I doubt that the data at VGChartz is completely reliable, but the DS game appeared to have only sold 300,000 copies internationally, while the Wii sequel (released in fewer markets) sold about 60,000 (yikes!).
@Princess_Lilly : If you're referring to Another Code, it was never January's "biggest release". If anything, the "biggest release" on Switch this January is easily the new Prince of Persia, which doesn't appear to be terribly popular in Japan.
Good enough numbers for Another Code, I hope. The Series isn't exactly big, doubt Nintendo expected it to sell hundreds of thousands on week one. Hope it keeps on selling. I'll get it one day, I liked the first game on DS.
@Princess_Lilly Uh, Tekken 8 releases today January 26th. Calling Another Code, a niche franchise, the biggest release of the month is... inaccurate at best.
The Another Code / Trace Memory series is niche, no one expected it to make massive numbers.
@SmileMan64 Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth is likely going to sell more than Tekken 8 in Japan.
Web head for the gold! 🕸️
P.S. Like to think of him like a young Batman depending on the time frame. 😉
Ashley for Smash!
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