Japanese Sales Chart: Pokémon Still a Big Deal, Hatsune Miku Debuts

Nobody could top pocket monsters off the top of the Japanese sales chart. In its second week of sales, Pokémon Ultra Sun and Moon managed to sell over 160,000 units. That’s an incredible number, and shows the staying power of Nintendo’s role-playing game series (especially since this was more of a tweaked release rather than an all-new title).

In hardware sales, the Nintendo Switch once again managed to top the charts by an incredible margin. It outsold the second best selling console (the PlayStation 4) by over 100,000 units.

As far as new PS4 releases go, Hatsune Miku: Project Diva Future Tone DX wound up coming in third with just under 35,000 units sold. Meanwhile, a new edition of Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 came in at 16, and Wolfenstein II managed to chart, although the latter only sold 3,555 copies.

According to Media Create, here’s the 20 best-selling retail games (new releases are denoted via bold text), along with how each system sold in Japan from November 20 to November 26, 2017:

Games (Lifetime)

1. Pokemon Ultra Sun / Ultra Moon (3DS) – 168,978 (836,417)
2. Super Mario Odyssey (NS) – 77,751 (792,059)
3. Hatsune Miku: Project Diva Future Tone DX (Limited Edition Included) (PS4) – 34,896
4. Splatoon 2 (NS) – 30,275 (1,373,530)
5. Call of Duty: WWII (PS4) – 21,512 (290,995)
6. Pokemon Ultra Sun / Ultra Moon Double Pack (3DS) – 20,297 (268,080)
7. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (NS) – 18,846 (837,850)
8. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Limited Edition Included) (NS) – 15,162 (657,015)
9. Animal Crossing: New Leaf Amiibo+ (3DS) – 10,806 (281,571)
10. Star Wars Battlefront II (Deluxe Edition Included) (PS4) – 10,734 (49,503)
11. Beyblade Burst: God (3DS) – 9,550
12. Style Savvy: Styling Star (3DS) – 6,256 (54,605)
13. Gran Turismo Sport (Limited Edition Included) (PS4) – 5,940 (193,443)
14. Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney (Limited Edition Inlcuded) (3DS) – 4,832
15. ARK: Survival Evolved (PS4) – 4,308 (114,287)
16. Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 Deluxe Edition (PS4) – 4,216
17. Pokken Tournament DX (NS) – 4,197 (126,530)
18. 1-2-Switch (NS) – 3,921 (283,108)
19. Assassin’s Creed Origins (PS4) – 3,662 (91,997)
20. Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (PS4) – 3,555

Systems (Previous Week)

1. Switch – 145,200 (86,999)
2. PlayStation 4 – 20,384 (18,126)
3. New 2DS LL – 20,283 (29,013)
4. New 3DS LL – 11,511 (11,074)
5. PlayStation 4 Pro – 6,525 (8,176)
6. PlayStation Vita – 5,964 (3,090)
7. 2DS – 2,838 (3,113)
8. New 3DS – 254 (280)
9. Xbox One X – 212 (143)
10. Xbox One – 196 (104)
11. Wii U – 85 (43)
12. PlayStation 3 – 46 (46)

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[Source: 4Gamer via Gematsu]