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2020 proved to be a bumper year for the Switch in Japan, as it recorded its highest annual sales in its four-year history.
Read More »The Nintendo Switch sees its highest annual sales in history in Japan, with almost 6m units sold
Big in Japan: Nintendo Switch Lite sells over one million units in just three months
Famitsu’s report on the Japanese games market in 2019 shows Nintendo’s diminutive device has been huge
Read More »Japan H1 data: Switch sells 1.12m units, Nintendo dominates Top 10, Monster Hunter nears 2m units
Also PlayStation 4 outsells Pro sibling by 3.2-to-1
Read More »Pokémon, Splatoon 2 and Dragon Quest dominate 2017 charts in Japan
Famitsu released its yearly report on the Japanese games market, which saw growth in both software and hardware sales in 2017 for the first time since 2006. Hardware sales reached ¥202bn (£1.33bn) in 2017, a 72.9 per cent increase compared to 2016’s ¥117bn (£0.77bn). 7.6m consoles were shifted in 2017 …
Read More »Mario Kart 8 Deluxe topped last Japanese charts of 2017
Nintendo unsurprisingly won Christmas in Japan. What’s more surprising is that it topped the last weekly charts of the year with a title that released back in April, with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe charting at No.1 (according to sales data collected by Famitsu from December 25th to 31st 2017). With …
Read More »Call of Duty: WWII knocks Mario Odyssey off the top of the Japanese charts
Activision’s Call of Duty: World War 2 (which is published by Sony on PS4 in Japan) has claimed the top spot in the Japanese charts. In doing so it knocks Nintendo’s Switch platformer, Super Mario Odyssey, from the top spot. Famitsu credits COD’s strong sell-though (89 per cent), and notes …
Read More »Super Mario Odyssey sells 500k+ in Japan in three days
Nintendo’s Switch platformer Super Mario Odyssey was the comfortable Japanese No.1 in its debut week, according to Famitsu data. The game sold 512k units in its first three days on sale, although unlike other territories this is not a record for the series – in fact, it’s the fourth highest …
Read More »Shadow of War claims Japan No.1 with sales up 39% on Mordor
It was another slow week at Japanese retail last week, marking the second consecutive week of decline for its physical game market. This is partly due to a lack of high-profile new releases, as the only new entries this week were Warner Bros’ Shadow of War and Square Enix’s Lost …
Read More »Japan’s physical game market slows despite SNES Mini boom
As we reported on Wednesday, the SNES Mini was the main story of Japanese retail this week, out-selling both the Switch and the NES Mini in its first week, according to the latest figures from Famitsu. The NES Mini, by comparison, sold just 263,000 units in its first week on sale, …
Read More »SNES Mini sells more than Switch in Week One – Famitsu
Nintendo’s Classic Mini SNES has sold over 360,000 units in Japan during its opening week, Famitsu has revealed. While we’ve yet to receive Famitsu’s full hardware charts for last week, the publication took to its own website this morning to state the highly-sought after micro console shifted 368,913 in its first four …
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