Japan: Bayonetta Origins arrives at #6 this week

The latest Japanese boxed software and hardware rankings have arrived from official sales tracker Famitsu for the week of March 13, 2023 to March 19, 2023. The big new entry this week was Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon which landed at debuts at No. 6 on the physical games chart, shifting 6,474 copies. The Nintendo Switch family of systems stopped Sony’s run this week by selling an additional 49,585 units. PlayStation 5 sold an additional 40,411 units. Here are the best selling books in the land of the rising sun.

Software sales (followed by lifetime sales)

1. [NSW] Kirby’s Return to Dreamland Deluxe (Nintendo, 02/24/23) – 25,201 (308,945)
2. [NSW] Pokemon Scarlet & Pokemon Violet (The Pokemon Company, 11/18/22) – 15,306 (4,944,593)
3. [NSW] Splatoon 3 (Nintendo, 09/09/22) – 12,100 (3,946,727)
4. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 4/28/17) – 9,245 (5,203,335)
5. [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 6/21/2018) -6,672 (3,074,692)
6. [NSW] Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon (Nintendo, 3/17/23) – 6474 (New)
7. [PS5] Hogwarts Legacy (Warner Bros. Games), 02/10/23) – 5,622 (154,174)
8. [NSW] Nintendo Switch Sports (Nintendo, 4/29/22) – 5,507 (1,030,666)
9. [NSW] Octopath Traveler II (Square Enix, 24.02.23) – 4,707 (80,526)
10. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 12/07/18) – 4,289 (5,145,376)

Hardware sales (followed by lifetime sales)

1. PlayStation 5 – 34,156 (2,723,683)
2. Switch OLED model – 33,150 (4,068,329)
3. Switching – 9,798 (19,231,121)
4. Switch Lite – 6,637 (5,249,752)
5. PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 6,255 (438,709)
6. PlayStation 4 – 1,115 (7,860,543)
7. Xbox Series X – 497 (182,935)
8. New 2DS LL (including 2DS) – 138 (1,190,993)
9. Xbox Series S – 58 (250,657)

Source / Over it