Japan: Square Enix’s Harvestella debuts at No.2 this week

The latest boxed video game software and hardware charts are now in from the land of the rising sun and this week sees Nintendo return to the top of the hardware charts with the Switch family of systems. The Switch family shifted an additional 90,478 units on the back of some fairly big new releases (edit: also the release of the Pokemon Switch OLED Model launch), Harvestella arrived at No.2 on Nintendo Switch and Doraemon Story of Seasons: Friends of the Great Kingdom entered at No.3, again on Switch. Talking of the Nintendo Switch nearly all of this week’s top ten were Switch games the odd one out being Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II

Software Sales (followed by lifetime sales)

1. [NSW] Splatoon 3 (Nintendo, 09/09/22) – 51,715 (3,287,416)
2. [NSW] HARVESTELLA (Square Enix, 11/04/22) – 26,644 (New)
3. [NSW] Doraemon Story of Seasons: Friends of the Great Kingdom (Bandai Namco, 11/02/22) – 11,278 (New)
4. [NSW] Bayonetta 3 (Nintendo, 10/28/22) – 10,103 (51,388)
5. [NSW] Persona 5 Royal (ATLUS, 10/21/22) – 7,791 (65,829)
6. [NSW] Dragon Quest X: Rise of the Five Tribes Offline (Square Enix, 09/15/22) – 7,781 (218,732)
7. [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 7,602 (2,840,716)
8. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 7,501 (4,891,234)
9. [PS4] Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (Activision, 10/28/22) – 7,351 (31,722)
10. [NSW] Ace Angler: Fishing Spirits (Bandai Namco, 10/27/22) – 6,854 (30,151)

Hardware Sales (followed by lifetime sales)

1. Switch OLED Model – 74,895 (2,923,063)
2. Switch – 13,869 (18,824,546)
3. PlayStation 5 – 12,014 (1,796,038)
4. Xbox Series S – 2,663 (211,778)
5. Switch Lite – 1,714 (4,905,047)
6. PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 1,260 (283,885)
7. Xbox Series X – 450 (167,006)
8. PlayStation 4 – 257 (7,820,200)
9. New 2DS LL (including 2DS) – 31 (1,189,119)

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