Japan: Time for Princess Peaches! continues to rule

The latest Japanese boxed software and hardware charts have arrived from the Land of the Rising Sun and there is no change at the top this week for Princess Peach: Showtime! Nintendo’s latest title sold an additional 27K physical copies, fending off Rise of the Ronin which sold 20K physical copies. The best-selling video game system was the Nintendo Switch family of systems, which sold an additional 57,533 units, Sony’s PlayStation 5 sold 20,846 units, and the Xbox Series X|S sold 1,376 units.

Software sales (followed by lifetime sales)

1. [NSW] Princess Peach: It’s time! (Nintendo, 3/22/24) – 27,258 (104,820)
2. [PS5] Rise of Ronin (SIE, 22.3.24) – 20,139 (84,785)
3. [NSW] Winner Announcement 10/2024 (Koei Tecmo, 3/28/24) – 12,845 (New)
4. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 4/28/17) – 10,432 (5,768,608)
5. [PS5] Dragon’s Dogma II (Capcom, 3/22/24) – 9,172 (77,764)
6. [NSW] Super Mario Bros. Wonder (Nintendo, 10/20/23) – 8,163 (1,803,747)
7. [PS5] Winner Announcement 10/2024 (Koei Tecmo, 3/28/24) – 6733 (New)
8. [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 21.06.18) – 6,618 (3,483,557)
9. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo, 3/20/20) – 6,411 (7,729,183)
10. [NSW] Splatoon 3 (Nintendo, 09/09/22) – 6,172 (4,264,330)

Hardware sales (followed by lifetime sales)

1. Switch OLED model – 42,957 (6,958,780)
2. PlayStation 5 – 18,272 (4,713,002)
3. Switch Lite – 8302 (5793705)
4. Switch – 6,274 (19,755,912)
5. PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 2,574 (746,561)
6. Xbox Series X – 938 (252,674)
7. PlayStation 4 – 679 (7,925,339)
8. Xbox Series S – 438 (306,446)
9. New 2DS LL (including 2DS) -6 (1,192,906)

Source / Over it