The Famitsu sales charts track hardware and boxed game sales in Japan, and we report on those sales as the chart releases every Thursday! This week’s chart covers December 1 to December 7, as the holiday sales boom sends the Switch 2 soaring past 3 million units sold in Japan alone thanks to an additional 203,000 sales this past week. That’s an enormous start to December for Nintendo, and the software sold reflects this sales explosion too.
The top three on the chart was ruled by Mario Kart World, Kirby Air Riders and Pokemon Legends: Z-A respectively, will all three of them experiencing the holiday sales surge. Mario Kart sold more than double what it did last week, with over 102,000 units sold, whilst Kirby‘s tiny rise let it score another 46,000 copies sold this week. Pokemon Legends: Z-A‘s Switch and Switch 2 release are charting separately, but if we combined sales they sold an additional 84,000 units this past week.
As for new releases, the hotly anticipated Metroid Prime 4: Beyond struggled to sell, only appearing on the chart with its Switch 2 Edition at #6 with 21,000 units sold. The series has never been a huge seller in Japan, and digital sales might give the game hope. Even Square Enix’s Octopath Traveler 0 debut managed to chart higher, taking spots #5, #8 and #9 on the chart with its multi-platform release. Combined, it sold more than 59,000 copies.
Here’s the full Famitsu software sales breakdown for the December 1 to December 7 period, along with the lifetime sales for each game.
- Mario Kart World (Switch 2): 102,435 [2,354,146 total]
- Kirby Air Riders (Switch 2): 46,737 [288,618 total]
- Pokémon Legends: Z-A (Switch 2): 44,331 [862,377 total]
- Pokémon Legends: Z-A (Switch): 40,441 [1,347,242 total]
- Octopath Traveler 0 (Switch): 21,698 [new]
- Metroid Prime 4: Beyond (Switch 2): 21,415 [new]
- Momotaro Dentetsu 2 (Switch 2): 19,806 [113,094 total]
- Octopath Traveler 0 (PS5): 19,533 [new]
- Octopath Traveler 0 (Switch 2): 18,083 [new]
- Momotaro Dentetsu 2 (Switch): 17,851 [158,992 total]
Next up is the Famitsu hardware sales breakdown for the December 1 to December 7 period, along with the lifetime sales for each console. Console variants have been grouped together for simplicity.
- Nintendo Switch 2: 203,398 [3,171,833 total]
- Nintendo Switch: 51,316 [1,418,081 total]
- PlayStation 5: 25,240 [821,753 total]
Did you pick up any games featured in this week’s Famitsu chart? What do you think of Metroid and Octopath Traveler 0‘s debut? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below, and keep your eyes on GameObserver for more sales coverage and gaming news!
