Japanese Charts: Pokémon Diamond And Pearl Remakes Stay Top, And Theyre Selling Faster Than Sword And Shield – Nintendo Life

Famitsu’s Japanese chart figures are now in for the week ending 28th November, revealing that Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl are still leading the pack by a supremely comfortable margin.

In their second week on sale, the two games shifted another 355,046 physical copies in Pokémon’s home region of Japan. That makes for a total of 1,750,688 physical copies sold in Japan alone in their first two weeks – for the sake of comparison, Pokémon Sword and Shield managed a slightly lower 1,740,084 physical sales over the same period.

Elsewhere, Mario Party Superstars is still performing nicely in second place, while Konami newcomer Power Pro Kun Pocket R has debuted in third spot. Incidentally, Switch games account for the entire top ten this week.

Here are the top ten (first numbers are this week’s estimated sales, followed by total sales):

1. [NSW] Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl (The Pokémon Company, 11/19/21) – 355,046 (1,750,688)
2. [NSW] Mario Party Superstars (Nintendo, 10/29/21) – 35,012 (364,509)
3. [NSW] Power Pro Kun Pocket R (Konami, 11/25/21) – 23,360 (New)
4. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo, 03/20/20) – 22,746 (6,968,435)
5. [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure (Nintendo, 10/18/19) – 12,358 (2,933,333)
6. [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 11,905 (2,291,581)
7. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 11,139 (4,153,289)
8. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 12/07/18) – 11,010 (4,517,749)
9. [NSW] Shin Megami Tensei V (Atlus, 11/11/21) – 9,476 (175,236)
10. [NSW] Pokémon Sword and Shield (The Pokémon Company, 11/15/19) – 8,920 (4,206,024)

The Switch continues to dominate in the hardware charts, too, with the original model taking back control as is often the case. For a second week running, the Switch family of consoles sold over 100,000 units combined. Here are this week’s figures, followed by lifetime sales in brackets:

1. Switch – 67,011 (17,521,471)
2. Switch Lite – 39,586 (4,234,895)
3. Switch OLED Model – 15,976 (392,977)
4. PlayStation 5 – 7,391 (995,791)
5. PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 1,596 (190,441)
6. New 2DS LL (including 2DS) – 477 (1,177,830)
7. Xbox Series X – 435 (70,354)
8. Xbox Series S – 198 (52,416)
9. PlayStation 4 – 84 (7,818,897)

< Last week’s charts

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