Japanese Charts: Nintendo Switch Ends 2020 In Spectacular Fashion – Nintendo Life

Switch smashes the software and hardware tables

by Ryan Craddock 4 hours ago

Famitsu’s Japanese chart figures are now in for the two weeks spanning 21st December 2020 to 3rd January 2021, revealing that Nintendo managed to round out the year in style.

The entire top ten software chart was made up of Switch titles over the course of the two weeks, with Momotaro Dentetsu continuing to shine brightest at the top. The game’s followed by a list of games almost exclusively made up of Nintendo first-party hits, with the exception of Minecraft.

Here are the top 10 (first numbers are this period’s estimated sales, followed by total sales):

[NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! (Konami, 11/19/20) – 459,243 (1,423,450)
[NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo, 03/20/20) – 202,132 (6,472,485)
[NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 152,052 (3,541,036)
[NSW] Ring Fit Adventure (Nintendo, 10/18/19) – 129,275 (2,157,719)
[NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 12/07/18) – 108,052 (4,068,039)
[NSW] Pikmin 3 Deluxe (Nintendo, 10/30/20) – 91,336 (499,156)
[NSW] Super Mario Party (Nintendo, 10/05/18) – 86,723 (1,774,663)
[NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 85,989 (1,740,451)
[NSW] Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics (Nintendo, 06/05/20) – 85,027 (565,003)
[NSW] Super Mario 3D All-Stars (Nintendo, 09/18/20) – 70,144 (525,613)

It was also an impressive period for hardware sales, with both the Switch and Switch Lite selling more units per week than usual. The original model reigned supreme, as is the norm, but both consoles saw significant jumps over the festive period. Here are this period’s figures, followed by lifetime sales in brackets: