Ace Combat 7 and Nintendo Switch Top Japanese Market According to Media Create

Media Create released its weekly hardware and software charts related to the Japanese market between Jan. 14 and Jan. 20. Last week saw the release of quite a few games, so the charts are quite interesting.

Below you can see the software chart. As usual, the second number for each game represents lifetime sales, when applicable.

1. Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown – PS4 – 202,379/NEW
2. New Super Mario Bros U. Deluxe – Switch – 88,840/255,143
3. Super Smash Bros. Infinite – Switch – 49,533/2,726,273
4. Yakuza 4 – PS4 – 18,440/NEW
5. Super Mario Party – Switch – 16,752/971,945
6. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – Switch – 15,062/2,085,952
7. Pokémon Let’s Go Pikachu & Eevee – Switch – 12,351/1,427,298
8. Dragon Quest Builders 2 – Switch – 11,490/210,493
9. Minecraft – Switch – 11,107/573,451
10. Splatoon 2 – Switch – 9,469/2,903,350
11. Dragon Quest Builders 2 – PS4 – 9,330/206,392
12. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – Switch – 7,731/1,263,023
13. Sword Art Online Fatal Bullet Complete Edition – PS4 – 7,474/NEW
14. Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds – PS4 – 7,447/NEW
15. Tales of Vesperia Definitive Edition – PS4 – 7,446/48,955
16. Go Vacation – Switch – 5,151/47,862
17. Tales of Vesperia Definitive Edition – Switch – 4,598/31,186
18. Judgment – PS4 – 4,527/244,820
19. Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 – PS4 – 4,341/524,140
20. Taiko no Tatsujin Drum’n Fun – Switch –  3,720/294,679

Below you can check out the hardware chart for the same period:

1. Switch: 71,139
2. PS4: 9,505
3. PS4 Pro: 6,958
4. New 2DS XL: 3,767
5. PS Vita: 1,755
6. New 3DS XL: 1,514
7. 2DS: 158
8. Xbox One X: 94
9. Xbox One: 24

On the hardware side, while most platforms were affected by the usual post-holiday slump, the Switch keeps going quite strong, which is quite interesting.

On the software side, Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown makes a triumphant entrance with over 200,000 copies sold, which is very good for this kind of semi-niche game. Looks like Japanese fans were hungry for a return to Strangereal.

On the other hand, Yakuza 4 made a mediocre debut on the Media Create charts, but that’s normal since Japanese gamers aren’t keen on HD remasters that add very little or nothing at all to a game, unless they belong to massive franchises.

Interestingly, Dragon Quest Builders 2 seems to be doing slightly better on Nintendo Switch than on PS4, and Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition shows the opposite performance.

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Giuseppe Nelva

Proud weeb hailing from sunny (not as much as people think) Italy and long-standing gamer since the age of Mattel Intellivision and Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Definitely a multi-platform gamer, he still holds the old dear PC nearest to his heart, while not disregarding any console on the market. RPGs (of any nationality), MMORPGs, and visual novels are his daily bread, but he enjoys almost every other genre, prominently racing simulators, action and sandbox games. He is also one of the few surviving fans on Earth of the flight simulator genre.

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