Pokemon Let’s Go Tops Media Create Charts for the Second Week Despite Sharp Drop

Today is Wednesday, which means that it’s time for Media Create‘s weekly results, painting an interesting picture of the Japanese market between November 19th and November 25th.

Below you can read the top-twenty software chart. As usual, the second number for each game represents lifetime sales.

1. Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Pokemon: Let’s Go, Eevee! – Switch – 162,467/823,707
2. Battlefield 5 – PS4 – 110,653/New
3. Disaster Report 4 Plus: Summer Memories – PS4 – 42,272/New
4. Shenmue I & II – PS4 – 37,529/New
5. Super Mario Party – Switch – 24,450/370,077
6. Fallout 76 – PS4 – 11,800/85,289
7. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – Switch – 11,714/1,847,777
8. Splatoon 2 – Switch – 10,527/2,709,412
9. Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 – PS4 – 10,052/470,942
10. Minecraft – Switch – 9,818/375,166
11. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – Switch – 6,883/1,166,281
12. Luigi’s Mansion – 3DS – 6,640/43,329
13. Super Mario Odyssey – Switch – 5,309/1,850,991
14. Neko Tomo – Switch – 5,212/New
15. Red Dead Redemption 2 – PS4 – 4,411/196,592
16. Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon – 3DS – 4,169/1,764,472
17. Kirby Star Allies – Switch – 3,996/646,201
18. Nari Kids Park Huggto Pretty Cure – Switch – 3,301/new
19. Hitman 2 – PS4 -2,821/12,983
20. Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum ‘n’ Fun! – Switch – 2,650/228,067

Here is the hardware chart:

1. Switch: 108,375
2. PS4: 13,281
3. PS4 Pro: 11,083
4. New 2DS XL: 6,512
5. New 3DS XL: 2,419
6. PS Vita: 1,688
7. 2DS: 952
8. Xbox One X: 676
9. Xbox One: 46

We notice that Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Pokemon: Let’s Go, Eevee! are still at the top, but dropped very sharply after their first week on the shelves. The sales of the twin Nintendo games were still good enough to keep Battlefield 5 behind with a sizable margin. As a consequence, the Switch is still a hot commodity, with over 100,000 units sold.

The PS4 is still doing pretty well, especially on the PS4 Pro front, but the true winner of the week is probably Disaster Report 4 Plus: Summer Memories by Granzella, that sold over 40,000 copies despite its niche nature. It even beat Shenmue I& II, which still managed to sell a flattering 37.000 copies. Considering that Japanese gamers tend to snub remasters, this can be considered a successful launch.

If you want to compare, you can check out last week’s results. You can also read how Media Create considered last week’s debut of  Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Pokemon: Let’s Go, Eevee! partly disappointing.

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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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