Super Smash Bros. and Switch Top Media Create as God Eater 3 and Judgement Debut in Japan

It’s that time of the week again, and Media Create released its charts painting the portrait of the Japanese market between Dec. 10 and Dec 16.

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

1. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – Switch – 406,617/1,627,152
2. God Eater 3 – PS4 – 150,523/New
3. Judgment – PS4 – 148,246/New
4. Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Pokemon: Let’s Go, Eevee! – Switch – 108,773/1,121,020
5. Super Mario Party – Switch – 97,529/587,295
6. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – Switch – 29,422/1,911,174
7. Minecraft – Switch – 27,625/431,410
8. Splatoon 2 – Switch – 27,035/2,767,712
9. Super Mario Odyssey – Switch – 14,417/1,880,842
10. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – Switch – 13,670/1,195,951
11. Kirby Star Allies – Switch – 12,027/670,296
12. Peach Ball: Senran Kagura – Switch – 10,321/New
13. Luigi’s Mansion – 3DS – 9,575/64,375
14. Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum ‘n’ Fun! – Switch – 8,063/244,283
15. Battlefield V – PS4 – 6,846/148,170
16. Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon – 3DS – 6,665/1,780,187
17. Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 – PS4 – 6,536/492,033
18. Nintendo Labo – Toy-Con 3: Vehicle Kit – Switch – 5,938/49,389
19. Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker – Switch – 5,640/154,936
20. Mario Tennis Aces – Switch – 5,318/381,800

Now, take a look at the hardware chart.

• Switch: 281,213
• PS4: 62,580
• PS4 Pro: 19,014
• New 2DS XL: 14,510
• New 3DS XL: 5,132
• PS Vita: 2,647
• Xbox One X: 847
• 2DS: 395
• Xbox One: 204

The Switch is continuing to sell extremely well as the Holiday Shopping Battle (as analysts like to call it in Japan) enters its most active period, even if sales are essentially flat compared to the prior week according to Media Create’s report.

For a console past its prime, the PS4 managed to sell very solid quantities, actually growing week-on-week thanks to two new releases, God Eater 3 and Judgement, that manage to move roughly 150,000 units left and to push Pokemon Let’s Go down in fourth place.

Of course, that’s not nearly enough to beat the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate behemoth to the top, as Nintendo’s crossover game manages to fly past 1.5 million units sold-through to customers.

With the Switch well past six million units sold in Japan, it’s now just a little more than a million sales shy of the PS4 on the local market. It’ll be interesting to see Media Create’s total when the Holiday smoke clears in January.

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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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