Japan charts: good starts for the SWITCH OLED and Metroid Dread

Here are the best sellers of games and consoles in Japan for the week from 4 to 10 October 2021, established and communicated as always by Famitsu magazine.

Largest novelty of the week and ambassador of the Switch OLED, Metroid Dread takes the head of sales in Japan with 86,798 copies sold without including downloads. There are also no need to know the digital figures to qualify the Mercurysteam game for the best launch of the franchise in Japan, even if we can not compare with the first first Metroid whose numbers initials have never been communicated. SWICHT effect requires, Metroid Dread Eclipse so the 50,000 sales made by Metroid Fusion in 2003 and already exceeds total sales of Metroid: Samus Returns by the same studio. After estimates from the United Kingdom, everything indicates that Metroid Dread will unheak out like the best performance in the history of the franchise.

Samus relegates Far Cry 6 in the second place, the game of Ubisoft cumulating 50 905 sales on PS4 and PS5, down compared to the 81 405 sales made by Far Cry 5 in March 2018, even If it is possible for digital to reduce the gap between these two opus. At the heart of the ranking, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe , Super Smash. Bros Ultimate , Ring Fit Adventure and Minecraft are the main beneficiaries of the launch of the OLED switch with sales up compared to past week, especially the sakurai game that benefits in addition Sora effect. A thought also for Japanese 9 513 currently leading to the bottom of the space with Monika. MONIKA DAKE .

After a few relatively quiet weeks, the switch took advantage of the launch of the OLED model to find the stars with not far from 180,000 consoles sold, of which 138 409 for the small new on the shimmering screen. Unlike the United Kingdom, it is less than the Switch Lite, which had made 178,000 sales sales, but it showed a more accessible rate (22,000 yen vs. 38,000 yen for the OLED console) and was not concerned by the scarcity of the components. It should be noted that the Switch takes the 4 million sales since January and remains in the footsteps of its record performance of 2020 (4.1 million consoles sold at the same stage of the year). Meanwhile, the Xbox Series crosses the Cap of 100,000 sales, a figure that Xbox One had set 50 months to reach. To each his little satisfaction.

Software ranking

Name of the game | Console | Sales of the week | Total sales --- | --- | --- | --- Metroid Dread | SWITCH | 86 798 | 86 798 Far Cry 6 | PS4 | 34 219 | 34 219 Far Cry 6 | PS5 | 16,686 | 16 686 Mario Kart 8 Deluxe | SWITCH | 12 257 | 4 085 509 Super Smash Bros. Ultimate | SWITCH | 11 936 | 445 954 Ring Fit Adventure | SWITCH | 11 257 | 2 862 651 Minecraft | SWITCH | 10 699 | 2 225 165 Doki Doki Literature Club Plus | SWITCH | 9,513 | 9 513 Lost Judgment | PS4 | 8,589 | 140 834

Warioware: Get It Together | SWITCH | 7 787 | 144 966

Hardware ranking

Consoles | Sales of the week | Sales of the year | Total sales --- | --- | --- | --- Nintendo Switch | 179 851 | 4 084 965 | 21 425 339 PLAYSTATION 5 | 15 885 | 845 753 | 1 100 903 Xbox Series | 3 447 | 71 167 | 102 591 PlayStation 4 | 961 | 98,300 | 9 389 190 Nintendo 3DS | 405 | 24 194 | 24,583 102