Japanese Charts: Demon Slayer Retains High Spot As Pokémon Re-Enters High Ten

We have got the most recent Japanese charts (thanks, Gematsu) and there are a number of minor modifications of be aware. First up, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Hinokami Chronicles retains the highest spot this week with 20,964 items offered, however Nintendo Change Sports activities and Mario Strikers: Battle League have swapped positions, barely altering the highest three. Mario Strikers’ gross sales fell off significantly from the earlier week, marking a 147% drop in whole gross sales.

In the meantime, in a reasonably curious flip of occasions, Pokémon Sensible Diamond and Shining Pearl have re-entered the highest ten charts with 5,043 items offered, bringing the whole gross sales for the reason that video games’ launch to a decent 2,560,536 items.

In any other case, it is roughly enterprise as normal. It is cool to see the Nintendo Change make up the whole thing of the highest ten chart as soon as once more, proving the system’s appreciable reputation in its native Japan.

Here is a have a look at this week’s charts in full:

1. [NSW] Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Hinokami Chronicles (Aniplex, 06/09/22) – 20,964 (111,849)
2. [NSW] Nintendo Change Sports activities (Nintendo, 04/29/22) – 18,789 (493,046)
3. [NSW] Mario Strikers: Battle League (Nintendo, 06/10/22) – 13,002 (45,175)
4. [NSW] Kirby and the Forgotten Land (Nintendo, 03/25/22) – 8,649
5. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 8,456 (4,682,390)
6. [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 6,887 (2,677,377)
7. [NSW] Overlord: Escape from Nazarick (Kadokawa, 06/16/22) – 5,682 (New)
8. [NSW] Ring Match Journey (Nintendo, 10/18/19) – 5,462 (3,181,291)
9. [NSW] Pokemon Sensible Diamond / Shining Pearl (The Pokemon Firm, 11/19/21) – 5,043 (2,560,536)
10. [NSW] Tremendous Smash Bros. Final (Nintendo, 12/07/18) – 4,364 (4,905,190)

With the {hardware} gross sales, the largest shift this week belongs to the PlayStation 5, which dropped a number of spots to land at quantity six (with the Digital Version simply behind at quantity seven). It appears protected to imagine that inventory for the week should have been brief, as gross sales have fallen off by almost 10,000 for the reason that earlier week. The Change stays the highest canine, with the OLED mannequin particularly shifting some spectacular numbers. As we might talked about beforehand, in fact, the Change has now offered in extra of 25 million items in Japan.

Shout out to the New 2DS LL, too – nonetheless hanging in there!

1. Change OLED Mannequin – 22,860 (1,899,156)
2. Change – 19,907 (18,399,758)
3. Change Lite – 7,638 (4,761,895)
4. Xbox Collection S – 3,423 (130,076)
5. Xbox Collection X – 3,272 (108,983)
6. PlayStation 5 – 2,371 (1,451,795)
7. PlayStation 5 Digital Version – 664 (242,208)
8. New 2DS LL (together with 2DS) – 215 (1,187,058)
9. PlayStation 4 – 18 (7,819,701)

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