Japanese Charts: Final Fantasy XVI Dethrones Zelda: TOTK After Six Weeks On Top

This week’s Japanese charts at the moment are in from Famitsu (through Gematsu), and we now have lastly seen The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom bumped down a spot after holding onto pole place for a tasty six weeks.

After all, it’s Closing Fantasy XVI that goes dwelling with the gold this time, promoting a large 336,027 copies in its opening week. For comparability, TOTK lands in second place with 25,155 gross sales, which is a good bounce.

Whereas the PlayStation 5 could take the highest spot, the remainder of the chart is awash with Swap titles. The standard suspects like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Minecraft and Nintendo Swap Sports activities proceed to promote nicely (as a result of after all they do), and Ring Match Journey and Breath of the Wild have popped again into the highest ten — good to see you, guys!

This is your take a look at this week’s Japanese software program gross sales in full:

1. [PS5] Closing Fantasy XVI (Sq. Enix, 06/22/23) – 336,027 (New)
2. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Nintendo, 05/12/23) – 25,155 (1,697,225)
3. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 8,066 (5,344,544)
4. [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 6,166 (3,171,606)
5. [NSW] Nintendo Swap Sports activities (Nintendo, 04/29/22) – 6,156 (1,107,323)
6. [NSW] Pokemon Scarlet / Pokemon Violet (The Pokemon Firm, 11/18/22) – 4,901 (5,058,457)
7. [NSW] Splatoon 3 (Nintendo, 09/09/22) – 4,597 (4,043,435)
8. [NSW] Tremendous Smash Bros. Final (Nintendo, 12/07/18) – 4,282 (5,219,828)
9. [NSW] Ring Match Journey (Nintendo, 10/18/19) – 4,231 (3,45,063)
10. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo, 03/03/17) – 3,531 (2,216,142)

Onto {hardware} now, and, unsurprisingly, Sony’s PlayStation has been the best-selling single console this week, pulling in 71,415 gross sales in comparison with the Swap OLED in second with 66,375. After all, for those who tot up all Swap SKUs then Nintendo remains to be forward of the PS5 gross sales by a snug margin.

After a few decent-performing weeks for Microsoft with the discharge of the Diablo IV bundle, this week has seen the Xbox Sequence S and X drop down the chart as soon as once more — hey, it was good whereas it lasted.

And it would not be a Japanese chart round-up if we did not give a shout-out to the New 2DS LL, which managed to promote one other 33 models this time round.

Right here is the Japanese {hardware} chart in full:

1. PlayStation 5 – 71,415 (3,273,600)
2. Swap OLED Mannequin – 66,375 (4,901,166)
3. Swap – 20,941 (19,397,865)
4. Swap Lite – 18,674 (5,367,382)
5. PlayStation 5 Digital Version – 13,970 (529,583)
6. Xbox Sequence S – 8,448 (267,959)
7. PlayStation 4 – 2,427 (7,879,375)
8. Xbox Sequence X – 279 (201,789)
9. New 2DS LL (together with 2DS) – 33 (1,191,814)

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