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

We have the most recent Japanese charts (thanks, Gematsu) and there are a number of minor adjustments of notice. First up, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Hinokami Chronicles retains the highest spot this week with 20,964 models bought, however Nintendo Swap 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 complete gross sales.

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

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

This is a take a look at this week’s charts in full:

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

With the {hardware} gross sales, the most important 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 quick, as gross sales have fallen off by almost 10,000 for the reason that earlier week. The Swap stays the highest canine, with the OLED mannequin specifically shifting some spectacular numbers. As we would talked about beforehand, after all, the Swap has now bought in extra of 25 million models in Japan.

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