Japanese Charts: Unicorn Overlord Dominates In Its Debut Week

We’re again with one other have a look at the most recent Japanese charts from Famitsu (by way of Gematsu) and as soon as once more, the rating is overpowered by a brand new RPG.

Yes, after having fun with every week within the highlight final time, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth has made means for Vanillaware’s Unicorn Overlord which tops this week’s chart on Switch, lands in third on PS5 and in eighth on PS4.

The Japan-exclusive Fitness Boxing feat. Hatsune Miku: Isshoni Exercise is one other new entry this week, taking fourth place with 14,128 gross sales and pushing Nintendo’s newest, Mario vs. Donkey Kong, right down to fifth.

Here’s your have a look at this week’s prime ten in full:

1. [NSW] Unicorn Overlord (ATLUS, 03/08/24) – 40,991 (New)
2. [PS5] Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Square Enix, 02/29/24) – 24,482 (287,138)
3. [PS5] Unicorn Overlord (ATLUS, 03/08/24) – 24,398 (New)
4. [NSW] Fitness Boxing feat. Hatsune Miku: Isshoni Exercise (Imagineer, 03/07/24) – 14,128 (New)
5. [NSW] Mario vs. Donkey Kong (Nintendo, 02/16/24) – 13,238 (116,761)
6. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 11,669 (5,739,869)
7. [NSW] Super Mario Bros. Wonder (Nintendo, 10/20/23) – 11,417 (1,779,209)
8. [PS4] Unicorn Overlord (ATLUS, 03/08/24) – 8,797 (New)
9. [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu World: Chikyuu wa Kibou de Mawatteru! (Konami, 11/16/23) – 7,053 (1,006,010)
10. [NSW] Splatoon 3 (Nintendo, 09/09/22) – 6,460 (4,246,168)

It appears to be like like all of these sport gross sales have helped Switch {hardware} too. The OLED mannequin is Japan’s best-selling console this week, with a further 50,240 items placing it forward of Sony’s PS5 which had 34,799 gross sales.

Combining the consoles’ SKUs leans issues even additional in Nintendo’s favour. The Standard, Lite and OLED Switches put up a mixed whole of 65,898 items this week whereas the 2 PS5 fashions come collectively for 39,064.

And, after all, we won’t not shout out the New 2DS LL which continues to be chugging together with one other 14 gross sales this week. Keep it up, little man!

Here’s your have a look at this week’s {hardware} chart:

1. Switch OLED Model – 50,240 (6,838,219)
2. PlayStation 5 – 34,799 (4,647,882)
3. Switch Lite – 10,762 (5,770,240)
4. PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 4,265 (736,531)
5. Switch – 4,896 (19,738,694)
6. Xbox Series X – 2,290 (259,961)
7. PlayStation 4 – 1,816 (7,923,822)
8. Xbox Series S – 1,456 (304,927)
9. New 2DS LL (together with 2DS) – 14 (1,192,879)

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