Japanese Charts: Ni no Kuni II enters top 10, but switchgear sales are down


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Famitsu’s Japanese chart numbers are now available for the week ending September 19, revealing that WarioWare: Get It Together! is still Switch’s highest title.

The game sold another 32,131 physical copies in its second week, which was almost enough to secure it the coveted top spot; the PS4 version of Tales of the Ascension just surpassed it with 1,000 additional sales this week.

Elsewhere both BanG Dream! Girl group party! and Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom – Prince’s Edition debuted in the top ten, joining a healthy roster of popular Switch titles.

Here are the top ten (the first numbers are this week’s estimated sales, followed by total sales):


  1. [PS4] Tales of the Ascension (Bandai Namco, 09/09/21) – 33 128 (184 444)
  2. [NSW] WarioWare: unite! (Nintendo, 10/09/21) – 32 131 (104 408)
  3. [PS4] Neptunia x Senran Kagura: Ninja Wars (Compile Heart, 09/16/21) – 18 789 (New)
  4. [NSW] BanG Dream! Girl group party! for Nintendo Switch (Broccoli, 09/16/21) – 15 398 (New)
  5. [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure (Nintendo, 10/18/19) – 11,784 (2,830,643)
  6. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 4/28/17) – 11,751 (4,051,139)
  7. [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 6/21/18) – 11,107 (2,191,918)
  8. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 07/12/18) – 6,987 (4,423,047)
  9. [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! (Konami, 11/19/20) – 6,968 (2,374,578)
  10. [NSW] Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom – Prince’s Edition (Level 5, 09/16/21) – 6,673 (New)

In the hardware charts, we can see that the Switch actually experienced one of the biggest weekly sales drops we’ve seen in quite some time – the original model moved 31,290 units this week, up from 56. 177 last week. Here are the numbers for this week, followed by Lifetime Sales in parentheses:

  1. Switch – 31,290 (17,096,974)
  2. PlayStation 5 – 13,289 (875,557)
  3. Switch Lite – 8,778 (4,061,754)
  4. PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 2,795 (170,158)
  5. Xbox Series X – 2,792 (61,343)
  6. Xbox Series S – 1,584 (31,023)
  7. PlayStation 4 – 747 (7,809,932)
  8. New 2DS LL (including 2DS) – 643 (1,173,483)

Any surprises this week? Let us know in the comments.

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