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Kirby Air Riders tops the Japanese bodily charts as Swap and Swap 2 video games sweep the highest 15

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Kirby Air Riders tops the Japanese bodily charts as Swap and Swap 2 video games sweep the highest 15


Kirby Air Riders has debuted on the prime of the Japanese bodily gross sales charts, in per week largely dominated as soon as once more by Swap and Swap 2 video games.

In response to Famitsu’s gross sales knowledge for bodily recreation gross sales in Japan, the sequel to Masahiro Sakurai‘s GameCube title Kirby Air Rider bought 194,594 copies in Japan between its launch on November 20, and the top of the weekly chart interval on November 23.

This meant it bought almost 3 times as many copies because the quantity two recreation this week, Mario Kart World (which has now bought a cumulative whole of over 2.2 million bodily copies in Japan alone, together with Swap 2 {hardware} bundles with the sport included).

In the meantime, Pokémon Legends Z:A continues its momentum, promoting 50,540 copies throughout each Swap and Swap 2 (the gross sales ratio being 57/43 in favour of the unique Swap model).

In a sometimes Nintendo-heavy chart, solely two video games within the Prime 20 have been PS5 titles, with the highest 15 video games being Swap or Swap 2 releases.

As ever, it ought to be famous that Famitsu’s charts depend the gross sales of bodily video games, obtain playing cards bought at retail, and video games included in {hardware} bundles, however doesn’t embody video games bought digitally from in-game shops. As such, the complete gross sales figures for every recreation received’t be identified till Nintendo’s subsequent monetary report, when it reveals whole bodily and digital gross sales for its bestsellers.

The charts for this week are as follows:

Japanese bodily charts for November 17-23 (by way of Famitsu)

(Cumulative whole so far in brackets)

  1. Kirby Air Riders (Swap 2) – 195,594 (NEW)
  2. Mario Kart World (Swap 2) – 67,068 (2,202,125)
  3. Pokémon Legends: Z-A (Swap) – 28,480 (1,271,576)
  4. Momotaro Dentetsu 2: Your City is Absolutely There Too – East & West Japan Version (Swap) – 28,704 (118,780)
  5. Pokémon Legends: Z-A (Swap 2) – 22,060 (798,015)
  6. Momotaro Dentetsu 2: Your City is Absolutely There Too – East & West Japan Version (Swap 2) – 20,751 (77,558)
  7. Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment (Swap 2) – 9,129 (100,121)
  8. Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake (Swap) – 8,302 (286,589)
  9. Minecraft (Swap) – 4,909 (4,050,014)
  10. Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Swap) – 4,908 (8,258,611)
  11. Donkey Kong Bananza (Swap 2) – 4,836 (378,576)
  12. Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake (Swap 2) – 4,754 (108,179)
  13. R-Sort Delta: HD Boosted (Swap) – 3,325 (NEW)
  14. Dragon Ball Sparking! Zero (Swap) – 3,324 (15,525)
  15. Railway Nippon! RealPro Lengthy-Distance Driving! Restricted Categorical Hinotori: Kintetsu Version (Swap) – 3,057 (NEW)
  16. Name of Responsibility: Black Ops 7 (PS5) – 2,899 (15,210)
  17. Tremendous Mario Galaxy + Tremendous Mario Galaxy 2 (Swap) – 2,881 (100,714)
  18. Sumikko Gurashi: Let’s Create! A Great Sumikko Island (Swap) – 2,532 (NEW)
  19. Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake (PS5) – 2,492 (113,664)
  20. Mannequin Debut4 #nicola (Swap) – 2,351 (NEW)