Splatoon Raiders has topped the bodily software program charts in Japan this week.
Nintendo‘s single-player Splatoon spin-off was launched on July 23 and – in keeping with Famitsu’s chart protecting the week ending July 26 – bought 474,684 bodily copies in Japan in its first weekend.
Elsewhere within the chart, two different Nintendo video games handed main bodily gross sales milestones in Japan.
Mario Kart World bought a complete of 6,661 copies final week in Japan, bringing its whole gross sales to three,000,749 copies, breaking the three million milestone.
This determine doesn’t embrace copies purchased instantly from the eShop, however it does embrace obtain playing cards, pre-installed software program and bundled software program, so it’s going to embrace the copies of Mario Kart World included with the primary wave of Swap 2 consoles.
In addition to this, Tomodachi Life: Dwelling the Dream bought 23,468 bodily copies in Japan final week, bringing its cumulative whole to 1,500,025 copies and passing the 1.5 million milestone.
As ever, it must be famous that the chart solely counts bodily releases, which means every recreation may have bought greater than this when eShop purchases are additionally taken into consideration.
The highest 10 bodily software program chart in Japan final week is as follows (with lifetime gross sales in parentheses):
Japan prime 10 bodily software program chart – week ending July 26 (by way of Famitsu)
- Splatoon Raiders (Swap 2) (NEW) – 474,684 (474,684)
- Rhythm Heaven: Miracle Stars (Swap) (1) – 78,355 (674,592)
- Tomodachi Life (Swap) (3) – 23,468 (1,500,025)
- Energy Professional Baseball 2026-2027 (Swap) (8) – 7,227 (183,236)
- Mario Kart World (Swap 2) (11) – 6,661 (3,000,749)
- Pokémon Pokopia (Swap 2) (10) – 5,796 (1,092,495)
- eFootball Kick-Off! (Swap 2) (12) – 5,578 (60,517)
- Minecraft (Swap) (14) – 5,106 (4,245,173)
- Ganbare Goemon Daishugo! (Swap) (RE) – 3,961 (68,398)
- Professional Baseball Spirits 2026 (PS5) (2) – 3,915 (24,576)
Splatoon Raiders is presently the seventh highest rated recreation of all time on Metacritic, in keeping with consumer rating. Whereas this listing is normally a sign of recognition (or notoriety) somewhat than high quality, it however suggests the sport has a devoted following.
VGC’s Splatoon Raiders evaluation referred to as it “a difficult, all-out motion recreation” that did an excellent job of taking the principle collection’ multiplayer gameplay and adapting it for single-player motion.
“Splatoon Raiders reveals that Nintendo’s on-line multiplayer collection works simply as nicely in an offline solo setting,” we wrote.
“It’s very a lot a recreation with a single, easy loop – shoot every little thing, die, improve, shoot every little thing once more – however it delivers this loop with such partaking, pleasurable motion that you simply don’t want to fret about repetition creeping in, you’ll fortunately open the entrance door and invite it in for dinner.”
