Days Gone Continues To Lead Japanese Sales Charts

SIE Bend Studio's open world zombie title refuses to relinquish its grip on the pole position.

Even in light of mixed reception, Sony’s Days Gone has continued to sell strongly globally, and in the latest Japanese video game software and hardware sales charts for the week ending May 12 – as provided by Famitsu – it’s topped charts yet again, just as it did last week. It sold nearly 12,000 copies during the week.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate was in second place last week, and that is where it still remains, with sales of over 10,000 copies. Following in third place is fellow Nintendo Switch exclusive Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, up from fifth place, with over 8,000 units sold. In fact, barring Minecraft for the Switch in third place, all the other games in the top 10 are first part Switch exclusives, including the likes of Splatoon 2, Pokemon Let’s Go, New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Super Mario Party, and Yoshi’s Crafted World. 

On the hardware front, there’s not much change. The Switch, as always, is the highest selling system of the week, with nearly 42,000 units sold, while the PS4 moved 15,000 units. Incidentally, this is also the week that confirms the Switch officially passing the PS4’s lifetime sales in Japan.

You can check out the full software and hardware charts below.

Software Sales (followed by lifetime sales)

01. [PS4] Days Gone – 11.988 / 160.183 
02. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 10.086 / 3.076.992 
03. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 8.431 / 2.295.735 
04. [NSW] Minecraft – 8.255 / 776.378 
05. [NSW] New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe – 7.274 / 611.390 
06. [NSW] Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! / Let’s Go, Eevee! – 6.098 / 1.524.756 
07. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – 5.709 / 1.314.946
08. [NSW] Yoshi’s Crafted World – 5.598 / 130.7449.
09. [NSW] Splatoon 2 – 5.105 / 3.063.187 
10. [NSW] Super Mario Party- 5.037 / 1.025.137
11. [PS4] Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice- 3.631 / 249.554 
12. [NSW] Super Dragon Ball Heroes: World Mission – 3.554 / 112.809
13. [NSW] Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age – 2.859 / 29.687 
14. [NSW] Nintendo Labo Toy-Con 04: VR Kit- 2.598 / 54.978 
15. [NSW] Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum ‘n’ Fun! – 2.219 / 333.474
16. [PS4] Earth Defense Force: Iron Rain – 2.113 / 80.804
17. [PS4] Kingdom Hearts III – 1.902 / 827.674
18. [NSW] Kirby Star Allies – 1.850 / 721.888 
19. [NSW] Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster – 1.803 / 31.986
20. [NSW] Super Mario Odyssey – 1.796 / 1.968.870

Hardware Sales (followed by last week’s sales)

Nintendo Switch – 41,736 (41,735)
PS4 – 15,002 (15,001)
Nintendo 3DS – 5,176 (5,175)
PS Vita – 544 (544)
Xbox One – 191 (191)

[Via ResetEra]

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