Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door’s Nintendo Switch remake was the biggest new release last week, and unsurprisingly, the game has got off to a solid start with its sales all over the world, reflecting its strong critical acclaim. As per the newest charts for weekly physical software and hardware sales in Japan released by Famitsu, the remake was the best-selling game in the region last week, selling over 115,000 units.
The means the Switch remake sold less than the original GameCube version did upon release (over 137,000 units), but considering the face that the former will have seen a significantly higher share of digital sales – which, of course, aren’t included in Famitsu’s weekly charts – there’s a good chance that the remake ultimately ended up outperforming the original game by launch.
Meanwhile, it also feel short by the launch performance of last year’s Super Mario RPG remake (over 301,000 units sold) by quite a margin, though it did outsell 2020’s Paper Mario: The Origami King at launch (over 109,000 units sold).
On the hardware front, the Nintendo Switch was once again the best-selling console of the week, moving over 48,000 units, while the PS5 followed behind with over 23,000 units sold.
You can check out the full hardware and physical software charts for the week ending May 26 below.
Software sales (followed by lifetime sales):
- [NSW] Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door – 115,649 (New)
- [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 6,056 (5,848,388)
- [NSW] Earth Defense Force: World Brothers 2 – 5,711 (New)
- [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure – 5,122 (3,575,312)
- [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 5,075 (7,777,029)
- [PS5] Stellar Blade – 4,323 (95,422)
- [NSW] Minecraft – 3,875 (5,513,822)
- [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 3,875 (5,513,822)
- [NSW] Super Mario Bros. Wonder – 3,752 (1,859,718)
- [NSW] Splatoon 3 – 3,733 (4,304,838)
Hardware sales:
- Nintendo Switch – 48,032
- PS5 – 23,368
- Xbox Series X/S – 2,099
