As 2018 is just about to end and 2019 will come with new games, the latest Japanese charts on the gaming industry have come in with not many surprises. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is still the first regarding video game sales, summing up more than 2 million sales. However, the new Dragon Quest Builders 2 sells best on PlayStation 4 in Japan but, on the overall, it’s still far behind Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and even behind Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! / Let’s Go, Eevee!
The latest release from Square Enix, Dragon Quest Builders 2, the second title in the franchise, entered the Japanese charts in the fourth place with about 110,000 copies, outperforming the Nintendo Switch version by approximately 13,000 units.
While Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is the first in the video game sales chart with over 2 million copies sold, in the second place, there is Super Mario Party, launched in May 2018, scored more than 700,000-lifetime sales.
Hardware and software sales in Japan
Hardware sales – Software Sales (Lifetime Sales)
- Switch – 278,701 (281,213)
- PlayStation 4 – 57,948 (62,580)
- New 2DS LL – 19,096 (14,510)
- PlayStation 4 Pro – 17,845 (19,014)
- New 3DS LL – 7,116 (5,132)
- PlayStation Vita – 3,939 (2,647)
- 2DS – 724 (395)
- Xbox One X – 195 (847)
- Xbox One – 182 (204)
Software sales – Software Sales (Lifetime Sales)
- [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 12/07/18) – 452,617 (2,079,769)
- [NSW] Super Mario Party (Nintendo, 10/05/18) – 155,060 (742,355)
- [NSW] Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! / Let’s Go, Eevee! (Bundle Editions Included) (Nintendo, 11/16/18) – 144,770 (1,265,790)
- [PS4] Dragon Quest Builders 2 (Square Enix, 12/20/18) – 110,285 (New)
- [NSW] Dragon Quest Builders 2 (Square Enix, 12/20/18) – 97,673 (New)
- [NSW] Minecraft: Nintendo Switch Edition (Bundle Version Included) (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 48,359 (479,769)
- [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 47,096 (1,958,270)
- [NSW] Splatoon 2 (Bundle Version Included) (Nintendo, 07/21/17) – 41,405 (2,809,117)
- [PS4] Judgment (Sega, 12/13/18) – 37,643 (185,889)
- [PS4] God Eater 3 (Limited Edition Included) (Bandai Namco, 12/13/18) – 25,039 (175,562)
- [NSW] Kirby: Star Allies (Nintendo, 03/16/18) – 21,643 (691,939)
- [PS4] Onimusha: Warlords (Limited Edition Included) (Capcom, 12/20/18) – 21,367 (New)
- [NSW] Super Mario Odyssey (Bundle Version Included) (Nintendo, 10/27/17) – 21,384 (1,902,226)
- [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Limited Edition Included) (Nintendo, 03/03/17) – 16,093 (1,212,043)
- [NSW] Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum ‘n’ Fun (Bandai Namco, 07/19/18) – 15,50 (259,863)
- [3DS] Luigi’s Mansion (Nintendo, 11/08/18) – 15,325 (79,700)
- [NSW] Katamari Damacy Reroll (Bandai Namco, 12/20/18) – 11,665 (New)
- [PS4] Super Neptunia RPG (Compile Heart, 12/20/18) – 11,521 (New)
- [NSW] Mario Tennis Aces (Nintendo, 06/22/18) – 10,957 (392,757)
- [3DS] Pokemon Ultra Sun / Ultra Moon (The Pokemon Company, 11/17/17) – 10,140 (1,790,327)
As a passionate gamer since the 1990s, Vadim has kept his passion alive since then, and he is here to cover video games news, as well as to share with you all the novelties out there regarding gadgets or games-related tech.
