New Pokemon Snap debuts first in the Japanese charts
New Pokémon Snap for Nintendo Switch debuted first in the Japanese charts of Famitsu (26/04 - 09/05/2021), which finally see a game for PS5 appear in the top 10: Resident Evil Village, which conquered the sixth position with 38,713 copies sold.Nintendo's hybrid console always dominates, taking seven out of ten positions, but at least we are not faced with the usual one-color. In second position we find Monster Hunter Rise, while in third always Resident Evil Village, but for PS4. Another non-Switch title in the ranking is NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139 ... for PS4, dropped to seventh position.
On the hardware front, Nintendo Switch continues to dominate, with more than 235,000 consoles sold between standard and Lite edition , but PS5 doesn't do badly with more than 50,000 disc and digital-only editions. The Xbox Series also saw growth over the past few months, managing to sell more than 1,200 consoles in total. It's not a lot, but we're in Japan.
But now let's stop the chatter and let's see the software and hardware rankings:
[NSW] New Pokemon Snap (The Pokemon Company , 04/30/21) - 194,385 (New) [NSW] Monster Hunter Rise (Capcom, 03/26/21) - 171,067 (2,141,438) [PS4] Resident Evil Village (Capcom, 05/08/21) - 111,171 ( New) [NSW] Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury (Nintendo, 02/12/21) - 53,347 (728,009) [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! (Konami, 11/19/20) - 42,348 (2,167,409) [PS5] Resident Evil Village (Capcom, 05/08/21) - 38,713 (New) [PS4] NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139 ... (Square Enix, 04 / 22/21) - 37,824 (146,662) [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure (Nintendo, 10/18/19) - 31,47 (2,554,184) [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) - 31,045 (3,824,997) [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/18) - 29,549 (1,940,130)
Hardware Sales
Switch - 170,898 (15,981,320) Switch Lite - 65,130 (3,771,281) PlayStation 5 - 44,960 (595,871) PlayStation 5 Digital Edition - 8,680 (116,547) PlayStation 4 - 2,584 (7,783,139) New 2DS LL (including 2DS) - 1,027 (1,163,587) Xbox Series X - 808 (32,060) Xbox Series S - 399 (10,537)
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New Pokemon Snap Debuts in 1st on the Swiss Charts, Returnal Debuts in 2nd - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted 2 days ago / 744 ViewsNew Pokemon Snap has debuted in first place on the Switzerland charts, according to SwissCharts.com for the 17th week of 2021.
Returnal debuted in second place. Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury falls from first to third place, while Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and FIFA 21 drop one place to fourth and fifth, respectively.
Minecraft remains in sixth place and Super Mario Party is up one spot to seventh place. Ring Fit Adventure re-entered the top 10 in eighth place.
There are a total of six Nintendo Switch exclusives in the top 10, one PlayStation 5 game, and three multiplatform games.
Here are the top 10 best-selling games in Switzerland for Week 17, 2021:
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.