Every Thursday we share the weekly Famitsu sales charts, which tracks physical boxed game sales and hardware sales in Japan. This week’s chart covers March 13 – 19, and Kirby’s Return to Dream Land Deluxe has remained at the top spot for the fourth week in a row. In just one month, the game has sold over 308,000 units. Nine out of the ten spots on this week’s chart are returning games continuing to sell well, with just one debut.
Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon secured #6 in its release week, selling just over 6,000 units. Whilst this is considerably lower than Bayonetta 3‘s debut sales of 41,000 units, it was never expected that Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon would come close to that, as a smaller scale, spin-off game. It’s not a complete disaster, but Bayonetta Origins in its release week being outsold by Minecraft, which is 12 years old at this point, certainly isn’t great.
Meanwhile over on the hardware charts, the PlayStation 5 has been toppled by the Nintendo Switch once more. Despite an impressive run of outselling the Switch for weeks in a row, the PS5 has now fallen back under the Switch in weekly sales, with a considerable gap of 9,000 units between the two systems.
Here’s the full Famitsu software sales chart for March 13 – 19. Missed last week’s chart where PS5 spent its last week on top? Check it out right here.
- Kirby’s Return to Dream Land Deluxe (Switch): 25,201 weekly (308,945 total)
- Pokémon Scarlet and Violet (Switch): 15,306 weekly (4,944,593 total)
- Splatoon 3 (Switch): 12,100 weekly (3,946,727 total)
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Switch): 9,245 weekly (5,203,335 total)
- Minecraft (Switch): 6,672 weekly (3,074,692 total)
- Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon (Switch): 6,474 (debut)
- Hogwarts Legacy (PS5): 5,622 weekly (154,174 total)
- Nintendo Switch Sports (Switch): 5,507 weekly (1,030,666 total)
- Octopath Traveler II (Switch): 4,707 weekly (80,526 total)
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Switch): 4,289 weekly (5,145,376 total)
Here’s the Famitsu hardware chart too. Console families are grouped together for simplicity. Our yearly data comes from our friends over on InstallBase!
- Switch: 49,585 weekly (825,155 yearly total)
- PS5: 40,411 weekly (785,003 yearly total)
- PS4: 1,115 weekly (18,499 yearly total)
- Xbox Series: 555 weekly (35,197 yearly total)
What games did you purchase this week? Have you played Bayonetta Origins? Let us know in the comments below, and keep your eyes on GameLuster for more gaming news!
