Famitsu: Donkey Kong Bananza Sales Fall Second To Mario Kart World

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 July 21 – 27, as Donkey Kong Bananza has a fairly solid second week drop down to around 54,000 units sold. That’s a 58% drop, which is promising that the game didn’t fall in the 60% or beyond range. This suggests that Donkey Kong Bananza sales will have legs, and will gradually build up its sales like many evergreen Nintendo games do.

Despite its small second week drop, Donkey Kong Bananza fell to #2 on the charts thanks to Mario Kart World overtaking it, and returning to the top spot. The racer that launched the Switch 2 generation has now spent 8 weeks at #1, after a brief dip last week following Donkey Kong’s arrival. The Switch 2 edition of Super Mario Party Jamboree made its debut this week too, taking #3 with a little over 18,000 sales thanks to weak critical reception and players opting to purchase the digital upgrade for their existing copies of the Switch game. 

Finally, Wuchang: Fallen Feathers managed to sell over 14,000 copies, and gives PlayStation a spot on the chart. Without Wuchang, it would’ve been yet another week dominated entirely by Switch and Switch 2 releases!

Here’s the full Famitsu software sales chart for July 21 – 27. Missed our last report where Donkey Kong Bananza had its #1 debut? Check out the previous Famitsu sales chart right here!

1. Mario Kart World (Switch 2): 76,224 [1,571,833 total]
2. Donkey Kong Bananza (Switch 2): 53,951 [181,856 total]
3. Super Mario Party Jamboree (Switch 2): 18,169 [new]
4. Wuchang: Fallen Feathers (PS5): 14,490 [new]
5. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Switch): 10,213 [6,391,569 total]
6. Utakata no Uchronia: Trail (Switch): 9,105 [new]
7. Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Switch): 8,919 [8,181,899 total]
8. Minecraft (Switch): 8,101 [3,947,375 total]
9. Tamagotchi Plaza (Switch): 6,744 [156,023 total]
10. Super Mario Party Jamboree (Switch): 5,879 [1,355,544 total]

Here’s the Famitsu hardware chart too. Console families are grouped together for simplicity.

1. Switch 2: 92,013 [1,846,889 yearly total]
2. Switch: 14,643 [955,204 yearly total]
3. PS5: 6,920 [520,232 yearly total]
4. Xbox Series: 271 [23,467 yearly total]

Did you pick up any of the games on the Famitsu chart this week? Let us know in the comments below, and keep your eyes on GameLuster for more breaking gaming news.