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 September 9 – 15, as another brand new Switch title takes number one, this week going to The Hokkaido Serial Murder Case: The Okhotsk Disappearance – Memories in Ice, Tearful Figurine. That’s a mighty big title! The graphic adventure game following a police detective sold just under 21,000 copies in its debut, giving the Switch another #1 game, as the console crosses 2 million year-to-date units sold across the three varieties of Nintendo Switch.
Despite Nintendo’s dominance in both hardware and software, Sony still has a glimmer of hope with Astro Bot, the PS5 game that debuted at #2 last week and remains in the same place this week, thanks to just a 30% drop in sales. Astro Bot sold just under 9,000 copies this week, for a total of roughly 21,500 physical sales in Japan so far. It’s not a great number, but it’s something!
Here’s the full Famitsu software sales chart for September 9 – 15. Missed our last report where Astro Bot debuted in second place? Check out the previous Famitsu chart right here!
- The Hokkaido Serial Murder Case: The Okhotsk Disappearance – Memories in Ice, Tearful Figurine (Switch): 20,919 [new]
- Astro Bot (PS5): 8,882 [21,554 total]
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Switch): 7,840 [5,997,783 total]
- Nintendo Switch Sports (Switch): 7,069 [1,422,221 total]
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Switch): 6,967 [7,908,719 total]
- Minecraft (Switch): 5,713 [3,631,184 total]
- Power Pros. 2024-2025 (Switch): 4,750 [287,959 total]
- Pokémon Scarlet and Violet (Switch): 4,215 [5,411,506 total]
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Switch): 3,943 [5,583,573 total]
- Ring Fit Adventure (Switch): 3,538 [3,627,657 total]
Here’s the Famitsu hardware chart too. Console families are grouped together for simplicity.
- Switch: 50,574 [2,029,320 yearly total]
- PS5: 10,095 [1,073,729 yearly total]
- Xbox Series: 675 [85,472 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.
