Monolith Soft’s Xenoblade Chronicles 2 had a decent entry in the Japanese sales charts, according to Media Create. The RPG managed to enter the software list at number 2 below Pokemon Ultra Sun/Moon, with sales slightly above the previous game, Xenoblade Chronicles X for Wii U. While the series has not benefited much from the powerful momentum of Nintendo’s new console, it is obviously capable of attract a healthy volume of sales. Also this Japanese debut is much better than the mediocre reception of the game in the United Kingdom earlier this week, where the game debuted at number 19.

Other titles to debut inside the top 10 this week were Kirby Battle Royale for 3DS and Nobunaga’s Ambition: Taishi for PS4 and Nintendo Switch, with the former attracting most of the sales. Sadly, there were a few other new releases this week that failed to make a strong impression in the charts, all of them debuting with less than 10.000 sales. They are Attack on Titan 2: Future Coordinates for 3DS, Little Witch Academia for PS4, and the Resident Evil Revelations Collection for Nintendo Switch.

As for hardware sales, Nintendo Switch easily kept the top position with slightly lower numbers than last week, but still rather huge compared to the rest of platforms. 3DS and PS4 follow with sizeable increases thanks to the proximity of Christmas, a situation that is expected to continue for the next few weeks.

Software List

  1. [3DS] Pokemon Ultra Sun / Ultra Moon – 107.657 / 944.074
  2. [NSW] Xenoblade Chronicles 2 – 97.732 / NEW
  3. [NSW] Super Mario Odyssey – 61.596 / 853.654
  4. [NSW] Splatoon 2 – 36.246 / 1.409.776
  5. [3DS] Kirby Battle Royale – 28.023 / NEW
  6. [PS4] Nobunaga’s Ambition: Taishi – 27.230 / NEW
  7. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 23.388 / 861.238
  8. [PS4] Call of Duty: World War II – 15.505 / 306.501
  9. [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf Amiibo+ – 13.068 / 294.639
  10. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – 11.634 / 668.649
  11. [3DS] Pokemon Ultra Sun / Ultra Moon – 10.872 / 278.952
  12. [3DS] Shingeki no Kyoujin 2: Mirai no Zahyou – 8.353 / NEW
  13. [PS4] Little Witch Academia: Chamber of Time – 8.069 / NEW
  14. [NSW] Resident Evil: Revelations Collection – 6.540 / NEW
  15. [3DS] Girls Mode 4 – 6.450 / 61.055
  16. [PS4] Star Wars Battlefront II – 5.886 / 55.389
  17. [NSW] Nobunaga’s Ambition: Taishi – 5.636 / NEW
  18. [PS4] Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Future Tone DX – 5.579 / 40.475
  19. [PS4] Gran Turismo Sport – 5.542 / 198.985
  20. [NSW] 1-2-Switch – 4.758 / 287.866

Hardware List

  1. Nintendo Switch – 124.770
  2. Nintendo 3DS – 36.238
  3. PlayStation 4 – 33.407
  4. PlayStation Vita – 6.127 05. Xbox One – 508
  5. PlayStation 3 – 48
  6. Wii U – 45
  • This article was updated on March 8th, 2018

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