According to Famitsu, over 179,000 consoles and over 144,000 physical copies of Mario Kart World were sold last week — a Switch 2 launch exclusive that is selling almost as well as the console itself.
Since June 5, Japanese players have purchased over 1.8 million consoles and 1.6 million physical copies of Mario Kart World, which accounted for about 41% of all physical game sales in the country last week. In Japan, it seems like they are talking more about Nintendo than anything else.
All ten of the best-selling physical games are products for Switch 2 or Switch 1, compatible with the new console, significantly outpacing PlayStation 5 sales.
Game sales (physical, total):
- [SW2] Mario Kart World – 144,911 (1,590,539)
- [SW2] Donkey Kong Bananza – 60,200 (267,255)
- [NSW] Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba 2 – 38,200 (92,691)
- [NSW] Minecraft – 20,204 (3,975,511)
- [SW2] Super Mario Party Jamboree – 19,172 (47,591)
- [NSW] Gradius Origin Collection – 18,998 (new)
- [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 18,111 (6,416,707)
- [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 12,575 (8,199,885)
- [NSW] Super Mario Party Jamboree – 12,040 (1,371,808)
- [NSW] Tamagotchi Plaza – 11,265 (172,862)
Console sales (total):
- Switch 2 – 179,641 (1,856,764)
- Switch OLED – 18,236 (9,133,370)
- Switch Lite – 13,135 (6,637,133)
- PlayStation 5 – 10,631 (5,740,276)
- Switch – 5,975 (20,136,443)
- PlayStation 5 Pro – 4,376 (239,593)
- PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 2,124 (983,641)
- Xbox Series X – 351 (321,574)
- Xbox Series S – 189 (339,231)
- Xbox Series X Digital Edition – 112 (21,286)
- PlayStation 4 – 32 (7,929,843)
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