Japan: Unicorn Overlord shoots to No.1 this week

The latest Japanese boxed video game software and hardware sales have come through from the team at Weekly Famitsu. The best-selling game this week in The Land of the Rising Sun is Vanillaware’s epic tactical strategy RPG, Unicorn Overlord, which shifted the most amount of units on the Nintendo Switch. Talking of the Nintendo Switch, it remains the most popular system shifting an additional 65,898 units.

Software Sales (followed by lifetime sales)

1. [NSW] Unicorn Overlord (ATLUS, 03/08/24) – 40,991 (New)
2. [PS5] Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Square Enix, 02/29/24) – 24,482 (287,138)
3. [PS5] Unicorn Overlord (ATLUS, 03/08/24) – 24,398 (New)
4. [NSW] Fitness Boxing feat. Hatsune Miku: Isshoni Exercise (Imagineer, 03/07/24) – 14,128 (New)
5. [NSW] Mario vs. Donkey Kong (Nintendo, 02/16/24) – 13,238 (116,761)
6. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 11,669 (5,739,869)
7. [NSW] Super Mario Bros. Wonder (Nintendo, 10/20/23) – 11,417 (1,779,209)
8. [PS4] Unicorn Overlord (ATLUS, 03/08/24) – 8,797 (New)
9. [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu World: Chikyuu wa Kibou de Mawatteru! (Konami, 11/16/23) – 7,053 (1,006,010)
10. [NSW] Splatoon 3 (Nintendo, 09/09/22) – 6,460 (4,246,168)

Hardware Sales (followed by lifetime sales)

1. Switch OLED Model – 50,240 (6,838,219)
2. PlayStation 5 – 34,799 (4,647,882)
3. Switch Lite – 10,762 (5,770,240)
4. PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 4,265 (736,531)
5. Switch – 4,896 (19,738,694)
6. Xbox Series X – 2,290 (259,961)
7. PlayStation 4 – 1,816 (7,923,822)
8. Xbox Series S – 1,456 (304,927)
9. New 2DS LL (including 2DS) – 14 (1,192,879)

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