Japan: Donkey Kong Country Returns HD debuts at #1

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It’s that time of the week again where its time to find out how video gaming hardware and physical gaming software did in Japan. Famitsu has decided to release the latest boxed video game and hardware charts. This time, it’s for for the week of January 13th to 19th. As usual, both of these sales charts are followed by lifetime sales.

This week was a very successful one for Nintendo. Out of the 10 games listed on the software sales chart, 7 of them are Switch games. One of those games is Donkey Kong Country Returns HD. This is the first weekly gaming charts to be posted by Famitsu since the game released, and it has debuted on the charts at #1. Meanwhile, the Switch OLED model was #1 on the hardware sales charts. Both software and hardware sales charts can be seen down below.

Software Sales (followed by lifetime sales)

[NSW] Donkey Kong Country Returns HD (Nintendo, 01/16/25) – 107,093 (New)
[PS5] Dynasty Warriors: Origins (Koei Tecmo, 01/17/25) – 63,805 (New)
[NSW] Tales of Graces f Remastered (Bandai Namco, 01/16/25) – 25,701 (New)
[NSW] Super Mario Party Jamboree (Nintendo, 10/17/24) – 23,154 (1,121,410)
[PS5] Tales of Graces f Remastered (Bandai Namco, 01/17/25) – 15,669 (New)
[NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 8,426 (6,215,983)
[NSW] Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake (Square Enix, 11/14/24) – 7,467 (979,980)
[NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo, 03/20/20) – 6,967 (8,051,842)
[NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 6,274 (3,792,302)
[PS5] SYNDUALITY: Echo of Ada Deluxe Edition (Bandai Namco, 01/16/25) – 5,197 (New)