Japan: Fire Emblem Engage dethroned this week and PS5 No.1

The latest Japanese physical video game software and hardware charts have come through from sales tracker Famitsu for the week of 23rd January, 2023 to 29th January, 2022. Last week’s No.1 Fire Emblem Engage has slipped down to No.4 in the software charts this week and has been replaced at No.1 by Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life, which is a remake for the classic Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life. Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life is scheduled to release this summer here in the west. Sony’s PlayStation 5 console has outsold the Switch this week, shifting an additional 62,908 units. The Nintendo Switch family sales were reasonably close as they sold 51,108 units. Here’s the best-sellers in the land of the rising sun.

Software Sales (followed by lifetime sales)

1. [NSW] Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life (Marvelous, 01/26/23) – 40,759 (New)
2. [NSW] Pokemon Scarlet / Pokemon Violet (The Pokemon Company, 11/18/22) – 37,265 (4,776,300)
3. [PS5] Forspoken (Square Enix, 01/24/23) – 29,055 (New)
4. [NSW] Fire Emblem Engage (Nintendo, 01/20/23) – 28,442 (173,000)
5. [NSW] Splatoon 3 (Nintendo, 09/09/22) – 14,844 (3,848,543)
6. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 13,138 (5,128,314)
7. [NSW] Disgaea 7: Vows of the Virtueless (Nippon Ichi Software, 01/26/23) – 10,359 (New)
8. [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 8,399 (3,025,019)
9. [NSW] Nintendo Switch Sports (Nintendo, 04/29/22) – 8,231 (986,742)
10. [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! (Konami, 11/19/20) – 6,041 (2,836,256)

Hardware Sales (followed by lifetime sales)

1. PlayStation 5 – 53,256 (2,266,567)
2. Switch OLED Model – 28,787 (3,816,361)
3. Switch – 12,564 (19,150,623)
4. Switch Lite – 9,757 (5,185,166)
5. PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 9,652 (345,151)
6. PlayStation 4 – 1,061 (7,850,876)
7. Xbox Series S – 830 (229,878)
8. Xbox Series X – 435 (173,518)
9. New 2DS LL (including 2DS) – 74 (1,190,380)

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