Ladies and gentlemen, it's Wednesday. And like every Wednesday: Media Create has released its weekly sales charts of the Japanese market. For the week starting March 13 2017 and ending March 19th, the Nintendo Switch once again topped the hardware charts, which it has done every week since its launch on March 3rd. Meanwhile on the software front, we have another new top dog: Capcom's Monster Hunter XX, which managed to dethrone last week's dethroner, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands.
All the new additions to this week’s top 20, include: Monster Hunter XX (number 1), Senran Kagura: Peach Beach Splash (number 2), Accel World Vs. Sword Art Online: Millennium Twilight (number 3 and 5), Konoyo no Hashite de Koi o Utau Shoujo YU-NO (number 13 and 15), Future Card BuddyFight Mezase! Buddy Champion! (number 14).
Here’s the full software chart:
Important to note: Media Create counts only retail sales, meaning digital sales are not included.
- Monster Hunter XX – 3DS -- 848,467 / New
- Senran Kagura: Peach Beach Splash – PS4 -- 53,747 / New
- Accel World Vs. Sword Art Online: Millennium Twilight – PSV -- 38,653 / New
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – Nintendo Switch -- 32,115 / 262,977
- Accel World Vs. Sword Art Online: Millennium Twilight – PS4 -- 32,016 / New
- Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands – PS4 -- 26,628 / 116,419
- Horizon: Zero Dawn – PS4 -- 18,096 / 169,385
- Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 + 2.5 Remix — PS4 — 16,161 / 78,931
- 1-2-Switch -- Nintendo Switch -- 15,456 / 115,737
- NieR: Automata – PS4 -- 12,242 / 269,310
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – Wii U -- 11,308 / 73,392
- Pokémon Sun/Moon – 3DS -- 10,128 / 3,211,045
- Konoyo no Hashite de Koi o Utau Shoujo YU-NO -- PS4 -- 9,629 / New
- Future Card BuddyFight Mezase! Buddy Champion! – 3DS -- 9,349 / New
- Konoyo no Hashite de Koi o Utau Shoujo YU-NO -- PSV -- 8,858 / New
- Grand Theft Auto V (4,990 Yen Edition) – PS4 -- 6,012 / 303,560
- Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 3 Professional – 3DS -- 5,751 / 178,604
- Super Mario Maker -- 3DS -- 5,646 / 995,522
- Super Bomberman R – Nintendo Switch -- 5,583 / 50,756
- Super Robot Wars V – PS4 -- 4,680 / 126,486
And here's the hardware charts:
- Switch: 49,913
- New 3DS XL: 33,352
- PS4: 28,805
- PS Vita: 8,004
- 2DS: 6,131
- PS4 Pro: 5,823
- New 3DS: 2,796
- PS3: 2,212
- Wii U: 368
- Xbox One: 135
For reference: here’s last week’s charts.