Japanese Charts: Mario Party Superstars Goes Top In A Busy Week For New Releases

Famitsu’s Japanese chart figures are now in for the week ending 31st October, revealing that Mario Party Superstars has gone straight in at number one.

The game sold an estimated 163,256 physical copies in its opening week in Japan, managing to fend off several newcomers releasing this week. Among the other new titles was Super Robot Wars 30, which sold better on Switch than PS4, and Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water, which did the opposite.

Nintendo’s usual fan-favourites round out the top ten, with Switch taking seven of the top ten places.

Here are the top ten (first numbers are this week’s estimated sales, followed by total sales):

[NSW] Mario Party Superstars (Nintendo, 10/29/21) – 163,256 (New)
[NSW] Super Robot Wars 30 (Bandai Namco, 10/28/21) – 70,849 (New)
[PS4] Super Robot Wars 30 (Bandai Namco, 10/28/21) – 60,386 (New)
[PS4] Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water (Koei Tecmo, 10/28/21) – 22,196 (New)
[NSW] Tokimeki Memorial: Girl’s Side 4th Heart (Konami, 10/28/21) – 21,675 (New)
[NSW] Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water (Koei Tecmo, 10/28/21) – 20,586 (New)
[PS4] Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Hinokami Chronicles (Aniplex, 10/14/21) – 9,351 (120,196)
[NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 12/07/18) – 9,225 (4,478,941)
[NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 8,829 (4,112,648)
[NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 8,715 (2,251,834)

In the hardware charts, the Switch OLED has now fallen below the original model in the pecking order after a strong week last week, with the Switch family generating around 75,000 sales in total. Here are this week’s figures, followed by lifetime sales in brackets: