Making the list

Without any new releases or major events, the sales charts in Japan haven’t moved much the past two weeks. The one interesting note is thatPokémon Sun & Moonhave finally been dethroned in weekly sales by a game that isn’t new:Super Mario Maker for 3DS.Also interesting in thatGrand Theft Auto Vhas moved back up into the top 15 the past two weeks in the form of its “4990 yen version” which is roughly 42 USD.

I was surprised in the past few years how popular games likeGrand Theft Autoare even in Japan. Even a special education student one of the schools I taught at loved it: he didn’t want to study English, but he liked Trevor and could say “Martin Madrazo. Green light! Green light! Fuck you.” You know, important English terminology.

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PS4 and 3DS XL remain atop hardware sales, with 78,927 and 54,645 respectfully. Xbox One sold 180 boxes.

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Top 20 selling games this week in Japan. Lifetime sales inparentheses.

3DS games for sale

3DS and Wii U credit

Nintendo Switch StreetPass

StreetPass

3DS and Wii U

The Netflix Wii U app

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Pokémon Bank, Transporter and Home logos