Nintendo life charts1/17/2024 But everything we saw at the FTC trial, everything that's come from Microsoft to it's investors, everything that's been leaked to the press, ever public statement Satya Nadella has made speak to Microsoft buying Candy Crush developer Activision, to compete in mobile space. 100% of the discourse is about Call of Duty and Sony. You can see how disconnected most people are from Microsoft's reality by looking at the Activation deal. We know (again, from things disclosed at trail) that they are actually trying to get Game Pass on Switch. Selling consoles isn't even about selling consoles any more Everything is a means to an end, and that end is selling Game Pass, eventually as a steaming platform to extremely low end devises. Exclusives are not about moving consoles. Xbox is no longer trying to sell consoles. Meanwhile, Nintendo is dominating the landscape selling a 7 year old graphing calculator with joypads attached to it. It also saw record X series S sales, but didn't move the needle on the X series X. Starfield saw over 1 million new Game Pass subs and broke Xbox concurrent user records, while being the 3rd most played PC game on Steam at the same time. MS had the most successful and profitable quarter in Xbox history despite having a crap install base and seeing dwindling console sales. You need to follow the money to get a picture of what's going on. Thu 16th Nov can miss the point if you focused on fanboy nonsense.What do you make of this week's Japanese charts? Let us know in the comments. ![]() Here are the latest numbers on the hardware side of things: Perhaps the return of Super Mario RPG on the Nintendo console this week will shake things up, though it has a rather steep mountain to climb at the moment. This puts the Switch OLED rather firmly in second place this time around (with 44,217 sales), while the Lite and Standard models are shifted down the table to fourth and fifth respectively. Onto hardware now and it has been another big one for Sony's PlayStation 5 which sits at the top of the charts with a whopping 86,869 units sold following the national release of the new 'Slim' model on 10th November. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III (Activision, 11/10/23) – 8,962 (New).Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III (Activision, 11/10/23) – 22,132 (New).Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name (SEGA, 11/09/23) – 60,134 (New).Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name (SEGA, 11/09/23) – 63,319 (New).With that chatter out of the way, here's this week's top ten software sales in full: WarioWare: Move It! continues to perform better in Japan than it is in the UK, shifting another 13,340 copies this week, while last week's silver medallist, Fashion Dreamer, is still hanging in there at seventh with another 8,166 sales added to its total. This isn't to say that the Switch is underrepresented this week, mind you. Titles such as Mario Party Superstars, Super Mario Odyssey, Pokemon Violet, and Gotham Knights also made their way back into the charts this week.Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Watch on YouTube Meanwhile, Elden Ring is back in the Top 40 at No.25 due to price promotions, resulting in a 110% sales increase. Wreckfest came back at No.28 following a 97% rise in sales as a result of retail promotions of the PS5. ![]() The rest of the charts saw a few re-entries, including Football Manager 2024 at No.18 following the launch of a new PS5 version. Its position on the charts has pushed the base game up from No.15 to No.11 with a 3% increase in sales, mostly on PS4.Įlsewhere, the latest Sims 4 expansion, The Sims 4: For Rent, debuted at No.26. This edition includes the base game and Phantom Liberty expansion, in addition to new features and improvements. The next new edition to the physical charts is Cyberpunk 2077 Ultimate Edition at No.15 for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. While EA Sports FC held the top spot, Super Mario Bros Wonder has made it to No.2 followed by Hogwarts Legacy at No.3 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 at No.4. This is according to the GfK boxed charts which, as always, does not count digital sales so the game's overall performance is likely to be better. Ubisoft's Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora had to settle for No.5 in its debut week, with EA Sports FC 2024 still holding the top spot.
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