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Japanese Charts: Nintendo Switch Sports Resort And Final Fantasy Resonance Go Head-To-Head
Nintendo Switch Sports Resort topped the Japanese software charts in its debut week, selling more than 64,000 copies. Final Fantasy Resonance also launched strongly, with its Switch 2, PS5 and Switch versions together exceeding 133,000 sales, making for a close contest at the top.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 entered the chart at fifth, while One Piece: Grand Gourmet debuted in seventh. On hardware, Switch 2 remained well ahead with 21,792 units sold; PS5 models totalled 16,008, compared with 4,916 across Switch 1 models.
In short
- Switch Sports Resort led with over 64,000 sales.
- Final Fantasy Resonance sold over 133,000 across three platforms.
- Switch 2 sold 21,792 units, leading Japanese hardware sales.
Explained simply
Japan’s weekly charts track sales of boxed games and consoles, offering a snapshot of what people are buying. A game’s total can include sales across several platforms, so figures for one title may combine copies sold on different consoles.
Nintendo is the Japanese company behind the Switch family of consoles, while Sony makes the PlayStation 5. Final Fantasy is a long-running role-playing game series published by Square Enix, and Call of Duty and One Piece are major entertainment franchises with games released across multiple platforms.
Chart positions can show how new releases perform at launch and how hardware demand is changing. They do not capture every sale, such as digital downloads, and a single week’s figures do not by themselves establish longer-term popularity.
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