
Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe Tops the Japanese Charts, PS5 Sells 92K, NS Sells 61K - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 02 March 2023 / 4,296 ViewsKirby’s Return to Dream Land Deluxe (NS) has debuted in first place on the retail charts in Japan with sales of 189,031units, according to Famitsu for the week ending February 26, 2023.
Octopath Traveler II (NS) debuted in second place with sales of 53,995 units, while the PlayStation 5 version debuted in eighth place with sales of 14,422 units.
Like a Dragon: Ishin! (PS4) debuted in third place with sales of 35,897 units, while the PlayStation 5 version debuted in fifth place with sales of 31,439 units.
ARK: Survival Evolved (NS) debuted in ninth place with sales of 13,200 units.
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet (NS) is in fifth place with sales of 23,703 units and Hogwarts Legacy (PS5) is in sixth place with sales of 21,932 units. Splatoon 3 (NS) is in seventh place with sales of 14,858 and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (NS) is in 10th place with sales of 10,159 units.
Six of the top 10 games are for the Nintendo Switch, while three are for the PlayStation 5 and one is for the PlayStation 4.
The PlayStation 5 was the best-selling platform with 91,729 units sold. The Nintendo Switch sold 61,384 units, the PlayStation 4 sold 1,646 units, the Xbox Series X|S sold 727 units, and the 3DS sold 72 units.
Here is the complete top 10:
- [NSW] Kirby’s Return to Dream Land Deluxe (Nintendo, 02/24/23) – 189,031 (New)
- [NSW] Octopath Traveler II (Square Enix, 02/24/23) – 53,995 (New)
- [PS4] Like a Dragon: Ishin! (SEGA, 02/22/23) – 35,897 (New)
- [PS5] Like a Dragon: Ishin! (SEGA, 02/22/23) – 31,439 (New)
- [NSW] Pokemon Scarlet / Pokemon Violet (The Pokemon Company, 11/18/22) – 23,703 (4,883,806)
- [PS5] Hogwarts Legacy (Warner Bros. Games), 02/10/23) – 21,932 (126,086)
- [NSW] Splatoon 3 (Nintendo, 09/09/22) – 14,858 (3,904,000)
- [PS5] Octopath Traveler II (Square Enix, 02/24/23) – 14,422 (New)
- [NSW] ARK: SUrvival Evolved (Spike Chunsoft, 02/24/23) – 13,200 (New)
- [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 10,159 (5,173,365)
Here is the hardware breakdown (followed by lifetime sales):
- PlayStation 5 – 77,281 (2,577,614)
- Switch OLED Model – 40,992 (3,952,054)
- PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 14,448 (401,086)
- Switch – 11,226 (19,197,506)
- Switch Lite – 9,166 (5,223,631)
- PlayStation 4 – 1,646 (7,856,171)
- Xbox Series X – 595 (179,001)
- Xbox Series S – 132 (250,301)
- New 2DS LL (including 2DS) – 72 (1,190,692)
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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189k is an alright opening for Kirby, especially for a remake. It is well short of the series record (Forgotten Land with 380k), but is perfectly in line with other 2D entries the past decade or so (the original had 144k, Triple Deluxe 225k, Planet Robobot 154k, and Star Allies 224k). Even if it sells a bit worse overall than usual, it should still break 500k sales in Japan alone.
On the other hand, Octopath Traveler 2 is a bit disappointing. The original had 109k Week 1 on just the Switch, so even if we're optimistic about sales for the PS4 version, that's still a notable drop. And that's also less than the Bravely games, which were all north of at least 90k.
I'm gonna blame SE for the poor marketing it has given to the game.
At least when Nintendo had the timed exclusive deal
, Like with BD 2 and Triangle Strategy, they were always a good sport to push these games heavily so people would actually notice them. Also I'd say the game.overall faces harder competition than it did on its first release, so it simply can't help itself.
SE prolly wanted the multiplat money this time thinking the game had widen it's fanbase overall, but it was always clear the bulk of it's playerbase was on the Switch.
Ps5 VR2 collapse with only 6.000 total sales in first week
Nice try!!
is MS finally making more series x consoles and fewer series s????
Xbox on fire ! 595 Series X !!!!