Princess Peach: Showtime! Tops the Japanese Charts, Winning Post 10 2024 Debuts - Sales

by William D'Angelo , posted on 04 April 2024 / 4,272 Views

Princess Peach: Showtime! (NS) has remained in first place on the retail charts in Japan with sales of 27,258 units, according to Famitsu for the week ending March 31, 2024.

Winning Post 10 2024 (NS) debuted in third place with sales of 12,845 units. The PlayStation 5 version debuted in seventh place with sales of 6,733 units.

Rise of the Ronin (PS5) is up one spot to second place with sales of 20,139 units and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (NS) is up one spot to fourth place with sales of 10,432 units.

Dragon’s Dogma 2 (PS5) fell from second to fifth place with sales of 9,172 units and Super Mario Bros. Wonder (NS) remained in sixth place with sales of 8,163 units.

Minecraft (NS) is up from 10th to eighth place with sales of 6,618 units, Animal Crossing: New Horizons (NS) is in ninth place with sales of 6,411 units, and Splatoon 3 (NS) is in 10th place with sales of 6,172 units.

The Nintendo Switch was the best-selling platform with 57,533 units sold. The PlayStation 5 sold 20,846 units, the Xbox Series X|S sold 1,376 units, the PlayStation 4 sold 679 units, and the 3DS sold 6 units.

Here is the best-selling games in Japan:

[NSW] Princess Peach: Showtime! (Nintendo, 03/22/24) – 27,258 (104,820)
[PS5] Rise of the Ronin (SIE, 03/22/24) – 20,139 (84,785)
[NSW] Winning Post 10 2024 (Koei Tecmo, 03/28/24) – 12,845 (New)
[NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 10,432 (5,768,608)
[PS5] Dragon’s Dogma II (Capcom, 03/22/24) – 9,172 (77,764)
[NSW] Super Mario Bros. Wonder (Nintendo, 10/20/23) – 8,163 (1,803,747)
[PS5] Winning Post 10 2024 (Koei Tecmo, 03/28/24) – 6,733 (New)
[NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 6,618 (3,483,557)
[NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo, 03/20/20) – 6,411 (7,729,183)
[NSW] Splatoon 3 (Nintendo, 09/09/22) – 6,172 (4,264,330)

Here is the hardware breakdown (followed by lifetime sales):

Switch OLED Model – 42,957 (6,958,780)
PlayStation 5 – 18,272 (4,713,002)
Switch Lite – 8,302 (5,793,705)
Switch – 6,274 (19,755,912)
PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 2,574 (746,561)
Xbox Series X – 938 (252,674)
PlayStation 4 – 679 (7,925,339)
Xbox Series S – 438 (306,446)
New 2DS LL (including 2DS) -6 (1,192,906)

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.

11 Comments

Mars2001 (on 04 April 2024)

Ps5 collapse already in JP?Only 20K per week

Shtinamin_ (on 04 April 2024)

Switch is on course to sell >2.5M for 2024 in Japan.
PS5 is on course to sell <2.5M for 2024 in Japan.
Xbox Series is on course to sell >100k for 2024 in Japan.
*edit: I got the signs backwards oops

Qwark Shtinamin_ (on 04 April 2024)

PS5 is on course to sell 1.5 million at this point

Shtinamin_ Qwark (on 04 April 2024)

Agreed. Considering that PS5 is nearing an average of 35k per week.
And looking at last year’s data, March had some of the lowest sales for comparisons. They reached 34k in March. This week was 20k. A -40% decline YoY. If this -40% YoY continues then yes 1.5M for PS5 is assured.

moschefenty Shtinamin_ (on 04 April 2024)

3,5m switch
1,5m ps5*

Shtinamin_ moschefenty (on 04 April 2024)

Cool! Honestly I can see the Switch reaching 3.5M, which is a -11.4% decrease YoY.
Right now the Switch sits at -31.6% decrease YoY (Switch was at 1.05M by the same week, Switch this year sits at about 0.72M,
I think a good realistic floor goal is 2.6M, though this may increase once we know what the holiday games are. 2.6M will be a -34.2% decrease YoY. And if we take a look at XtremeBG 's post "Japan Console Showdown 2024" we see the Switch is providing a fairly straight line through Q4 (much like how it did for 2023). The trends point towards 2.6M. We will have to wait and see what Nintendo brings for the second half of 2024.

If the PS5 sells 1.5M in Japan, it will be a clear sign that PS5 wont be able to reach 20M as their goal (20M is what a solid number of the users here are predicting). Last year PS5 sold 7.93M in the Americas, and 7.87M in Europe, and in a YoY comparison is down -14.8% and up 2.8% respectively. If this trend is to follow PS5 will sell 16.35M (6.76M Americas, 8.09M Europe, 1.5 Japan) which is a -24.4% decrease from 2023.

moschefenty Shtinamin_ (on 05 April 2024)

your data is a little incorrect for January-March

2024- 721.741 | 2023 - 936.351= -214.610 (famitsu)

https://www.installbaseforum.com/forums/threads/media-create-sales-week-13-2024-mar-25-mar-31.2553/

Jan-Mar as vendas de hardware:
Switch caíram 12%
PS5 caiu 39%