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Two Japanese sales charts articles in one week? Are they trying to do us in? The numbers for the first week of 2018 are here, and despite Nintendo absolutely dominating the software charts, the PlayStation 4 managed to rack up some decent figures.

The standard model enjoyed a reasonable sales boost, jumping from 37,000 units to 75,000 units. The Pro, meanwhile, hopped from 12,000 units to 16,000 units. In total, that's close to 100,000 units in week, which isn't too shabby for a console that's over four years old.

Now, we wait for Monster Hunter: World.

Hardware sales

  1. Switch – 146,006 (134,519)
  2. PlayStation 4 – 75,344 (37,175)
  3. New 2DS LL – 28,237 (20,409)
  4. PlayStation 4 Pro – 16,339 (12,456)
  5. New 3DS LL – 12,246 (12,542)
  6. PlayStation Vita – 11,929 (7,970)
  7. 2DS – 5,254 (3,700)
  8. Xbox One – 190 (335)
  9. Xbox One X – 9 (23)

Software sales

  1. [NSW] Splatoon 2 (Bundle Version Included) (Nintendo, 07/21/17) – 117,840 (1,882,709)
  2. [NSW] Super Mario Odyssey (Bundle Version Included) (Nintendo, 10/27/17) – 110,816 (1,508,148)
  3. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04,28,17) – 82,806 (1,215,599)
  4. [3DS] Pokemon Ultra Sun / Ultra Moon (Nintendo, 11/17/17) – 69,355 (1,477,015)
  5. [3DS] Mario Party: The Top 100 (Nintendo, 12/28/17) – 51,818 (103,999)
  6. [3DS] Yo-kai Watch Busters 2: Treasure Legend Banbaraya – Sword / Magnmum (Level-5, 12/16/17) – 34,565 (465,985)
  7. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Limited Edition Included) (Nintendo, 03/03/17) – 31,761 (802,811)
  8. [NSW] Arms (Nintendo, 06/16/17) – 25,374 (339,328)
  9. [NSW] 1-2-Switch (Nintendo, 03/03/17) – 21,104 (371,033)
  10. [PS4] Earth Defense Force 5 (D3 Publisher, 12/07/17) – 19,948 (201,414)
  11. [3DS] Kirby: Battle Royale (Nintendo, 11/30/17) – 14,561 (139,564)
  12. [PS4] Call of Duty: WWII (SIE, 11/03/17) – 13,305 (362,009)
  13. [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf Amiibo+ (Nintendo, 11/23/16) – 13,208 (357,703)
  14. [NSW] Pokken Tournament DX (Nintendo, 09/22/17) – 12,553 (204,038)
  15. [NSW] Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (Limited Edition Included) (Nintendo, 12/01/17) – 11,483 (168,200)
  16. [PSV] Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition (SIE, 03/19/17) – 9,517 (1,273,777)
  17. [NSW] Summiko Gurashi: Sumikko Park e Youkoso (Nippon Columbia, 12/07/17) – 9,505 (47,989)
  18. [NSW] Snipperclips Plus: Cut It Out Together (NIntendo, 11/10/17) – 9,290 (43,909)
  19. [NSW] FIFA 18 (EA, 09/29/17) – 8,915 (71,698)
  20. [3DS] Style Savvy: Styling Star (Nintendo, 11/02/17) – 8,639 (119,777)

[source 4gamer.net, via gematsu.com]