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The final Japanese hardware and software charts of 2016 are in, and the PlayStation 4 has reclaimed its place at the top of the former. Sony's current-gen console jumped Nintendo's New 3DS LL, shifting a relatively healthy 73,421 units. That means the PS4 manged to sell through almost 1.8 million units in Japan last year. Not an amazing figure, but it's the only device to have sold more in 2016 than it did in 2015.

Sadly, the software charts weren't so kind to PlayStation. With no new releases, the only PS4 title to make it into the top five was Final Fantasy XV, which has now sold a total of 884,422 copies in the Land of the Rising Sun. Over the next couple of months, it may be able to break the one million mark.

Hardware sales

  1. PlayStation 4 – 73,421 (90,140)
  2. New 3DS LL – 45,809 (111,513)
  3. PlayStation Vita – 25,487 (57,170)
  4. 2DS – 20,259 (51,077)
  5. PlayStation 4 Pro – 9,916 (10,098)
  6. New 3DS – 4,342 (13,694)
  7. Wii U – 2,589 (8,348)
  8. PlayStation 3 – 1,002 (1,234)
  9. Xbox One – 221 (830)
  10. 3DS – 72 (169)
  11. 3DS LL – 40 (109)

Software sales

  1. [3DS] Pokemon Sun / Pokemon Moon (Nintendo, 11/18/16) – 90,891 (2,949,287)
  2. [3DS] Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS (Nintendo, 12/01/16) – 73,002 (790,530)
  3. [3DS] Momotaro Dentetsu 2017: Tachiagare Nippon! (Nintendo, 12/22/16) – 63,577 (196,452)
  4. [3DS] Yo-kai Watch 3: Sukiyaki (Level-5, 12/15/16) – 49,350 (561,508)
  5. [PS4] Final Fantasy XV (Limited and Bundled Editions Included) (Square Enix, 11/29/16) – 30,381 (884,422)
  6. [PSV] Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition (SIE, 03/19/15) – 23,765 (1,042,463)
  7. [PS4] Yakuza 6: The Song of Life (Sega, 12/08/16) – 19,822 (312,500)
  8. [3DS] Miitopia (Nintendo, 12/08/16) – 18,259 (120,971)
  9. [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Welcome Amiibo (Nintendo, 11/24/16) – 10,858 (85,842)
  10. [3DS] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball Heroes (Konami, 12/15/16) – 10,710 (59,794)
  11. [Wii U] Minecraft: Wii U Edition (Mojang, 06/23/16) – 9,713 (257,654)
  12. [PS4] Watch Dogs 2 (Ubisoft, 12/01/16) – 9,466 (89,237)
  13. [PSV] SaGa: Scarlet Grace (Square Enix, 12/15/16) – 9,208 (88,673)
  14. [PS4] Grand Theft Auto V (Low Price Version) (10/08/15) – 8,429 (225,839)
  15. [3DS] Mario Party: Star Rush (Nintendo, 10/20/16) – 7,137 (135,024)
  16. [PS4] The Last Guardian (SIE, 12/06/16) – 6,452 (108,836)
  17. [3DS] Sumikko Gurashi Mura wo Tsukurun Desu (Nippon Columbia, 07/21/16) – 6,413 (137,580)
  18. [PS4] Battlefield 1 (EA, 10/21/16) – 5,791 (237,636)
  19. [3DS] Mario Kart 7 (Nintendo, 12/01/11) – 5,741 (2,714,357)
  20. [PS4] Resident Evil 6 (Capcom, 12/01/16) – 5,701 (19,814)

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