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2020/03

Pokémon Sword And Shield, Persona 5 Scramble, And Minecraft Top Famitsu Sales Chart

The sales numbers are in, and it looks like Famitsu is topped by Pokémon Sword and Shield. Nevertheless, Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers and Minecraft snag second and third place.

The following chart from famitsu.com covers sales from February 24th to March 1st, 2020. Additionally, website nintendoeverything.com has translated the top ten games as seen below:

  1. [Switch] Pokémon Sword and Shield — 24,886 / 3,470,647
  2. [PS4] Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers — 19,504 / 135,499
  3. [Switch] Minecraft — 12,510 / 1,285,095
  4. [Switch] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe — 11,958 / 2,793,235
  5. [Switch] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate — 11,635 / 3,581,055
  6. [Switch] Mega Man Zero/ZX Legacy Collection — 11,610 / N/A
  7. [Switch] Ring Fit Adventure — 8,958 / 704,963
  8. [Switch] Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers — 8,889 / 55,304
  9. [Switch] Super Mario Party — 7,650 / 1,354,554
  10. [Switch] Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Training for Switch — 7,644 / 165,331

If you have trouble reading the above format, the platform appears first (in brackets), and after that is the working title, current sales, and lifetime accumulative sales — the N/A stands for “not available” due to a game being new.

At this point, Pokémon Sword and Shield shouldn’t surprise you that it’s the top game on the Famitsu sales chart. The monster-catching game is, at this point, the Japanese version of the UK’s version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare or FIFA 20.

Moreover, Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers (for PS4) managed to grab second place. And from late last month to March 1st, Persona 5 Scramble sales have reached 19,504, while lifetime sales stand at 135,499.

Standing firm in third place comes Minecraft (the Switch edition). Much like the UK charts, the Famitsu numbers see the Switch edition out of the top five and in the top three.

Other games on the chart consist of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe coming in fourth, with Super Smash Bros. Ultimate following alongside other titles such as Mega Man Zero/ZX Legacy Collection, Ring Fit Adventure, Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers, Super Mario Party, and Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Training for Switch.

If you want to learn more about Famitsu hardware and software sales, you can hit up nintendoeverything.com.

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