Princess Peach: Showtime! debuted 1 month ago and despite not being one of the most successful franchises in Nintendomanaged to achieve good sales in Japan. However, the streak ended, as the princess of Mushroom Kingdom succumbed to a series of niches in the region.
After defending the top spot on the physical game sales list for 3 consecutive weeks, Princess Peach: Showtime! He couldn't take it anymore and gave up the crown to another exclusive game of nintendo switch: a visual novel that only came out in Japan and curiously it is also focused on the female audience and has a woman as the protagonist.
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What is the Japanese novel that defeated Princess Peach: Showtime! in Japan?
We are talking about Utakata no Uchroniaan exponent of the genre otome which allows you to date attractive men.
According to the figures of Famitsu (via Gematsu), this title that is in charge of the company Broccoli It debuted last Thursday and managed to sell out in 4 days 11,553 copieswhich were enough to dethrone Princess Peach: Showtime! (10,736 copies), who came very close to retaining the crown 4 weeks in a row.
Something curious is that, if it were not for Utakata no Uchronia, Princess Peach: Showtime! would have lost his throne in any way, since for some reason that escapes us Mario Kart 8 Deluxe sold 11,247 units in the past week, which included April 8 to 14.
From the April 1st, Famitsu no longer reports sales of the console family Nintendo 2DS.
Below you can see the list of the best-selling physical and hardware games in Japan.
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software sales
- Utakata no Uchronia — 11,553
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe — 11,247
- Princess Peach: Showtime! — 10,736
- Super Mario Bros. Wonder — 8881
- Nintendo Switch Sports — 7962
- Rise of the Ronin — 6985
- Minecraft — 5848
- Splatoon 3 — 5729
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons — 5342
- It Takes Two — 4832
hardware sales
- Nintendo Switch OLED — 58,336
- PlayStation 5 — 16,455
- Nintendo Switch Lite — 7114
- Nintendo Switch — 5763
- PlayStation 5 Digital Edition — 4486
- Xbox Series X — 1873
- Xbox Series S — 743
- PlayStation 4 — 41
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