We have a turn-up for the books within the weekly Famitsu charts! Not solely are there eight new titles within the software program gross sales class, however Sony has taken a agency grasp of the highest ten, with seven of the week’s finest sellers releasing on both the PlayStation 4 or 5.

The best-selling Switch sport of the week is SD Gundam Battle Alliance, a multiplayer motion RPG set within the vastly widespread Gundam universe. The sport has charted three separate instances — on Switch, PS4, and PS5 — with the Nintendo launch of the sport inserting in second place proper behind Earth Defense Force 6 on PS4. The Gundam sport managed to promote a decent 38,634 items on its debut on the hybrid console.

The solely different two Switch video games amidst the highest ten are Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Nintendo Switch Sports, at seven and eight respectively. This is the most important drop for Nintendo Switch Sports since its launch. That means Kirby’s Dream Buffet, Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak, and Xenoblade Chronicles 3 have slipped out of the highest ten.

Here’s the total high ten for the week of twenty second August to twenty eighth August:

1. [PS4] Earth Defense Force 6 (D3 Publisher, 08/26/22) – 68,341 (New)
2. [NSW] SD Gundam Battle Alliance (Bandai Namco, 08/25/22) – 38,634 (New)
3. [PS4] Soul Hackers 2 (ATLUS, 08/25/22) – 31,604 (New)
4. [PS5] Earth Defense Force 6 (D3 Publisher, 08/26/22) – 24,363 (New)
5. [PS5] Soul Hackers 2 (ATLUS, 08/25/22) – 20,257 (New)
6. [PS4] SD Gundam Battle Alliance (Bandai Namco, 08/25/22) – 17,950 (New)
7. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 11,644 (4,802,581)
8. [NSW] Nintendo Switch Sports (Nintendo, 04/29/22) – 10,576 (706,637)
9. [PS4] Saints Row (PLAION, 08/23/22) – 10,013 (New)
10. [PS5] SD Gundam Battle Alliance (Bandai Namco, 08/25/22) – 9,625 (New)

Software gross sales have additionally seen Sony doing extremely properly, with the PlayStation 5 promoting almost 22,000 items. However, it may possibly’t make a dent within the Switch OLED’s 87,321 items offered. The Switch fashions are a bit extra cut up up this week, with the OLED a the highest, the common mannequin in third, and the Lite in fifth behind the Xbox Series X.

1. Switch OLED Model – 87,321 (2,311,142)
2. PlayStation 5 – 21,628 (1,629,033)
3. Switch – 17,558 (18,616,044)
4. Xbox Series X – 10,044 (154,575)
5. Switch Lite – 8,651 (4,870,733)
6. Xbox Series S – 6,682 (163,699)
7. PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 3,481 (262,312)
8. New 2DS LL (together with 2DS) – 130 (1,188,550)
9. PlayStation 4 – 15 (7,819,839)

< Last week’s charts

Let us know what you consider the most recent Japanese charts within the feedback!