The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III for PS4 leads this week’s Japanese sales charts according to Media Create. The new chapter in the franchise debuts with the regular numbers the PS3 entries use to do in the past. However, it seems like the fanbase that used to play the game on PS Vita have not transitioned to the home console yet, with an important volume of sales being lost unless the game manages to continue selling in the long term.

Electronic Arts’ FIFA 18 has a good debut on PS4 and Nintendo Switch, with the portable version performing better than in the United Kingdom comparatively. Still, the Western franchise still does slightly lower numbers than Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer, which took the top position two weeks ago. Koei Tecmo’s Fire Emblem Warriors has a decent debut, but lower than other musous like Hyrule Warriors.

Other new entries of the week include Fallout 4: Game of the Year Edition or Coven and Labyrinth of Refrain for PS4, but they enter in the lower positions of the top 20. That is still a better result than Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite and Knack 2, though, since those titles don’t even appear on the list.

On the hardware chart, Nintendo Switch sees an important surge in sales thanks to a higher volume of shipments, which in turn helped increasing the sales of Splatoon 2, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

Software List

  1. [PS4] The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III – 87.261 / NEW
  2. [PS4] FIFA 18 – 55.919 / NEW
  3. [NSW] Fire Emblem Warriors – 41.491 / NEW
  4. [NSW] Splatoon 2 – 29.704 / 1.190.563 (+36%)
  5. [NSW] Pokken Tournament DX – 23.543 / 76.938 (-56%)
  6. [3DS] Fire Emblem Warriors – 18.357 / NEW
  7. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 15.098 / 720.741 (+32%)
  8. [NSW] FIFA 18 – 12.616 / NEW
  9. [PS4] Genkai Tokki: Castle Panzers – 10.389 / NEW
  10. [PS4] Winning Eleven 2018 – 10.250 / 91.446 (-39%)
  11. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – 7.615 / 598.670 (+38%)
  12. [PS4] Destiny 2 – 7.371 / 88.688 (-33%)
  13. [PS4] Fallout 4: Game of the Year Edition – 6.507 / NEW
  14. [NSW] Monster Hunter Double Cross: Nintendo Switch Ver. – 6.350 / 146.883 (-8%)
  15. [PS4] Coven and Labyrinth of Refrain – 5.681 / NEW
  16. [3DS] Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age – 5.639 / 1.733.552 (-25%)
  17. [3DS] The Snack World: TreJarers – 5.073 / 172.833 (-15%)
  18. [PSV] Shinobi, Koi Utsutsu: Kanmitsu Hana Emaki – 4.629 / NEW
  19. [NSW] Dragon Ball: Xenoverse 2 for Nintendo Switch – 4.419 / 36.085
  20. [PS4] Everybody’s Golf – 4.213 / 148.645 (-46%)

Hardware List

  1. Nintendo Switch – 73.231
  2. PlayStation 4– 29.369
  3. Nintendo 3DS – 20.321
  4. PlayStation Vita – 3.732 05. Xbox One – 71
  5. Wii U – 68
  6. PlayStation 3 – 64

 

  • This article was updated on March 8th, 2018

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