Japanese Charts: Booyah! Splatoon Raiders Puts Up Some Huge Week-One Numbers

We’ve got our latest look at the Japanese physical charts from Famitsu, and as will come as a surprise to absolutely nobody, Splatoon Raiders has got off to a flying start.

The series is huge in Japan, and Raiders’ week-one numbers show it. The spin-off racked up 474,684 sales in its opening week, comfortably pushing Rhythm Heaven Groove down a peg to second. It’s a far cry from Splatoon 3, which became Japan’s fastest-selling Nintendo game ever back in 2023 with 3.45 million sales in its first three days (physical and digital, mind you), but it’s nothing to be sniffed at.

Here’s a look at the top ten in full:

Hardware charts remain in much the same order as they have been for a couple of weeks now, but the Switch 2 has managed to take an even more commanding lead — thanks to the arrival of Raiders, no doubt.

Some reasonable PS5 Digital Edition sales mean that Sony’s latest system is once again ahead of all Switch 1 models this week, with the three PS5 SKUs combining for 9,184 and the Switch 1 systems totalling in at 7,167.

Here’s a breakdown of the figures for the week:

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