Japanese Charts: Game Builder Garage Beats Final Fantasy VII And Ratchet & Clank To Number One

Famitsu’s Japanese chart figures are now in for the week ending 13th June, revealing that Game Builder Garage has gone straight in at number one in its debut week.

The game – which was treated to a physical edition in both Japan and North America, don’t forget – managed to sell an estimated 71,241 copies at retail to keep Square Enix’s updated Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade release off top spot. It leads a top ten with a healthy number of new entries, mostly for PlayStation systems.

On the Nintendo front, Miitopia remains Switch’s second-best effort at present, with Ring Fit Adventure also maintaining its incredibly strong performance.

Here are the top ten (first numbers are this week’s estimated sales, followed by total sales):

1. [NSW] Game Builder Garage (Nintendo, 06/11/21) – 71,241 (New)
2. [PS5] Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade (Square Enix, 06/10/21) – 20,889 (New)
3. [PS5] Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (06/11/21) – 14,663 (New)
4. [NSW] Miitopia (Nintendo, 05/21/21) – 14,579 (147,402)
5. [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure (Nintendo, 10/18/19) – 13,507 (2,627,908)
6. [PS4] Ninja Gaiden: Master Collection (Koei Tecmo, 06/10/21) – 12,210 (New)
7. [NSW] Monster Hunter Rise (Capcom, 03/26/21) – 11,951 (2,257,335)
8. [PS4] Guilty Gear: Strive (Arc System Works, 06/11/21) – 11,722 (New)
9. [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 11,661 (1,995,228)
10. [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! (Konami, 11/19/20) – 9,802 (2,223,507)

In the hardware charts, Switch is still leading the way. Here are this week’s figures, followed by lifetime sales in brackets:

1. Switch – 61,766 (16,304,390)
2. Switch Lite – 16,551 (3,889,413)
3. PlayStation 5 – 15,648 (684,515)
4. PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 3,771 (135,284)
5. Xbox Series X – 2,182 (36,185)
6. PlayStation 4 – 1,185 (7,792,135)
7. Xbox Series S – 512 (12,642)
8. New 2DS LL (including 2DS) – 395 (1,165,619)

< Last week’s charts (actually two weeks ago)

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