This week’s expanded Japanese software sales are as follows:
1. [NSW] Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake – 641,195 / NEW
2. [PS5] Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake – 180,575 / NEW
3. [NSW] Super Mario Party Jamboree – 32,762 / 442,593
4. [NSW] Mario & Luigi: Brothership – 15,168 / 78,609
5. [NSW] Beyblade X: XONE – 9,507 / NEW
6. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 5,784 / 7,954,332
7. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 5,647 / 6,055,931
8. [NSW] Minecraft – 4,771 / 3,676,339
9. [NSW] Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven – 4,551 / 96,293
10. [NSW] Luigi’s Mansion 3 – 4,445 / 1,051,401
Starting today, Nintendo Switch Online members can get their hands on the classic game Donkey Kong Land.
Rare originally made Donkey Kong Land in 1995. The game retains the side-scrolling platforming gameplay of the Donkey Kong Country series, but was adjusted for the handheld.
Yellow Dot’s upcoming game Let’s Cook Together 2 is seeing release on Nintendo Switch, it’s been confirmed. We also have a release date of February 6, 2024.
Let’s Cook Together 2 is a frantic cooking game that supports up to four players. Players can learn over 65 dish recipes, experience more than 250 levels, upgrade kitchen appliances, and travel around the world to make cooking meaningful again.
Publisher Forklift Interactive and developer South Blue Moon will be putting Automate It on Nintendo Switch, the two sides announced today. A release is currently planned for Q2 2025.
Automate It is a handcrafted level-based puzzle sim. Players will be constructing intricate infrastructures using conveyor belts, machinery, and automation.
Learn more about the project via the following overview:
NIS America today shared the latest details on Phantom Brave: The Lost Hero covering postgame content, DLC, and base features. The information drop comes ahead of the launch early next year.
Here’s the full rundown, courtesy of NIS America:
Blind Squirrel Games, a company typically associated with ports / remasters and being a support studio, today announced its new IP Cosmorons. The project is planned for a 2025 debut on Nintendo Switch.
Cosmorons is a pick-up-and-play arcade-style survival shooter. The game “blasts players into an intergalactic adventure as sentient robots—Drudges—conquering the cosmos with outlandish weapons and hijinks through dynamic single and multiplayer co-op gameplay.”
GSD data provides a look at the best-selling games across Europe in October 2024. It’s based on data for all physical game releases in major markets plus digital game sales from most major publishers.
Super Mario Party Jamboree appears at #5 for its debut. While off to a good start, sales are 6 percent lower than Mario Party Superstars. Keep in mind that as always, Nintendo does not report digital sales which could impact its rankings.
Pixel Games is about to release The Epyx Games: Sports Collection on Nintendo Switch, the company revealed today. It’s slated for November 28, 2024.
The Epyx Games: Sports Collection brings eight classic retro sports titles to the console. Players can relive over 50 different athletic and sporting events across the various titles in the remastered collection, including the best-seller California Games (1987).
Publisher Knights Peak and developer Primal Game Studio shared the latest on Mandragora, and the game’s release date is now set. It’ll be out for Nintendo Switch on April 17, 2025.
Mandragora, a story-driven side-scrolling action RPG, was first announced in August 2023. This is the first time we’ve had any sort of release window.
