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Japan’s top 15 games of 2024 dominated by Switch releases (UPDATE)

We’re just a couple of weeks into 2025 and it’s already proving to be quite exciting for Nintendo fans. It looks like this week will finally see the official reveal of Switch 2, but let’s take a moment to look back at 2024 and the original Switch for yet another incredible achievement.

There’s no doubt the Switch is quite long in the tooth by this point, but that hasn’t stopped millions of players around the world from picking up new software for the platform. That’s especially true in Japan, where hardware and software sales continue to be extremely strong for Nintendo. Case in point, the top 15 games of Japan in 2024.

The numbers have been crunched, and Switch titles absolutely dominated the top 15 in Japan for 2024(h/t VGC). This marks the 20th year in a row where Nintendo took the lion’s share of best-selling games in the top 15 for Japan. You can see what made the charts for 2024 below.

  1. Super Mario Party Jamboree! (Switch)- 954,261
  2. Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake (Switch) – 930,505
  3. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – (Switch) 536,019
  4. Super Mario Bros. Wonder (Switch) – 419,854
  5. Momotaro Dentetsu World (Switch) – 411,406
  6. Animal Crossing: New Horizons – (Switch) 377,781
  7. The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (Switch) – 372,903
  8. Minecraft (Switch) – 368,364
  9. Jikkyo Powerful Pro Baseball 2024-2025 (Switch) – 341,908
  10. Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (PS5) – 339,168
  11. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Switch) – 283,744
  12. Nintendo Switch Sports (Switch) – 267,937
  13. Pokémon Scarlet / Violet (Switch) – 244,663
  14. Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake (PS5) – 230,581
  15. Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Switch) – 222,524

UPDATE: We now have a much bigger look at game sales in Japan for 2024, as the top 100 titles of last year have been shared. Along with that, we learned that the Switch moved 3.1 million units throughout 2024, making it Japan’s best-selling game hardware for the 8th year in a row. To check out the top 100 best-selling games in Japan for 2024, check out the chart here.

Originally posted by gonintendo.com

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