 Hey everyone today We're going to be talking about the launch sales for links awakening and the Nintendo switch light in Japan Which you would figure should be a pretty big market for both titles because Japan Cares a lot about handheld gaming in comparison to the rest of the world Obviously the switch light being the most handheld version of the switch itself and the sales actually Underwhelmed in some regards, but we're going to talk about it because it's still pretty impressive and links awakening itself is obviously One of the most successful handhelds all the games of all time after those I don't know It is my very first ever Zelda experience I played links awakening on a bus way long ago when I was a kid then links awakening DX and obviously now We have links awakening on Nintendo switch fully remastered just called links awakening I kind of like that they didn't really throw the remastered or the HD after they say hey look it's just links awakening It's been 20 plus years. Here you go play this game again And see what you think so the sales are in and first Let's just focus on the games and I'm getting all of this data from Femitsu And I am using Nintendo life as the overall source for this information I'll put a link to the Nintendo life and Femitsu down in the description if you'd like to double-check on the sources And at the number one spot obviously this week was the Legend of Zelda links awakening brand new game So the hundred and forty one thousand three hundred and seventy five units now if you're wondering how this compares the breadth of The wild back at the launch of switch it sold around a hundred and eighty thousand units So it only sold about 40,000 units less with a game that should not be as popular as Breath of the Wild So that's actually a really great start for links awakening in Japan And we'll have to see how the week two week three sales and all that go and just see where links awakening is gonna end up Because I have this general worldwide prediction that I think links awakening is gonna sell about five million units Worldwide when it's all said and done of course, you know We're talking years down their home when it's all said and done So it'll be interesting to see where it ends up falling in Japan in comparison to prior handheld specific Zelda games You know the top-down style ones that have been exclusive to handhelds basically outside of four swords adventures since Ocarina of Time came out Now if you look at the rest of the chart There are three PlayStation 4 games including at the number two and number three spots monster hunter world ice-born master edition Is up there, you know at thirty nine thousand five hundred and ninety four units moving around three hundred thousand I believe that is the version that comes with all the brand-new DLC So that's not too shocking to see that up there because monster hunter is a very popular IP especially in Japan Obviously e-football winning eleven twenty twenty from Konami chiming in at number three on PlayStation 4 movie Nineteen thousand two hundred forty nine units But now we get into the bevy of Nintendo releases including one more new one That's more of a PlayStation 4 port, but still nice to have first off Super Mario maker 2 is in at number four Moving fourteen thousand nine hundred five units that has now moved over Six hundred thousand units in Japan as you're seeing on the chart So Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is still in the top five having released last December at twelve thousand two hundred sixty six Having moved over three point two million units in just Japan crazy numbers And then we see Nino Cooney wrath of the white witch again I said it kind of like a port from PlayStation 4 a late port But it moved eleven thousand two hundred thirty seven units in its first week on the market Minecraft for switch is still just chugging along moving ten thousand eight hundred thirteen units and moving over nine hundred thousand units in Japan probably gonna move over a million when it's all said and done Mario Kart 8 deluxe times it at number eight million ten thousand seven hundred eighty six Units and you know almost at two point five million Mario Kart 8 deluxe is getting up there And then we also see fishing spirits Nintendo switch version by Bandai Namco Moving another close to ten thousand nine point eight thousand And actually a decent amount on switch for a third-party game. It's all about fishing At hundred seventy thousand and then obviously one of the more recent big triple-a releases is still there at number ten for PlayStation 4 And Borderlands 3 moving eight point eight thousand units Now obviously we got to talk about the switch sales next because this is the launch It might people might care about more than links awakening is this awakening is gonna kind of trail off and you know Luigi's mansion three's gonna pop up Pokemon Sword and shield all that stuff who knows maybe even ring fit adventure in December But switch light is potentially going to be the number one selling unit in Japan for quite some time of switch Just because it's two hundred dollars. So it's a hundred dollars cheaper and it's portable And that's what Japan cares about more than TV play But we got some interesting numbers here So the new Nintendo switch light or you know, Nintendo switch light with the new moniker in front of it on the charts moved a hundred and seventy seven thousand nine hundred and thirty six units now That is actually really really good again launching outside of a holiday period outside of a launch period in general for a system but Nintendo stock did end up dropping about three point seven percent or so yesterday just because the Projections from a lot of stock analyst companies were that it would move 300,000 units in Japan. So it did fell short of stock analyst projections I don't know obviously what Nintendo's internal projections were but a hundred and seventy seven thousand units is not Terrible by any stretch of the means and this is in addition to the fact that the Nintendo switch itself the OG the one with The dock and all that for three hundred also move sixty one thousand eight hundred and four units last week Which is a lot that puts the combined total that over, you know 230,000 plus units sold of switches last week in a week when only a hundred forty thousand of the You know new Zelda games sold so pretty crazy and obviously when you compared to PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 4 pro Xbox one Excellent excellent as as you're seeing on the chart Switch is kind of in the league of its own right now and it's on the switch I had already passed PlayStation 4's total sales a little bit ago It's only gonna get worse as the light and the switch continued to tag team that sales chart moving forward Obviously, I think it might have even surpassed the 3DS way. No, I know not it hasn't surpassed 3DS overall yet Sorry, these charts are only showing the new Nintendo 2DS and the Nintendo 3DS I'm not showing the original 3DS sales so switch hasn't passed that yet But it's getting there and obviously it's passed Vita, but I you know when I sit back and I look at the charts I start to feel like The switch lights doing just fine Maybe it didn't sell exactly what analysts thought it might do But I can we're outside of that holiday period and Link's awakening while a big launch is technically like a remaster of an old game It didn't launch you know switch light didn't launch with a Brand new big-name title like if switch light had launched alongside Pokemon Sword and Shield You can bet these launch numbers would be significantly higher So it's one of those things where there is a special edition switch light coming out with Sword and Shield in November So I think we need to really wait till we hit the holidays to find out how popular switch light is going to end up being in Japan because I have a feeling it's gonna sell multiple millions of units over the next few months in Japan So just stay tuned I mean people aren't gonna go buy a switch light when they don't want when it's not tied to a game They necessarily want to buy it right now the least awakening numbers are obviously pretty impressive But I don't know if it's gonna have as long of a tale of sales as Breath of the Wild is we're breath of the wild Still every now and then bounces back into the top 10 for Mitsu So I don't know what the wait and see what happens with that, but I'm pretty excited And obviously we know we have Luigi's Mansion 3 coming up on Halloween. Can you believe Nintendo's actually gonna release it on Halloween? That's crazy something to play fresh on my favorite holiday of the year. I love Halloween Seriously, I don't know if there is a holiday that I get more excited by then than this one But anyways, that's all I got for you guys today. So hopefully you Actually, I kind of just want to know your guys's thoughts on the sales themselves You know, are you impressed by these sales in Japan? I impressed by the switchlight sales Do you think it underwhelmed? Do you own a switch light because I actually am having a hard time finding anyone who owns a switch light because so many of People I know already owned a switch and didn't really feel like buying a light. So I do you own it We talked yesterday how potentially there's some drifting issues starting to happen Are you experiencing those drifting issues or you know, is it not happening to yet? What are your thoughts on the switch light in general? What are your thoughts on links awakening as well? That's been like the big launch lately There's been some controversy because of the frame rate drops from 60 to 30 back to 60 Even some transitional frame rates that seem to drop for like 15 or something when you go between screens and scenes So that's something just to note and keep in mind. I don't know if it's bothering people Maybe you're all in love with it. Obviously, there's a big debate on if it's worth 60 bucks I'm actually working on a video right now about the value of games and the subjectiveness of it and links awakening is gonna be a big topic in that one Whether it is worth that $60 price tag despite being a remaster despite being an old an older game That's not as long, you know, is it is the same value as Breath of the Wild because they both launch at 60 bucks So there's a big debate to happen there and I can't wait to make that video But until next time folks, I am Nathan Robeljens from the Tenor Prime I want to thank you for tuning in and I will catch you in the next video