Weekly Famitsu Sales: Earth Defense Force: Iron Rain Takes Over

Period: The week of April 8 – April 14 (2019) Top-seller: Earth Defense Force: Iron Rain – 55,573 (PS4) Nintendo Switch: 54,101 (Last week – 46,850) New Nintendo 2DS LL & 2DS: 2,676 (3,469) New Nintendo 3DS LL: 664 (919) PlayStation 4: 6,662 (8,347) PlayStation 4 Pro: 5,131 (5,507) PlayStation Vita: 575 (482) Xbox One X: 47 (60) Xbox One S: 19 (33) << Last week’s software sales chart << How to read and understand sale   Last week in Japan, it was raining iron and an assortment of alien parts with the release of Earth Defense Force: Iron Rain, Nintendo Labo Toy-Con 04: VR Kit, and Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster for Switch. Here’s a look at how they performed in their opening week according to Famitsu’s sales tracker.   At #1 we have Earth Defense Force: Iron Rain with 55,563 units sold on PS4. This could be seen as a bit of a drop considering most of its previous entries sold easily over double of that in their debuts. The Nintendo Labo Toy-Con 04: VR Kit charted at #2 with 26,634 units sold, followed by Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster for Switch at #3 with 16,839 units sold.   The top-10 chart of the week is as follows:

  Sales data acquired from Famitsu.