Japan’s physical charts stayed on Nintendo hardware for another week. Famitsu’s estimates for Oct. 26–Nov. 1 put Nintendo Switch Sports Resort for Switch 2 at No. 1 with 23,466 retail copies (88,098 lifetime), Gematsu reports, one week after launch.
Final Fantasy Resonance still mattered more as a multi-SKU package. Across Switch 2, PlayStation 5 and Switch, Resonance moved about 34,068 additional retail copies in the week — more than Sports Resort’s single-SKU total — even though the Switch 2 SKU alone ranked No. 2 at 14,462.
Minecraft’s Switch 2 edition was the highest-selling new release, opening at 11,754 copies for No. 3. Other new arrivals included Hello Kitty Party Land on Switch 2 and Switch, plus FuRyu’s ANOMALITH and several late-October bundles deeper in the chart.
Hardware told a familiar story: Switch 2 sold 68,733 units in the week, dwarfing the PlayStation 5 family’s 16,226 and the original Switch family’s 5,853. Xbox Series hardware managed 892.
Physical Japan numbers always understate digital, and cartridge supply anxiety is already part of the Nintendo beat after Macronix’s exit from ROM chips used in Switch carts. Even so, a Minecraft Switch 2 debut inside the Top 3 shows Microsoft’s evergreen still prints when a new SKU hits Kyoto’s shelves.
Ranks 11–30 arrive Nov. 6. Until then the headline cut is Sports Resort’s second-week hold, Resonance’s combined stack, Minecraft’s Switch 2 open, and another week where Switch 2 hardware outsold every other living-room box in Famitsu’s sample.
Second-week sports and party games often fall off a cliff in Japan; Sports Resort holding the single-SKU crown with another 23k suggests the motion bundle still has legs beyond launch weekend curiosity. Resonance’s split across three SKUs is the other lesson — Square Enix’s latest Final Fantasy spin still prints when you add the stacks together even if no single version owns the chart.
Minecraft’s Switch 2 open at just under 12k is modest next to Nintendo first-party rockets, but it is the cleanest new-release win of the week and proof that evergreen Western sandboxes still matter on Famitsu’s physical board when a new SKU finally arrives.
