{"id":39033,"date":"2026-06-11T16:23:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T16:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/39033\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T16:23:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T16:23:38","slug":"astro-bots-little-legs-carry-it-back-into-japans-sales-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/39033\/","title":{"rendered":"Astro Bot’s Little Legs Carry It Back into Japan’s Sales Charts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Astro<\/a><\/p>\n

Released almost two years ago, you wouldn\u2019t expect to find Astro Bot<\/a> charting in Japan right now. But with an extra 3,460 physical copies tacked on to its tally, the PS5 exclusive trotted into tenth in this latest Famitsu sales update<\/a>, tracking the week ending 7th June.<\/p>\n

The game has now sold 103,717 boxed units domestically, which isn\u2019t especially remarkable \u2013 but it ain\u2019t bad either. At last count, the title had sold 1.5 million units worldwide within nine weeks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This latest chart doesn\u2019t really reveal much else, to be honest. Switch 2 sales continue to slide on the back of its recent price increase, but it\u2019s still running rings around the PS5, which is actually cheaper in Japan at the moment.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the latest data for the week.<\/p>\n

Software Sales<\/p>\n

[NSW] Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream (Nintendo, 04\/16\/26) \u2013 50,151 (1,309,182)
\n[SW2] Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Square Enix, 06\/03\/26) \u2013 30,657 (New)
\n[SW2] eFootball Kick-Off! (Konami, 06\/03\/26) \u2013 20,047 (New)
\n[SW2] Pokemon Pokopia (The Pokemon Company, 03\/05\/26) \u2013 10,794 (1,049,201)
\n[SW2] Yoshi and the Mysterious Book (Nintendo, 05\/21\/26) \u2013 8,191 (60,553)
\n[SW2] Mario Kart World (Nintendo, 06\/05\/25) \u2013 7,381 (2,965,454)
\n[PS5] 007 First Light (IO Interactive, 05\/27\/26) \u2013 4,388 (25,078)
\n[NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06\/21\/18) \u2013 4,381 (4,218,943)
\n[SW2] A-Train9 Evolution (ARTDINK, 06\/04\/26) \u2013 3,550 (New)
\n[PS5] ASTRO BOT (SIE, 09\/06\/24) \u2013 3,460 (103,717)<\/p>\n

Hardware Sales<\/p>\n

Switch 2 \u2013 23,059 (5,888,272)
\nPS5 Digital Edition \u2013 6,731 (1,309,551)
\nSwitch Lite \u2013 4,099 (6,977,052)
\nSwitch OLED Model \u2013 2,978 (9,588,808)
\nPS5 Pro \u2013 1,644 (361,952)
\nSwitch \u2013 744 (20,301,079)
\nXbox Series X Digital Edition \u2013 368 (31,912)
\nXbox Series X \u2013 277 (327,491)
\nPS5 \u2013 271 (5,920,105)
\nXbox Series S \u2013 109 (342,328)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Released almost two years ago, you wouldn\u2019t expect to find Astro Bot charting in Japan right now. But…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1102,8,2769,483,1846],"class_list":["post-39033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-japan","tag-charts","tag-japan","tag-ps4","tag-ps5","tag-sales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}