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【ソフト＆ハード週間販売数】19万本を売り上げ『カービィのエアライダー』が好スタート！『ポケモンレジェンズ Z-A』『桃太郎電鉄2』など、Switch2タイトルも続々トップ10入り【11/17～11/23】 | ゲーム・エンタメ最新情報のファミ通.com

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[Weekly Software & Hardware Sales] Kirby's Air Rider Gets Off to a Great Start with 190,000 Units Sold! Switch 2 Titles Like Pokémon Legends ZA and Momotaro Dentetsu 2 Continue to Enter the Top 10 [11/17-11/23]

Famitsu's sales rankings. This time, we bring you a summary of estimated weekly sales figures for game software and hardware from November 17th to November 23rd, 2025 in Japan.

The action racing game Kirby Air Ride was released for the Nintendo GameCube in 2003 and continues to enjoy enduring popularity. Now, its successor Kirby Air Riders has been released 22 yearslater. It recorded impressive sales of 195,594 units and took the top spot. The Update data version 1.1.1 is currently available for this game and It adds a variety of new features, fixes bugs and adjustments, including the addition of an online mode. The addition of team battles in City Trials and the ability to share replays by posting them, and the addition of daily air rides and limited-time events.

Following Kirby Air Rider, many Nintendo Switch 2 titles are listed in second place and below,with both the Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch versions of Pokemon Legends ZA and Momotaro Dentetsu 2: Your Town Can Be There ranking in at the same time.

Meanwhile, looking at the hardware, sales of the Switch 2 console itself appear to be going well. Thanks in part to the release of the Kirby Air Rider bundle, sales reached a record 126,953 units. While the impact on sales was short-lived, the PlayStation 5 Digital Edition, which was released on November 21, 2025 as a Japanese-only edition also saw an increase in sales with 23,381 units sold.

Famitsu Sales Week 47, 2025 (Nov 17 - Nov 23)

Software

1st [Switch 2] Kirby Air Riders
195,594 (New) total 195,594 / Nintendo / November 20, 2025

2nd [Switch 2] Mario Kart World
67,068 (+6%) total 2,202,125 / Nintendo / June 5, 2025

3rd [Switch] Pokemon Legends ZA
28,480 (-6%) total 1,271,576 / Pokemon Company / October 16, 2025

4th [Switch] Momotaro Dentetsu 2 ~Your Town is Sure to Be There~
28,074 (-69%) total 118,780 / Konami / November 13, 2025

5th [Switch 2] Pokemon Legends ZA Nintendo Switch 2 Edition
22,060 (-13%) total 798,015 / Pokemon Company / October 16, 2025

6th [Switch 2] Momotaro Dentetsu 2 ~There's Surely a Town in Your Town~ Nintendo Switch 2
20,751 (-63%) total 77,558 / Konami / November 13, 2025

7th [Switch 2] Hyrule Warriors: Chronicles of the Forbidden Land
9,129 (-49%) total 100,121 / Koei Tecmo Games / November 6, 2025

8th [Switch] Dragon Quest I & II
8,302 (-38%) total 286,589 / Square Enix / October 30, 2025

9th [Switch] Minecraft
4,909 (+21%) total 4,050,140 / Microsoft Japan / June 21, 2018

10th [Switch] Animal Crossing: New Horizons
4,908 (+1%) total 8,258,611 / Nintendo / March 20, 2020

Hardware

• Switch 2: 126,953 (total 2,870,758)
• Switch: 5,976 (total 20,175,216)
• Switch Lite: 10,908 (total 6,737,073)
• Switch Oled: 12,486 (total 9,314,908)
• PS5: 2,235 (total 5,851,381)
• PS5 DE: 23,381 (total 1,048,176)
• PS5 Pro: 11,367 (total 280,176)
• Xbox Series X: 118 (total 323,683)
• Xbox Series X DE: 201 (total 24,080)
• Xbox Series S: 30 (total 340,097)
• PS4: 17 (total 7,930,078)

Decent start for the Japanese only PS5 model with only 3 days on sale.

But wasn't the new PS5 only supposed to be sold starting on the 23rd? So next week it should be even bigger for the PS5.

Switch at almost 30k again, crazy how well it still sells

Great opening for Kirby.

Here is a list of other Kirby opening weeks in Japan:

Kirby and the Forgotten Land – 380,060
Kirby Super Star Ultra – 260,867
Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards – 245,508
Kirby Triple Deluxe – 225,448
Kirby Star Allies – 223,811
Kirby Air Riders – 195,594
Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land – 189,843
Kirby and the Amazing Mirror – 176,225
Kirby: Planet Robobot – 153,878
Kirby Squeak Squad – 151,147
Kirby’s Return to Dream Land – 144,121
Kirby Super Star – 141,621
Kirby’s Epic Yarn – 109,253
Kirby Canvas Curse – 72,102
Kirby Mass Attack – 70,675
Kirby & the Rainbow Curse – 33,334
Kirby’s Dream Land 2 – 69,518
Kirby’s Extra Epic Yarn – 9,456

Incredible opening weekend for Air Riders! When accounting for digital, this likely placing the game as having the second biggest launch in the franchise history— I’d imagine digital is much higher now than when Star Allies released. For being such an early gen release, I could definitely see this game cranking out >5mil LTD.

With the cheaper model PS5, Playstation has got a shot to get to 1 million for the year.

FW Comparison for Kirby:

• Mario Kart World (NS2) - 782,566
• Kirby and the Forgotten Land (NS) - 380,060
• Kirby Air Riders (NS2) - 195,594 
• Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe (NS) - 189,031
• Gran Turismo 7 (PS4+PS5) - 137,964
• Kirby Air Ride (GC) - 85,453
• Chocobo GP (NS) - 12,414
• Sonic Racing: Crossworlds (PS5+NS) - 7,765

Racing games that aren't Mario Kart aren't that popular in Japan, so there's not that much great to compare Kirby to. That said, Air Riders had over twice as many FW sales as the original, and is roughly in the middle in terms of modern Kirby platformers (above RtDL DX and Planet Robobot, but below Triple Deluxe, Star Allies, and Forgotten Land).

No it launched on the 21st.