Nintendo is completely dominating the software sales in Japan this year with 11 games listed in the Top 20 best selling software of the year so far.
NE: "Kirby's been on more than a handful of adventures, and we've gathered a list of 10 of the best Kirby games here."
NE: "Kirby Star Allies has what is perhaps the most complicated tidbits of lore the series has ever seen. Here's our full explanation."
Cultured Vultures: Put on your freshest dungarees and chow down on the ripest mushroom as we reel off the best Mario games ever made to celebrate Mar10 Day.
My top 3 are Mario 3, Mario World and Mario 64. Mario Odyssey is also excellent, and I enjoyed Sunshine but didn't care for the Galaxy series.
This is the year of nintendo in japan!
Not quite the super famicom glory days, but it’s great to see Nintendo doing so well in there home territory.
I don't get Japanese gamers.
They don't like any western games no matter how technically superior they are.
No surprise. I've said since it was rumored that the "NX" was a hybrid that it would basically garuntee domination of the Japanese market, despite a lot of pessimism due to the Wii U. Xbox is pretty much a joke in Japan and Sony has been moving away from first-party titles aimed at a Japanese audience. With no other new handheld on the horizon and most Japanese third party games being able to run on Switch, I'd say it's only a matter of time before the Switch is pretty much the one console selling enough in Japan to be worth mentioning. The big budget Japanese games, like Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Kingdom Hearts, Monster Hunter, and Resident Evil, will still target PS4/Xbox One so they can get those Western sales.