Nintendo's single-player spin-off Splatoon Raiders sold 474,684 physical copies in Japan during its first weekend, topping the country's retail software chart. The figure comes from Famitsu's weekly physical sales tracking, covering the week ending July 26 and cited by VGC. Splatoon Raiders launched on July 23.

Two other Nintendo titles passed milestones in the same tracking week. Mario Kart World reached 3,000,749 cumulative physical copies sold in Japan, while Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream hit 1,500,025. Both figures cover physical retail sales only through the week ending July 26.

The Famitsu data has a few important boundaries. It counts physical releases only — no purchases from the eShop, Nintendo's digital storefront, are included. The Mario Kart World physical figure also bundles download cards, pre-installed software, and copies packed in with the first wave of Switch 2 consoles. Nintendo's own financial materials confirm that bundled software is counted within the company's total software units sold.

For worldwide context, Nintendo's investor relations page lists Mario Kart World at 14.70 million units sold globally and Donkey Kong Bananza at 4.52 million. Those figures include all channels — physical, digital, and bundles — and are not limited to Japan.

For fans of the Splatoon series, Raiders marks a departure: a single-player experience rather than the team-based competitive shooting the franchise is known for. Its first-weekend performance in Japan, the strongest market for the series, offers an early read on whether audiences are ready to follow Splatoon into a different format.

What stands out beyond the chart-topper is the endurance of Mario Kart World on the same chart. A launch title for the Switch 2 — Nintendo's newest console — it continues to sell at retail weeks after release, and its physical-only Japan figure of over three million sits alongside a worldwide total approaching fifteen million across all formats.