PS5 tops hardware before the Japan price hike.

The latest Japanese charts are in, courtesy of Famitsu, and it's an expectedly quiet week as we prepare for the stacked September release schedule.

Despite only shifting an additional 10,198 units, Powerful Pro Baseball 2024-25 has held onto the top spot for the fourth week in a row. To be honest, things are equally unremarkable elsewhere too. The familiar faces of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Nintendo Switch Sports and Animal Crossing: New Horizons continue to prove that no amount of slow sales will boot them out of the top 10, while last week's newbie That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime ISEKAI Chronicles is nowhere to be seen.

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