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Famitsu Sales: Week 39, 2023 (Sep 18 - Sep 24)

Luminoth-4545

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Famitsu Sales: Week 39, 2023 (Sep 18 -Sep 24)​

Software​


1st Switch Pikmin 1+2
23,941 (total 23,941) NEW / Nintendo / September 22, 2023

2nd Switch Pikmin 4
22,894 (total 864,229) -3% / Nintendo / July 21, 2023

3rd PS5 Lies of P
9,493 (total 10,145)* NEW /NEOWIZ/ September 19, 2023

4th Switch Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
9,066 (total 5,493,686) +3% / Nintendo / April 28, 2017

5th Switch Pokemon Scarlet and Violet
9,035 (total 5,137,268) -3% / Pokemon / November 18, 2022

6th Switch Ring Fit Adventure
7,198 (total 3,470,036) +68% / Nintendo / October 18, 2019

7th Switch Minecraft
5,996 (total 3,269,466) +0% / Microsoft Japan / June 21, 2018

8th Switch Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
4,637 (total 5,290,636) +1% / Nintendo / December 7, 2018

9th Switch The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
4,449 (total 1,864,134 copies) -9% / Nintendo / May 12, 2023

10th Switch Super Bomberman R2
4,433 (total 16,021) -62% / KONAMI / September 14, 2023

Hardware sales volume​

  • Switch - 10,069 (total 19,553,735)
  • Switch Lite - 8,432 (total 5,505,765)
  • Switch Oled - 54,089 (total 5,655,892)
  • PS5 - 43,482 (total 3,829,395)
  • PS5 Digital Edition - 3,247 (total 579,588)
  • Xbox Series X - 1,403 (total 222,187)
  • Xbox Series S - 7,655 (total 285,352)
  • PS4 - 702 (total 7,897,453)
  • New Nintendo 2DS LL - 73 (total 1,192,375)

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* Includes sales of the pre-release “ Lies of P Collector's Edition”.
 
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Go_Ly_Dow

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PS5 software sales in Japan are abysmal. It doesn't make sense with nearly 4.5million consoles in circulation and rising fast.

What are they playing?
 
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Mibu no ookami

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Woopah said:
The most likely explanation is f2p games like Genshin Impact.

Digital sales aren't that high either, we can see that from the PS charts.
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We have no idea how good/bad game sales actually are based on charts that do not mention specific sales figures.

I haven't purchased a physical game at launch since 2014 and even then the game wasn't a full-priced game.

I would hazard that given smaller living spaces digital probably represents a significantly higher portion of sales in Japan than in the West. When you add on top of that the lack of a Gamestop equivalent in Japan, there's really no driving force behind physical sales. Even when you look at Amazon, it's not nearly as established and I don't even know if Famitsu covers Amazon.

Switch on the other hand has VERY limited onboard memory. Zelda alone takes up half the onboard memory. You basically HAVE to buy physical or buy fairly expensive expansion packs, which you probably don't want to do for a kid.

If the Switch 2 has significantly larger internal storage, we're going to see Famitsu as pretty much useless.
 
Unknown?

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Woopah said:
The most likely explanation is f2p games like Genshin Impact.

Digital sales aren't that high either, we can see that from the PS charts.
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PS Charts don't show numbers, just ranks. I'd be willing to bet digital has skyrocketed in Japan since PC gaming is rising.
 
Woopah

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Sorry for the late replies!

Mibu no ookami said:
We have no idea how good/bad game sales actually are based on charts that do not mention specific sales figures.

I haven't purchased a physical game at launch since 2014 and even then the game wasn't a full-priced game.

I would hazard that given smaller living spaces digital probably represents a significantly higher portion of sales in Japan than in the West. When you add on top of that the lack of a Gamestop equivalent in Japan, there's really no driving force behind physical sales. Even when you look at Amazon, it's not nearly as established and I don't even know if Famitsu covers Amazon.

Switch on the other hand has VERY limited onboard memory. Zelda alone takes up half the onboard memory. You basically HAVE to buy physical or buy fairly expensive expansion packs, which you probably don't want to do for a kid.

If the Switch 2 has significantly larger internal storage, we're going to see Famitsu as pretty much useless.
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They don't have specific sales numbers, but they give us a good guide. For example, we know that:

1. In the whole of July, the third best selling PS game digitally in Japan was Exoprimal
2. The physical sales of Exoprimal were under 7,000 (probably much less)

Which means that, even if we are generous and say Exoprimal sold 6,500 copies and had a 75% digital ratio, that means it got to third in the rankings by selling 19,500 in a whole month.

That doesn't indicate strong digital sales
Unknown? said:
PS Charts don't show numbers, just ranks. I'd be willing to bet digital has skyrocketed in Japan since PC gaming is rising.
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I'm sure PC will affect a game's overall digital share, but not its PS digital share.
 
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