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Famitsu sales Oct 4-10 2021: Dread breaks Metroid franchise first week sales, OLED sells out

Marty-McFly

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Best first week sales for Metroid ever in Japan. Already 3rd highest selling Metroid ever in Japan after only 1 week.

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Weekly Famitsu Sales​

Period: The week of October 4 – October 10 (2021)

Top-selling software: Metroid Dread – 86,798 (Nintendo Switch)

Nintendo Switch: 32,792 (Total: 17,198,146)

Nintendo Switch Lite: 8,650 (4,088,784)

Nintendo Switch OLED: 138,784 (New)

New 2DS LL (+ 2DS): 405 (1,174,950)

PS5: 13,786 (922,929)

PS5 Digital: 2,099 (177,974)

PS4: 961 (7,813,467)

Xbox Series X: 527 (64,284)

Xbox Series S: 2,920 (38,307)

Top 10 Software Sales​

LWTWTitleWeekly SalesTotal SalesSystemPublisher
New01.Metroid Dread86,798NewSwitchNintendo
New02.Far Cry 634,219NewPS4Ubisoft
New03.Far Cry 616,686NewPS5Ubisoft
08.04.Mario Kart 8 Deluxe12,2574,085,509SwitchNintendo
12.05.Super Smash Bros. Ultimate11,9364,450,954SwitchNintendo
11.06.Ring Fit Adventure11,2572,862,651SwitchNintendo
10.07.Minecraft10,6992,225,165SwitchMicrosoft
New08.Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!9,514NewSwitchPlayism
03.09.Lost Judgment8,589140,834PS4Sega
07.10.WarioWare: Get It Together!7,787144,966SwitchNintendo
 
Bragr

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Well, what's gonna be the key point is the second and third week, can it maintain good sales or is it gonna drop-off.
 
Marty-McFly

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Bragr said:
Well, what's gonna be the key point is the second and third week, can it maintain good sales or is it gonna drop-off.
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NA sales are going to be the key. The franchise is incredibly weak in Japan overall historically. The fact that it had its best launches ever in its weakest regions Japan and UK, point to incredibly strong NA sales where it's much, much more popular.
 
Deerock71

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Bragr said:
Well, what's gonna be the key point is the second and third week, can it maintain good sales or is it gonna drop-off.
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You sound like so many Western 3rd parties about the Switch. Although, regarding Metroid...

Hd Reaction GIF by MOODMAN
 
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Bonfires Down

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Third highest selling with only 86k copies? Guess Japan is not very into Metroid.

Series S doing better than I would ever have expected. Is the Series X readily available in Japan?
 
Kerotan

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Bonfires Down said:
Third highest selling with only 86k copies? Guess Japan is not very into Metroid.

Series S doing better than I would ever have expected. Is the Series X readily available in Japan?
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In didn't do big numbers in the UK either despite I think the highest ever opening. Is the series niche or what? Going by the fanfare from hardcore fans I always thought it was huge.
 
Azelover

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Kerotan said:
In didn't do big numbers in the UK either despite I think the highest ever opening. Is the series niche or what? Going by the fanfare from hardcore fans I always thought it was huge.
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It's a niche franchise, yes. It has a cult following, for a number of reasons.

It started its own genre. And it was one of the first side-scrollers to implement back-tracking. Prior to Metroid the games would move to the right, Metroid made it possible for you to come back and forth. I know it sounds simple now, but it was a big deal back then.

Oh, and it was the first, or one of the first, major games to feature a female protagonist. So yeah, it's a big deal, even though it never sold like Mario.
 
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Investor9872

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The XB Series S beating the PS5 Digital points to MS is going in the right direction with their Japanese Game Pass selections of game offerings. MS needs to keep the momentum going with more quality games that appeal to the Japanese market.
 
jigglet

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MrA said:
xbox continues to rock..... in a way, wild that it will overtake the xbone so quickly
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Could it be the footprint? I live in a small apartment and the footprint of the Series X appeals to me almost as much as anything else.
 
Kerotan

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Investor9872 said:
The XB Series S beating the PS5 Digital points to MS is going in the right direction with their Japanese Game Pass selections of game offerings. MS needs to keep the momentum going with more quality games that appeal to the Japanese market.
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The only thing it points to is MS are shipping more to Japan. If both had unlimited supply the ps5 sells more.
 
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Kerotan said:
In didn't do big numbers in the UK either despite I think the highest ever opening. Is the series niche or what? Going by the fanfare from hardcore fans I always thought it was huge.
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It's fan favorite, but Nintendo decides to kill it with spin-offs like Other M and Federation force. They misunderstood the franchise. Also nobody at Nintendo knew what to do with that type of gameplay back then and just cant come up with any ideas.
 
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jigglet said:
Could it be the footprint? I live in a small apartment and the footprint of the Series X appeals to me almost as much as anything else.
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Considering the xbone was a massive box maybe that hurt it in japan, the s by comparison is tiny
 
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Famitsu Top 50 2021
  1. [NSW] Monster Hunter Rise (Capcom) - 2.326.057
  2. [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu (Konami) – 1.154.569
  3. [NSW] Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury - 900.430
  4. [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure – 775.646
  5. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 628.326
  6. [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft) – 522.244
  7. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 519.616
  8. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 437.780
  9. [NSW] Pokemon Sword / Shield + EP (Pokemon Co.) - 325.671
  10. [NSW] Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics - 291.928
  11. [NSW] Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town (Marvelous) – 281.140
  12. [NSW] New Pokemon Snap (Pokemon Co.) - 276.800
  13. [NSW] Super Mario Party - 272.340
  14. [NSW] Splatoon 2 + EP - 269.104
  15. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD - 263.674
  16. [NSW] Miitopia - 248.003
  17. [NSW] Game Builder Garage - 243.566
  18. [NSW] Monster Hunter Stories 2 (Capcom) - 227.554
  19. [PS4] Tales of Arise (Bandai Namco) - 211.047
  20. [NSW] Baseball Spirits 2021 (Konami) - 195.906
  21. [PS4] Resident Evil Village (Capcom) - 191.983
  22. [NSW] Crayon Shin-Chan (Neos) - 183.733
  23. [NSW] Mario Golf: Super Rush - 182.579
  24. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild + EP - 158.813
  25. [PS4] NieR Replicant (Square Enix) - 158.265
  26. [NSW] WarioWare: Get It Together! - 144.966
  27. [PS4] Lost Judgement (Sega) – 140.834
  28. [NSW] Bravely Default II (Square Enix) – 136.091
  29. [NSW] Rune Factory 5 (Marvelous) - 127.968
  30. [NSW] Yu-Gi-Oh! Rush Duel (Konami) - 127.221
  31. [NSW] Fitness Boxing 2 (Imagineer) - 115.375
  32. [NSW] New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe - 114.445
  33. [NSW] Dragon Quest XI S (Square Enix) - 111.811
  34. [NSW] Super Mario 3D All-Stars - 104.782
  35. [NSW] Pikmin 3 Deluxe - 103.273
  36. [NSW] Super Mario Maker 2 - 97.715
  37. [NSW] Tsukihime (Aniplex) - 89.916
  38. [NSW] Metroid Dread - 86.798 NEW
  39. [NSW] Human Fall Flat (Teyon Japan) - 85.310
  40. [PS4] Tsukihime (Aniplex) - 80.042
  41. [NSW] Super Mario Odyssey - 74.949
  42. [NSW] Little Nightmares II (Bandai Namco) - 72.796
  43. [PS4] Samurai Warriors 5 (Koei Tecmo) - 72.727
  44. [NSW] Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum 'n' Fun! (Bandai Namco) - 70.964
  45. [NSW] Fishing Spirits (Bandai Namco) - 68.180
  46. [PS5] Resident Evil Village (Capcom) - 67.210
  47. [NSW] Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin (Marvelous) - 65.620
  48. [NSW] Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity (Koei Tecmo) - 62.119
  49. [NSW] Samurai Warriors 5 (Koei Tecmo) - 61.350
  50. [PS5] Tales of Arise (Bandai Namco) - 60.106
TOTAL: 13.589.342
NSW TOTAL: 12.607.128 (92.8%)
PS4 TOTAL: 854.898 (6.3%)
PS5 TOTAL: 127.316 (0.9%)

Minecraft Dungeons falls out of the Top 50, although it's likely that due to un-tracked sales it's probably close to 80K for the year at the moment.
Next week the PS5 version of Tales of Arise is going to drop out with Demon Slayer joining the Top 50 with it's PS4 version. The only other PS4 game likely to join the Top 50 until the end of the year is Call of Duty: Vanguard.

Top 10 Publishers:
  1. Nintendo - 6.195.533 (45.6%)
  2. Capcom - 2.812.594 (20.7%)
  3. Konami - 1.477.696 (10.9%)
  4. Pokemon Co - 602.471(4.4%)
  5. Microsoft - 522.244 (3.8%)
  6. Bandai Namco - 483.093 (3.6%)
  7. Marvelous - 474.728 (3.5%)
  8. Square Enix - 402.163 (3%)
  9. Koei Tecmo - 196.196 (1.4%)
  10. Neos - 183.733 (1.4%)
The big winner this week are Nintendo with another new game in the Top 50 - Metroid Dread, they have gained an additional 0.7% market share in the Top 50. Biggest loss this week is for Microsoft due to Minecraft Dungeons falling out of the Top 50.
 
Astral Dog

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Marty-McFly said:
NA sales are going to be the key. The franchise is incredibly weak in Japan overall historically. The fact that it had its best launches ever in its weakest regions Japan and UK, point to incredibly strong NA sales where it's much, much more popular.
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I heard on twitter Super Metroid managed to sell 500k in japan, Dread may eventually surpass that number, digital sales must be very strong
 
Lognor

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Far Cry selling twice as much on the PS4 as the PS5 is telling. The PS5 is dead in Japan. I guess rumors of most PS5s sold being shipped overseas may be true. Or people just aren't buying physical games? I find that hard to believe when Switch physical software sales are doing so well. PS5 ain't doing so hot in Japan.
 
CGiRanger

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Sub Boss said:
I heard on twitter Super Metroid managed to sell 500k in japan, Dread may eventually surpass that number, digital sales must be very strong
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I'd be curious to know over how long a period of time that 500k developed. It's so long ago though I dunno how that'd be figured out.

Yeah, definitely waiting to see what the North American sales are, and I guess that'll have to wait another month until the data is available to some degree, unless Nintendo pre-empts things with an announcement of a hard "we've shipped XXX copies", though they typically don't do that.
 
Marty-McFly

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CGiRanger said:
I'd be curious to know over how long a period of time that 500k developed. It's so long ago though I dunno how that'd be figured out.

Yeah, definitely waiting to see what the North American sales are, and I guess that'll have to wait another month until the data is available to some degree, unless Nintendo pre-empts things with an announcement of a hard "we've shipped XXX copies", though they typically don't do that.
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Unfortunately we won't have any hard numbers on Dread until Nintendo's earning report in a few months including digital as well. I expect it to be in the Top 10 NPD for at least 2-3 months, but otherwise we won't see anything concrete for a while.
 
Trimesh

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Nintendo Switch: 32,792 (Total: 17,198,146)
Nintendo Switch Lite: 8,650 (4,088,784)
Nintendo Switch OLED: 138,784 (New)

So a total of 21,425,714 units. That's pretty amazing - it's outsold the Famicom and will presumably shortly overtake the PS2

I honestly never expected to see Nintendo have this sort of traction in the Japanese market since it was so heavily Sony...
 
carlosrox

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Trimesh said:
I honestly never expected to see Nintendo have this sort of traction in the Japanese market since it was so heavily Sony...
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Yeah I remember the N64 and GC era Nintendo was really struggling in Japan.

Look at em now. Fucking nuts turnaround.

iwataboughtjapan.jpg
 
Mr Moose

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Lognor said:
Far Cry selling twice as much on the PS4 as the PS5 is telling. The PS5 is dead in Japan. I guess rumors of most PS5s sold being shipped overseas may be true. Or people just aren't buying physical games? I find that hard to believe when Switch physical software sales are doing so well. PS5 ain't doing so hot in Japan.
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9+ million PS4s, 1.1M PS5s, sold half as many (and has a free upgrade from PS4), it's dead!
 
Lognor

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Mr Moose said:
9+ million PS4s, 1.1M PS5s, sold half as many (and has a free upgrade from PS4), it's dead!
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Not just Far Cry. Look at all PS5 software sales. It's not doing well, at all. I think a lot of those PS5s sold in Japan ARE being sent outside the country.
 
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