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Sales Data Famitsu Week 14, 2022 (Mar. 28 - Apr. 3) sales

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Media Create Sales: Week 13, 2022 (Mar 28 - Apr 03)

Media Create Sales: Week 13, 2022 (Mar 28 - Apr 03) 01./01. [NSW] Kirby and the Forgotten Land (Nintendo) {2022.03.25} (¥5.980) 02./02. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo) {2017.04.28} (¥5.980) 03./03. [NSW] Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Pokemon Co.) {2022.01.28} (¥5.980) 04./04. [NSW] Minecraft...
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Software:
1. Kirby and the Forgotten Land 110,946/491,006
2. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe 19,801/4,538,274
3. Pokemon Legends Arceus 12,728/2,208,128
4. Minecraft 11,158/2,585,882
5. PS4 Elden Ring 10,068/317,614
6. Super Smash Brothers Ultimate 9,831/4,832,454
7. Mario Party Superstars 7,782/927,817
8. Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 6,359/1,993,660
9. Animal Crossing New Horizons 5,410/7,225,499
10. Ring Fit Adventure 5,101/3,112,437

Kirby still going Mouthful mode on the charts, Mario Kart outracing the rest and Link has climbed to 8th and close to 2 million on original SKU.

Hardware:
Switch family (includes OLED Lite and OG) 67,164 (this week), 1,424,774 (YTD)
Switch OLED 34,199 (this week), 752,423 (YTD)
PS5 (all varieties) 30,666 (this week), 304,848 (YTD)
Xbox Series 4,409 (this week), 40,041 (YTD)

A soft week for Switch sales, another strong week for Sony hardware, and a good week for Microsoft.
 
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Impressive legs on Kirby

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I did not expect Kirby to hold up quite this well, that’s awesome!

Also feels weird to see a 2017 game charting in the JP weekly charts but Zelda keeps on trucking. Great game.
 
Kirby did fantastic. 71% drop is a good hold considering how high the FW sales were.

shoptroll said:
Ok, now Kirby has outsold Elden Ring in Japan
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Kirby eats Tarnished for breakfast. And possibly other meals.

rokero said:
Good PS5 hardware sales, let's see how software did when they release the top 30
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304K hardware units sold in Japan and not a single title can even hit 5,101 units sold? No need to wait, PS5 software situation is awful. The attach rate is <1.
 
rokero said:
Good PS5 hardware sales, let's see how software did when they release the top 30
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Two weeks in a row PS5 has sold 30k+ but no games (that aren't new) have been able to sell more than 5k in either of these weeks , this doesn't speak well for the state of PS5 software in Japan. Because if 60k new consoles are in the market they should at least buy some game like GT/ER but both of the games sell have sold less week after week even with the number of units sold every week doubling from 15-16k to 30k
 
meatbag said:
Kirby did fantastic. 71% drop is a good hold considering how high the FW sales were.


Kirby eats Tarnished for breakfast. And possibly other meals.


304K hardware units sold in Japan and not a single title can even hit 5,101 units sold? No need to wait, PS5 software situation is awful. The attach rate is <1.
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Maybe they jump on the digital side for PS5? (Makes no sense to buy a console just to admire it, considering it is awful looking IMO).

Or digital sales are represented in the chart as well?
 
rokero said:
Like many have said before these PS5 appear to be scalped to other places
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But worldwide PS5 are also being scalped and in countries like UK and Spain most of the PS4/5 split its in favor of PS5 in some cases heavily . There is more than just PS5 being scalped , PS4 was already struggling in 2018/2019 outside of the big franchises (FF,DQ and MH) and some surprising hits like Spider-Man and GoT . It’s a combination of scalpers, rise of f2p console games and the poor state of PlayStation software in general.
 
Arbitrary Function said:
Why is Switch hardware so low?
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It’s actually ahead of 2019. It’s more like we’ve gone from weirdly high to more normal ranges.

John_DF said:
Maybe they jump on the digital side for PS5? (Makes no sense to buy a console just to admire it, considering it is awful looking IMO).
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Digital sales aren’t counted for the chart, but 1) Japan has always skewed physical and there’s no reason to believe they suddenly jumped to digital with PS5, especially when physical Switch games are selling gangbusters and 2) PS5 digital sales would have to be selling crazy high if we want to believe PS5 software has actually been doing decently beneath our noses.
 
Nintendo 1st party games tend in Japan to have similar digital splits to PS games and even sometimes they have a higher digital split than PS games due to vouchers and how expensive some games are Japan in retail.
Edit: This could change with the PS5DE but it’s only around 17% of PS5 sold right now and even if PS5 software sold a 17% more (which of course isn’t realistic) the numbers would still be really poor
 
ILikeFeet said:
third parties really need to create some games to get people interested into playstation
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Why would they do that ? If you create a game focused on Japan at that point you make it a Switch game (which is what we have seen with Japan focused games from Konami or Bandai) , only if Sony pays for the game to exist it would make sense to do so but it doesn't seem to be something Sony would do nowadays.
 
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Arbitrary Function said:
Why is Switch hardware so low?
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Well it's year 6 and past it's peak. Not much to talk about other than to say that it will clearly enjoy a very healthy tail end of it's life. The OLED is propping up hardware sales to such a degree that it's outperforming 2019. The base hardware itself is reaching saturation, but the OLED model will recapitalize existing users until the next model/successor.
 
Arbitrary Function said:
Why is Switch hardware so low?
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The OP misses some data. Old Switch and lite sales numbers are similar to last week, only Oled saw a decline. This is a strong hint that it probably just sold out on many places. Anyway still record sales numbers for a console in its six year.

PS5 Software sales are awful. Why publisher even bother selling PS5 games in Japan?
 
EnergyDrink said:
The OP misses some data. Old Switch and lite sales numbers are similar to last week, only Oled saw a decline. This is a strong hint that it probably just sold out on many places. Anyway still record sales numbers for a console in its six year.

PS5 Software sales are awful. Why publisher even bother selling PS5 games in Japan?
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I don't usually copy the OG numbers but you're right: 21,304 (this week), 21,784 (last week) 423,088 (YTD). OLED last week was 49k so declines are mostly in OLED which is the primary driver of Switch sales.
 
meatbag said:
Digital sales aren’t counted for the chart, but 1) Japan has always skewed physical and there’s no reason to believe they suddenly jumped to digital with PS5, especially when physical Switch games are selling gangbusters and 2) PS5 digital sales would have to be selling crazy high if we want to believe PS5 software has actually been doing decently beneath our noses.
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Mmm... Interesting, I hope we get digital sales of the PS5/4, I know that even Nintendo do good sales on the eShop in Japan, I would assume that 70 usd games are far more expensive there in Yen, so, digital would be the way. Sony pushes way harder digital sales all over the world.
Now I really wanna know! 🧐
 
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Famitsu Week 14 2022 (Mar. 28-Apr. 3) Top 30
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    • Top 30: https://nintendoeverything.com/famitsu-software-sales-3-28-22-4-3-22-top-30/

    1. [NSW] Kirby and the Forgotten Land – 110,946 / 491,006
    2. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 19,801 / 4,538,274
    3. [NSW] Pokemon Legends: Arceus – 12,728 / 2,208,128
    4. [NSW] Minecraft – 11,158 / 2,585,882
    5. [PS4] Elden Ring – 10,068 / 317,614
    6. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 9,831 / 4,832,454
    7. [NSW] Mario Party Superstars – 7,782 / 927,817
    8. [NSW] Zelda: Breath of the Wild – 6,359 / 1,993,660
    9. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 5,410 / 7,225,499
    10. [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure – 5,101 / 3,112,437
    11. [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! – 4,996 / 2,634,179
    12. [NSW] Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics – 4,112 / 957,011
    13. [PS4] Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origins – 3,969 / 40,633
    14. [PS4] Gran Turismo 7 – 3,960 / 104,375
    15. [NSW] Birushana: Rising Flower of Genpei – 3,742 / NEW
    16. [NSW] Splatoon 2 – 3,738 / 4,057,916
    17. [NSW] Triangle Strategy – 3,689 / 121,489
    18. [PS5] Elden Ring – 3,262 / 124,009
    19. [NSW] Monster Hunter Rise Best Price – 3,186 / 42,045
    20. [PS5] Gran Turismo 7 – 2,777 / 93,476
    21. [NSW] Pokemon Brilliant Diamond / Shining Pearl – 2,460 / 2,532,678
    22. [NSW] Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum ‘n’ Fun! – 2,413 / 707,933
    23. [NSW] Pokemon Sword / Shield – 2,368 / 4,329,954
    24. [NSW] Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury – 2,257 / 1,037,393
    25. [NSW] Big Brain Academy: Brain vs. Brain – 2,056 / 268,736
    26. [PS4] Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands – 2,051 / 7,478
    27. [PS5] Ghostwire: Tokyo – 1,987 / 12,131
    28. [NSW] New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe – 1,907 / 1,172,818
    29. [NSW] Super Mario Party – 1,776 / 2,071,029
    30. [NSW] Human: Fall Flat – 1,727 / 250,769

    NS - 23
    PS4 - 4
    PS5 - 3
     
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