Week 36, 2015 (Aug 31 - Sep 06)
Week 37, 2015 (Sep 07 - Sep 13)
Week 38, 2015 (Sep 14 - Sep 20)
Week 39, 2015 (Sep 21 - Sep 27)
Week 40, 2015 (Sep 28 - Oct 04)
September:
As expected Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain was the best selling game of the month, with the PS4 SKU topping the chart, this also marks the first time a PS4 game has been #1 on the SW side.
Plenty of new releases for all systems, as well as the 5 weeks of counting, made September a very good month for everyone, all hardware but the 3DShf sold more than the previous month and all sustained the software sales as well, regarding the sofware sales, I mentioned that WiiU had been pushing more software than the PS4 for a few months, but that is now over, due to the positive month PS4 is now ahead of software than the PS3 and is second only to the 3DS; a far, far second as the 3DS has moved nearly as much software as all the other platforms combined. Keep in mind that this is only adding the data given by Famitsu, the actual PS3 sw numbers ought to be higher, but it's impressive for the PS4 anyway. WiiU has also built a nice niche on its own, it's the console with the far least games, depending on how it performs during the holidays it could end very close to the PSV.
Going back to individual software, the usual suspects, Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer, Yokai Watch Busters, Splatoon and Minecraft all kept performing well. Super Mario Maker enjoyed a great first month too, the game should keep tracking along nicely for the rest of the year, apart from that is also impressive the results for Tokyo Xanadu as it's only one week, expect it to see it there again next month.
On hardware the PS4 ended up on top, the big news hardware wise was it's price cut and due to it the system had 2 great weeks, with the other one being the release week of MGSV, how the new price affects it's performance will be more telling next month, but for now it had a very positive result. 3DS, PSV and WiiU all did alright too.
What to expect next month?
As said before, how the PS4 performs will be the most interesting, as October will be a relatively quiet month otherwise; interesting will also be how the WiiU keeps doing, while it's got a new bundle it's now just ~$17 cheaper than the PS4 which could hinder it's performance, the system is getting no releases for the whole month so it's up to Super Mario Maker, and once again, Splatoon to carry the system.
While it'll be mostly a quiet month in terms of releases during the end it's getting some notable games, PSV is getting God Eater: Resurrection on the 29th (4 days of tracking), 3DS is getting 7th Dragon III: VFD code on the 15th (18 days) and The Legend of Zelda: Triforce Heroes on the 22th (11 days).
That's not all of course, titles like FIFA16, Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection and God Eater: Resurrection (PS4) should also do good, but the 3 titles mentioned before should be the ones to keep an eye on.
God Eater Vita should be the best selling game of the month, which would be the first time a Vita game was #1 in a very long time, PS4 should keep the pace and be #1 on software.
Halo 5: Guardians might make it to the weekly top 30 once ot twice too.
This chart is the same as last month, Dragon Quest VIII and Splatoon switched places, but that's it. MGSV and or Super Mario Maker might join it next month.
Don't expect MGS to go any higher than what it is now.
Minecraft will be topping the chart next month, God Eater: Resurrection and Tokyo Xanadu should both join it too.
Not only did it top this chart, but MGSV is also now the best selling PS4 game.
Chart also identical to last month, don't expect changes till November.
We finally have 5 games here, Halo 5 might join it next month, Forza 6 got really close.
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