Consumer software weekly sales ranking Top 20

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Rank	Model	title	Release date	Sales volume	Cumulative number	Reader review
1		Call of Duty Black Ops IV	18/10/12	92,572	321, 347
2		Super Mario Party	18/10/05	36,381	242,700
3		Soul Calibur VI	18/10/18	24,049	24,049
Four		DARK SOULS REMASTERED (Dark soul remaster)	18/10/18	14,646	14,646
Five		CRYSTAR - CRYSTA -	18/10/18	10, 473	10, 473
6		Assassin's Creed Odyssey (limited edition included)	18/10/02	8,807	73, 011	72
7		Minecraft	18/06/21	8, 325	334, 343
8		Splatoon 2 (Splatoon 2) (Including included version)	17/07/21	7,293	2,671,037	73
9		Mario Kart 8 Deluxe	17/04/28	6,774	1,803,792	73
Ten		Musou OROCHI 3 (limited edition included)	18/09/27	6,381	144, 441
11		Crash · Bandicoot 3 Bottoms! Bonus Edition	18/10/18	5,217	5,217
12		The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild (Including Limited Edition)	17/03/03	4,442	1,138,631	95
13		Marvel Spider-Man (Including included version)	18/09/07	4, 207	290, 875	82
14		Pocket Monster Ultra Sun / Ultra Moon	17/11/17	3,666	1,746,570	62
15		The Legend of Heroes Legendary Flame IV IV - The End of Saga - (Including Limited Edition)	18/09/27	3,581	105, 542	59
16		FIFA 19 (limited edition included)	18/09/25	3,086	79,638	85
17		Super Mario Odyssey (Including included version)	17/10/27	2,962	1,831,692	91
18		Dragon Ball Fighters	18/09/27	2,779	38,664
19		Taiko no Tatsujin Nintendo Switch ~ Jon!	18/07/19	2,535	215, 620
20		Nintendo Labo Toy - Con 03: Drive Kit	18/09/14	2,412	29, 988

 Consumer hard weekly sales ranking

Famitsu & dengeki

Sublime second week numbers for BO4. The best 2nd week numbers for a COD in japan by far.

Insane second week for cod. I called for over 100k second week last week and i got it! Including digital of course. Speaking of digital, total sales are probably over 400k by now. Unprecedented for cod. Hopefully long lads.

Ps4 Pro sales higher then slim this week. The small price cut having an effect. 21k is a healthy number. Next week RDR2. More exciting times ahead.

A little bump for NS but a not too little for the PS4. Their baseline this week changes with NS@40016 and PS4@17688. CoD is doing great and SMP shows the staying power.

I am pretty sure it's a given BO4 will become the best-selling COD in Japan now. It should say something to the people who thought it was doing bad just because physical sales were low in some regions. The game is a behemoth on the digital front and will have good legs thanks to Blackout.

Here is the week 42 update in terms of the two big consoles in Japan's path to be able to reach the commonly stated (in these sales threads) estimates for 2018 sales (2 mil for PS4, 4 mil for Switch) .

TWS - This week's sales
GD - Goal differential, the difference between the average week needed from last week compared to this week's sales
YTD - Units sold in 2018 so far including this week's sales
AWN - Average weekly sales needed to reach the estimate for the console.

PS4 AWN approaches 70k and Switch AWN flies past 200k. I don't see anything on the horizon for Switch in the next few weeks, so I guess it's just waiting for Pokemon and the Smash bundle. I thought maybe sales would start picking up for it since this is Q4 but looks like October is pretty much the same as practically every month this year. If Switch has a decent week then it could get past the half-way point in next week's numbers.

So let's dig a little deeper into these goal numbers since this was such a boring week. PS4 in Japan has been about 9% of its total number of consoles sold LTD. So hitting 2 million in a normal year would mean that about ~22 million PS4s were sold around the globe that year. Obviously MHW puts a big wrench into that kind of thinking , but it just gives a ballpark figure for us to think about. Whereas with the Switch, Japan has accounted for around 25% of its total number of consoles sold LTD. Selling 4 million this year would mean that about 16 million consoles were sold this year. Needless to say that Nintendo needs a HUGE November and December for the Switch in Japan or it's potentially going to look rather foolish in front of its investors. Though we'lll get much more info on its trajectory in next week's fiscal quarter shareholder meeting of course, so this is likely all just premature conjecture and I could easily look the fool afterwards.

42k Switch, 21,5k PS4's and 200 Xbox One's...

Switch keeps almost doubleing the PS4 in japan.... Its taken a 657k lead this year (YTD).
The day the switch passes the PS4 in japan grows ever closer.

CoD did surpriseingly well in japan didnt it?

Next week switch should join ps4 on being down YTD as Mario oddessy launched last year. Only xbox will be up YOY.

Yeah, but only for 3 weeks in case of Switch, on 16. November we have launch of Pokemon Lets Go game, Pokemon Leg Go hardware bundles and Smash Bros hardware bundle.