japan Sales week 21, May 20 - 26 2019, Famitsu

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Amnesia said:

"May is traditionally the weakest month for sales in Japan, so there's no good reason to react like you did."

What I see is that these last 3 weeks, last year the baseline could be maintained at 35000 with nearly nothing coming, this year, we have much more 3rd party games coming and yet it has collasped from 50000 to 26000 in 3 weeks, games like assassin creed and Sonic racing did not prevent at all this decline.

Last year this week Switch had Megaman Collection 1+2 and the streaming version of Resident Evil VII. So it's actually the contrary of what you're saying, last year had bigger games and thus could hold the baseline.

Also, DKCTF was only in his third week after launch, so it probably helped more with the baseline than Yoshi could 2 months after release.

Edit: From checking the sales last year, It's clear the main reason was Splatoon 2, as it was the bastselling title, followed by DKCTF, and then MK8D, Kirby Star Allies, and only then Megaman. In other words, the legs of the other games, especially Splatoon 2 and DKCTF, kept the sales high, but there weren't enough recent games to keep them high this year also.