Famitsu Sales: Week 35, 2020 (Aug 24 - Aug 30)

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Farsala said:

The_Liquid_Laser said:

Top 30

NSW 22 (9 of which are third party)
PS4 8 (7 of which are third party)

Switch has 9/16 = 56% of third party games in the top 30 this week.  This is the first time in over 3 months where Switch has had fewer than 60% of the third party games in the top 30.  I suppose now I will have to say 55%+ going forward.  However, we can also look at the multiplatform releases this week and see that Switch is significantly higher in first week sales, and we've already been seeing that Switch has much better legs on multiplatform releases like eBaseball.  The argument for Japanese third party developers to ignore the Switch grows weaker every week.  The real question for games in the coming years should be "Switch exclusive or multiplat?"

3. [NSW] Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Remastered Edition (Square Enix, 08/27/20) – 48,957 (New)
5. [PS4] Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Remastered Edition (Square Enix, 08/27/20) – 30,169 (New)

6. [NSW] Captain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions (Bandai Namco, 08/27/20) – 16,678 (New)
8. [PS4] Captain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions (Bandai Namco, 08/27/20) – 13,828 (New)

12. [NSW] eBaseball Powerful Pro Yakyuu 2020 (Konami, 07/09/20) – 7,310 (207,757)
19. [PS4] eBaseball Powerful Pro Yakyuu 2020 (Konami, 07/09/20) – 3,765 (174,299)

"Switch has much better legs on multiplatform releases like eBaseball"

You lost me here. How do those numbers prove the Switch has much better legs? The PS4 version launched terribly and than legged it decently. The Switch version has 5.8m+ more potential buyers than the PS4 version but only barely outlegs it.

https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9183360

PS4 and Switch version had practically the same sales at launch, with just a 3k difference between the two versions.

Over the following weeks however, the PS4 version dropped much faster than the Switch version, which as a result could extend it's lead from just 3k to now 33k within 7 weeks, and that lead is only growing larger over time.