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noshten on 11 September 2020
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I can only use Famitsu numbers to compare with 2020 thus far, but this gives us a good idea about what to expect for the annual totals

Famitsu 2020 Top 50:

  1. NSW: Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo) - 5.660.598
  2. NSW: Ring Fit Adventure (Nintendo) - 988.346
  3. PS4: Final Fantasy VII Remake (Square) - 932.821
  4. NSW: Pokemon Sword / Shield (Pokemon Co)- 736.823
  5. NSW: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo) - 486.372
  6. PS4: Ghost of Tsushima (Sony) -  385.143
  7. NSW: Smash Ultimate (Nintendo) - 364.616
  8. NSW: Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics (Nintendo) - 362.420
  9. NSW: Minecraft (Microsoft) - 348.159
  10. NSW: Splatoon 2 (Nintendo) - 298.919
  11. NSW: Super Mario Party (Nintendo) -  280.255
  12. NSW: Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX (Pokemon Co.) - 259.513
  13. PS4: Resident Evil 3 (Capcom) - 258.676 
  14. NSW: Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training for Nintendo Switch (Nintendo) - 254.742
  15. NSW: Paper Mario: The Origami King (Nintendo) - 244.110
  16. PS4: Yakuza 7: Like a Dragon (Sega) - 243.769
  17. PS4: The Last of Us Part II (Sony) - 222.943
  18. NSW: eBaseball Powerful Pro Baseball 2020 (Konami) - 215.075
  19. PS4: eBaseball Powerful Pro Baseball 2020 (Konami) - 177.864
  20. NSW: Luigi's Mansion 3 (Nintendo) - 172.088
  21. PS4: Mobile Suit Gundam: Extreme Vs. MaxiBoost On (Bandai Namco Games) - 161.014
  22. NSW: Super Mario Maker 2 (Nintendo) - 160.476
  23. NSW: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo) - 159.701
  24. PS4: Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers (Atlus) - 149.898
  25. PS4: Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot (Bandai) - 149.654
  26. NSW: Fishing Spirits (Bandai Namco) - 148.940
  27. NSW: New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe (Nintendo) - 144.967
  28. NSW: Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games: Tokyo 2020 (Sega) - 138.550
  29. PS4: Trials of Mana (Square) - 133.593
  30. PS4: One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 (Bandai) - 131.315
  31. NSW: Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition (Nintendo) - 128.989
  32. NSW: One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 (Bandai Namco) - 117.954
  33. PS4: Granblue Fantasy Versus (Cygames) - 111.094
  34. NSW: Trials of Mana (Square Enix) - 100.451
  35. PS4: The Legend of Heroes: Hajimari no Kiseki (Nihon Falcom) - 91.286
  36. NSW: Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum 'n' Fun! (Bandai Namco) - 89.751
  37. PS4: Sword Art Online: Alicization Lycoris (Bandai) - 85.010 
  38. NSW: Dragon Quest XI S (Square Enix) - 82.137
  39. NSW: Hatsune Miku: Project Diva MegaMix (Sega) - 78.558
  40. NSW: Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers (Atlus) - 65.653
  41. PS4: Grand Theft Auto V: Premium Online Edition (Take-Two) - 54.860
  42. NSW: Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles (Square Enix) - 54.094
  43. PS4: Marvel's Avengers (Square Enix) - 42.979
  44. PS4: Romance of the Three Kingdoms 14 (Koei) - 33.644
  45. PS4: Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles (Square Enix) - 33.203 
  46. NSW: Human: Fall Fla (Teyon Japan) - 29.004
  47. NSW: Tokyo Mirage Session ♯FE Encore (Nintendo) - 27.017
  48. NSW: My Hero Academia: One's Justice 2 (Bandai) - 26.915
  49. PS4: Remnant: From the Ashes (DMM Games) - 26.670
  50. NSW: Kotoba no Puzzle: Moji Pittan Encore (Bandai) - 25.457

TOTAL: 15.395.840

  • NSW - 31
  • PS4 - 18

Most Titles:

  1. Nintendo & Pokemon Co - 17
  2. Bandai - 9
  3. Square - 7
  4. Other - 7
  5. Sega - 3
  6. Sony - 2
  7. Konami - 2
  8. Atlus - 2

NSW Software TOTAL: 12.250.659 <79.6%>

PS4 Software TOTAL: 3.145.181 <20.4%>

By Publisher:

  1. Nintendo - 9.453.370
  2. Square Enix - 1.379.278
  3. Pokemon Company - 996.336
  4. Bandai Namco - 936.010
  5. Sony - 608.086
  6. Sega - 460.877
  7. Konami - 392.939
  8. Microsoft - 348.159
  9. Capcom - 258.676
  10. Atlus - 215.551

All Other: 356.558

  • Overall with the release of Super Mario 3D Collection Nintendo will surpass its last year TOTAL from M-C Top 1000 prior to the holidays
  • There has never been such a dominant year for Nintendo since it started to have competition 
  • Software on the PS4/PS5 is extremely unlikely to surpass 6M, there is no title slated for the fall that could push the PS5 or sell over 300K on the PS4
  • Without it's the biggest title FFVII PS4 software would be at 2.2M, without New Horizon Switch would be at 6.6M
  • Nintendo will add a lot of sales thanks to Ring Fit, New Horizon, Super Mario 3D Collection, Pikmin and the rest of the evergreens 
  • I don't think Nintendo or Pokemon Company have a major fall title to announce for 2020
  • So far the biggest 3rd party titles for the fall are from Konami, Bandai & Koei Tecmo and will all launch exclusively on the Switch
  • Square, Capcom, Marvelous could potentially shake things up with Monster Hunter, Rune Factory 5, and Bravely Default 2

Until there is clarity on what else is launching in 2020, I won't be making a prediction for the end of year totals, but the Switch should be around 20M software without a Monster Hunter, Bravely, Rune Factory 5 releasing. If everything releases we'd be looking at over >25M units of Software in next year's M-C Top 1000

Last edited by noshten - on 11 September 2020