noshten on 17 January 2021
3rd Parties 2020 Top 30:
- NSW: Momotaro Dentetsu (Konami) - 1.233.023
- PS4: Final Fantasy VII Remake (Square Enix) - 932.821
- NSW: Minecraft (Microsoft) - 556.982
- NSW: Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity (Koei Tecmo) - 304.963
- PS4: Resident Evil 3 (Capcom) - 258.676
- NSW: eBaseball Powerful Pro Baseball 2020 (Konami) - 248.024
- PS4: Yakuza 7: Like a Dragon (Sega) - 243.769
- NSW: Fishing Spirits (Bandai Namco) - 207.472
- PS4: eBaseball Powerful Pro Baseball 2020 (Konami) - 180.243
- NSW: Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games: Tokyo 2020 (Sega) - 167.411
- PS4: Mobile Suit Gundam: Extreme Vs. MaxiBoost On (Bandai Namco) - 161.014
- PS4: Nioh 2 (Koei Tecmo) - 156.772
- PS4: Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers (Atlus) - 149.898
- PS4: Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot (Bandai Namco) - 149.654
- NSW: Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum 'n' Fun! (Bandai Namco) - 133.978
- PS4: Trials of Mana (Square Enix) - 133.593
- PS4: One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 (Bandai Namco) - 131.315
- NSW: One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 (Bandai Namco) - 117.954
- PS4: Cyberpunk 2077 (Spike Chunsoft) - 112.408
- PS4: Granblue Fantasy Versus (Cygames) - 111.094
- NSW: Derby Stallion (Game Addict) - 108.570
- NSW: Dragon Quest XI S (Square Enix) - 101.956
- NSW: Trials of Mana (Square Enix) - 100.451
- PS4: The Legend of Heroes: Hajimari no Kiseki (Nihon Falcom) - 96.140
- NSW: Human: Fall Flat (Teyon Japan) - 87.440
- PS4: Sword Art Online: Alicization Lycoris (Bandai) - 85.010
- NSW: Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin (Marvelous) - 84.814
- NSW: Hatsune Miku: Project Diva MegaMix (Sega) - 78.558
- NSW: Minecraft Dungeons: Hero Edition (Microsoft) - 65.831
- NSW: Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers (Atlus) - 65.653
PS4 - 14
NSW - 16
PS4 TOTAL: 2.902.407
NSW TOTAL: 3.663.080
Top 3rd Party Publishers
- Konami - 1.392.474
- Square Enix - 1.389.263
- Bandai Namco - 964.801
- Microsoft - 574.354
- Sega - 460.877
- Koei Tecmo - 435.384
- Capcom - 321.998
- Atlus - 330.357
- Spike Chunsoft - 112.408
- Cygames - 111.094
3rd Parties & Sony 2020 Top 14:
- NSW: Momotaro Dentetsu (Konami) - 277.514
- NSW: Minecraft (Microsoft) - 57.463
- NSW: Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin (Marvelous) - 25.067
- NSW: Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity (Koei Tecmo) - 21.491
- NSW: Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 (Sega) - 20.686
- NSW: Fitness Boxing 2 (Imagineer) - 17.085
- NSW: Fishing Spirits (Bandai Namco) - 14.939
- NSW: Human: Fall Flat (Teyon Japan) - 14.260
- NSW: Derby Stallion (Game Addict) - 13.170
- NSW: Dragon Quest: XIS (Square Enix) - 13.132
- NSW: Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythmic Adventure Pack (Bandai Namco) - 12.327
- PS4: Call of Duty: Black Ops - Cold War (Sony) - 11.311
- NSW: Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Sega) - 7.696
- NSW: Family Trainer (Bandai Namco Games) - 4.860
TOTAL: 511.001
Next 40 days
- Momotaro will continue to be the Top Selling 3rd Party game in 2021, until Monster Hunter Rise launches
- Marvelous are in the best position outside of Konami, in the next 40 days. Sakuna continues to sell well and they will be launching Olive Town which should do very well. I won't be surprised if it's their best selling game of ALL TIME before the end of the quarter(Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness - 304K).
They also have Rune Factory 5 in May so their YoY growth will be huge in the coming quarters. - Disgaea 6 by Nippon Ichi is the next 3rd Party game to drop, we shall see how it performs on the PS4/Switch, so far there doesn't appear too be major hype surrounding it. Disgaea 5 debuted with 22.872 on the PS4, so if it manages 50K on it's debut it can be seen as a success. Disgaea: Hour of Darkness is the best selling game all the way back in the PS2 era with 152.675, if Swich+PS4 version manage this amount Nippon Ichi will probably be very happy with the result especially as this franchise has far more sales overseas. A lot will depend on reception WoM and Nippon Ichi/Retailer expectations in Japan.
- From Bandai Namco, there is actually a game launching Little Nightmares 2 with the low price, a lot will depend on how much is shipped and whether the game is well received.
- Spike Chunsoft is unlikely to ship more than 25K copies for the launch of Re:ZERO - Starting Life in Another World, overall I can see the anime impacting this one positively, very interested in how this game does on the Switch.
- For Square, Bravely Default 2 & the Switch version of Densha de Go!! are the major games this quarter, if they managed 500K combined while DQXIS continues to sell at a steady pace, they should be happy with their result. Densha de Go!! could have been a good game for them to launch in the holidays on the Switch, but they missed the train.
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