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noshten on 17 September 2021
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Famitsu Top 50 2021

  1. [NSW] Monster Hunter Rise (Capcom) - 2.321.703 
  2. [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu (Konami) – 1.134.587
  3. [NSW] Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury - 879.622 
  4. [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure – 731.854
  5. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 582.205
  6. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 499.825
  7. [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft) – 477.384
  8. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 402.886
  9. [NSW] Pokemon Sword / Shield + Expansion Pass (Pokemon Co.) - 302.595
  10. [NSW] Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town (Marvelous) – 281.140
  11. [NSW] New Pokemon Snap (Pokemon Co.) - 276.800 
  12. [NSW] Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics - 274.626
  13. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD - 263.674 
  14. [NSW] Super Mario Party - 257.307
  15. [NSW] Splatoon 2 - 251.935
  16. [NSW] Miitopia - 243.053 
  17. [NSW] Game Builder Garage - 233.438 
  18. [NSW] Monster Hunter Stories 2 (Capcom) - 227.554 
  19. [PS4] Resident Evil Village (Capcom) - 191.983
  20. [NSW] Baseball Spirits 2021 (Konami) - 189.057 
  21. [NSW] Crayon Shin-Chan (Neos) - 183.733 
  22. [NSW] Mario Golf: Super Rush - 182.579 
  23. [PS4] NieR Replicant (Square Enix) - 158.265
  24. [PS4] Tales of Arise (Bandai Namco) - 151.316 / NEW 
  25. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - 144.103
  26. [NSW] Bravely Default II (Square Enix) – 136.091
  27. [NSW] Rune Factory 5 (Marvelous) - 127.968
  28. [NSW] Yu-Gi-Oh! Rush Duel (Konami) - 127.221 
  29. [NSW] Fitness Boxing 2 (Imagineer) - 111.171
  30. [NSW] New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe - 110.075
  31. [NSW] Super Mario 3D All-Stars - 104.782
  32. [NSW] Pikmin 3 Deluxe - 103.273
  33. [NSW] Dragon Quest XI S (Square Enix) - 100.806
  34. [NSW] Super Mario Maker 2 - 87.195
  35. [NSW] Human Fall Flat (Teyon Japan) - 85.310
  36. [NSW] Tsukihime (Aniplex) - 79.302 
  37. [PS4] Tsukihime (Aniplex) - 77.478 
  38. [NSW] Super Mario Odyssey - 74.949
  39. [NSW] Little Nightmares II (Bandai Namco) - 72.796
  40. [PS4] Samurai Warriors 5 (Koei Tecmo) - 72.727
  41. [NSW] WarioWare: Get It Together! - 72.277 / NEW
  42. [NSW] Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum 'n' Fun! (Bandai Namco) - 70.964
  43. [NSW] Fishing Spirits (Bandai Namco) - 68.180
  44. [PS5] Resident Evil Village (Capcom) - 67.000
  45. [NSW] Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin (Marvelous) - 65.620
  46. [NSW] Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity (Koei Tecmo) - 62.119
  47. [NSW] Samurai Warriors 5 (Koei Tecmo) - 61.350
  48. [NSW] Minecraft Dungeons (Microsoft) - 59.256
  49. [PS5] Tales of Arise (Bandai Namco) - 50.482 / NEW
  50. [NSW] Luigi's Mansion 3 - 45.207

TOTAL: 12.936.823

TOTAL NSW: 12.167.572 (94.1%)

TOTAL PS4: 651.769 (5%)

TOTAL PS5: 117.482 (0.9%)

For the first time this year I felt compelled to split the PS5 from the PS4, as we finally have two PS5 games in the Top 50, Tales of Arise managed to just make the Top 50. PS5 software in the Top 50 finally surpassed 100K and makes up 0.9% of Software Sales in the Ranking. The XBOX360 performed at a similar level in it's second calendar year - 2006 with 617K sales across the Top 500 games and 0.85% of Software Sales in the Ranking. Difference is that the XBOX360 sold only 290K hardware by the end of 2006 while the PS5 is likely going to be over 1.25M it's fairly clear that the actual Hardware Sales of the PS5 to Japanese consumers are actually closer to 300K than 1 million at the moment - the majority of units have been re-sold overseas for a profit and that would explain the abysmal performance of PS5 software relative to the hardware sales of the system. 

Top 10 Publishers

  1. Nintendo - 5.544.865 (42.9%)
  2. Capcom - 2.808.240 (21.7%)
  3. Konami - 1.450.865 (11.2%)
  4. Pokemon Co - 579.395 (4.5%)
  5. Microsoft - 536.640 (4.1%)
  6. Marvelous - 474.728 (3.7%)
  7. Bandai Namco - 413.738 (3.2%)
  8. Square Enix - 395.162 (3%)
  9. Koei Tecmo - 196.196 (1.5%)
  10. Neos - 183.733 (1.4%)

Nintendo actually had some losses to it's market share this week as Tales of Arise knocked out Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training & Kirby Star Allies from the Top 50. WarioWare had a great debut for the franchise and long term is looking like another game that should have no trouble surpassing 500K in Japan.  

In terms of Tales of Arise, the debut on the PS5 is the one that surprised me as I had expected it to debut below Village the PS4 debut however was exactly where I expected and continues the downward trend for the PS ecosystem this year. Bandai did move forward in the ranking and now are ahead of Square who are the other huge publisher having a terrible year, for the rest of the year neither publisher has any major titles launching with Bandai being in a slightly better position due to DBZ Kakarot & Super Robot Wars 30. But in both cases finishing outside of the Top 5 Publisher for the year will be disappointing for huge companies like this.