Famitsu sales: Week 42, 2021 - (11th Oct - 17th Oct)

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Mnementh said:

So Switch hardware dropped again under 100K and under last years number. It will be a hard time for team 2021. We'll see how much of it is down to supply constraints and if that can be fixed in the upcoming weeks. The OLED model is the best selling model of the three, albeit it being close.

XBox keeps doing decent. I think the difference in the split between models between Xbox Series and PS5 is very interesting. For PS5 the discless model has the same power, yet the disc-based model is much more in demand, despite higher price. On the other hand for Xbox Series model S now consistently outsells model X (although lifetime X still leads from the initial launch sales). And that despite Series S being a weaker hardware than Series X. I wonder why is that. Different demographics buying Playstation and Xbox and having different preferences?

Playstation now has 12 titles in the TOP 30, nearly half. That is a massive improvement over the time Switch dominated the TOP 30 not too long ago.

I want to point out Doki Doki Literature Club, which does quite well, considering it is a western game in a typical japanese genre (visual novel) while also subverting the tropes of this genre.

Bold: The reason is supply. They still all sell out very quickly. That's just what is shipped.