Famitsu Sales: Week 32, 2023 (Jul 31 - Aug 06)

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Wow. All the systems HW selling real well this week.

And Switch SW doing amazing. Nearly everything top 10 increasing WoW and Pikmin having a great third week hold.

It's almost like the Switch is racing to catch the DS in sales and is speeding up sales the past few months to get there sooner haha. Switch knocking out 70/80/90k in year 7 in the summer(!) like it ain't no thang. Switch last lost a week YoY to itself 15 weeks ago!!


Switch is only 193k behind last year right now. Looks likely it'll win YoY the next two weeks, then finally lose pretty significantly YoY for four weeks in a row (W 35-38) then for the 8 weeks after that (39-46) it will probably at least keep up YoY but with Mario Wonder launching during that time it may gain a decent amount YoY those weeks. It'll probably be 350k-400k behind total YoY coming into the holiday season on W47. Last year's holiday was fairly weak so let's say it shouldn't be down a ton, if it averages 140k those weeks it'd just lose an additional 134k YoY during the holidays. So it is looking like it may end up the year only ~500k less than last year, putting the Switch at 4.3m in its 7th calendar year in Japan! Which would be wayyyy above expectations coming into the year. I think plenty of people were predicting an entire million less than that. I know I was predicting 400k-500k less than that.
That would put it right at 32m at end of the year, with just under a million to go to beat DS which would easily happen Spring quarter next year.