Famitsu Sales: Week 27, 2024 (Jul 01 - Jul 07)

[Phenomajp13]

IcaroRibeiro said:

Phenomajp13 said:

Without the PC data and digital console sales, that is impossible to determine. Hogwarts Legacy could have done that last year but this is impossible to determine because of the lack of data. I'm not sure what is so hard to understand, no data means no conclusive evidence.

There are data, it's just rare and scattered 

Those are the most recent article I've found

https://www.serkantoto.com/2022/11/06/japan-pc-gaming-market/

https://www.serkantoto.com/2023/08/30/japan-gaming-market-size/

Console gaming market: 596.1 billion yen (hardware 209.8 billion yen + software 389.3 billion yen)

PC gaming market: 189.2 billion yen

Userbase of PC gamers is around 16 million as of 2021, with 4.5 million using exclusively PCs to game 

The best selling reported third party game in Japan was Elden Ring. It sold 1 million (PC+Xbox+Sony, physical and digital included). Around 500k were from physical boxed PS4/PS5 sales, I believe a 650-750k from PS platforms digital included are a fair estimation⁸

For big-budgeted AAA third parties Playstation still likely the platform they are still selling the best. Problem is even on Playstation they are selling poorly, I think the situation is overall just hopeless 

Where are you getting the rest of that data from? I see the console and PC market sizes in those links but not PC userbase figures or Elden Ring being the highest selling third party game.