Famitsu Sales: Week 50, 2024 (Dec 09 - Dec 15)

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Switch is on fire!  Hardware just got a hair away from 100k sales, and Mario Party Jamboree got close to 100k weekly sales as well.  Amazingly, Switch is up YoY for the past 4 weeks in a row.  The Switch version of DQ3 is the one with the legs, selling almost 55K this week, while the PS5 version is not even in the top 10.  Animal Crossing is likely a week away from crossing 8M physical, and Switch should cross 3M hardware next week too.

Meanwhile, I look at PS5 and this is actually what I expected from it all along.  I think most of us posting in this thread have watched for years as PS5 hardware sells relatively well and PS5 software sells pathetically worse than Wii U or Vita.  Due to recent price adjustments, it no longer looks like scalpers want to export PS5's from Japan and now we are seeing what the actual demand for PS5 is in Japan.  We should really be thinking of PS5's Japanese install base being about half of what the YTD total is.  When you think of it that way, a game like DQ3 on the PS5 has sold relatively well.  The PS5 isn't a popular system in Japan though.  The drop in popularity from PS4 to PS5 is almost as bad as the drop in popularity from the PSP to the Vita.  Although you can really only see it on the software side and not the hardware side.