Famitsu Sales: Week 9, 2025 (Feb 24 - Mar 02)

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CosmicSex said:

After some more investigation I have some more notes. "Monster Hunter Wilds takes the top spot. Total sales worldwide exceed 8 million copies."
Okay right there that is a massive boon for Capcom make over half a billion in the first week. For the PS5 that is huge when considering Steam numbers. Next, the 11-30 spots have been posted by Famitsu and it turns out that MH didn't chart on the top 30 (with the threshold for entry being about only 1500) units. This just doesnt seem right. Is MH exclusive in Japan? The big console's may be skewed towards digital sales in Japan than we realize.

After even more investigation I find that the current Xbox break down in Japan is:
Xbox Series S – 640 (332,626)
Xbox Series X Digital Edition – 46 (19,889)
Xbox Series X – 35 (319,519)

This means that over 50% of all Xbox consoles DO NOT take physical media at all. Then if you add the digital share of sales on top of that you probably on only have an addressable count of like 170k units. Even then with MH having an physical attach rate of 10% on the PS5, you would expect Xbox MH physical sales to pass 10k. So clearly there is something I'm missing here. I'm guessing its just not being sold on Xbox at retail in Japan.

 Most games on Xbox in Japan are digital only and therefor will not chart on the Famitsu report.