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Mr_Destiny on 28 October 2019

Can Modern Warfare (reboot) dethrone Link's Awakening (remake)?
PS4: 27,400; PS4 Pro bundle: 400; XB1: 18,900 vs 30K+ for LA
SKU vs SKU...nope. But it's gotta be selling tons of digital copies.

Outer Worlds (week 1): 4500 PS4, 1600 XB1
Link's Awakening (week 6): 2900
Astral Chain (week 9): 200
Mario Maker 2 (week 18): 1800
Fire Emblem Three Houses (week 14): 400
Yoshi's Crafted World (week 31): 500
MK8D: 3400
Smash Ult: 2600

and last but not least...
Ring Fit Adventure (week 2): 7500 (it went up!)



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mk7sx on 02 November 2019

This is really cool and greatly appreciated! Hope you can keep it coming!



JWeinCom on 02 November 2019

I'm confused. Are these the overall sales for the store, or for a certain geographic region?



Mr_Destiny on 04 November 2019
JWeinCom said:
I'm confused. Are these the overall sales for the store, or for a certain geographic region?

These are nationwide sales numbers for one retailer all over the US. Not much presence in any other country as far as I know. I am unsure if it includes games shipped directly to people's homes.



Mr_Destiny on 04 November 2019

Couldn't check much this week (my supervisor and I had lunch at the same time).

Luigi's Mansion 3 (week 1): ~43,000



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Mr_Destiny on 13 November 2019

Week ending 11-9:
Luigi's Mansion 3 (week 2): 24,400
Death Stranding (week 1): 6900
Ring Fit Adventure (week 4): 4000



Mr_Destiny on 19 November 2019

Week ending November 16: Pokemon!!!!

4 SKUs: Sword, Shield, SteelbookTM double pack, regular double pack

  • Sword: 32k
  • Shield: 26k
  • SteelbookTM double pack: 19k
  • Regular double pack: 3k

Double the double packs and add it all up is...

102,000



The_Liquid_Laser on 19 November 2019

Wow, that is a hell of a lot of Pokemon!

This really puts the NPD charts in perspective. According to these numbers Pokemon is outselling CoD and it's not even close. But when the NPD reports the top game of 2019, I'm almost certain it will be CoD. The NPD combines PS4 and XB1 numbers for COD and also adds in digital. With Pokemon they break Sword and Shield into two games and they don't include digital numbers. So, they are going to report CoD as #1 again, but in reality Pokemon is blowing it out of the water.



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Mr_Destiny on 19 November 2019

I'd say well over half of Xbox/PS4 sales are digital these days, so I'm not sure Pokemon is ahead. I can't find the file now, but a while back I compared Media Create's physical sales to some digital sales Nintendo announced in Japan, and found about 1/5 of copies sold were digital. It seems Nintendo fans love their physical media, so even if digital is included it wouldn't nudge the total sales up much.



mk7sx on 21 November 2019
Mr_Destiny said:

Week ending November 16: Pokemon!!!!

4 SKUs: Sword, Shield, SteelbookTM double pack, regular double pack

  • Sword: 32k
  • Shield: 26k
  • SteelbookTM double pack: 19k
  • Regular double pack: 3k

Double the double packs and add it all up is...

102,000

Nintendo reported >2.0M sell-through (physical+digital, two days, through 11/16).  So that's the same time-frame as your reporting.

So in the instance of Pokemon Sword & Shield, your data represented ~5% of total US sell-through.  Cool to know!  But we cannot use that to extrapolate for others of course.