Japan sales (Week 8): Media Create/Famitsu/Dengeki

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Shaqazooloo0 on 01 March 2018

I just remembered, Rayman Legends launched on February 22nd... didn't even chart in the top 50...

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LipeJJ on 01 March 2018

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LipeJJ said:

You can take off Zelda of your list. It's not among Nintendo's biggest franchises. The last Zelda that crossed a million in Japan was Ocarina of Time in 1998. This year it is expected to get Smash and Animal Crossing, which is far bigger in Japan than anything Switch got so far. We'll have to wait, but so far 4m looks like a safe bet for what people already mentioned.

How did Smash do in Japan for the Wii U compared with Splatoon, whose sequel also released on the Switch last year?

Over 3.3m across 3DS And Wii U. Even if you take off Wii U, it's still 2.5m. And there's no reason to compare Switch to Wii U... cause, you know, it outsold it in 10 months. You have to actually compare games' potential based on previous successful consoles like Wii, 3DS, DS, etc. It's also unfair to Smash WIi U, cause there was another version for it to compete (the 3DS one, which was/is the best selling console of this gen in Japan).

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Kerotan on 01 March 2018

Shaqazooloo0 said:
I just remembered, Rayman Legends launched on February 22nd... didn't even chart in the top 50...

Rabbids land is now rayman land

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Lawlight said:

The Vita was simply not supported. It’s only big seller in Japan is Minecraft and it got nothing beyond that. It still almost doubled what the WiiU sold, a system that had plenty of Mario games including Mario Kart 8, Splatoon, Smash. Even the PS4 struggled to outsell the Vita despite all the big hitters it got.

Sooo it cant just be a handheld, it needs to have great support, got it!

Isn’t that common sense? And I’m not even talking about great support - just support in general, which the Vita did not have. The MH games would have changed everything.

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globalisateur on 01 March 2018

PwerlvlAmy said:
As expected. MHW bump wore off, Switch back on top. Still MHW killing it in software. Its truly a monster, pun intended

Well, not much PS4s to sell in japan. There are PS4 shortage in Japan since at least last week:

No problem to find switches in Japan currently:

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Kerotan on 01 March 2018

OK so ps4 shortage still going. Sony can't keep up

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globalisateur said:

Well, not much PS4s to sell in japan. There are PS4 shortage in Japan since at least last week:

Oh wow, PS4 shortages isn't something that I expected to see lol.

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NoCtiS_NoX on 02 March 2018

Dengeki up

Rank	Last week	Model	Title name	Maker	Release date	Estimated sales	Cumulative sales volume
1	1	PS4	Monster Hunter: World	Capcom	18/01/26	54, 425	1,870,980
2	-	PS4	Girls & Panzer Dream Tank Match	NAMCO BANDAI ENTERTAINMENT	18/02/22	46, 271	46, 271
3	-	PS4	Metal Gear Survive	KONAMI	18/02/21	27,693	27,693
Four	-	PS4	Senran Kagura Burst Re: Newal	Marvelous	18/02/22	23,634	23,634
Five	Four	Switch	Splatoon 2	Nintendo	17/07/21	19, 322	2, 120, 275
6	6	Switch	Mario Kart 8 Deluxe	Nintendo	17/04/28	14, 328	1,405,582
7	8	Switch	Mario + Rabbits Kingdom Battle	Nintendo	18/01/18	9,400	179, 494
8	11	Switch	Super Mario Odyssey	Nintendo	17/10/27	9,289	1,564,933
9	3	PS4	True Sangoku Musou 8	KOEI TECMO GAMES	18/02/08	9, 150	157, 139
Ten	13	Switch	The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild	Nintendo	17/03/03	8,294	691, 347
11	9	PS4	Sword Art · Online Fatal · Barrett	NAMCO BANDAI ENTERTAINMENT	18/02/08	6,800	96,872
12	2	PS4	Seiken Densetsu 2 Secret of Mana	square Enix	18/02/15	6, 406	38,059
13	12	Switch	Beyonetta 2	Nintendo	18/02/17	5, 806	17, 142
14	-	PSV	Harukanaru Tokinonakade Ultimate Regular Edition	KOEI TECMO GAMES	18/02/22	5, 325	5, 325
15	17	3DS	Mario Party 100 Mini Game Collection	Nintendo	17/12/28	4,267	174,078
16	46	PS4	Star Wars Battle Front II	Electronic Arts	17/11/17	4,200	79, 611
17	20	3DS	Pocket Monsters Ultra Moon	Pokémon	17/11/17	3, 926	764, 375
18	18	3DS	Pocket Monsters Ultra Sun	Pokémon	17/11/17	3,900	787, 319
19	16	PS4	Dragon Ball Fighters	NAMCO BANDAI ENTERTAINMENT	18/02/01	3,861	84, 483
20	Five	Vita	Eidishrish Seven Twelve Fantasia!	NAMCO BANDAI ENTERTAINMENT	18/02/15	3,375	21, 304
twenty one	twenty two	Switch	ARMS	Nintendo	17/06/16	3,300	397, 361
twenty two	twenty one	Switch	POKKÉN TOURNAMENT DX	Pokémon	17/09/22	3,222	233, 169
twenty three	twenty four	Switch	1-2-Switch	Nintendo	17/03/03	3, 183	429, 820
twenty four	Ten	Vita	Seiken Densetsu 2 Secret of Mana	square Enix	18/02/15	3,076	17, 394
twenty five	twenty three	Switch	Dragon Ball Zeno Barth 2 for Nintendo Switch	NAMCO BANDAI ENTERTAINMENT	17/09/07	2,956	146, 478
26	-	Vita	Tokimeki restaurant ☆☆☆ Project TRISTARS	KOEI TECMO GAMES	18/02/22	2,522	2,522
27	twenty five	3DS	Kirby Battle Deluxe!	Nintendo	17/11/30	2, 324	153, 822
28	-	Switch	Local train for Nintendo Switch !!	NAMCO BANDAI ENTERTAINMENT	18/02/22	2,277	2,277
29	7	PS4	Electronic Battle Virtaron x A Certain Magical Index and a Magical Electric Gear	Sega Games	18/02/15	2,269	18,577
30	19	PS4	Colossus with Wanda	SIE	18/02/08	2,250	20, 410
31	83	3DS	Advance Giant 2 - Future Coordinates ~	Spike · Chunsoft	17/11/30	1,978	45, 162
32	34	PS4	Call of Duty World War II	SIE	17/11/03	1,911	420, 211
33	33	3DS	Animal Crossing Aniibo +	Nintendo	16/11/23	1,876	334, 819
34	29	Switch	FIFA 18	Electronic Arts	17/09/29	1,850	108, 974
35	37	Vita	Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition	SIE	15/03/19	1,825	1,189,962
36	35	Switch	Monster Hunter Double Cross Nintendo Switch Ver.	Capcom	17/08/25	1,806	212, 198
37	27	Switch	The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim	Bethesda Softworks	18/02/01	1,756	23, 845
38	15	Vita	Electronic Battle Virtaron x A Certain Magical Index and a Magical Electric Gear	Sega Games	18/02/15	1,707	10,567
39	32	3DS	Yo-kai Watch Busters 2 Hihou Legend Banbaraja Magnum	Level 5	17/12/16	1,600	268, 390
40	-	Vita	Hit me in your eyes	Entergram	18/02/22	1,544	1,544
41	-	Vita	VitaminX Destination	D3 Publisher	18/02/22	1,475	1,475
42	36	PS4	Minecraft: PlayStation 4 Edition	SIE	15/12/03	1,428	300, 755
43	31	3DS	Yo-kai Watch Busters 2 Hihou Legend Banbaraja Sword	Level 5	17/12/16	1,422	270, 826
44	206	PS4	Nobunaga no Open / Oshi	KOEI TECMO GAMES	17/11/30	1,350	43, 555
45	39	Switch	Together with choppers and snippers plus	Nintendo	17/11/10	1,317	58, 974
46	26	3DS	Dragon Quest XI Passing away and seeking time	square Enix	17/07/29	1,300	1,797,170
47	38	PS4	Grand · Theft Auto V	Rockstar · Games	15/10/08	1,289	360, 637
48	28	PS4	Dragons Crown Pro	Atlas	18/02/08	1,277	15,962
49	42	3DS	Monster Hunter Double Cross Best Price!	Capcom	17/11/30	1,211	21, 603
50	41	3DS	Snack World Treasures	Level 5	17/08/10	1,173	262, 255

Number of hard-sold software sales (totaling period: February 19-25, 2018)

Model	February 19 Estimated weekly sales amount	February 19 Week composition ratio (%)	Estimated sales in FY 2017	Fiscal 2010 composition ratio (%)
PS4	234, 565	55.6%	10, 328, 246	34.4%
PS3	1,643	0.4%	167, 122	0.6%
Vita	30, 924	7.3%	1,400,569	4.7%
Switch	103, 272	24.5%	8, 228, 278	27.4%
Wii U	1,776	0.4%	291, 615	1.0%
3DS	49, 797	11.8%	9, 601, 863	32.0%
X One	140	0.0%	15, 425	0.1%
total	422, 117	100.0%	30, 03, 118	100.0%

Week hard sales (totaling period: February 19 to 25, 2018)

Model	February 19 Estimated weekly sales amount	February 19 Week composition ratio (%)	Estimated sales in FY 2017	Fiscal 2010 composition ratio (%)
PS4	35, 964	39.0%	1,885,156	27.9%
PS3	41	0.0%	7,521	0.1%
Vita	5,248	5.7%	231, 088	3.4%
Switch	38,870	42.1%	3,229,005	47.8%
Wii U	107	0.1%	4,528	0.1%
3DS	4, 175	4.5%	613, 803	9.1%
2DS	7, 751	8.4%	777, 033	11.5%
X One	173	0.2%	6,725	0.1%
total	92, 329	100.0%	6, 754, 860	100.0%

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AngryLittleAlchemist on 02 March 2018

Both Nintendo and Sony are doing great in Japan. It is getting tiring having to keep track of all the ways they we can one up each other to appear right. Both probably have some stock issue somewhere, both are selling at a higher price than some console at sometime in some region, etc etc etc. Just keep telling yourself what you need to to be impressed. Ultimately Switch 40k baseline is good (40k probably won't remain it's consistent baseline) and PS4 is doing amazing. That's all there is to it.