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Forums - Sales Discussion - Japan sales (Week 20): Media Create/Famitsu/Dengeki - May 14-20, 2018

Bofferbrauer2 on 23 May 2018

Labo holding pretty well, but everything's quite meh this week

@NoCtis: You don't have that box with the sales compared to last week and last year anymore?



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Megiddo on 23 May 2018

Here is the week 20 update in terms of the two big consoles in Japan's path to be able to reach the commonly stated (in these sales threads) estimates for 2018 sales (2 mil for PS4, 4 mil for Switch) .

  TWS GD YTD AWN (Change)
PS4 16,940 -18,018 863,295 35,522 (+564)
Switch 33,125 -60,261 951,361 95,269 (+1883)

TWS - This week's sales
GD - Goal differential, the difference between the average week needed from last week compared to this week's sales
YTD - Units sold in 2018 so far including this week's sales
AWN - Average weekly sales needed to reach the estimate for the console.

Switch weekly sales up a bit and PS4 down a bit. DKTF continues to show amazing results compared to its prior version.



Mnementh on 23 May 2018

So, PS4 really has a 16K baseline, now we see demand unimpeded by supply problems. The Switch has a 30K baseline. Both lower than many expected. Game releases should increase that number later in the year, but that is what we should expect for the coming weeks.

The sales of the Tropical Freeze port nearing the original numbers (it had 160K on WiiU in Japan, Switch version is now at 130K). Even if we assume a further drop to 10K weekly, it beats the original in three more weeks.

Two more weeks for Zelda clearing the 1 million mark.

Splatoon 2 dominating everything, has even more sales than Mario, Pokemon and Mario Kart (and better legs too).

This Baseball game already outsold God of War, should double GoW-sales in two more weeks. This shows GoW is not for the japanese market.

Monster Hunter World sadly has already left the charts, but has achieved so far a great number. Over two millions, should be near 2.5M (has someone the cumulative sales on MC for this game?).

As only one new game charts this week, we see the leg-monsters. Eight games in the TOP 20 released already in 2017, one even in 2016. This is extraordinary, remember MonHun has already left the charts.



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Green098 on 23 May 2018

Kirby reached 500K, I wonder what it will do it's lifetime?



Pavolink on 23 May 2018

Good Switch software and ok numbers for hardware.



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think-man on 23 May 2018

Terrible everywhere.



 

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AJNShelton on 23 May 2018
Megiddo said:

Here is the week 20 update in terms of the two big consoles in Japan's path to be able to reach the commonly stated (in these sales threads) estimates for 2018 sales (2 mil for PS4, 4 mil for Switch) .

  TWS GD YTD AWN (Change)
PS4 16,940 -18,018 863,295 35,522 (+564)
Switch 33,125 -60,261 951,361 95,269 (+1883)

TWS - This week's sales
GD - Goal differential, the difference between the average week needed from last week compared to this week's sales
YTD - Units sold in 2018 so far including this week's sales
AWN - Average weekly sales needed to reach the estimate for the console.

Switch weekly sales up a bit and PS4 down a bit. DKTF continues to show amazing results compared to its prior version.

I guess the Switch will end the year with 1,5 millions sold in Japan, which would make it close to 5 millions.



Kerotan on 23 May 2018
Mnementh said:
So, PS4 really has a 16K baseline, now we see demand unimpeded by supply problems. The Switch has a 30K baseline. Both lower than many expected. Game releases should increase that number later in the year, but that is what we should expect for the coming weeks.

The sales of the Tropical Freeze port nearing the original numbers (it had 160K on WiiU in Japan, Switch version is now at 130K). Even if we assume a further drop to 10K weekly, it beats the original in three more weeks.

Two more weeks for Zelda clearing the 1 million mark.

Splatoon 2 dominating everything, has even more sales than Mario, Pokemon and Mario Kart (and better legs too).

This Baseball game already outsold God of War, should double GoW-sales in two more weeks. This shows GoW is not for the japanese market.

Monster Hunter World sadly has already left the charts, but has achieved so far a great number. Over two millions, should be near 2.5M (has someone the cumulative sales on MC for this game?).

As only one new game charts this week, we see the leg-monsters. Eight games in the TOP 20 released already in 2017, one even in 2016. This is extraordinary, remember MonHun has already left the charts.

https://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/aw/d/B0742J781D/ref=zg_bs_videogames_23?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=RZ9VKAJCK425RWA7GEH9

 

You must have a different definition of unimpeded to me. Still having stock issues. 



OTBWY on 23 May 2018

Slow week.

The PS4 doesn't move that much anymore. The Switch is at the baseline.



Jranation on 23 May 2018
Miyamotoo said:

When best selling game sold 20k you know its not best week, on other hand it seems that Labo start showing legs, around 10k this week.

Yep! Surprised it did over 10k!



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