Consumer software weekly sales ranking Top 20

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Rank	Model	title	Release date	Sales volume	Cumulative number	Reader review
1		Luigi Mansion	18/11/08	27,370	27,370
2		Call of Duty Black Ops IV	18/10/12	25, 740	443, 731	58
3		Super Mario Party	18/10/05	23, 333	324, 685
Four		Red Dead Redemption 2 (Limited Edition, Including Included Version)	18/10/26	16,819	184, 061	57
Five		Mario Kart 8 Deluxe	17/04/28	8,466	1, 826, 744	73
6		Minecraft	18/06/21	7,562	357, 898
7		Splatoon 2 (Splatoon 2) (Including included version)	17/07/21	6,783	2,690,893	73
8		The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild (Including Limited Edition)	17/03/03	5, 706	1,153,183	95
9		Tetris effect	18/11/9	4,372	4,372
Ten		Super Mario Odyssey (Limited Edition, including included version)	17/10/27	3,780	1,841,692	91
11		Marvel Spider-Man (Including included version)	18/09/07	3,771	301, 895	82
12		Pocket Monster Ultra Sun / Ultra Moon	17/11/17	3,349	1,756,810	62
13		Déraciné (Delacine) (limited edition included)	18/11/08	3,086	3,086	60
14		Star Kirby Star Allize	1/8031/6	2,963	639, 247	87
15		Assassin's Creed Odyssey (limited edition included)	18/10/02	2,832	85, 706	68
16		Taiko no Tatsujin Nintendo Switch ~ Jon!	18/07/19	2,481	223, 236
17		Cat / Tomo	18/11/01	2,148	6,298
18		Musou OROCHI 3 (limited edition included)	18/09/27	2,025	153, 214
19		Kingdom Hearts - HD 1.5 + 2.5 Remix -	17/03/09	1,977	198, 896	90
20		Soul Calibur VI	18/10/18	1,824	35,590	92

 Consumer hard weekly sales ranking

Famitsu/Dengeki

Great Switch-numbers before the Pokemon-wave

The PS4 releases of the last week are slowly dropping out of the TOP spots, leaving more space for the Nintendo evergreens. Call of Duty is incredible though. It is at nearly half a million, it surely is a million seller in the end. This is very surprising for a western game like this.

For hardware... the Switch is pretty good with nothing new. Probably bundles I think, do we have already Smash, Fortnite or Diablo bundles available by now? PS4 is at baseline. 3DS is pretty bad, even more considering it has a new release at #1. Vita also doesn't look very healthy. Both will be clearly on their way out next year, Switch can take over their market (while PS4 is mostly unscathed by Switch).

Here is the week 45 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 - 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.

At this point, it looks like it's merely a race to see who can get closest to the goal. The Switch would have to sell 400k+ with the Smash/Pokemon bundles in next week's numbers to convince me it has a prayer of reaching its goal. The PS4 has no chance at all. So who can get closest? We'll have a very good idea of Pokemon and Smash's holiday power next week.

~60k software sales on ~54k hardware sales wtf

Nope, there is no Diablo bundle in Japan, while Smash bundle is launching this Friday alongside Pokemon games and Pokemon bundles, while Fortnite bundle will be available on 22. November and Minecraft bundle on 30. November, and than on 7. December Smash Bros launch.

With next week's numbers (practically we talking about this week sales, 12-17 November), Switch is entering beast mode.

Do that math with next week sales. ;)

the hardware boost of Switch is reflecting the boost it will get next week. It should be interesting.

Spiderman legs remain great. It should get a bump over the holidays. Bo4 likes likewise. Super sales.