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Forums - Sales Discussion - Famitsu: Japan’s best-selling games of July 2019

1. [NSW] Super Mario Maker 2 – 258,679 (221,930 physical, 36,749 digital)
2. [PS4] Professional Baseball Spirits 2019 – 237,880 (202,523 physical, 35,357 digital)
3. [NSW] Fire Emblem: Three Houses – 211,507 (143,130 physical, 68,377 digital)
4. [PS4] Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers – 91,424 (24,152 physical, 67,272 digital)
5. [PSV] Professional Baseball Spirits 2019 – 55,192 (52,259 physical, 2,933 digital)
6. [NSW] Yo-kai Watch 4 – 51,825 (47,868 physical, 3,957 digital)
7. [NSW] Fishing Spirits: Nintendo Switch Version – 51,176 (47,700 physical, 3,476 digital)
8. [NSW] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball – 50,088 (46,686 physical, 3,402 digital)
9. [NSW] Rune Factory 4 Special – 49,283 (37,916 physical, 11,367 digital)
10. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 47,424 (34,974 physical, 12,450 digital)
11. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 38,315 (31,624 physical, 6,691 digital)
12. [NSW] Minecraft – 36,492 (28,924 physical, 7,568 digital)
13. [NSW] Attack on Titan 2: Final Battle – 33,018 (31,679 physical, 1,339 digital)
14. [NSW] God Eater 3 – 31,988 (28,770 physical, 3,218 digital)
15. [PS4] Attack on Titan 2: Final Battle – 27,322 (24,333 physical, 2,989 digital)
16. [NSW] Splatoon 2 – 26,914 (21,095 physical, 5,819 digital)
17. [NSW] Zelda: Breath of the Wild – 26,469 (19,008 physical, 7,461 digital)
18. [PS4] Kingdom Come Deliverance – 22,756 (17,010 physical, 5,746 digital)
19. [NSW] Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu / Eevee – 21,785 (20,377 physical, 1,408 digital)
20. [NSW] Super Mario Party – 21,260 (17,204 physical, 4,056 digital)
21. [PS4] Monster Hunter: World (Best Price) (Re-priced Version) – 18,737 (8,393 physical, 10,344 digital)
22. [NSW] Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order – 18,684 (12,506 physical, 6,178 digital)
23. [PS4] PixARK – 17,784 (9,108 physical, 8,676 digital)
24. [NSW] Doraemon Story of Seasons – 17,419 (15,012 physical, 2,407 digital)
25. [PS4] Human: Fall Flat – 16,817 (N/A physical, 16,817 digital)
26. [PS4] Final Fantasy XIV Complete Package – 15,402 (8,257 physical, 7,145 digital)
27. [NSW] PixARK – 15,177 (10,101 physical, 5,076 digital)
28. [NSW] Human: Fall Flat – 15,137 (N/A physical, 15,137 digital)
29. [PS4] Monster Hunter: World (Best Price) – 14,732 (9,404 physical, 5,328 digital)
30. [NSW] New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe – 14,728 (13,676 physical, 1,052 digital)

Note that these sales are based on data between July 1 and July 28.

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Mar1217 said:
Can someone tell me where do Famitsu get their digital sales numbers ? Or is it just guess work ?

Nintendo don't release digital sales numbers, even NPD don't get them. So it's guess work. Don't know why they don't release them when pretty much every other publisher does.



Ka-pi96 said:
Barkley said:

Nintendo don't release digital sales numbers, even NPD don't get them. So it's guess work. Don't know why they don't release them when pretty much every other publisher does.

Really? I've never seen any publisher release digital sales figures. I've only ever seen them release shipped (including digital) figures, which Nintendo do as well, and sometimes a digital % (albeit of revenue rather than actual units sold).

Publishers don't release digital sales figures to the public, I'm talking about releasing to groups such as NPD. If you look at the top selling games of the month NPD releases the only games with a * next to them are Nintendo games, and the * is for digital numbers not being included. Nintendo are the only publisher I've ever seen with the * but I don't look that often.

Last edited by Barkley - on 08 September 2019

Thanks for posting the sales numbers Bernie.



I was wondering why Fire Emblem sales seemed low on the weekly Japanese charts. Looks like a ton of Fire Emblem fans have gone digital. Fire Emblem's total sales are not too far behind either Mario Maker 2 or Professional Baseball Spirits 2019, but it has about twice the digital sales numbers of those two games. The weekly charts only report physical numbers, so it makes Fire Emblem sales look worse than they really are.



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The_Liquid_Laser said:
I was wondering why Fire Emblem sales seemed low on the weekly Japanese charts. Looks like a ton of Fire Emblem fans have gone digital. Fire Emblem's total sales are not too far behind either Mario Maker 2 or Professional Baseball Spirits 2019, but it has about twice the digital sales numbers of those two games. The weekly charts only report physical numbers, so it makes Fire Emblem sales look worse than they really are.

The vouchers might have just saved the game in Japan tbh. 200k+ In about lesd than 1 week is really good. It most likely around 350k now. 



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The_Liquid_Laser said:
I was wondering why Fire Emblem sales seemed low on the weekly Japanese charts. Looks like a ton of Fire Emblem fans have gone digital. 

Jranation said:

The vouchers might have just saved the game in Japan tbh. 200k+ In about lesd than 1 week is really good. It most likely around 350k now. 

Though it's still behind Awakening/Fates first weeks. Fire Emblem Awakening did 242k FW. Awakening was also launched on a smaller install base of 5.76m in Japan, while the Switch currently has an install base of 8.7m in Japan.

Though Three Houses will do better in the west IMO. So global sales will be above Awakening. Perhaps it could have stronger legs than Awakening in Japan and win there too, but that's less likely.

I feel like we're seeing a few franchises start to gain ground in the West while at the same time declining in Japan. Monster Hunter, Pokemon, I think FE too.

Last edited by Barkley - on 09 September 2019

Barkley said:
The_Liquid_Laser said:
I was wondering why Fire Emblem sales seemed low on the weekly Japanese charts. Looks like a ton of Fire Emblem fans have gone digital. 

Jranation said:

The vouchers might have just saved the game in Japan tbh. 200k+ In about lesd than 1 week is really good. It most likely around 350k now. 

Though it's still behind Awakening/Fates first weeks. Fire Emblem Awakening did 242k FW. Awakening was also launched on a smaller install base of 5.76m in Japan, while the Switch currently has an install base of 8.7m in Japan.

Though Three Houses will do better in the west IMO. So global sales will be above Awakening. Perhaps it could have stronger legs than Awakening in Japan and win there too, but that's less likely.

I feel like we're seeing a few franchises start to gain ground in the West while at the same time declining in Japan. Monster Hunter, Pokemon, I think FE too.

Until I get proven wrong. I still think the handheld franchises will see a decline in Japan. That includes Animal Crossing too. If the Switch lite is successful at increasing the software sales (at a certain margin) of already released Switch games then my perspective can be proven wrong. 

And Yes the worldwide sales will really makeup for that decline in Japan.



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