Animal Crossing is starting to slow down considerably now. Down 20% from last week.
Ring Fit is the main system seller now.

curl-6 said:

Switch to PS4 ratio for the week at 41:1.

Suitably for a fitness game, Ring Fit has legs like a marathon runner.

Switch now 2 million away from catching the GBA in Japan.

You're using shipment numbers for GBA, right? According to Famitsu, GBA sold 15.53 million units. So in reality, Switch is around half a million away from passing GBA sell-thru in Japan.

RFA has a huge potential, Nintendo just need to produce enough to attend the actual demand. The game is still impossible to find for the standard price on Amazon

Nocturne's opening week is gonna be a very interesting week. While the original release was a PS2 exclusive and Persona being console exclusive could be factors that help the PS4 version. The majority of Megten games are exclusively on Nintendo systems and this would be the first non-Persona Megten to come to Playstation since the PS2 era. So it will be interesting to see which opens higher, my prediction though is the PS4 version opens higher, but the Switch version has stronger legs and ends as the best selling version.  

I was using VGChartz's numbers. https://www.vgchartz.com/analysis/platform_totals/Hardware/JP/

Top 30: https://gonintendo.com/stories/368133-japanese-software-sales-for-aug-23rd-to-30th-2020-top-30

1. [PS4] The Legend of Heroes: Hajimari no Kiseki (Falcom, 08/27/20) – 83,680 (New)
2. [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure (Nintendo, 10/18/19) – 53,594 (1,420,027)
3. [NSW] Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Remastered Edition (Square Enix, 08/27/20) – 48,957 (New)
4. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo, 03/20/20) – 34,401 (5,628,462)
5. [PS4] Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Remastered Edition (Square Enix, 08/27/20) – 30,169 (New)
6. [NSW] Captain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions (Bandai Namco, 08/27/20) – 16,678 (New)
7. [NSW] Jump Force Deluxe Edition (Bandai Namco, 08/27/20) – 15,588 (New)
8. [PS4] Captain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions (Bandai Namco, 08/27/20) – 13,828 (New)
9. [PS4] Ghost of Tsushima (SIE, 07/17/20) – 13,226 (375,580)
10. [NSW] Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics (Nintendo, 06/05/20) – 12,520 (349,010)
11. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 12,136 (3,131,858)
12. [NSW] eBaseball Powerful Pro Yakyuu 2020 (Konami, 07/09/20) – 7,310 (207,757)
13. [NSW] Pokemon Sword / Shield (The Pokemon Company, 11/15/19) – 6,936 (3,717,997)
14. [NSW] Splatoon 2 (Bundle Version Included) (Nintendo, 07/21/17) – 6,830 (3,544,763)
15. [NSW] Paper Mario: The Origami King (Nintendo, 07/17/20) – 6,432 (238,391)
16. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 12/07/18) – 6,105 (3,809,943)
17. [NSW] Minecraft: Nintendo Switch Edition (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 5,715 (1,488,159)
18. [NSW] Super Mario Party (Nintendo, 10/05/18) – 5,193 (1,538,146)
19. [PS4] eBaseball Powerful Pro Yakyuu 2020 (Konami, 07/09/20) – 3,765 (174,299)
20. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo, 03/03/17) – 3,567 (1,637,054)
21. [NSW] KonoSuba: God’s Blessing on this Wonderful World! Labyrinth of Hope and the Gathering of Adventurers! Plus (Entergram, 08/27/20) – 3,189 (New)
22. [PS4] Mobile Suit Gundam: Extreme VS. Maxiboost ON (Bandai Namco, 07/30/20) – 3,091 (158,714)
23. [PS4] Stellaris: Console Edition (DMM Games, 08/27/20) – 3,090 (New)
24. [NSW] Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Training for Nintendo Switch (Nintendo, 12/27/19) – 3,054 (285,541)
25. [NSW] Ace Angler: Nintendo Switch Version (Bandai Namco, 07/25/19) – 2,845 (483,458)
26. [NSW] New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe (01/11/19) – 2,777 (889,391)
27. [PS4] Terminator: Resistance (Reef Entertainment, 08/27/20) – 2,486 (New)
28. [NSW] Super Mario Maker 2 (Nintendo, 06/28/19) – 2,375 (958,504)
29. [NSW] Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum ‘n’ Fun (Bandai Namco, 07/19/18) – 2,206 (508,041)
30. [NSW] Human Fall Flat (Teyon Japan, 06/25/20) – 1,932 (26,269)

NS - 22

PS4 - 8

Yea I've been thinking about that one too, but personally I expect the Switch version to open higher even though it might be close. The two versions are neck and neck on the COMG preorder chart and that usually has a bit of a PS bias compared to famitsu sales.

Top 30

NSW 22 (9 of which are third party)
PS4 8 (7 of which are third party)

Switch has 9/16 = 56% of third party games in the top 30 this week.  This is the first time in over 3 months where Switch has had fewer than 60% of the third party games in the top 30.  I suppose now I will have to say 55%+ going forward.  However, we can also look at the multiplatform releases this week and see that Switch is significantly higher in first week sales, and we've already been seeing that Switch has much better legs on multiplatform releases like eBaseball.  The argument for Japanese third party developers to ignore the Switch grows weaker every week.  The real question for games in the coming years should be "Switch exclusive or multiplat?"

3. [NSW] Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Remastered Edition (Square Enix, 08/27/20) – 48,957 (New)
5. [PS4] Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Remastered Edition (Square Enix, 08/27/20) – 30,169 (New)

6. [NSW] Captain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions (Bandai Namco, 08/27/20) – 16,678 (New)
8. [PS4] Captain Tsubasa: Rise of New Champions (Bandai Namco, 08/27/20) – 13,828 (New)

12. [NSW] eBaseball Powerful Pro Yakyuu 2020 (Konami, 07/09/20) – 7,310 (207,757)
19. [PS4] eBaseball Powerful Pro Yakyuu 2020 (Konami, 07/09/20) – 3,765 (174,299)

"Switch has much better legs on multiplatform releases like eBaseball"

You lost me here. How do those numbers prove the Switch has much better legs? The PS4 version launched terribly and than legged it decently. The Switch version has 5.8m+ more potential buyers than the PS4 version but only barely outlegs it.

Question, how y’all feeling about 3D Mario collection doing WW? 25mil