Top 30 

NSW 24 (9 third party)
PS4 6 (5 third party)

This week Switch has 9/14 = 64% of third party games.  This marks 16 weeks in a row where Switch has had the majority of third party games in the top 30.  Third party companies are starting to favor Switch for the first time this year, and with games like Monster Hunter Rise coming in 2021, it looks like it's going to stay that way for a while.  This is 3.5 years after the Switch's launch, and it appears that Japanese developers needed at least 3 full years to make games for the Switch after it became apparent that Switch was going to be a successful system.

Yeah 2021 looks like it'll be the turning point for third parties in Japan with games like Monster Hunter Rise, Stories 2, Rune Factory 5, and Shin Megami Tensei V.

Famitsu 2020 Top 50:

1. NSW: Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo) - 5.754.082
2. NSW: Ring Fit Adventure (Nintendo) - 1.106.546
3. PS4: Final Fantasy VII Remake (Square) - 932.821
4. NSW: Pokemon Sword / Shield (Pokemon Co)- 757.221
5. NSW: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo) - 525.216
6. PS4: Ghost of Tsushima (Sony) - 399.370
7. NSW: Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics (Nintendo) - 391.195
8. NSW: Smash Ultimate (Nintendo) - 383.816
9. NSW: Minecraft (Microsoft) - 366.328
10. NSW: Splatoon 2 (Nintendo) - 317.449
11. NSW: Super Mario Party (Nintendo) - 297.159 
12. NSW: Super Mario 3D All-Stars (Nintendo) - 273.939 (+7)
13. NSW: Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training for Nintendo Switch (Nintendo) - 267.467 (-1)
14. NSW: Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX (Pokemon Co.) - 259.513 (-1)
15. PS4: Resident Evil 3 (Capcom) - 258.676 (-1)
16. NSW: Paper Mario: The Origami King (Nintendo) - 256.899 (-1)
17. PS4: Yakuza 7: Like a Dragon (Sega) - 243.769 (-1)
18. NSW: eBaseball Powerful Pro Baseball 2020 (Konami) - 228.076 (-1)
19. PS4: The Last of Us Part II (Sony) - 222.943 (-1)
20. PS4: eBaseball Powerful Pro Baseball 2020 (Konami) - 180.243
21. NSW: Luigi's Mansion 3 (Nintendo) - 179.438
22. NSW: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo) - 172.831
23. NSW: Super Mario Maker 2 (Nintendo) - 168.345
24. PS4: Mobile Suit Gundam: Extreme Vs. MaxiBoost On (Bandai Namco Games) - 161.014 
25. PS4: Nioh 2 (Koei Tecmo) - 156.772
26. NSW: Fishing Spirits (Bandai Namco) - 156.140
27. NSW: New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe (Nintendo) - 155.834
28. PS4: Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers (Atlus) - 149.898
29. PS4: Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot (Bandai) - 149.654 (-1)
30. NSW: Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games: Tokyo 2020 (Sega) - 138.550
31. PS4: Trials of Mana (Square) - 133.593
32. PS4: One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 (Bandai) - 131.315
33. NSW: Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition (Nintendo) - 128.989
34. NSW: One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 (Bandai Namco) - 117.954
35. PS4: Granblue Fantasy Versus (Cygames) - 111.094
36. NSW: Trials of Mana (Square Enix) - 100.451
37. PS4: The Legend of Heroes: Hajimari no Kiseki (Nihon Falcom) - 96.140
38. NSW: Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum 'n' Fun! (Bandai Namco) - 91.760
39. PS4: Sword Art Online: Alicization Lycoris (Bandai) - 85.010 
40. NSW: Dragon Quest XI S (Square Enix) - 82.137
41. NSW: Hatsune Miku: Project Diva MegaMix (Sega) - 78.558
42. NSW: Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo) - 78.431
43. NSW: Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers (Atlus) - 65.653
44. PS4: Monster Hunter: World - Iceborne (Capcom) - 63.322
45. NSW: Fitness Boxing (Imagineer) - 62.949
46. NSW: Pokemon Let's Go (Pokemon Co) - 57.478
47. NSW: Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles (Square Enix) - 56.187
48. PS4: Grand Theft Auto V: Premium Online Edition (Take-Two) - 54.860
49. PS4: Marvel's Avengers (Square Enix) - 54.373 
50. NSW: Kirby Star Allies (Nintendo) - 48.549

Top 20 2020 Q3:

1. NSW: Animal Crossing: New Horizons - 749.362
2. NSW: Ring Fit Adventure - 528.581
3. PS4: Ghost of Tsushima (Sony) - 399.370(new)
4. NSW: Super Mario 3D All-Stars - 273.939(new)
5. NSW: Paper Mario: The Origami King - 256.899(new)
6. NSW: eBaseball Powerful Pro Baseball 2020 (Konami) - 228.076(new)
7. NSW: Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics - 219.575
8. PS4: eBaseball Powerful Pro Baseball 2020 (Konami) - 180.243(new)
9. NSW: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - 179.182
10. PS4: Mobile Suit Gundam: Extreme Vs. MaxiBoost On (Bandai Namco Games) - 161.014(new)
11. NSW: Pokemon Sword / Shield - 106.362
12. NSW: Splatoon 2 - 99.574
13. NSW: Smash Ultimate - 99.099
14. PS4: The Legend of Heroes: Hajimari no Kiseki (Nihon Falcom) - 96.140(new)
15. PS4: Sword Art Online: Alicization Lycoris (Bandai Namco Games) - 87.144(new)
16. NSW: Minecraft (Microsoft) - 85.666
17. NSW: Super Mario Party - 84.644
18. NSW: Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles (Square Enix) - 56.187
19. PS4: Marvel's Avengers (Square Enix) - 54.373
20. NSW: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - 50.851
21. NSW: Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training - 48.428

TOTAL: 3.996.281

NSW TOTALS:

• 14 Games
• 3 New
• 2 3rd Party Games
• TOTAL - 3.017.997
• Hardware - 1.287.203

PS4 TOTALS:

• 6 Games
• 4 New
• 5 3rd Party Games
• TOTAL - 978.284
• Hardware - 38.029

With the launch of the PS5 nearing Sony has basically not supplied a lot to Japan but you gotta wonder if PS5 will be able to maintain 10% Hardware market share next year. For Q3 Nintendo had 97% of the hardware market(without even counting 3DS which sold 19.516 this quarter) and 75.5% of the Top 20 Software market. 

Top Publishers for Q3(Top 20):

1. Nintendo - 2.582.375
2. Konami - 408.319
3. Sony - 399.370
4. Bandai Namco - 248.158
5. Square Enix - 110.560
6. Pokemon Co - 106.362
7. Nihon Falcom - 96.140
8. Microsoft - 85.666

Konami managed with a single game to become the Top 3rd Party Publisher for Q3, Bandai and Square continue to not have a full multiplat strategy and we can see how this hurts their sales long term in Japan. Minecraft continues to be the Top Selling 3rd Party game and with the new Smash DLC, we might see sales rise further as it gets another push in Japan. Next Quarter Koei, Konami, Atlus, Bandai will have bigger games coming out on the Switch - only SMT III Nocturne & Atelier 2 are actually multiplat all the other big releases are exclusives. I'm guessing Sony is publishing Demon Souls for Japan but even with this and Spider-Man, I'm not really expecting PS4/5 Software to make too much of an impact in Q4. Expecting something like 17 Switch and 3 Playstation ecosystem titles to make the Top 20. The major question remains whether Bravely Default 2 will launch this year. 

The Bestselling software will probably look like this

• >1.25M - Animal Crossing, Ring Fit Adventure
• >750K - Super Mario 3D All-Stars
• >500K - Bravely Default 2, Momotaro, Age of Calamity
• >350K - Taiko, SMT III(all SKUs)
• >250K - Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Clubhouse Games, Atelier 2(all SKUs)
• >150K - Pokemon Sword / Shield, Demon Souls, Splatoon 2, Smash Ultimate, Minecraft, Super Mario Party, Puyo Puyo Tetris 2

Now that Capcom has thrown their hat in the ring and made their commitment to the Switch public, perhaps others will wanna grab a bigger piece of the pie as well. It's simply too big a userbase to ignore, at least if you like money.

We have new numbers for Sept 28 - Oct 4. I'll let Marth create the new thread, but here are the highlights I've seen:

Switch - 91000
PS4 - 6500
3DS - 1500
XBox - 25

And Animal Crossing is back at #1, followed closely by 3D All Stars and Ring Fit