This is another week where 22,641 PS5's were sold and yet no games are in the top 30.

A drop from 4684 last week to 1802 this week. Still, Xbox Series X|S is doing way better than Xbox One launch aligned.

Famitsu Top 50

1. [NSW] Monster Hunter Rise (Capcom) - 2.298.444 
2. [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu (Konami) – 1.057.026
3. [NSW] Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury - 828.317 
4. [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure – 634.944
5. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 487.267
6. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 459.913
7. [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft) – 384.074
8. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 345.421
9. [NSW] Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town (Marvelous) – 281.140
10. [NSW] Pokemon Sword / Shield + Expansion Pass (Pokemon Co.) - 261.734
11. [NSW] New Pokemon Snap (Pokemon Co.) - 259.052
12. [NSW] Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics - 238.270
13. [NSW] Splatoon 2 - 223.052
14. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD  - 220.351 
15. [NSW] Super Mario Party - 215.556
16. [NSW] Miitopia - 211.421 
17. [NSW] Monster Hunter Stories 2 (Capcom) - 195.328 
18. [PS4] Resident Evil Village (Capcom) - 191.983
19. [NSW] Game Builder Garage - 191.175 
20. [PS4] NieR Replicant (Square Enix) - 158.265
21. [NSW] Mario Golf: Super Rush - 155.728 
22. [NSW] Baseball Spirits 2021 (Konami) - 150.542 
23. [NSW] Crayon Shin-Chan (Neos) - 142.476 
24. [NSW] Bravely Default II (Square Enix) – 136.091
25. [NSW] Rune Factory 5 (Marvelous) - 127.968
26. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - 119.765
27. [NSW] Super Mario 3D All-Stars - 104.782
28. [NSW] Pikmin 3 Deluxe - 103.273
29. [NSW] Fitness Boxing 2 (Imagineer) - 91.326
30. [NSW] Dragon Quest XI S (Square Enix) - 84.512
31. [NSW] New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe - 80.508
32. [NSW] Human Fall Flat (Teyon Japan) - 76.808
33. [NSW] Super Mario Maker 2 - 76.721
34. [NSW] Super Mario Odyssey - 74.949
35. [NSW] Little Nightmares II (Bandai Namco) - 72.796
36. [PS4] Samurai Warriors 5 (Koei Tecmo) - 72.727
37. [NSW] Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin (Marvelous) - 65.620
38. [NSW] Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity (Koei Tecmo) - 62.119
39. [NSW] Samurai Warriors 5 (Koei Tecmo) - 61.350
40. [PS5] Resident Evil Village (Capcom) - 53.953
41. [NSW] Luigi's Mansion 3 - 45.207
42. [NSW] Fishing Spirits (Bandai Namco) - 44.958
43. [NSW] Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum 'n' Fun! (Bandai Namco) - 42.507
44. [NSW] Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training - 38.944
45. [NSW] Minecraft Dungeons (Microsoft) - 38.147
46. [NSW] Kirby Star Allies - 37.954
47. [NSW] Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 (Sega) - 36.105
48. [NSW] Family Trainer (Bandai Namco) - 35.273
49. [PS4] Scarlet Nexus(Bandai Namco) - 31.665
50. [PS4] Biomutant (THQ Nordic) - 30.292

NSW - 44

PS4 - 5

PS5 - 1

TOTAL:11.437.709

TOTAL NSW: 10.898.824 (95.3%)

TOTAL PS4/PS5: 538.885 (4.7%)

Top 10 Publishers:

1. Nintendo - 4.893.518 (42.8%)
2. Capcom - 2.739.708 (24%)
3. Konami - 1.207.568 (10.6%)
4. Pokemon Co - 520.786 (4.6%)
5. Marvelous - 474.728 (4.2%)
6. Microsoft - 422.221 (3.7%)
7. Square Enix - 378.868 (3.3%)
8. Bandai Namco - 227.199 (2%)
9. Koei Tecmo - 196.196 (1.7%)
10. Neos - 142.476 (1.2%)

Next major title to launch in Japan is Konami's Yu-Gi-Oh! Rush Duel which launches is 7 days time, it's another third party title that should launch with over 100K sales, overall we can expect the game to have high potential. I expect it to be the best selling game in the franchise in the past 20 years by ending up with over 410K lifetime sales. Beyond Yu-Gi-Oh we are heading into a slow period of the year until September with few releases, which means that it would be mainly evergreens seeing gains. 

In terms of the games that launched in the summer Shin-chan got a restock so it's no longer sold out - should clear 200K by the end of the summer without problems. Monster Hunter Stories 2 on the other hand is basically sold out and Capcom haven't provided substantial restocks to retailers pushing the game up in the eShop. Skyward Sword & Game Builder Garage are the two new candidates from Nintendo to surpass 400K physical this year, while Miitopia & Baseball Spirits are heading for over 300K and Super Rush will end up with over 200K. 

Next week if Mario & Sonic at the Olympics charts again it will knock out Biomutant from the Top 30, it currently sits at 29K sales for the year.

According to Sony, Q1 2021 was 79% digital rate for full games on PS4/PS5, and now Q2 was 71% digital rate for full games. And perhaps due to the pandemic  imposed lockdowns, the digital rate has substantially increased since the PS5 released. We can assume as PS5 SW takes over PS4 SW, a higher proportion will be digital. PS5 may have higher than 80% digital rates.

Even so with 71%. That leaves 29%, or 6,566 PS5 owners would have to buy the same game. But that is not going to happen as the PS5's library does not have an extremely hard hitter to take the majority of sales and PS5 owners chose to buy a variety of other games.

You meant Top 50 there at the end, right?

And yeah, having the two last spots makes PS4's number of 5 games in the list a very fragile one. With Yu-Gi-Oh! and the aforementioned Mario & Sonic game they might lose both of those games in the top 50 chart next week.

Man, my condolences and good vibes for you.

Chill on the hospital,  wishing you all the best, speedy recovery, go better and come back. 

Japan? You know the Japanese market tends to physical released, right? Only exception was when the physical games sold out, likewise Monster Hunter, Animal Crossing, etc. The best digital sales on Japanese market physical/digital ratio are 70/30. The exceptions was the big games when the physical version was sold out. 

The mitical digital Japanese ratio, with this hypothesis, the software sales are abysmally yet. The Ps5 performance is worst than 360.

Poor NEOTWEWY :/, but it's not surprising at all.

Next few months are going to be rough for the Switch.

Why?

If you think because of the OLED model coming in October and not many games until then, then keep in mind that the Switch is still selling over 60k per week. That will probably still drop a bit until the release, but not so much that one needs to worry about, and the release week of the OLED model should wipe out again most of those losses anyway.