Congrats on Arise for making that much sales. Especially with its PS5 release, giving some hope for the PS5 in Japan.

As for Warioware: Get it Together, it did pretty decent as well. Does anyone know the other Famitsu opening numbers for the other Warioware releases?

Ah the old digital vs physical media debate about the PS5 that doesn't really matter.

Colour me impressed also by how well Switch is holding up in the shadow of an upcoming new model.

Roughly 4 Switches to each PS5 this week.

gamedatalibrary has a good collection of old famitsu data.

https://sites.google.com/site/gamedatalibrary/game-search

Warioware: Touched had the best launch with 117,677.

Top 30: https://www.gematsu.com/2021/09/famitsu-sales-9-6-21-9-12-21

1. [PS4] Tales of Arise (Bandai Namco, 09/09/21) – 151,316 (New)
2. [NSW] WarioWare: Get It Together! (Nintendo, 09/10/21) – 72,277 (New)
3. [PS5] Tales of Arise (Bandai Namco, 09/09/21) – 50,482 (New)
4. [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure (Nintendo, 10/18/19) – 14,628 (2,818,859)
5. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 13,863 (4,039,388)
6. [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 13,529 (2,180,811)
7. [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! (Konami, 11/19/20) – 8,749 (2,367,610)
8. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 12/07/18) – 8,428 (4,416,060)
9. [NSW] Ys IX: Monstrum Nox (NIS, 09/09/21) – 7,324 (New)
10. [NSW] Pokemon Sword / Shield (The Pokemon Company, 11/15/19) – 7,012 (4,135,212)
11. [NSW] Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury (Nintendo, 02/12/21) – 6,920 (879,622)
12. [PS4] NBA 2K22 (2K Games, 09/10/21) – 6,291 (New)
13. [NSW] Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics (Nintendo, 06/05/20) – 5,775 (794,275)
14. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo, 03/20/20) – 5,195 (6,877,928)
15. [NSW] Super Mario Party (Nintendo, 10/05/18) – 4,814 (1,987,103)
16. [NSW] Splatoon 2 (Nintendo, 07/21/17) – 4,781 (3,940,324)
17. [NSW] NBA 2K22 (2K Games, 09/10/21) – 4,401 (New)
18. [NSW] Game Builder Garage (Nintendo, 06/11/21) – 4,317 (233,438)
19. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo, 03/03/17) – 3,683 (1,872,140)
20. [PS4] Tsukihime: A Piece of Blue Glass Moon (Aniplex, 08/26/21) – 3,368 (77,478)
21. [NSW] Monster Hunter Rise (Capcom, 03/26/21) – 3,340 (2,321,703)
22. [NSW] Miitopia (Nintendo, 05/21/21) – 3,278 (243,053)
23. [NSW] eBaseball Pro Baseball Spirits 2021: Grand Slam (Konami, 07/08/21) – 3,015 (189,057)
24. [NSW] Fitness Boxing 2: Rhythm & Exercise (Imagineer, 12/03/20) – 2,949 (143,966)
25. [NSW] Tsukihime: A Piece of Blue Glass Moon (Aniplex, 08/26/21) – 2,941 (79,302)
26. [PS4] F1 2021 (EA, 09/09/21) – 2,734 (New)
27. [NSW] Sonic Colors: Ultimate (Sega, 09/09/21) – 2,689 (New)
28. [NSW] Mario Golf: Super Rush (Nintendo, 06/25/21) – 2,641 (182,579)
29. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD (Nintendo, 07/16/21) – 2,592 (263,674)
30. [NSW] New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe (Nintendo, 01/11/19) – 2,515 (1,093,933)

NS - 25

PS4 - 4

PS5 - 1

I’m surprised that only the Switch version of Sonic Colors: Ultimate made it to the Top 30 as that’s buggiest version with the epileptic bugs.

its japan. potables rule, ever since the psp.

I don’t think those Sonic graphics glitches got patched out until a couple of days ago either.

With digital WW: Get It Together! most likely outsold at least all except for Touched!, considering it's cheaper than most games and has multiplayer it's digital might be bigger than with most other Switch games.

It's very likely to become another evergreen and end up over 500k physical and with digital the second best selling WarioWare behind Tounched! on the DS.

From Game Data Library:

Famitsu Top 50 2021

1. [NSW] Monster Hunter Rise (Capcom) - 2.321.703 
2. [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu (Konami) – 1.134.587
3. [NSW] Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury - 879.622 
4. [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure – 731.854
5. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 582.205
6. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 499.825
7. [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft) – 477.384
8. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 402.886
9. [NSW] Pokemon Sword / Shield + Expansion Pass (Pokemon Co.) - 302.595
10. [NSW] Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town (Marvelous) – 281.140
11. [NSW] New Pokemon Snap (Pokemon Co.) - 276.800 
12. [NSW] Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics - 274.626
13. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD - 263.674 
14. [NSW] Super Mario Party - 257.307
15. [NSW] Splatoon 2 - 251.935
16. [NSW] Miitopia - 243.053 
17. [NSW] Game Builder Garage - 233.438 
18. [NSW] Monster Hunter Stories 2 (Capcom) - 227.554 
19. [PS4] Resident Evil Village (Capcom) - 191.983
20. [NSW] Baseball Spirits 2021 (Konami) - 189.057 
21. [NSW] Crayon Shin-Chan (Neos) - 183.733 
22. [NSW] Mario Golf: Super Rush - 182.579 
23. [PS4] NieR Replicant (Square Enix) - 158.265
24. [PS4] Tales of Arise (Bandai Namco) - 151.316 / NEW 
25. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - 144.103
26. [NSW] Bravely Default II (Square Enix) – 136.091
27. [NSW] Rune Factory 5 (Marvelous) - 127.968
28. [NSW] Yu-Gi-Oh! Rush Duel (Konami) - 127.221 
29. [NSW] Fitness Boxing 2 (Imagineer) - 111.171
30. [NSW] New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe - 110.075
31. [NSW] Super Mario 3D All-Stars - 104.782
32. [NSW] Pikmin 3 Deluxe - 103.273
33. [NSW] Dragon Quest XI S (Square Enix) - 100.806
34. [NSW] Super Mario Maker 2 - 87.195
35. [NSW] Human Fall Flat (Teyon Japan) - 85.310
36. [NSW] Tsukihime (Aniplex) - 79.302 
37. [PS4] Tsukihime (Aniplex) - 77.478 
38. [NSW] Super Mario Odyssey - 74.949
39. [NSW] Little Nightmares II (Bandai Namco) - 72.796
40. [PS4] Samurai Warriors 5 (Koei Tecmo) - 72.727
41. [NSW] WarioWare: Get It Together! - 72.277 / NEW
42. [NSW] Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum 'n' Fun! (Bandai Namco) - 70.964
43. [NSW] Fishing Spirits (Bandai Namco) - 68.180
44. [PS5] Resident Evil Village (Capcom) - 67.000
45. [NSW] Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin (Marvelous) - 65.620
46. [NSW] Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity (Koei Tecmo) - 62.119
47. [NSW] Samurai Warriors 5 (Koei Tecmo) - 61.350
48. [NSW] Minecraft Dungeons (Microsoft) - 59.256
49. [PS5] Tales of Arise (Bandai Namco) - 50.482 / NEW
50. [NSW] Luigi's Mansion 3 - 45.207

TOTAL: 12.936.823

TOTAL NSW: 12.167.572 (94.1%)

TOTAL PS4: 651.769 (5%)

TOTAL PS5: 117.482 (0.9%)

For the first time this year I felt compelled to split the PS5 from the PS4, as we finally have two PS5 games in the Top 50, Tales of Arise managed to just make the Top 50. PS5 software in the Top 50 finally surpassed 100K and makes up 0.9% of Software Sales in the Ranking. The XBOX360 performed at a similar level in it's second calendar year - 2006 with 617K sales across the Top 500 games and 0.85% of Software Sales in the Ranking. Difference is that the XBOX360 sold only 290K hardware by the end of 2006 while the PS5 is likely going to be over 1.25M it's fairly clear that the actual Hardware Sales of the PS5 to Japanese consumers are actually closer to 300K than 1 million at the moment - the majority of units have been re-sold overseas for a profit and that would explain the abysmal performance of PS5 software relative to the hardware sales of the system. 

Top 10 Publishers

1. Nintendo - 5.544.865 (42.9%)
2. Capcom - 2.808.240 (21.7%)
3. Konami - 1.450.865 (11.2%)
4. Pokemon Co - 579.395 (4.5%)
5. Microsoft - 536.640 (4.1%)
6. Marvelous - 474.728 (3.7%)
7. Bandai Namco - 413.738 (3.2%)
8. Square Enix - 395.162 (3%)
9. Koei Tecmo - 196.196 (1.5%)
10. Neos - 183.733 (1.4%)

Nintendo actually had some losses to it's market share this week as Tales of Arise knocked out Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training & Kirby Star Allies from the Top 50. WarioWare had a great debut for the franchise and long term is looking like another game that should have no trouble surpassing 500K in Japan.  

In terms of Tales of Arise, the debut on the PS5 is the one that surprised me as I had expected it to debut below Village the PS4 debut however was exactly where I expected and continues the downward trend for the PS ecosystem this year. Bandai did move forward in the ranking and now are ahead of Square who are the other huge publisher having a terrible year, for the rest of the year neither publisher has any major titles launching with Bandai being in a slightly better position due to DBZ Kakarot & Super Robot Wars 30. But in both cases finishing outside of the Top 5 Publisher for the year will be disappointing for huge companies like this.