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Forums - Sales - Famitsu sales: Week 45, 2021 - (1st Nov - 7th Nov)

TruckOSaurus said:
Blood_Tears said:

No no no, didn't you hear?  Digital is not a thing in Japan! It doesn't exist and it's just a myth and some illusive mystical performance! Or so the common schtick that is said week after week here. 

Please link me these posts where people said digital sales don't exist in Japan, it will make for an interesting read!

Agente42 said digital is not a thing in Japan, while actually meaning that it's just not big.

That said, @Agente42, from Nintendo's total software numbers for various titles in Japan we can see that digital is in fact quite often over 30%, when subtracting famitsu numbers. For example digital accounted for over 50% of BotW's sales in 2020. Of course some first party games are affected by vouchers, especially the ones that are very expensive physically like JRPGs.

RE8 had 30% digital.

Of course it's mostly lower than in the UK  which probably has the highest digital share in the world, but that doesn't make it irrelevant or unlikely that there are games that have a 50%+ digital share.



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Switch denied for another week on making 100k.



RFA nearing 3m at retail.



Switch outsells all other systems combined by more than 6:1 and its nearest rival by 9:1.

Congrats to XS for passing its predecessor so quickly.

Very poor numbers for COD



Top 30: https://nintendoeverything.com/famitsu-software-sales-11-1-21-11-7-21-top-30/

1. [NSW] Mario Party Superstars – 81,399 / 244,655
2. [PS4] Call of Duty: Vanguard – 28,321 / NEW
3. [NSW] Danganronpa Decadence – 20,938 / NEW
4. [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure – 13,101 / 2,896,232
5. [PS5] Call of Duty: Vanguard – 12,754 / NEW
6. [NSW] Fortnite Minty Legends Pack – 12,167 / NEW
7. [NSW] Super Robot Wars 30 – 12,079 / 82,928
8. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 10,726 / 4,123,374
9. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 10,569 / 4,489,510
10. [NSW] Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water – 9,778 / 30,364

11. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 9,453 / 6,925,254
12. [NSW] Minecraft – 8,960 / 2,260,794
13. [PS4] Super Robot Wars 30 – 8,342 / 68,728
14. [NSW] Pokemon Sword/Shield – 6,493 / 4,182,871
15. [PS4] Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Hinokami Chronicles – 5,130 / 125,326
16. [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! – 4,777 / 2,413,752
17. [PS4] Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water – 4,135 / 26,331
18. [NSW] Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury – 4,085 / 915,917
19. [NSW] Metroid Dread – 3,756 / 128,257
20. [NSW] WarioWare: Get It Together! – 2,948 / 160,778
21. [PS4] Back 4 Blood – 2,922 / 25,173
22. [NSW] Model Debut 2 #nicola – 2,568 / NEW
23. [NSW] Tokimeki Memorial Girl’s Side 4th Heart – 2,644 / 24,319
24. [NSW] Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics – 2,618 / 823,501
25. [PS4] FIFA 22 – 2,469 / 45,058
26. [NSW] Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot + A New Power Awakens Set – 2,377 / 69,449
27. [NSW] Zelda: Breath of the Wild – 2,332 / 1,891,166
28. [NSW] Splatoon 2 – 2,236 / 3,963,497
29. [PS5] Resident Evil Village – 2,118 / 72,761
30. [NSW] Oshiri Tantei: Pupu Mirai no Meitantei Toujou! – 2,071 / NEW

NS - 22
PS4 - 6
PS5 - 2

Last edited by curl-6 - on 11 November 2021

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Nintendo switch lite doubles with the arrival of November, showing its importance in Japan...



tak13 said:

Nintendo switch lite doubles with the arrival of November, showing its importance in Japan...

That's the Pokémon special edition.

Also shortages of the hybrid model usually led to higher lite model sales, so OLED model shortages might have a similar effect.



Kakadu18 said:
tak13 said:

Nintendo switch lite doubles with the arrival of November, showing its importance in Japan...

That's the Pokémon special edition.

Also shortages of the hybrid model usually led to higher lite model sales, so OLED model shortages might have a similar effect.

Is it  one week limited edition?



Apparently Vanguard is the lowest selling COD game at Japanese retail since COD3 in 2006, according to Game Data Library on Twitter.



curl-6 said:

Top 30: https://nintendoeverything.com/famitsu-software-sales-11-1-21-11-7-21-top-30/

1. [NSW] Mario Party Superstars – 81,399 / 244,655
2. [PS4] Call of Duty: Vanguard – 28,321 / NEW
3. [NSW] Danganronpa Decadence – 20,938 / NEW
4. [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure – 13,101 / 2,896,232
5. [PS5] Call of Duty: Vanguard – 12,754 / NEW
6. [NSW] Fortnite Minty Legends Pack – 12,167 / NEW
7. [NSW] Super Robot Wars 30 – 12,079 / 82,928
8. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 10,726 / 4,123,374
9. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 10,569 / 4,489,510
10. [NSW] Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water – 9,778 / 30,364

11. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 9,453 / 6,925,254
12. [NSW] Minecraft – 8,960 / 2,260,794
13. [PS4] Super Robot Wars 30 – 8,342 / 68,728
14. [NSW] Pokemon Sword/Shield – 6,493 / 4,182,871
15. [PS4] Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Hinokami Chronicles – 5,130 / 125,326
16. [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! – 4,777 / 2,413,752
17. [PS4] Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water – 4,135 / 26,331
18. [NSW] Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury – 4,085 / 915,917
19. [NSW] Metroid Dread – 3,756 / 128,257
20. [NSW] WarioWare: Get It Together! – 2,948 / 160,778
21. [PS4] Back 4 Blood – 2,922 / 25,173
22. [NSW] Model Debut 2 #nicola – 2,568 / NEW
23. [NSW] Tokimeki Memorial Girl’s Side 4th Heart – 2,644 / 24,319
24. [NSW] Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics – 2,618 / 823,501
25. [PS4] FIFA 22 – 2,469 / 45,058
26. [NSW] Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot + A New Power Awakens Set – 2,377 / 69,449
27. [NSW] Zelda: Breath of the Wild – 2,332 / 1,891,166
28. [NSW] Splatoon 2 – 2,236 / 3,963,497
29. [PS5] Back 4 Blood – 2,118 / 72,761
30. [NSW] Oshiri Tantei: Pupu Mirai no Meitantei Toujou! – 2,071 / NEW

NS - 22
PS4 - 6
PS5 - 2

Nintendoeverything made a typo. Number 29 is supposed to be Resident Evil Village:

https://www.famitsu.com/ranking/game-sales/