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Sogreblute on 26 December 2021
theDX said:

PS5 1st full calendar year (2021) top 10 software - 1 week left

1. Resident Evil Village (Capcom) - 72,761
2. Tales of Arise (Bandai Namco) - 60,106
3. Lost Judgment (Sega) - 36,584
4. Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade (Square Enix) - 30,984
5. Demon's Souls (SIE) - 28,911
6. Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales (SIE) - 28,550
7. Judgment (Sega) - 26,292
8. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - The Hinokami Chronicles (Aniplex) - 24,727
9. Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (SIE) - 24,385
10. Battlefield 2042 (EA) - 23,832

Wii U first full calendar year (2013) top 10 software

1. New Super Mario Bros. U (Nintendo) - 584,479
2. Wii Party U (Nintendo) - 518,766
3. Super Mario 3D World (Nintendo) - 410,041
4. Pikmin 3 (Nintendo) - 222,909
5. Nintendo Land (Nintendo) - 168,580
6. New Super Luigi U (Nintendo) - 100,231
7. Taiko no Tatsujin: Wii U Version! (Bandai Namco) - 96,076
8. Dragon Quest X: Mezameshi Itsutsu no Shuzoku Online (Square Enix) - 81,926
9. Dragon Quest X: Nemureru Yuusha to Michibiki no Meiyuu Online (Square Enix) - 77,672
10. Game & Wario (Nintendo) - 77,323

And there are still people out there that think PS5 is doing fine in Japan.



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Farsala on 26 December 2021
theDX said:

PS5 1st full calendar year (2021) top 10 software - 1 week left

1. Resident Evil Village (Capcom) - 72,761
2. Tales of Arise (Bandai Namco) - 60,106
3. Lost Judgment (Sega) - 36,584
4. Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade (Square Enix) - 30,984
5. Demon's Souls (SIE) - 28,911
6. Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales (SIE) - 28,550
7. Judgment (Sega) - 26,292
8. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - The Hinokami Chronicles (Aniplex) - 24,727
9. Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (SIE) - 24,385
10. Battlefield 2042 (EA) - 23,832

Wii U first full calendar year (2013) top 10 software

1. New Super Mario Bros. U (Nintendo) - 584,479
2. Wii Party U (Nintendo) - 518,766
3. Super Mario 3D World (Nintendo) - 410,041
4. Pikmin 3 (Nintendo) - 222,909
5. Nintendo Land (Nintendo) - 168,580
6. New Super Luigi U (Nintendo) - 100,231
7. Taiko no Tatsujin: Wii U Version! (Bandai Namco) - 96,076
8. Dragon Quest X: Mezameshi Itsutsu no Shuzoku Online (Square Enix) - 81,926
9. Dragon Quest X: Nemureru Yuusha to Michibiki no Meiyuu Online (Square Enix) - 77,672
10. Game & Wario (Nintendo) - 77,323

Yet I wouldn't be surprised to see the PS5 outsell the Wii U and still have 0 games surpass 500k.



Kakadu18 on 26 December 2021
Farsala said:
theDX said:

PS5 1st full calendar year (2021) top 10 software - 1 week left

1. Resident Evil Village (Capcom) - 72,761
2. Tales of Arise (Bandai Namco) - 60,106
3. Lost Judgment (Sega) - 36,584
4. Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade (Square Enix) - 30,984
5. Demon's Souls (SIE) - 28,911
6. Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales (SIE) - 28,550
7. Judgment (Sega) - 26,292
8. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - The Hinokami Chronicles (Aniplex) - 24,727
9. Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (SIE) - 24,385
10. Battlefield 2042 (EA) - 23,832

Wii U first full calendar year (2013) top 10 software

1. New Super Mario Bros. U (Nintendo) - 584,479
2. Wii Party U (Nintendo) - 518,766
3. Super Mario 3D World (Nintendo) - 410,041
4. Pikmin 3 (Nintendo) - 222,909
5. Nintendo Land (Nintendo) - 168,580
6. New Super Luigi U (Nintendo) - 100,231
7. Taiko no Tatsujin: Wii U Version! (Bandai Namco) - 96,076
8. Dragon Quest X: Mezameshi Itsutsu no Shuzoku Online (Square Enix) - 81,926
9. Dragon Quest X: Nemureru Yuusha to Michibiki no Meiyuu Online (Square Enix) - 77,672
10. Game & Wario (Nintendo) - 77,323

Yet I wouldn't be surprised to see the PS5 outsell the Wii U and still have 0 games surpass 500k.

It would surprise me if the PS5 didn't outsell the Wii U.



curl-6 on 26 December 2021

72k for the highest selling game at retail after over a year on the market is just shockingly poor, even assuming a high digital ratio.
Only two games over 37k is even worse.
Wii U's entire top 10 after 1 year being above even the highest selling PS5 title is just... wow.

Not even the most diehard Sony fanatic could spin this as PS5 doing fine in Japan, though some still try.



noshten on 27 December 2021

Famitsu Top 50 PS4, 2021(Unofficial Ranking)

  1. [PS4] Tales of Arise (Bandai Namco) - 213.474
  2. [PS4] Resident Evil Village (Capcom) - 191.983
  3. [PS4] NieR Replicant (Square Enix) - 158.265
  4. [PS4] Lost Judgment (Sega) - 151.039
  5. [PS4] Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Aniplex) - 136.617
  6. [PS4] Tsukihime (Aniplex) - 80.042
  7. [PS4] Super Robot Wars 30 (Bandai Namco) - 74.036
  8. [PS4] Samurai Warriors 5 (Koei Tecmo) - 72.727
  9. [PS4] The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Dark (Nihon Falcom) - 60.435
  10. [PS4] Judgment [New Price Edition] (Sega) - 53.086
  11. [PS4] Far Cry 6 (Ubisoft) - 51.764
  12. [PS4] Call of Duty: Vanguard (Sony) - 51.166
  13. [PS4] FIFA 22 (Electronic Arts) - 45.058
  14. [PS4] Battlefield 2042 (Electronic Arts) - 35.375
  15. [PS4] Scarlet Nexus(Bandai Namco) - 31.665
  16. [PS4] Biomutant (THQ Nordic) - 30.292
  17. [PS4] Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water (Koei Tecmo) - 28.322
  18. [PS4] Back 4 Blood (Warner) - 25.173
  19. [PS4] Little Nightmares II (Bandai Namco) - 24.968
  20. [PS4] The Idolm@ster: Starlit Season (Bandai Namco) - 18.854
  21. [PS4] Melty Blood: Type Lumina (Delight Works) - 18.833
  22. [PS4] Neptunia x Senran Kagura: Ninja Wars (Compile Heart) – 18.789
  23. [PS4] Disgaea 6 (Nippon Ichi) - 18.289
  24. [PS4] Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut (Sony) - 17.355
  25. [PS4] Blue Reflection: Second Light (Koei Tecmo) - 16.701
  26. [PS4] Call of Duty: Black Ops - Cold War (Sony) - 16.454
  27. [PS4] Dragon Quest XI S (Square Enix) - 16.352
  28. [PS4] Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin (Marvelous) - 16.235
  29. [PS4] Ninja Gaiden: Master Collection (Koei Tecmo) - 14.483
  30. [PS4] NieR: Automata - GotY Edition (Square Enix) - 13.712
  31. [PS4] Guilty Gear - Strive (Arc System) - 13.574
  32. [PS4] Winning Post 9 2021 (Koei Tecmo) - 13.221
  33. [PS4] Dragon Quest X: Heavenly Heroes Online (Square Enix) - 11.791
  34. [PS4] The Legend of Nayuta: Boundless Trails (Nihon Falcom) - 11.230
  35. [PS4] The Quintessential Quintuplets (5pb.) - 10.378
  36. [PS4] Utawarerumono: ZAN 2 (Aqua Plus) - 10.241
  37. [PS4] Nioh 2 - Complete Edition (Koei Tecmo) - 9.969
  38. [PS4] NEO: The World Ends With You (Square Enix) - 9.248
  39. [PS4] R-Type Final 2 (Granzella) - 8.693
  40. [PS4] The Caligula Effect 2 (FuRyu) - 8.454
  41. [PS4] Outriders ( Square Enix) - 7.966
  42. [PS4] NBA 2K22 (Take-Two) - 6.291
  43. [PS4] Monark (FuRyu) - 5.242
  44. [PS4] Hitman 3 (H2 Interactive) - 5.132
  45. [PS4] Akiba's Trip: Hellbound & Debriefed (Acquire) - 4.888
  46. [PS4] Sniper: Ghost Warrior Contracts 2 (H2 Interactive) - 4.551 
  47. [PS4] Rust (Deep Silver) - 3.671
  48. [PS4] Megaton Musashi (Level 5) - 3.648
  49. [PS4] Darius Cozmic Revelation (Taito) - 3.540
  50. [PS4] Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star (Marvelous) - 3.498 

TOTAL: 1.856.770

Famitsu estimating 3.6 million sales on the PS4 for this year while the Top 50 is unlikely to even surpass 2.2 million 

As I wrote on Twitter, I'm expecting no more than 3.3 million sales and even that seems a tad optimistic, the decline has been rapid but expected - https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9245980 

Demon Slayer ended up much lower than anyone expected when it was reveled considering how popular the IP is

Famitsu PS4 Top 5 2020:

  1. Final Fantasy VII Remake (Square Enix) - 949.379
  2. Ghost of Tsushima (Sony) - 427.071
  3. Resident Evil 3 (Capcom) - 269.187
  4. Yakuza 7: Like a Dragon (Sega) - 263.255
  5. The Last of Us Part II (Sony) - 233.273

TOTAL: 2.142.165

Last edited by noshten - on 27 December 2021

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Agente42 on 28 December 2021
noshten said:

Famitsu Top 50 PS4, 2021(Unofficial Ranking)

  1. [PS4] Tales of Arise (Bandai Namco) - 213.474
  2. [PS4] Resident Evil Village (Capcom) - 191.983
  3. [PS4] NieR Replicant (Square Enix) - 158.265
  4. [PS4] Lost Judgment (Sega) - 151.039
  5. [PS4] Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Aniplex) - 136.617
  6. [PS4] Tsukihime (Aniplex) - 80.042
  7. [PS4] Super Robot Wars 30 (Bandai Namco) - 74.036
  8. [PS4] Samurai Warriors 5 (Koei Tecmo) - 72.727
  9. [PS4] The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Dark (Nihon Falcom) - 60.435
  10. [PS4] Judgment [New Price Edition] (Sega) - 53.086
  11. [PS4] Far Cry 6 (Ubisoft) - 51.764
  12. [PS4] Call of Duty: Vanguard (Sony) - 51.166
  13. [PS4] FIFA 22 (Electronic Arts) - 45.058
  14. [PS4] Battlefield 2042 (Electronic Arts) - 35.375
  15. [PS4] Scarlet Nexus(Bandai Namco) - 31.665
  16. [PS4] Biomutant (THQ Nordic) - 30.292
  17. [PS4] Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water (Koei Tecmo) - 28.322
  18. [PS4] Back 4 Blood (Warner) - 25.173
  19. [PS4] Little Nightmares II (Bandai Namco) - 24.968
  20. [PS4] The Idolm@ster: Starlit Season (Bandai Namco) - 18.854
  21. [PS4] Melty Blood: Type Lumina (Delight Works) - 18.833
  22. [PS4] Neptunia x Senran Kagura: Ninja Wars (Compile Heart) – 18.789
  23. [PS4] Disgaea 6 (Nippon Ichi) - 18.289
  24. [PS4] Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut (Sony) - 17.355
  25. [PS4] Blue Reflection: Second Light (Koei Tecmo) - 16.701
  26. [PS4] Call of Duty: Black Ops - Cold War (Sony) - 16.454
  27. [PS4] Dragon Quest XI S (Square Enix) - 16.352
  28. [PS4] Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin (Marvelous) - 16.235
  29. [PS4] Ninja Gaiden: Master Collection (Koei Tecmo) - 14.483
  30. [PS4] NieR: Automata - GotY Edition (Square Enix) - 13.712
  31. [PS4] Guilty Gear - Strive (Arc System) - 13.574
  32. [PS4] Winning Post 9 2021 (Koei Tecmo) - 13.221
  33. [PS4] Dragon Quest X: Heavenly Heroes Online (Square Enix) - 11.791
  34. [PS4] The Legend of Nayuta: Boundless Trails (Nihon Falcom) - 11.230
  35. [PS4] The Quintessential Quintuplets (5pb.) - 10.378
  36. [PS4] Utawarerumono: ZAN 2 (Aqua Plus) - 10.241
  37. [PS4] Nioh 2 - Complete Edition (Koei Tecmo) - 9.969
  38. [PS4] NEO: The World Ends With You (Square Enix) - 9.248
  39. [PS4] R-Type Final 2 (Granzella) - 8.693
  40. [PS4] The Caligula Effect 2 (FuRyu) - 8.454
  41. [PS4] Outriders ( Square Enix) - 7.966
  42. [PS4] NBA 2K22 (Take-Two) - 6.291
  43. [PS4] Monark (FuRyu) - 5.242
  44. [PS4] Hitman 3 (H2 Interactive) - 5.132
  45. [PS4] Akiba's Trip: Hellbound & Debriefed (Acquire) - 4.888
  46. [PS4] Sniper: Ghost Warrior Contracts 2 (H2 Interactive) - 4.551 
  47. [PS4] Rust (Deep Silver) - 3.671
  48. [PS4] Megaton Musashi (Level 5) - 3.648
  49. [PS4] Darius Cozmic Revelation (Taito) - 3.540
  50. [PS4] Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star (Marvelous) - 3.498 

TOTAL: 1.856.770

Famitsu estimating 3.6 million sales on the PS4 for this year while the Top 50 is unlikely to even surpass 2.2 million 

As I wrote on Twitter, I'm expecting no more than 3.3 million sales and even that seems a tad optimistic, the decline has been rapid but expected - https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9245980 

Demon Slayer ended up much lower than anyone expected when it was reveled considering how popular the IP is

Famitsu PS4 Top 5 2020:

  1. Final Fantasy VII Remake (Square Enix) - 949.379
  2. Ghost of Tsushima (Sony) - 427.071
  3. Resident Evil 3 (Capcom) - 269.187
  4. Yakuza 7: Like a Dragon (Sega) - 263.255
  5. The Last of Us Part II (Sony) - 233.273

TOTAL: 2.142.165

Estimates for total from Famitsu equal digital estimates, not good at all.

3 million at a best. The bad transition makes the market of Ps4 deteriorate faster. Besides retrocompatibile.



Katsumi-san on 29 December 2021

Unrelated, but since I'm a new user I can't make a new thread... (forgive me this off topic question):

Fire Emblem Three Houses sold over 3 million copies globally. Is there any current number on Japanese sales? The last one I have is from end of 2019 which amounted to 530k copies sold physical + digital.

Are there any hard/official numbers or estimates?



src on 29 December 2021
Sogreblute said:
theDX said:

PS5 1st full calendar year (2021) top 10 software - 1 week left

1. Resident Evil Village (Capcom) - 72,761
2. Tales of Arise (Bandai Namco) - 60,106
3. Lost Judgment (Sega) - 36,584
4. Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade (Square Enix) - 30,984
5. Demon's Souls (SIE) - 28,911
6. Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales (SIE) - 28,550
7. Judgment (Sega) - 26,292
8. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - The Hinokami Chronicles (Aniplex) - 24,727
9. Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (SIE) - 24,385
10. Battlefield 2042 (EA) - 23,832

Wii U first full calendar year (2013) top 10 software

1. New Super Mario Bros. U (Nintendo) - 584,479
2. Wii Party U (Nintendo) - 518,766
3. Super Mario 3D World (Nintendo) - 410,041
4. Pikmin 3 (Nintendo) - 222,909
5. Nintendo Land (Nintendo) - 168,580
6. New Super Luigi U (Nintendo) - 100,231
7. Taiko no Tatsujin: Wii U Version! (Bandai Namco) - 96,076
8. Dragon Quest X: Mezameshi Itsutsu no Shuzoku Online (Square Enix) - 81,926
9. Dragon Quest X: Nemureru Yuusha to Michibiki no Meiyuu Online (Square Enix) - 77,672
10. Game & Wario (Nintendo) - 77,323

And there are still people out there that think PS5 is doing fine in Japan.

Meanwhile back in reality:

  • WiiU total software sales: 14,000,000
  • PS4 software sales: 60,000,000 - 70,000,000

Comparing a top 10 when we have total software sales is one way to show how bad you are analysing I guess.

  • PS5 has 1M hardware with 0.5-0.75M PS5 physical software units sold means 1-1.5M total software, which is not even including PS4 sales from PS5 owners, F2P games, and units sold overseas.
  • For comparison, PS4 sold 2.2M physical in 2014, so unlike the narrative in this thread, PS5 is not too far from PS4.

trunkswd said:

I know digital sales is much bigger than it was in 2013, but that is painful to see. It feels like Sony just gave up on Japan and is focusing on North America and Europe.

That's factually incorrect as Japan is the number 2/3 region for PS5 shipments and most of Sony's exclusive games/contracts come from Japan.



kirby007 on 29 December 2021

are you actually comparing a lifecycle of 3 years vs 8 years?



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src on 29 December 2021
theDX said:

If you think the Wii U is a bad console to compare the PS5 to, why'd you even try to bring up the PS4. 60 million software sales are out of reach with an attach rate of 1.

Yes because attach rates stay constant throughout Playstation life cycles.

I swear some of you can't even accept the basic data conclusions.