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Forums - Sales Discussion - Famitsu sales: Week 3, 2022 - (10th Jan - 16th Jan)

Famitsu Third Party Top 50 2021(Unofficial Ranking)

  1. [NSW] Monster Hunter Rise (Capcom) - 2.350.693
  2. [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu (Konami) - 1.266.477
  3. [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft) - 708.670
  4. [NSW] Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town (Marvelous) – 309.722
  5. [NSW] Monster Hunter Stories 2 (Capcom) - 227.554
  6. [PS4] Tales of Arise (Bandai Namco) - 213.474
  7. [NSW] Baseball Spirits 2021 (Konami) - 210.259
  8. [PS4] Resident Evil Village (Capcom) - 191.983
  9. [NSW] Shin Megami Tensei V (Atlus) - 184.388
  10. [NSW] Crayon Shin-Chan (Neos) - 183.733
  11. [PS4] NieR Replicant (Square Enix) - 158.265
  12. [PS4] Lost Judgement (Sega) – 151.039
  13. [NSW] Dragon Quest XI S (Square Enix) - 137.836
  14. [PS4] Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Aniplex) - 136.617
  15. [NSW] Bravely Default II (Square Enix) – 136.091
  16. [NSW] Rune Factory 5 (Marvelous) - 127.968
  17. [NSW] Yu-Gi-Oh! Rush Duel (Konami) - 127.221
  18. [NSW] Human Fall Flat (Teyon Japan) - 126.373
  19. [NSW] Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum 'n' Fun! (Bandai Namco) - 116.296
  20. [NSW] Fitness Boxing 2 (Imagineer) - 115.375
  21. [NSW] Fishing Spirits (Bandai Namco) - 113.231
  22. [NSW] Minecraft Dungeons + Ultimate Edition (Microsoft) - 96.681
  23. [NSW] Super Robot Wars 30 (Bandai Namco) - 89.931
  24. [NSW] Tsukihime (Aniplex) - 89.916
  25. [PS4] Tsukihime (Aniplex) - 80.042
  26. [PS4] Super Robot Wars 30 (Bandai Namco) - 74.036
  27. [NSW] Little Nightmares II (Bandai Namco) - 72.796
  28. [PS5] Resident Evil Village (Capcom) - 72.761
  29. [PS4] Samurai Warriors 5 (Koei Tecmo) - 72.727
  30. [NSW] Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot (Bandai Namco) - 69.449
  31. [NSW] Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin (Marvelous) - 65.620
  32. [NSW] Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity (Koei Tecmo) - 62.119
  33. [NSW] Samurai Warriors 5 (Koei Tecmo) - 61.350
  34. [NSW] The Battle Cats Unite! (Ponos) - 61.247
  35. [PS4] The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Dark (Nihon Falcom) - 60.435
  36. [PS5] Tales of Arise (Bandai Namco) - 60.106
  37. [NSW] Super Bomberman R (Konami) - 57.189
  38. [PS4] Judgment [New Price Edition] (Sega) - 53.086
  39. [PS4] Far Cry 6 (Ubisoft) - 51.764
  40. [NSW] FIFA 22: Legacy Edition (Electronic Arts) - 51.764
  41. [NSW] Fortnite: Minty Legends Pack (Epic Games) - 47.799
  42. [PS4] FIFA 22 (Electronic Arts) - 45.058
  43. [NSW] Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Sega) - 40.688
  44. [PS5] Lost Judgment (Sega) - 36.584
  45. [NSW] Disney Magical World 2 (Bandai Namco) - 36.352
  46. [NSW] Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 (Sega) - 36.105
  47. [PS4] Battlefield 2042 (Electronic Arts) - 35.375
  48. [NSW] Family Trainer (Bandai Namco) - 35.273
  49. [PS4] Scarlet Nexus (Bandai Namco) - 31.665
  50. [PS5] Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade (Square Enix) - 30.984

NSW - 32
PS4 - 14
PS5 - 4

TOTAL: 8.972.167
NSW: 7.416.166 (82.7%)
PS4: 1.355.566 (15.1%)
PS5: 200.435 (2.2%)

Top 10 Publishers:

  1. Capcom - 2.842.991 (31.7%)
  2. Konami - 1.661.146 (18.5%)
  3. Bandai Namco - 912.609 (10.2%)
  4. Microsoft - 805.351 (9%)
  5. Other - 778.923 (8.7%)
  6. Marvelous - 503.310 (5.6%)
  7. Square Enix - 463.176 (5.2%)
  8. Sega - 343.794 (3.8%)
  9. Aniplex - 306.575 (3.4%)
  10. Koei Tecmo - 196.196 (2.2%)
  11. Atlus - 184.388 (2.1%)

Square Enix just had it's worst ever year in Japan, finishing below Marvelous and Microsoft and outside the Top 5 Third Party Publishers in the unofficial Top 50 ranking for third party games.  

It just seems like wishful thinking on some people's part that they would gamble on making DQXII exclusive to see sales below 1 million for a franchise that's viewed as a failure if it doesn't managed 3 million in Japan. If Strangers in Paradise and Forespoken under-perform their expectations in Japan, the potential performance of FFXVI in the near future as a PS5 exclusive might not even be 1/2 of what FFXV managed. 

People are underestimating how quickly PS has faded into irrelevance and what a huge blow it would be for any title that does the majority of the sales in the country to be exclusive to the system while shunning the Switch.

PlayStation ecosystem as a whole saw over 50% decline YoY and worst result for software since they entered the market. Since the majority of software sales on the PS are third party games it basically was a hug hit to their biggest supporters in Japan. 2022 isn't going to be much better if the scalping to other countries persists; the level of PS5 software sales will not make up the decline of PS4 software in 2022 - not by a long shot. Even with a stronger line-up for H1 a lot of the games slated for the PS aren't huge sellers in Japan - GT for example used to sell a million but the new entry might not even surpass 200K; Horizon is likely to see the same decline other Western games have experience(50% or more); Forespoken is likely not to even clear 50K as a PS5 exclusive Western game. 

Elden Ring is by far the biggest game in my opinion launching during H1 of this year and the PS5 version isn't guaranteed to even hit 150K, what does this say about the future of a platform exclusive Dragon Quest XII... well it can happen if Sony buy Square Enix and the DQ rights from Horii, but if they make such a move it lead to counter-bids and as a whole Horii might decide to sell the rights to a different company leaving Sony with games that are selling best on the PS anyways(Final Fantasy & Western Square subsidiaries) - so the acquisition doesn't make sense unless it's defensive, like Nintendo/Microsoft/Tencent etc trying to make a move to buy Square

For comparision this is the Top 50 Official Results per Famitsu for 2020

Third Party Top 50, 2020 (Official)

TOTAL: 8.07M

NSW TOTAL: 4.36M (54%)

PS4 TOTAL: 3.71M (46%)

Top 10 Publishers in Top 50 2020

  1. Konami - 1.821.772 (22.5%)
  2. Square Enix - 1.444.036 (17.9%)
  3. Bandai Namco - 1.158.166 (14.3%)
  4. Other - 815.636 (10.1%)
  5. Sega - 635.600 (7.9%)
  6. Microsoft - 633.766 (7.8%)
  7. Koei Tecmo - 524.423 (6.5%)
  8. Capcom - 404.529 (5%)
  9. Atlus - 375.003 (4.6%)
  10. Marvelous - 145.819 (1.8%)
  11. Cygames - 127.566 (1.6%)
Last edited by noshten - on 23 January 2022