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Forums - Sales Discussion - Famitsu sales: Week 9, 2022 - (21st Feb - 27th Feb)

The main advantage Switch seems to have as a brand is that while they have an abundance of evergreen titles that stick around on the charts for ages, PS can't seem to get any.
Even when they perform okay, games on PS4/5 tend to quickly fade from the charts while Switch games hang on for months or years.



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curl-6 said:

The main advantage Switch seems to have as a brand is that while they have an abundance of evergreen titles that stick around on the charts for ages, PS can't seem to get any.
Even when they perform okay, games on PS4/5 tend to quickly fade from the charts while Switch games hang on for months or years.

Agreed.  But I want to point out that part of this branding can transfer to third party games if they are well made, effectively making them evergreens too.  Below are some third party games from this week's top 30 that have been around for a while, and it's not uncommon for DQ11 to be there too on a slow week.  The main thing third party publishers need to do is to release the games that get their best efforts on the Switch.

11. [NSW] Minecraft – 9,271 / 2,532,726
16. [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! – 5,243 / 2,607,374
30. [NSW] Monster Hunter Rise (Best Price) – 1,979 / 28,114



Oh I agree, third parties can absolutely achieve Evergreen status on Switch as well, heck even stuff like Fishing Spirits and Taiko still make the top 30 sometimes, years after their release. Third parties could definitely be making more money than they are now on the Switch.



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Kakadu18 said:

The last time that famitsu gave Xbox One numbers was week 51 2020 and it was at 114.802 units.

It appears to be a Vgchartz typo. Because they say different numbers from their own source.

February 6, 2022

  • Xbox – 472,992
  • Xbox 360 – 1,616,128
  • Xbox One – 114,831
  • Xbox Series X/S – 142,024

I think is because the way this paragraph was worded. It could be confusing if you skim over or read fast. They meant the XBS was at 142k but the way is written can throw you off.

Across a two-decade span, only one Xbox console has sold over 1 million units. The Xbox 360 sold over 1.6 million units in Japan through its lifetime. The original Xbox from 2001 is next in line with 472,000 units, and the Xbox One has moved little over 114,000 units. The Xbox Series X/S duo is already beating Xbox One's total lifetime sales with a whopping 142,000 units to date, which is 6% of the market's total 20-year console sales.

Read more: https://www.tweaktown.com/news/84976/xbox-consoles-reach-2-3-million-lifetime-sales-in-japan/index.html