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Forums - Sales Discussion - Famitsu Sales: Week 35, 2022 (Aug 22 - Aug 28)

ice on 01 September 2022

Xbox series biggest week outside launch?

Wonder if it'll actually do the OG Xbox's 470k this year at this rate. If I did the math right it's about 9k a week which seems doable.



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Bofferbrauer2 on 01 September 2022
curl-6 said:
Bofferbrauer2 said:

Just to drive home how bad the XBO sold in Japan, a little something called the Virtual Boy outsold it in Japan!

Holy moly, now THAT is insane.

Source?

Look up the platform totals here on the site, and sort by Japan. XBO will appear right after the Virtual boy:

https://www.vgchartz.com/charts/platform_totals/Hardware.php/?sort=JP

XBO has ~120k sales in Japan, VB ~140k

Those 140K are also quoted on Wikipedia and coming from a Famitsu article:

https://web.archive.org/web/20191015083428/https://imgur.com/hXXa6DE



The Nintendo eShop rating Thread: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=237454 List as Google Doc:  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aW2hXQT1TheElVS7z-F3pP-7nbqdrDqWNTxl6JoJWBY/edit?usp=sharing

The Steam/GOG key gifting thread: https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/242024/the-steamgog-key-gifting-thread/1/ 

Free Pc Games thread: https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/248138/free-pc-games/1/

curl-6 on 01 September 2022

Top 30: https://nintendoeverything.com/famitsu-software-sales-8-22-22-8-28-22-top-30/

1. [PS4] Earth Defense Force 6 – 68,341 / NEW
2. [NSW] SD Gundam Battle Alliance – 38,634 / NEW
3. [PS4] Soul Hackers 2 – 31,602 / NEW
4. [PS5] Earth Defense Force 6 – 24,363 / NEW
5. [PS5] Soul Hackers 2 – 20,257 / NEW
6. [PS4] SD Gundam Battle Alliance – 17,950 / NEW
7. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 11,644 / 4,802,581
8. [NSW] Nintendo Switch Sports – 10,576 / 706,637
9. [PS4] Saints Row – 10,013 / NEW
10. [PS5] SD Gundam Battle Alliance – 9,625 / NEW
11. [NSW] Minecraft – 8,417 / 2,768,153
12. [PS5] Saints Row – 7,622 / NEW
13. [NSW] Kirby and the Forgotten Land – 6,803 / 869,546
14. [NSW] Monster Hunter Rise + Sunbreak Set – 5,383 / 255,660
15. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 4,772 / 4,960,853
16. [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure – 4,414 / 3,258,181
17. [NSW] Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge – 4,365 / NEW
18. [NSW] Mario Party Superstars – 4,179 / 1,027,240
19. [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! – 3,950 / 2,707,911
20. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 3,888 / 7,317,633
21. [NSW] Kirby’s Dream Buffet (Download Card) – 3,874 / 11,092
22. [NSW] Live A Live – 3,081 / 114,467
23. [NSW] Xenoblade Chronicles 3 – 3,019 / 161,990
24. [NSW] eBaseball Powerful Pro Baseball 2022 – 2,700 / 223,407
25. [NSW] Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics – 2,552 / 1,013,066
26. [NSW] Splatoon 2 – 2,359 / 4,114,681
27. [NSW] Zelda: Breath of the Wild – 2,299 / 2,070,702
28. [NSW] Pokemon Sword / Shield – 1,904 / 4,367,814
29. [NSW] Idol Manager – 1,872 / NEW
30. [NSW] Pokemon Legends: Arceus – 1,844 / 2,287,806

NS - 22
PS4 - 4
PS5 - 4



deerox on 01 September 2022

Earth Defense Force 6 have already sold 300k copies. That means that only 30% of it's sales were physical.

https://www.gematsu.com/2022/09/earth-defense-force-6-shipments-and-digital-sales-top-300000-within-first-week-of-release



curl-6 on 01 September 2022
deerox said:

Earth Defense Force 6 have already sold 300k copies. That means that only 30% of it's sales were physical.

https://www.gematsu.com/2022/09/earth-defense-force-6-shipments-and-digital-sales-top-300000-within-first-week-of-release

That includes shipped, and if I'm reading Famitsu right, the games were greatly overshipped:

(Unless that's not what the bars represent?)

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

EDIT: Nvm, read it wrong.

Last edited by curl-6 - on 02 September 2022

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deerox on 02 September 2022
curl-6 said:
deerox said:

Earth Defense Force 6 have already sold 300k copies. That means that only 30% of it's sales were physical.

https://www.gematsu.com/2022/09/earth-defense-force-6-shipments-and-digital-sales-top-300000-within-first-week-of-release

That includes shipped, and if I'm reading Famitsu right, the games were greatly overshipped:

(Unless that's not what the bars represent?)

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

It's red, so they sold almost everything that they shipped. Soul Hackers 2 on the other hand sold very litle of it's shipment.



Kai_Mao on 02 September 2022
curl-6 said:

Top 30: https://nintendoeverything.com/famitsu-software-sales-8-22-22-8-28-22-top-30/

1. [PS4] Earth Defense Force 6 – 68,341 / NEW
2. [NSW] SD Gundam Battle Alliance – 38,634 / NEW
3. [PS4] Soul Hackers 2 – 31,602 / NEW
4. [PS5] Earth Defense Force 6 – 24,363 / NEW
5. [PS5] Soul Hackers 2 – 20,257 / NEW
6. [PS4] SD Gundam Battle Alliance – 17,950 / NEW
7. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 11,644 / 4,802,581
8. [NSW] Nintendo Switch Sports – 10,576 / 706,637
9. [PS4] Saints Row – 10,013 / NEW
10. [PS5] SD Gundam Battle Alliance – 9,625 / NEW
11. [NSW] Minecraft – 8,417 / 2,768,153
12. [PS5] Saints Row – 7,622 / NEW
13. [NSW] Kirby and the Forgotten Land – 6,803 / 869,546
14. [NSW] Monster Hunter Rise + Sunbreak Set – 5,383 / 255,660
15. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 4,772 / 4,960,853
16. [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure – 4,414 / 3,258,181
17. [NSW] Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge – 4,365 / NEW
18. [NSW] Mario Party Superstars – 4,179 / 1,027,240
19. [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! – 3,950 / 2,707,911
20. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 3,888 / 7,317,633
21. [NSW] Kirby’s Dream Buffet (Download Card) – 3,874 / 11,092
22. [NSW] Live A Live – 3,081 / 114,467
23. [NSW] Xenoblade Chronicles 3 – 3,019 / 161,990
24. [NSW] eBaseball Powerful Pro Baseball 2022 – 2,700 / 223,407
25. [NSW] Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics – 2,552 / 1,013,066
26. [NSW] Splatoon 2 – 2,359 / 4,114,681
27. [NSW] Zelda: Breath of the Wild – 2,299 / 2,070,702
28. [NSW] Pokemon Sword / Shield – 1,904 / 4,367,814
29. [NSW] Idol Manager – 1,872 / NEW
30. [NSW] Pokemon Legends: Arceus – 1,844 / 2,287,806

NS - 22
PS4 - 4
PS5 - 4

Even with all that PS4/5 software in the top 10, they barely missed having 1/3 of the weekly top 30 chart.



Kakadu18 on 02 September 2022
deerox said:

Earth Defense Force 6 have already sold 300k copies. That means that only 30% of it's sales were physical.

https://www.gematsu.com/2022/09/earth-defense-force-6-shipments-and-digital-sales-top-300000-within-first-week-of-release

First week here is first 7 days I asume. So up until today. That would include a big part of the next weekly numbers. Since the PS4 version had a high sell through in it's first week we can assume it had a second shipment in it's second week. And maybe it had shortages, those do sometimes lead to higher digital.

Remarkable how it managed to be the fastest selling EDF game.



Slownenberg on 02 September 2022

Woah crazy weekly numbers.

Tons of Sony releases making the top 10 look very different from normal. Though in a couple weeks it should be back to NSW sweeps or near sweeps.
Xbox and Switch HW sales are crazy.

Why such a big boost for Switch?? Just refilling stock perhaps? No games came out.

Xbox HW is ridiculous this week. It would be a very solid week for PS5. Xbox Series just continues to get more popular as time passes. I wonder if in a year or two its weekly numbers might be at like 20k-30k on the regular, competing evenly with PS5.



WoodenPints on 02 September 2022
Slownenberg said:

Woah crazy weekly numbers.

Tons of Sony releases making the top 10 look very different from normal. Though in a couple weeks it should be back to NSW sweeps or near sweeps.
Xbox and Switch HW sales are crazy.

Why such a big boost for Switch?? Just refilling stock perhaps? No games came out.

Xbox HW is ridiculous this week. It would be a very solid week for PS5. Xbox Series just continues to get more popular as time passes. I wonder if in a year or two its weekly numbers might be at like 20k-30k on the regular, competing evenly with PS5.

Splatoon 3 OLED launched.