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Forums - Sales Discussion - Famitsu Sales: Week 39, 2022 (Sep 19 - Sep 25)

Kakadu18 on 29 September 2022
HigHurtenflurst said:
yo33331 said:

DS sold:

603k in japan week ending dec 24th 2005

492k week ending dec 23th 2006

458k week ending dec 4th 2004

3DS sold:

497k week ending dec 24th 2011

422k week ending dec 22nd 2012

Switch best week so far has been what ? 390k? There is still room for improvement. Switch hasn't reached 400k week, 450k, 500k let alone the record braking DS week of over 600k.

DS was nuts in Japan in 2nd/3rd year

Switch best week is 380k by the looks of it, which also appears to be the only time any hardware* has sold over 300k outside of holiday/launch weeks.... power of lockdown boredom.

*at least from DS/PSP till now... i'm curious what things like Pokemon release on GBC & GBA might have done to sales.

392k in the ACNH launch week.



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Farsala on 29 September 2022

Diofield is a fun game, but incredibly easy and repetitive. So I am not surprised that it didn't spark strong word of mouth.



curl-6 on 29 September 2022

Nice to see healthy sales for all three, at least respectively.

Only 80k LTD for one of PS5's biggest first party games of the year is a bit of a yikes.

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Slownenberg on 29 September 2022

Switch will do 4.9m this year in Japan



Eagle367 on 29 September 2022

The switch can sell more than 2021. 2020 is hard though



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siebensus4 on 29 September 2022
yo33331 said:
siebensus4 said:

I can't remember if we had any console yet which was able to sell more than 400k within one week in Japan...

DS sold:

603k in japan week ending dec 24th 2005

492k week ending dec 23th 2006

458k week ending dec 4th 2004

3DS sold:

497k week ending dec 24th 2011

422k week ending dec 22nd 2012

Switch best week so far has been what ? 390k? There is still room for improvement. Switch hasn't reached 400k week, 450k, 500k let alone the record braking DS week of over 600k.

Thanks a lot for looking up those numbers! That was before I was visiting VGChartz :D



chakkra on 29 September 2022
Bofferbrauer2 said:

Since most of the Xbox consoles sold in Japan are Series S, I wonder if the rise of Xbox could be related by the size of the current consoles. XSX and PS5 are huge compared to even the fat PS3, let alone older consoles. The Series S instead fits much better into a smaller home where space comes at a premium, like in many Japanese cities.

I'm not sure things are that simple.



Bofferbrauer2 on 29 September 2022
chakkra said:
Bofferbrauer2 said:

Since most of the Xbox consoles sold in Japan are Series S, I wonder if the rise of Xbox could be related by the size of the current consoles. XSX and PS5 are huge compared to even the fat PS3, let alone older consoles. The Series S instead fits much better into a smaller home where space comes at a premium, like in many Japanese cities.

I'm not sure things are that simple.

It's clearly shifting to the S model however.

Early on the Series X was dominating, with the S only getting some scraps. Last year the Series X outsold the Series S. This year however, the Series S is leading and does so in an increasing amount of weeks. The older the system becomes it seems, the more it seems to shift to the series S. Which is ironic considering it's the weaker model, normally the shift goes towards the more powerful one.



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chakkra on 29 September 2022
Bofferbrauer2 said:
chakkra said:

I'm not sure things are that simple.

It's clearly shifting to the S model however.

Early on the Series X was dominating, with the S only getting some scraps. Last year the Series X outsold the Series S. This year however, the Series S is leading and does so in an increasing amount of weeks. The older the system becomes it seems, the more it seems to shift to the series S. Which is ironic considering it's the weaker model, normally the shift goes towards the more powerful one.

So... are we going to assume that exclusive games (and price) mean so little that all it takes to convince someone to pick one console over the other is its size?

Have you ever consider the possibility that Microsoft is just producing more units from that model?



curl-6 on 29 September 2022

Top 30: https://nintendoeverything.com/famitsu-software-sales-9-19-22-9-25-22-top-30/

1. [NSW] Splatoon 3 – 301,845 / 2,743,135
2. [NSW] Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythm Festival – 31,085 / NEW
3. [PS5] Horizon Forbidden West – 10,263 / 81,479
4. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 9,617 / 4,847,032
5. [NSW] Minecraft – 8,829 / 2,801,507
6. [NSW] Dragon Quest X Offline – 8,554 / 152,390
7. [NSW] Nintendo Switch Sports – 8,538 / 740,713
8. [NSW] The DioField Chronicle – 6,415 / NEW
9. [PS4] Dragon Quest X Offline – 5,642 / 53,742
10. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 5,079 / 4,981,611
11. [NSW] Kirby and the Forgotten Land – 4,771 / 893,705
12. [PS5] Dragon Quest X Offline – 4,167 / 32,538
13. [NSW] Mario Party Superstars – 4,064 / 1,043,153
14. [NSW] Jyuzaengi: Engetsu Sangokuden 1&2 for Nintendo Switch – 3,954 / NEW
15. [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure – 3,864 / 3,279,536
16. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 3,540 / 7,332,807
17. [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! – 3,383 / 2,722,368
18. [PS4] Earth Defense Force 6 – 3,148 / 98,717
19. [PS4] The DioField Chronicle – 3,057 / NEW
20. [NSW] Monster Hunter Rise + Sunbreak Set – 2,599 / 271,785
21. [PS5] The DioField Chronicle – 2,596 / NEW
22. [NSW] Zelda: Breath of the Wild – 2,577 / 2,081,626
23. [NSW] Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics – 2,366 / 1,022,301
24. [NSW] Valis: The Fantasm Soldier Collection II – 1,858 / NEW
25. [NSW] Kirby’s Dream Buffet (Download Card) – 1,743 / 19,192
26. [NSW] Dragon Quest XI S (New Price Version) – 1,641 / 228,141
27. [NSW] eBaseball Powerful Pro Baseball 2022 – 1,624 / 232,007
28. [NSW] Pokemon Legends: Arceus – 1,620 / 2,295,435
29. [NSW] Trinity Trigger – 1,519 / 8,217
30. [NSW] Splatoon 2 – 1,479 / 4,120,624

NS - 24
PS4 - 3
PS5 - 3

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