This was a really good week all around. Good hardware sales for all current problems and several new releases. I haven't touched my Switch in quite a while, but I got it back out again the day NWC released.

According to Chris1964 over on Install Base a bundle for it just released and it was a public holiday in Japan last week.

I had a look. Apparently there is a bundle in Japan which gives 1 costume of choice and 800 primogem which is 5 pulls worth. The costumes were free from doing events and 800 primogem can be bought for around $10. You can't get the costumes from the events any more but can be bought for $20 each. Still that 10k or so boost is too much for a 4 year old F2P game

Excellent week across the board.

Powerful Pros living up to its name; unless there was one last year that I missed, the previous entry sold 146k week one compared to 216k for this one; mostly driven by the Switch version increasing from 92k in 2022 to 146k now. (PS dropped slightly from 54k then to 49k now) Releasing on a week with a holiday probably helped, but still, nice growth.

If the Switch keeps these numbers, it'll have similar sales units of last month, but with the disclaimer that last month was a 5-weeks month

Both Luigi's Mansion games in the top 10, nice.

The game is popular enough in Japan that I buy that a PS5 bundle for it would give a notable boost for a week. The main thing though is I wonder if it'll remain above 30k next week or not.

Top 30: https://www.gematsu.com/2024/07/famitsu-sales-7-15-24-7-21-24

1. [NSW] Powerful Pro Baseball 2024-2025 (Konami, 07/18/24) – 166,947 (New)
2. [PS4] Powerful Pro Baseball 2024-2025 (Konami, 07/18/24) – 49,210 (New)
3. [NSW] Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition (Nintendo, 07/18/24) – 27,391 (New)
4. [NSW] Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD (Nintendo, 06/27/24) – 11,913 (150,591)
5. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 10,710 (5,911,425)
6. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo, 03/20/20) – 7,906 (7,842,609)
7. [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 6,373 (3,571,663)
8. [NSW] Luigi’s Mansion 3 (Nintendo, 10/31/19) – 5,345 (1,007,557)
9. [NSW] Mistonia no Kibou: The Lost Delight (Idea Factory, 07/18/24) – 5,276 (New)
10. [NSW] Super Mario Bros. Wonder (Nintendo, 10/20/23) – 5,103 (1,891,314)
11. [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu World: Chikyuu wa Kibou de Mawatteru! (Konami, 11/16/23) – 4,962 (1,090,966)
12. [NSW] Nintendo Switch Sports (Nintendo, 04/29/22) – 4,727 (1,351,703)
13. [NSW] Super Mario Party (Nintendo, 10/05/18) – 4,440 (2,313,415)
14. [NSW] Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown Deluxe Edition (Bandai Namco 07/11/24) – 4,346 (18,668)
15. [NSW] Pokemon Scarlet / Pokemon Violet (The Pokemon Company, 11/18/22) – 4,211 (5,373,593)
16. [NSW] Splatoon 3 (Nintendo, 09/09/22) – 4,202 (4,333,683)
17. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 12/07/18) – 3,944 (5,544,872)
18. [NSW] Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo, 05/23/24) – 3,785 (206,147)
19. [NSW] Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo, 10/27/17) – 2,933 (2,492,884)
20. [NSW] It Takes Two (Electronic Arts, 12/08/22) – 2,773 (64,586)
21. [NSW] Kirby and the Forgotten Land (Nintendo, 03/25/22) – 2,723 (1,129,049)
22. [PS5] Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE Plus (Spike Chunsoft, 07/18/24) – 2,602 (New)
23. [NSW] Mario Party Superstars (Nintendo, 10/29/21) – 2,552 (1,469,715)
24. [NSW] Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics (Nintendo, 06/05/20) – 2,400 (1,300,910)
25. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo, 03/03/17) – 2,394 (2,310,185)
26. [PS5] Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree Edition (FromSoftware, 06/21/24) – 2,245 (39,790)
27. [NSW] Pikmin 4 (Nintendo, 07/21/23) – 2,201 (1,226,589)
28. [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure (Nintendo, 10/18/19) – 1,933 (3,598,541)
29. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Nintendo, 05/12/23) – 1,863 (1,998,338)
30. [NSW] Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 Special Price (SEGA, 11/17/22) – 1,723 (178,809)

I’m surprised Powerful Pro Baseball 2024-2025 wasn’t released on PS5. Perhaps Konami didn’t see real urgency to release it there.

Sorry double post.