I guess that the majority of gamers who want or have already bought PS5 are the same people who earlier owned PS4. Considering that PS5 plays all PS4's games, PS4 isn't essential nowadays. If person has both PS4 and PS5, this person will almost spend time with newer console. Also more than half of people could move to nextgen at the moment looking at lifetime PS4 and PS5 sales in that region. 

ShadowLink93 said:

With the PS5's price increase, does the Switch have a better chance to surpass its 2018 numbers? 🤔

Lots of new releases this week. Switch is selling strong even though 2019 numbers are going to keep pulling ahead of 2024 going forward.

Quite the week for the Switch and even the PS5 with a bunch of releases more competition in the top 19 software for once.

Emio : The Smiling Man didn't pull as much physically as I thought it would in Japan. Considering the remakes were digital only except for a collector, I suppose digital will the preferred way to buy this game for most.

Was there some kind of deal or holiday or something?
These relative small-to-medium releases don't seem like the sort of thing that would cause a substantial hardware bump.

At any rate, good week for both Switch and PS5.

Curious how next week will turn out for PlayStation. On one hand, the PlayStation 5 got a price increase in Japan, but on the other hand, Astro Bot has been really getting positive reception so perhaps that will boost it up along with healthy sales for the game.

Top 30: https://nintendoeverything.com/famitsu-software-sales-8-26-24-9-1-24-top-30/

1. [NSW] Gundam Breaker 4 – 52,825 / NEW
2. [NSW] Umamusume: Pretty Derby – Party Dash – 37,939 / NEW
3. [PS5] Gundam Breaker 4 – 32,518 / NEW
4. [PS5] Visions of Mana – 30,696 / NEW
5. [NSW] Emio – The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club – 25,028 / NEW
6. [PS4] Gundam Breaker 4 – 13,175 / NEW
7. [NSW] Nintendo Switch Sports – 10,370 / 1,406,998
8. [PS5] Star Wars Outlaws – 10,087 / NEW
9. [PS4] Visions of Mana – 10,068 / NEW
10. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 9,879 / 5,981,060
11. [NSW] Powerful Pro Baseball 2024-2025 – 9,704 / 275,893
12. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 8,403 / 7,893,922
13. [NSW] Minecraft – 6,948 – 3,619,608
14. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 5,007 / 5,575,528
15. [NSW] Mushihimesama – 4,885 / NEW
16. [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu World: Chikyuu wa Kibou de Mawatteru – 4,300 / 1,129,353
17. [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure – 4,239 / 3,616,977
18. [NSW] Pokemon Scarlet / Violet – 4,208 / 5,403,009
19. [NSW] Luigi’s Mansion 3 – 3,690 / 190,858
20. [NSW] Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics – 3,441 / 1,321,274
21. [NSW] Super Mario Bros. Wonder – 3,186 / 1,922,455
22. [NSW] Splatoon 3 – 3,119 / 4,358,294
23. [NSW] goHELLgo: Tsukiotoshiteko – 3,007 / NEW
24. [NSW] My9Swallows Topstars League – 2,985 / NEW
25. [NSW] Super Mario Party – 2,758 / 2,328,868
26. [NSW] Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythm Festival – 2,693 / 347,888
27. [NSW] Mario Party Superstars – 2,674 / 1,486,338
28. [NSW] WitchSpring R – 2,586 / NEW
29. [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban – 2,516 / 3,020,617
30. [NSW] Kamibako: Mythology of Cube – 2,392 / NEW

NS - 25
PS5 - 3
PS4 - 2

Am I wrong in saying that Emio kinda bombed? Or am I missing smth?

It's opening sales are a little over twice as big as the remakes from a few years ago. As far as straight visual novels go, it did rather well actually.

It's unlikely because the holiday period will be so much worse than 2018, when a console is this old it doesn't get the big November and December spike in sales (checkout 2023). i think a flat 3 million is probable for 2024.