You make a good point. No idea how it slipped my mind that digital sales are not included here. So, Brothership could be as high as third best seller? Not bad. The drop in Mario RPG sales, however, is a little bit shocking: SMRPG sell 330k physical during JP launch, TTYD sells 150k physical during JP launch, and M&L sells 60k physical during JP launch. That's more than -80% difference from 12m ago.

It sold 20% more than PS4 Pro did at launch, at more than double the price.

PS4 Pro - 65,194 units at 45,000 yen ($288 USD)
PS5 Pro - 78,086 units at 120,000 yen ($770 USD)

It's almost 3 times as expensive.
Considering its price, I think launch week figures are quite good.

Surprisingly good launch for the PS5 Pro here. There will definitely have been a notable portion of people waiting for it to come out so the baseline for the PS5 should be higher next year compared to how it's been the past couple months though it should still for sure be lower compared to the first half of this year. Monster Hunter Wilds should help the Pro out for those who want better performance but don't want to play it on PC.

Taking digital into account Brothership probably had a similar launch as Dream Team so a decent start but yeah three Mario RPG's in one year was definitely not a good idea. A lot of people will just pick 1-2 of them and be satisfied with that for a while.

Also the Switch has built up a lead of just under 500k compared to 2018 but it's gonna lose all of that lead very quickly. I wonder if it'll reach 90k for any of the remaining weeks or if it'll just be down compared to 2023 for all of the holidays.

SMRPG was a cult classic that has been on several all-time best games lists and has been massively beautified and enhanced, TTYD is a cult classic that had been beautified and enhanced, and Brothership is mostly more of the same in the Mario & Luigi series. I was much more stoked for the first two than I was for the last one from the get-go due to this. I'm actually much more shocked that TTYD sold less than half than SMRPG in retail than with the sales performance of Brothership.

I don't think the same week of last year was normal.  It even beat the Switch 

PS4 sold 93k the week it's Pro model debuted in 2016; the lower baseline of the PS5, primarily due to its higher price, seems to have kept it from reaching that threshold.

Switch being almost completed flat from a year ago is a good sign; depending on holiday sales and whether the week ending 5th of Jan is counted as 2024 sales, then 3 million for the year is still on the cards.

it wasn't just the slim releasing, it was the effect of also having no stock for 4 weeks of the normal PS5, therefore many people that wanted to bought the PS5 for a full month, couldn't because of no stock. Once the Slim got to the stores everyone who wanted PS5, who would otherwise buy it the previous weeks, bought one, alongside with those who wanted the Slim of course.

Yeah, I should have specified the effect of the Slim as you said rather than the new model itself causing the big surge in sales.

Top 30: https://nintendoeverything.com/famitsu-software-sales-11-4-24-11-10-24-top-30/

1. [NSW] Mario & Luigi: Brothership – 63,441 / NEW
2. [NSW] Super Mario Party Jamboree – 43,347 / 409,831
3. [NSW] Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven – 6,729 / 91,742
4. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 6,245 / 6,050,284
5. [NSW] Battle Spirits CrossOver – 5,355 / NEW
6. [NSW] Minecraft – 5,230 / 3,671,568
7. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 5,015 / 7,948,548
8. [NSW] Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom – 4,907 / 299,278
9. [PS5] Slitterhead – 4,697 / NEW
10. [NSW] Nintendo Switch Sports – 4,472 / 1,457,553

11. [PS5] Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 – 4,337 / 39,904
12. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 4,031 / 5,612,978
13. [PS5] Professional Baseball Spirits 2024-2025 – 3,962 / 88,951
14. [PS5] Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven – 3,579 / 40,833
15. [PS5] Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster – 3,129 / NEW
16. [NSW] Powerful Pro Baseball 2024-2025 – 2,888 / 314,672
17. [NSW] Pokemon Scarlet / Violet – 2,861 / 5,434,981
18. [NSW] Luigi’s Mansion 3 – 2,657 / 1,046,956
19. [NSW] River City Saga: Three Kingdoms Next – 2,464 / NEW
20. [PS4] Romancing Saga 2: Revenge of the Seven – 2,097 / 17,320
21. [PS5] Dragon Ball Sparking Zero – 1,752 / 86,891
22. [NSW] Super Mario Bros. Wonder – 1,738 / 1,941,968
23. [NSW] Super Mario Odyssey – 1,696 / 2,519,362
24. [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu World: Chikyuu wa Kibou de Mawatteru – 1,643 / 1,152,717
25. [NSW] Splatoon 3 – 1,589 / 4,378,725
26. [NSW] Pikmin 4 – 1,551 / 1,255,730
27. [PS4] Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 – 1,548 / 9,947
28. [PS5] Metaphor: ReFantazio – 1,546 / 105,102
29. [NSW] Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics – 1,545 / 1,341,820
30. [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban – 1,530 / 3,037,812

NS - 21
PS5 - 7
PS4 - 2

I don't think the high price is a reason for weaker sales. If so, the PS2 would have been a flop right out of the gate, but it wasn't. There is just not as much interest as Sony hoped. Simply as that! In Great Britain they are already discounting it to 659£, its far from sold out, Sony's unwillingness to produce more disc drives as they slowly move away from it does not help. Its far from sold out. I can walk in a random store and get it today if i wanted. Scalpers made the loss of their lifes by being forced to sell it clearly below it's launch price, i even saw an offer of 599 including a disc drive!! Yes sales where good, but the present circumstances don't paint the picture as a "highly successfull plattform, being contantly sold out". Heck, Sony wasn't even able being Up YoY compared to last year, not even 100k, despite the Pro.