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xMetroid on 26 December 2024

Crazy Mario Party renaissance on Switch. They will keep putting a nice budget on the. next games



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PAOerfulone on 26 December 2024
curl-6 said:

Top 30: https://www.gematsu.com/2024/12/famitsu-sales-12-16-24-12-22-24

1. [NSW] Super Mario Party Jamboree (Nintendo, 10/17/24) – 133,542 (835,085)
2. [NSW] Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake (Square Enix, 11/14/24) – 38,088 (894,671)
3.[NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 24,019 (6,146,178)
4. [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 23,131 (3,744,671)
5. NSW] Mario & Luigi: Brothership (Nintendo, 11/07/24) – 22,237 (148,380)
6. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 12/07/18) – 18,178 (5,668,493)
7. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (Nintendo, 09/26/24) – 18,145 (356,613)
8. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo, 03/20/20) – 15,536 (8,008,343)
9. [NSW] Pokemon Scarlet / Pokemon Violet (The Pokemon Company, 11/18/22) – 15,244 (5,477,820)
10. [NSW] Nintendo Switch Sports (Nintendo, 04/29/22) – 13,309 (1,503,403)
11. [NSW] Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythm Festival (Bandai Namco, 09/22/22) – 11,227 (391,637)
12. [NSW] Hone Hone Zaurus X Chou Gattai! Build & Battle (Nippon Columbia, 12/05/24) – 9,626 (27,541)
13. [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu World: Chikyuu wa Kibou de Mawatteru! (Konami, 11/16/23) – 9,566 (1,198,504)
14. [NSW] The Game of Life for Nintendo Switch (Takara Tomy, 10/06/23) – 9,199 (254,071)
15. [NSW] Pikmin 4 (Nintendo, 07/21/23) – 7,433 (1,277,276)
16. [NSW] Powerful Pro Baseball 2024-2025 (Konami, 07/18/24) – 7,031 (335,872)
17. [NSW] Splatoon 3 (Nintendo, 09/09/22) – 6,822 (4,398,781)
18. [NSW] Super Mario Bros. Wonder (Nintendo, 10/20/23) – 6,406 (1,963,024)
19. [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure (Nintendo, 10/18/19) – 5,703 (3,674,509)
20. [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! (Konami, 11/19/20) – 5,285 (3,054,883)
21. [NSW] Kirby and the Forgotten Land (Nintendo, 03/25/22) – 5,245 (1,169,990)
22. [NSW] Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 Special Price (SEGA, 11/18/22) – 5,117 (219,608)
23. [NSW] The Battle Cats Unite! (Ponos, 12/03/2) – 4,818 (310,075)
24. [NSW] Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics (Nintendo, 06/05/20) – 4,767 (1,356,929)
25. [NSW] Super Mario Maker 2 (Nintendo, 06/28/19) – 4,551 (1,397,406)
26. [NSW] Suika Game Special Edition (Aladdin X, 11/14/24) – 4,433 (18,157)
27. [NSW] Pokemon Sword / Pokemon Shield (The Pokemon Company, 11/15/19) – 4,316 (4,475,482)
28. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Nintendo, 05/12/23) – 4,074 (2,037,432)
29. [NSW] Luigi’s Mansion 3 (Nintendo, 10/31/19) – 4,026 (1,067,333)
30. [NSW] Pokemon Scarlet / Pokemon Violet + “The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero” (The Pokemon Company, 11/03/23) – 3,827 (157,255)

NS - 30/30

Ho-ly Shit.

A clean sweep!

The rest of the world is a different story, but in the homeland, Nintendo runs as close to a monopoly as one could get in the hardware market. The Switch will continue to sell and perform over there for as long as they allow it.



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PAOerfulone on 27 December 2024

So I assume it's going to be the usual two weeks until we get the last week of 2024 and first week of 2025 at the same time?



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JoshuaZC on 27 December 2024
XtremeBG said:
Jules98 said:

Speaking of Week 51, 52, 53 shenanigans. The next Famitsu report won't be untill january 13th, so we're gonna have to wait a while.

Isn't the report always coming on thursdays ? So January 10th rather than 13th ?

Actually, it's not really always on Thursdays, with very few exceptions, and post-holiday reports are one of them.

I checked the article on the Famitsu website, it says "次回のソフト＆ハード週間販売数は、2025年1月13日（月）公開予定です。" at the end.

FYI, it means "The next software and hardware weekly sales numbers will be released on Monday, January 13, 2025".



Mar1217 on 27 December 2024

That clean Top 30 sweep is just big at a moment like this. Despite its age, it's evergreena and even some 3rd party ones still do well enough to not even let a single PS5 SKU be in the mix.

Considering some of the high profile games they had release you'd think they'd at least get one or two in there ...

Anywoo, it's clear the inherent shift to a stronger digital presence on their platform and the FTP games did help in this but honestly it's just mind boggling in a sense.



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The_Liquid_Laser on 27 December 2024

Wow, another 30/30 clean sweep for the Switch.  Not even the PS5 version of DQ3 could make the top 30 while the Switch version is still sitting at #2.

I believe it's been 3-4 years since Switch had it's last 30/30 week, but there is a big difference this time.  If we go back 3-4 years, then PS5 was a new system, PS4 was being phased out, and Switch would have been near it's peak in sales and popularity.  This year PS5 is near its peak in popularity and Switch is about to be replaced by Switch 2.  This is really not a good year for Playstation to get get 0 games in the top 30.  



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firebush03 on 27 December 2024

I've always been curious: What does that <80-100%> or <60-80%> (or wtvr else) mean? On the OP?



konnichiwa on 27 December 2024
firebush03 said:

I've always been curious: What does that or (or wtvr else) mean? On the OP?

How much of shipment is sold.






Sephiran on 27 December 2024

Given that the Wii U with a lower install base than PS5 still managed to release 4 games that sold more than 1 million copies in Japan, while PS5 as of now has 0 games that have sold 1 million copies in Japan i think its likely that PS5 is mostly just used as a Gacha Genshin machine in Japan. And given that Sony as a whole is going in a GAAS direction with most of their budgets now being directed to GAAS games it seems that the Switch 2 generation will see a near complete domination of classic single player games being bought on the Switch 2, with PS5 at that point just being entirely reduced to a Mihoyo machine.



Tober on 27 December 2024
Sephiran said:

Given that the Wii U with a lower install base than PS5 still managed to release 4 games that sold more than 1 million copies in Japan, while PS5 as of now has 0 games that have sold 1 million copies in Japan i think its likely that PS5 is mostly just used as a Gacha Genshin machine in Japan. And given that Sony as a whole is going in a GAAS direction with most of their budgets now being directed to GAAS games it seems that the Switch 2 generation will see a near complete domination of classic single player games being bought on the Switch 2, with PS5 at that point just being entirely reduced to a Mihoyo machine.

And this is the reason Sony does not want to subsidize their hardware any longer. 80% of Free to Play GAAS players do not spend money to make up for the loss on hardware.