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Forums - Sales - Famitsu Sales: Week 42, 2025 (Oct 13 - Oct 19)

rapsuperstar31 on 23 October 2025
Slownenberg said:

Damn. Sad to see the Dreamcast-looking absolutely laziest Pokemon of all time still sell out like crazy. No hope for the franchise at this point. Consumers simply buy that stuff blind and don't care about being fed pure shovelware like Z-A. I mean granted user scores are god awful for it, but that hasn't stopped millions from picking it up right away. Sad state for the industry when such slop sells. After the unplayable disaster that was S/V, and the zero effort decades old seeming shovelware that is Z-A, I've lost all hope in Pokemon ever being good again. The games are now just the absolute lowest effort possible in order to sell a new round of pokemon merchandise.

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Chicho on 23 October 2025

 



Sephiran on 23 October 2025

Pokemon is a 29 year old franchise that has always moved a lot of software in Japan, its one of the main reasons why Nintendo is so dominant there. It has the same impact on Japanese hardware sales as stuff like GTA has in NA/EU.



curl-6 on 23 October 2025

Pretty close split between Switch 1 and 2 Pokémon sales given the vast disparity in install base and the fact that the latter is supply limited.

I imagine this may have drained available stock so I wouldn't be surprised if Switch 2 is in short supply next week.



XtremeBG on 23 October 2025

Switch 2 cut heads.
And as I once said, at this point software is not moving hardware for the Switch 1.



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Salnax on 23 October 2025

Pokemon FW Comparison:

  • Scarlet/Violet: 2,537,292
  • X/Y: 2,096,050
  • Sun/Moon: 1,905,107
  • OmegaRuby/AlphaSapphire: 1,534,593
  • Legends Z-A (Combined): 1,485,457 
  • Legends Arceus: 1,424,657
  • BrilliantDiamond/ShiningPearl: 1,395,642
  • Sword/Shield: 1,364,544
  • Ultra Sun/Moon: 1,199,814
  • Legends Z-A (Switch): 872,552 
  • Legends Z-A (Switch 2): 612,905 
  • Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee: 664,198

Overall, a solid opening, but not unprecedented. Pokemon looks like it'll keep on chugging along for another year or two, regardless of many fans' reactions.



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Norion on 23 October 2025

Damn I didn't expect the Switch 2 to hit 200k. I knew it'd go over 100k but blowing past the previous 2nd best week is quite something. I thought the Switch 1 would get a small boost but it did the same so software won't be boosting the Switch 1 at all any more and the Switch 2 version looks like it will have been about 40% of sales for the launch worldwide so it's already almost surpassing the Switch 1 with big releases. Also it looks like the PS5 will have a stronger final stretch of the year than expected based on how it was doing during Summer.

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curl-6 on 23 October 2025

Top 30: https://www.gematsu.com/2025/10/famitsu-sales-10-13-25-10-19-25 

  1. [NSW] Pokemon Legends: Z-A (The Pokemon Company, 10/16/25) – 872,552 (New)
  2. [SW2] Pokemon Legends: Z-A – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition (The Pokemon Company, 10/16/25) – 612,905 (New)
  3. [SW2] Mario Kart World (Nintendo, 06/05/25) – 55,996 (1,931,393)
  4. [PS5] Ghost of Yotei (SIE, 10/02/25) – 18,930 (165,902)
  5. [NSW] Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Nintendo, 10/02/25) – 11,129 (79,477)
  6. [SW2] Donkey Kong Bananza (Nintendo, 07/17/25) – 9,785 (351,540)
  7. [PS5] Battlefield 6 (Electronic Arts, 10/10/25) – 7,967 (31,259)
  8. [NSW] Little Nightmares III (Bandai Namco, 10/10/25) – 5,315 (23,121)
  9. [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 4,984 (4,028,096)
  10. [NSW] Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Hinokami Chronicles 2 (Aniplex, 08/01/25) – 4,064 (139,111)
  11. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo, 03/20/20) – 3,950 (8,235,727)
  12. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 3,586 (6,459,470)
  13. [PS5] Digimon Story: Time Stranger (Bandai Namco, 10/03/25) – 3,463 (33,837)
  14. [PS5] Silent Hill f (Konami, 09/25/25) – 3,335 (74,701)
  15. [NSW] Pokemon Scarlet / Pokemon Violet (The Pokemon Company, 11/18/22) – 3,140 (5,626,007)
  16. [NSW] Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles Deluxe Edition (Square Enix, 09/30/25) – 3,127 (48,273)
  17. [NSW] Super Mario Party Jamboree (Nintendo, 10/17/24) – 2,919 (1,401,821)
  18. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 12/07/18) – 1,911 (5,807,162)
  19. [SW2] Super Mario Party Jamboree – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Jamboree TV (Nintendo, 07/24/25) – 1,840 (73,483)
  20. [NSW] Kirby and the Forgotten Land (Nintendo, 03/25/22) – 1,745 (1,235,365)
  21. [NSW] Tamagotchi Plaza (Bandai Namco, 06/26/25) – 1,736 (191,475)
  22. [SW2] Little Nightmares III (Bandai Namco, 10/10/25) – 1,598 (8,522)
  23. [PS5] Monster Hunter Wilds (Capcom, 02/28/25) – 1,549 (829,243)
  24. [NSW] Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar (Marvelous, 08/28/25) – 1,538 (85,432)
  25. [PS5] Little Nightmares III (Bandai Namco, 10/10/25) – 1,473 (8,513)
  26. [NSW] The Exit 8 / Platform 8 (PLAYISM, 11/28/24) – 1,447 (66,322)
  27. [NSW] Splatoon 3 (Nintendo, 09/09/22) – 1,418 (4,479,687)
  28. [NSW] Nintendo Switch Sports (Nintendo, 04/29/22) – 1,405 (1,653,918)
  29. [PS5] Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles Deluxe Edition (Square Enix, 09/30/25) – 1,295 (27,749)
  30. [NSW] EA Sports FC 26 (Electronic Arts, 09/26/25) – 1,279 (11,261)

NS - 18

PS5 - 7

NS2 - 5



Mar1217 on 24 October 2025

Considering how some of the bigger releases on Switch 2 hasn't attracted massive physical sales yet, I'm quite surprised at the performance of ZA on SW2 !



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curl-6 on 24 October 2025
Mar1217 said:

Considering how some of the bigger releases on Switch 2 hasn't attracted massive physical sales yet, I'm quite surprised at the performance of ZA on SW2 !

I think it's more that there just haven't been many big physical releases on Switch 2 yet; Mario Kart is doing great, DK isn't as big in Japan as in the West but is still showing decent legs, Mario Party and Kirby are Switch 1 ports that most of the Nintendo crowd already played or passed on, and third party games are mostly key cards which consumers seem to avoiding.