Japan: more sales data for Week 4 2019, January 2019, Fiscal Year (Media Create, Dengeki)
Here’s the latest sales data reports from Media Create and Dengeki!
Media Create (Week 4)
Today, Media Create shared their weekly report on video games sales in Japan. It reveals that Software sales topped 1 208 000 units, which is 189.22% of Week 3 sales. That massive increase is due to the release of two popular games (Kingdom Hearts III and Resident Evil 2)! Thanks to those two titles, both Software and Hardware sales increased significantly.
Source: Media Create
Media Create – Day 1 Sell-through (Week 5)
This week, we have the Day- 1 sell-through for a few Nintendo Switch games:
- [PS4] [NSW] [PSV] Nelke & the Legendary Alchemists: Ateliers of the New World (Koei Tecmo) – 40%. Expected sell-through and platform breakdown;
- [NSW] Dragon Marked For Death (Inti Creates) – 50%. Surprisingly good Day 1 sales, though it’s not clear how big the shipment is;
- [NSW] Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star Link (Marvelous) – 20%. Low debut, but that’s to be expected for a late port…
Source: Media Create
Via: hiska-kun (ResetERA)
Dengeki (Week 4)
Dengeki report that… nothing much happened in the top of the charts this week, still dominated by Nintendo Switch games (with the exception of the top 2 spots).
We also get data about January this week (and more precisely the period going from December 31st to January 27th, so 4 weeks in total). Let’s start with some raw data:
- Hardware: 750 000 units (-6.3% Year on Year) / 23.1 billion Yen (-1.5%)
- Software: 3 450 000 units (-9.4% Year on Year) / 23.3 billion Yen (-13.4%)
- Total: 46.4 billion Yen (-7.8%)
As of January, the market is down by 12.2% to 304.4 billion Yen for the current Fiscal Year (April to January). Dengeki hope that the market will recover during the remaining two months (February and March).
Here’s the Top 5 Software for January 2019:
- [PS4] Kingdom Hearts III (Square-Enix)
- [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo) – 440 000 units
- [NSW] New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe (Nintendo) – 330 000 units
- [PS4] Resident Evil 2 (Capcom) – 240 000 units
- [PS4] Ace Combat 7 (Bandai-Namco) – 220 000 units
Next, here’s Software sales for each platform:
| Platforms | This week | This week (%) | Fiscal Year | Fiscal Year (%) |
| PS4 | 892,408 | 79.9％ | 7,794,092 | 33.7％ |
| Vita | 6,572 | 0.6％ | 719,094 | 3.1％ |
| Switch | 200,018 | 17.9％ | 12,595,442 | 54.4％ |
| 3DS | 17,319 | 1.5％ | 1,969,200 | 8.5％ |
| ETC | 1,213 | 0.1％ | 79,605 | 0.3％ |
| Total | 1,117,530 | 100.0％ | 23,157,433 | 100.0％ |
And here’s Hardware sales:
| Platforms | This week | This week (%) | Fiscal Year | Fiscal Year (%) |
| PS4 | 43,948 | 43.3％ | 1,247,284 | 24.2％ |
| Vita | 1,803 | 1.8％ | 105,297 | 2.0％ |
| Switch | 51,634 | 50.8％ | 3,393,111 | 66.0％ |
| 3DS | 4,056 | 4.0％ | 389,806 | 7.6％ |
| ETC | 134 | 0.1％ | 8,417 | 0.2％ |
| Total | 101,575 | 100.0％ | 5,143,915 | 100.0％ |
Finally, here’s the Top 50 Software:
01./00. [PS4] Kingdom Hearts III (Square Enix) {2019.01.25} – 545,031 / NEW
02./00. [PS4] Resident Evil 2 (Capcom) {2019.01.25} – 244,522 / NEW
03./02. [NSW] New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe (Nintendo) {2019.01.11} – 60,772 / 333,212
04./03. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo) {2018.12.07} – 38,600 / 2,828,243
05./01. [PS4] Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown (Bandai Namco Games) {2019.01.17} – 28,500 / 221,169
06./05. [NSW] Super Mario Party (Nintendo) {2018.10.05} – 10,950 / 921,195
07./06. [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft Game Studios) {2018.06.21} – 10,050 / 644,374
08./07. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo) {2017.04.28} – 8,750 / 2,023,638
09./09. [NSW] Splatoon 2 (Nintendo) {2017.07.21} – 7,594 / 2,902,920
10./08. [NSW] Dragon Quest Builders 2 (Square Enix) {2018.12.20} – 6,644 / 210,860
11./20. [PS4] Kingdom Hearts HD I.5 + II.5 ReMIX (Square Enix) {2017.03.09} – 6,286 / 245,346
12./10. [PS4] Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition (Bandai Namco Games) {2019.01.11} – 5,550 / 60,322
13./04. [PS4] Yakuza 4 (Sega) {2019.01.17} – 5,506 / 24,759
14./13. [NSW] Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! (Pokemon Co.) {2018.11.16} – 4,556 / 759,431
15./12. [PS4] PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG Corporation) {2019.01.17} – 3,831 / 11,346
16./16. [NSW] Pokemon: Let’s Go, Eevee! (Pokemon Co.) {2018.11.16} – 3,772 / 606,670
17./15. [PS4] Dragon Quest Builders 2 (Square Enix) {2018.12.20} – 3,571 / 190,618
18./17. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo) {2017.03.03} – 3,212 / 941,366
19./28. [NSW] Fit Boxing (Imagineer) {2018.12.20} – 3,167 / 16,991
20./14. [NSW] Go Vacation (Bandai Namco Games) {2018.12.27} – 2,922 / 57,452
21./22. [PS4] Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII (Sony Interactive Entertainment) {2018.10.12} – 2,544 / 516,813
22./19. [PS4] Judgment (Sega) {2018.12.13} – 2,500 / 248,492
23./21. [NSW] Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum ‘n’ Fun! (Bandai Namco Games) {2018.07.19} – 2,422 / 311,585
24./00. [PS4] Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Hou (Entergram) {2019.01.24} – 2,394 / NEW
25./31. [PS4] Kingdom Hearts HD II.8 Final Chapter Prologue (Square Enix) {2017.01.12} – 2,385 / 214,447
26./11. [PS4] Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet – Complete Edition (Bandai Namco Games) {2019.01.17} – 2,169 / 10,356
27./24. [NSW] Kirby Star Allies (Nintendo) {2018.03.16} – 1,961 / 721,798
28./25. [NSW] Mario Tennis Aces (Nintendo) {2018.06.22} – 1,611 / 411,326
29./23. [NSW] Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo) {2017.10.27} – 1,541 / 1,803,729
30./27. [PS4] Battlefield V (Electronic Arts) {2018.11.20} – 1,313 / 165,107
31./54. [NSW] Super Run For Money Tousouchuu & Super Battle For
Money Sentouchuu Double Pack (Bandai Namco Games) {2018.11.29} – 1,197 /
29,769
32./00. [PSV] Suki to Suki to de Sankaku Ren’ai (Entergram) {2019.01.24} – 1,187 / NEW
33./26. [PS4] God Eater 3 (Bandai Namco Games) {2018.12.13} – 1,183 / 202,961
34./33. [NSW] FIFA 19 (Electronic Arts) {2018.09.28} – 1,183 / 68,533
35./32. [NSW] Diablo III: Eternal Collection (Blizzard Entertainment) {2018.12.27} – 1,156 / 17,751
36./39. [PS4] Grand Theft Auto V (Take-Two Interactive Japan) {2018.12.06} – 1,106 / 11,810
37./35. [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Welcome amiibo (Nintendo) {2016.11.23} – 1,039 / 408,355
38./36. [PS4] Minecraft: Playstation 4 Edition (Sony Interactive Entertainment) {2015.12.03} – 1,011 / 358,664
39./37. [PS4] Dead by Daylight (3goo) {2018.11.29} – 1,008 / 23,509
40./49. [PS4] Monster Hunter: World [Best Price] (Capcom) {2018.08.02} – 994 / 24,897
41./34. [NSW] Dragon Ball FighterZ (Bandai Namco Games) {2018.09.27} – 967 / 80,474
42./00. [PS4] Sengoku Hime 7: Sen’un Tsuranuku Guren no Ishi (SystemSoft Alpha) {2019.01.24} – 887 / NEW
43./50. [NSW] Super Bomberman R [Smile Price Collection] (Konami) {2018.11.29} – 883 / 11,685
44./41. [3DS] Pokemon Ultra Sun (Pokemon Co.) {2017.11.17} – 844 / 895,347
45./18. [NSW] Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition (Bandai Namco Games) {2019.01.11} – 828 / 33,370
46./46. [PS4] Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege – Advanced Edition (Ubisoft) {2018.03.01} – 800 / 88,526
47./40. [NSW] Fortnite (Warner Entertainment Japan) {2018.12.13} – 794 / 17,968
48./52. [PS4] Winning Eleven 2019 (Konami) {2018.08.30} – 794 / 160,989
49./44. [NSW] Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (Nintendo) {2018.07.13} – 756 / 178,243
50./42. [NSW] Katamari Damacy Reroll (Bandai Namco Games) {2018.12.20} – 744 / 24,290
Source: Dengeki
Data compiled by: ZSaberLink (ResetERA)
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