[Brief] Media Create: more sales data for Week 5 (2016) in Japan

Today, Media Create released its weekly report for video game sales in Japan, providing us with more sales data for Week 5, 2016. During Week 5, a total of 460 000 games were sold, which is only 51.1% of Week 4 sales. There’s two reasons to explain this 50% drop in sales:

• less games came out
• the games that did come out didn’t sell nearly as well as those who were released during Week 4.

About Week 6, the only major release on Nintendo platforms is Shin Megami Tensei IV Final, on Nintendo 3DS.

According to retailer reports, the sellthrough ratio for the first two days is 60%, which is pretty encouraging. We can definitely expect a sellthrough ratio of ~80% for the first five days, which means retailers shouldn’t have any trouble selling all their copies (especially since reception from players seem rather positive). We will get the first sales data on Wednesday!

Source: Media Create