Japan: more sales data for Week 24 2019, Doraemon: Story of Seasons, Fiscal Year 2018-19 (Media Create, Dengeki)
Here’s the latest sales data report from Media Create and Dengeki!
Media Create – Day 1 Sell-through (Week 25)
This week, we have the Day 1 sell-through for a couple of Nintendo Switch titles (games and platforms are listed from best-selling to worst-selling):
- [NSW] Yo-kai Watch 4 (Level 5) (¥5.980) – 30%. Relatively low sell-through, which doesn’t bode well for the game; it needs strong sales during the weekend. Direct comparison with past mainline entries isn’t quite possible, as it’s the first one since Yo-kai Watch 1 not to be released on a Saturday;
- [NSW] Summer Pockets (Prototype) (¥7.200) – 40%. Relatively good sell-through, but shipment should be somewhat low and sales pretty frontloaded.
Source: Media Create
Via: hiska-kun (ResetERA)
Dengeki (Week 24)
Dengeki report that Doraemon Story of Seasons was the best-selling game this week, with about 45 000 units sold at launch. The sell-through ratio is pretty good: 70%.
Just like we did earlier this week, they point out that it sold roughly the same as Return to Popolocrois: A Story of Seasons Fairytale (on Nintendo 3DS), which sold about 50 000 units at launch back in 2015 (about 80 000 units LTD). However, they expect sales to increase in the long term, following the usual sales trajectory of Story of Seasons (and Doraemon) games.
Nothing much to say about the rest of the Top 50 Software, with the top spots all taken by the usual Nintendo Switch titles.
Thanks to new releases, sales did slightly improve this week, but they remain at pretty low levels.
As of the end of May, sales for the current Fiscal Years were not looking pretty good as reported last week:
- Hardware: 15.9 billion Yen (-7.4%)
- Software: 14.9 billion Yen (-30.2%)
- Total: 30.8 billion Yen (-20%)
The Nintendo Switch is pretty much the only console that saw its sales increase:
- Hardware: 10.6 billion Yen (+7%)
- Software: 8.3 billion Yen (+1.3%)
- Total: 18.9 billion Yen (+4.4%)
However, all the other platforms saw their sales plummet:
- PlayStation 4: 10.2 billion Yen (-30.2%), with 4 billion Yen for Hardware (-15.4%) and 5.6 billion Yen for Software (-39%)
- Nintendo 3DS: 1.1 billion Yen (-60.5%)
- PlayStation Vita: 400 million Yen (-85.9%)
Once again, the PlayStation 4 and especially the Nintendo Switch are completely dominating the market, leaving only scraps for the remaining platforms.
Here’s the Software sales for each platform:
| Platforms | This week | This week (%) | Fiscal Year | Fiscal Year (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PS4 | 52,146 | 25.5％ | 945,314 | 34.2％ |
| Vita | 3,160 | 1.5％ | 50,754 | 1.8％ |
| Switch | 138,000 | 67.5％ | 1,607,670 | 58.1％ |
| 3DS | 10,491 | 5.1％ | 150,514 | 5.4％ |
| ETC | 615 | 0.3％ | 12,032 | 0.4％ |
| Total | 204,412 | 100.0％ | 2,766,284 | 100.0％ |
And here’s Hardware sales:
| Platforms | This week | This week (%) | Fiscal Year | Fiscal Year (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PS4 | 30,158 | 43.0％ | 183,366 | 28.1％ |
| Vita | 152 | 0.2％ | 3,752 | 0.6％ |
| Switch | 36,800 | 52.5％ | 424,849 | 65.0％ |
| 3DS | 2,683 | 3.8％ | 39,977 | 6.1％ |
| ETC | 268 | 0.4％ | 1,764 | 0.3％ |
| Total | 70,061 | 100.0％ | 653,708 | 100.0％ |
Finally, here’s the Top 50 Software:
01./00. [NSW] Doraemon: Story of Seasons (Bandai Namco Games) {2019.06.13} – 45,388 / NEW
02./02. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo) {2018.12.07} – 10,976 / 3,189,036
03./03. [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft Game Studios) {2018.06.21} – 9,382 / 854,414
04./04. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo) {2017.04.28} – 6,788 / 2,193,009
05./06. [NSW] New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe (Nintendo) {2019.01.11} – 5,171 / 660,484
06./07. [NSW] Splatoon 2 (Nintendo) {2017.07.21} – 4,794 / 3,030,213
07./09. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo) {2017.03.03} – 4,500 / 1,035,378
08./01. [PS4] Rage 2 (Bethesda Softworks) {2019.06.06} – 3,739 / 16,372
09./10. [NSW] Pokemon: Let’s Go, Eevee! (Pokemon Co.) {2018.11.16} – 3,439 / 689,027
10./11. [NSW] Super Mario Party (Nintendo) {2018.10.05} – 3,282 / 1,051,304
11./16. [PS4] Monster Hunter: World [Best Price] (Capcom) {2018.08.02} – 2,960 / 48,272
12./12. [NSW] Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! (Pokemon Co.) {2018.11.16} – 2,917 / 851,104
13./08. [NSW] Yoshi’s Crafted World (Nintendo) {2019.03.29} – 2,894 / 159,544
14./05. [PS4] Everybody’s Golf VR |PlayStation VR| (Sony Interactive Entertainment) {2019.06.07} – 2,354 / 8,446
15./13. [PS4] Days Gone (Sony Interactive Entertainment) {2019.04.26} – 2,240 / 184,092
16./15. [NSW] Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum ‘n’ Fun! (Bandai Namco Games) {2018.07.19} – 2,041 / 358,648
17./17. [NSW] Super Dragon Ball Heroes: World Mission (Bandai Namco Games) {2019.04.04} – 1,544 / 129,479
18./21. [NSW] Kirby Star Allies (Nintendo) {2018.03.16} – 1,471 / 760,108
19./23. [NSW] Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo) {2017.10.27} – 1,359 / 1,837,176
20./20. [NSW] Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age (Square Enix) {2019.04.25} – 1,328 / 35,311
21./18. [NSW] Nintendo Labo Toy-Con 04: VR Kit (Nintendo) {2019.04.11} – 1,322 / 57,844
22./14. [NSW] Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster (Square Enix) {2019.04.11} – 1,133 / 40,117
23./28. [PS4] Battlefield V (Electronic Arts) {2018.11.20} – 1,050 / 185,120
24./26. [NSW] Mario Tennis Aces (Nintendo) {2018.06.22} – 1,041 / 435,766
25./29. [PS4] Kingdom Hearts III (Square Enix) {2019.01.25} – 1,040 / 751,615
26./22. [PS4] Ys: Memories of Celceta – Kai (Nihon Falcom) {2019.05.16} – 1,027 / 23,862
27./25. [PS4] NieR: Automata – Game of the YoRHa Edition (Square Enix) {2019.02.21} – 1,007 / 40,496
28./19. [PS4] Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (From Software) {2019.03.22} – 994 / 278,770
29./24. [NSW] Resident Evil: Origins Collection (Capcom) {2019.05.23} – 933 / 8,299
30./35. [PS4] Minecraft: Playstation 4 Edition (Sony Interactive Entertainment) {2015.12.03} – 872 / 378,941
31./42. [PS4] Marvel’s Spider-Man [Value Selection] (Sony Interactive Entertainment) {2019.03.20} – 793 / 9,786
32./30. [NSW] Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate [Best Price] (Capcom) {2018.11.15} – 793 / 24,455
33./31. [PS4] Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege – Deluxe Edition (Ubisoft) {2019.04.11} – 778 / 14,375
34./36. [NSW] Fortnite (Warner Entertainment Japan) {2018.12.13} – 778 / 35,022
35./00. [PS4] Yumeutsutsu Re:Master (Kogado Studio) {2019.06.13} – 759 / NEW
36./38. [PS4] Grand Theft Auto V (Take-Two Interactive Japan) {2018.12.06} – 750 / 28,976
37./37. [PS4] FIFA 19 [Best Price!] (Electronic Arts) {2019.06.06} – 717 / 1,417
38./32. [NSW] Dragon Quest Builders 2 (Square Enix) {2018.12.20} – 717 / 249,140
39./52. [NSW] Super Bomberman R [Smile Price Collection] (Konami) {2018.11.29} – 706 / 27,798
40./50. [PS4] Dead by Daylight (3goo) {2018.11.29} – 700 / 35,346
41./49. [NSW] FIFA 19 [Best Price!] (Electronic Arts) {2019.06.06} – 680 / 1,232
42./53. [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Welcome amiibo (Nintendo) {2016.11.23} – 672 / 424,813
43./51. [3DS] Pokemon Ultra Sun (Pokemon Co.) {2017.11.17} – 671 / 909,597
44./39. [NSW] Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization – Deluxe Edition (Bandai Namco Games) {2019.04.25} – 667 / 28,738
45./34. [NSW] Fit Boxing (Imagineer) {2018.12.20} – 641 / 39,898
46./33. [NSW] FIFA 19 (Electronic Arts) {2018.09.28} – 635 / 86,434
47./27. [PS4] Assassin’s Creed III Remastered (Ubisoft) {2019.05.23} – 587 / 6,767
48./45. [3DS] Pokemon Ultra Moon (Pokemon Co.) {2017.11.17} – 583 / 880,205
49./59. [PS4] Left Alive (Square Enix) {2019.02.28} – 580 / 29,500
50./48. [PS4] Devil May Cry 5 (Capcom) {2019.03.08} – 550 / ???
Source: Dengeki
Data compiled by: ZSaberLink (ResetERA)
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