Japan: more sales data for Week 27 2019, Attack on Titan 2: Final Battle, Fiscal Year (Media Create, Dengeki)
Here’s the latest sales data report from Media Create and Dengeki!
Media Create – Day 1 Sell-through (Week 28)
This week, we have the Day 1 sell-through for just one game:
- [NSW] God Eater 3 <ACT> (Bandai Namco Games) (¥6.800) – 40%. A decent performance. Nothing mindblowing, but nothing bad either!
Source: Media Create
Via: hiska-kun (ResetERA)
Dengeki (Week 27)
Dengeki report that Super Mario Maker 2 was the best-selling game in Japan for the second week in a row, with about 84 000 units sold. This brings total sales to 247 000 units. Naturally, they expect sales to keep growing during the Summer holidays season, but they wonder if the game will be able to bring more users to get a Nintendo Switch Online subscription (since it’s required to fully enjoy the game).
As for Attack on Titan 2: Final Battle, it’s off to a decent start with 36 000 units sold (including 20 000 units on Nintendo Switch alone). It sold about 19.7% of what the original version sold at launch (183 000 units across Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, and PlayStation Vita). Considering this is just an expanded re-release, with the additional content sold as DLC for the original version, this is a fairly decent performance.
PixARK sold about 13 000 units at launch, with both version selling more or less the same amount.
Next, let’s take a look at the one other entry in the Top 50 Software:
- [NSW] Clannad (Prototype): 1 162 units sold. Low sales, but hardly surprising for the port of a game already ported to so many different platforms.
This week, Dengeki take a look at sales during the first quarter of the current Fiscal Year (April to June), and things are not looking too hot:
- Hardware: 180 000 units sold (-14.1%) / 24.1 billion Yen (-9%)
- Software: 3 590 000 units (-21%) / 22.1 billion Yen (-27.2%)
- Total: 46.2 billion Yen (18.7%)
According to Dengeki data, this is the lowest the market has been in 10 years.
To the surprise of literally no one, the market dominated sale by a wide marging: its market share is 62.4%, which is nearly twice more than the PlayStation 4 with “only” 32.8% of sales. Combined, the two platforms account for 96.2% of total sales during Q1, leaving only scraps to the other platforms.
For Dengeki, the announcement of the Nintendo Switch Lite, a portable-only SKU of the Nintendo Switch, is going to be interesting. After all, the current market is monopolised by home consoles, and the question is whether this portable-only console will be able to grab a significant market share, and also revitalise the whole market (which has been rather sluggish lately) in the process.
Here’s the Software sales for each platform:
| Platforms | This week | This week (%) | Fiscal Year | Fiscal Year (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PS4 | 95,828 | 27.7％ | 1,190,397 | 30.3％ |
| Vita | 3,548 | 1.0％ | 63,668 | 1.6％ |
| Switch | 235,862 | 68.1％ | 2,482,119 | 63.1％ |
| 3DS | 10,549 | 3.0％ | 181,665 | 4.6％ |
| ETC | 643 | 0.2％ | 13,754 | 0.3％ |
| Total | 346,430 | 100.0％ | 3,931,603 | 100.0％ |
And here’s Hardware sales:
| Platforms | This week | This week (%) | Fiscal Year | Fiscal Year (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PS4 | 11,600 | 13.4％ | 230,284 | 26.6％ |
| Vita | 202 | 0.2％ | 4,273 | 0.5％ |
| Switch | 72,192 | 83.4％ | 580,688 | 67.1％ |
| 3DS | 2,422 | 2.8％ | 47,177 | 5.5％ |
| ETC | 138 | 0.2％ | 2,398 | 0.3％ |
| Total | 86,554 | 100.0％ | 864,820 | 100.0％ |
Finally, here’s the Top 50 Software:
01./01. [NSW] Super Mario Maker 2 (Nintendo) {2019.06.28} – 83,728 / 246,883
02./02. [NSW] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball (Konami) {2019.06.27} – 21,794 / 100,408
03./03. [NSW] Yo-kai Watch 4: We Are Looking Up at the Same Sky (Level 5) {2019.06.20} – 20,250 / 208,859
04./00. [NSW] Attack on Titan 2: Final Battle (Koei Tecmo) {2019.07.04} – 20,033 / NEW
05./00. [PS4] Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers (Square Enix) {2019.07.02} – 17,854 / NEW
06./00. [PS4] Attack on Titan 2: Final Battle (Koei Tecmo) {2019.07.04} – 16,294 / NEW
07./05. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo) {2018.12.07} – 8,959 / 3,217,130
08./10. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo) {2017.04.28} – 6,876 / 2,212,795
09./07. [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft Game Studios) {2018.06.21} – 6,872 / 876,808
10./00. [PS4] PixArk (Spike Chunsoft) {2019.07.04} – 6,416 / NEW
11./00. [NSW] PixArk (Spike Chunsoft) {2019.07.04} – 6,152 / NEW
12./06. [NSW] Doraemon: Story of Seasons (Bandai Namco Games) {2019.06.13} – 5,417 / 76,833
13./13. [NSW] Splatoon 2 (Nintendo) {2017.07.21} – 5,371 / 3,045,025
14./11. [NSW] New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe (Nintendo) {2019.01.11} – 4,118 / 674,833
15./17. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo) {2017.03.03} – 4,059 / 1,046,855
16./04. [PS4] Samurai Shodown (SNK) {2019.06.27} – 3,500 / 18,028
17./00. [PS4] Final Fantasy XIV: Complete Pack (Square Enix) {2019.07.02} – 3,488 / NEW
18./09. [PS4] Yakuza 5 (Sega) {2019.06.20} – 3,350 / 32,729
19./15. [NSW] Super Mario Party (Nintendo) {2018.10.05} – 3,306 / 1,061,533
20./22. [PS4] Monster Hunter: World [Best Price] (Capcom) {2018.08.02} – 2,608 / 56,843
21./14. [NSW] Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! (Pokemon Co.) {2018.11.16} – 2,150 / 859,956
22./16. [NSW] Pokemon: Let’s Go, Eevee! (Pokemon Co.) {2018.11.16} – 2,050 / 697,626
23./27. [NSW] Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum ‘n’ Fun! (Bandai Namco Games) {2018.07.19} – 1,800 / 363,965
24./25. [PS4] Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition (Sony Interactive Entertainment) {2019.06.27} – 1,777 / 3,920
25./21. [NSW] Puyo Puyo Champions (Sega) {2019.06.27} – 1,628 / 4,741
26./23. [NSW] Yoshi’s Crafted World (Nintendo) {2019.03.29} – 1,606 / 165,995
27./35. [NSW] Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster (Square Enix) {2019.04.11} – 1,517 / 43,778
28./08. [PS4] Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Syukufuku wo! Kibou no Meikyuu to
Tsudoishi Boukenshatachi (Entergram) {2019.06.27} – 1,294 / 8,834
29./29. [NSW] Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo) {2017.10.27} – 1,189 / 1,840,969
30./00. [NSW] Clannad (Prototype) {2019.07.04} – 1,162 / NEW
31./36. [PS4] Marvel’s Spider-Man [Value Selection] (Sony Interactive Entertainment) {2019.03.20} – 1,080 / 12,481
32./30. [NSW] Kirby Star Allies (Nintendo) {2018.03.16} – 1,065 / 763,853
33./12. [PS4] Jinrui no Minasama he (Nippon Ichi Software) {2019.06.27} – 1,046 / 6,655
34./32. [PS4] Days Gone (Sony Interactive Entertainment) {2019.04.26} – 1,038 / 187,719
35./28. [NSW] Super Dragon Ball Heroes: World Mission (Bandai Namco Games) {2019.04.04} – 972 / 133,228
36./18. [NSW] Jinrui no Minasama he (Nippon Ichi Software) {2019.06.27} – 846 / 4,528
37./38. [PS4] NieR: Automata – Game of the YoRHa Edition (Square Enix) {2019.02.21} – 819 / 43,055
38./37. [PS4] Grand Theft Auto V (Take-Two Interactive Japan) {2018.12.06} – 813 / 31,513
39./52. [NSW] Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate [Best Price] (Capcom) {2018.11.15} – 813 / 26,703
40./47. [PS4] Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege – Deluxe Edition (Ubisoft) {2019.04.11} – 763 / 16,616
41./41. [NSW] Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age (Square Enix) {2019.04.25} – 756 / 37,789
42./42. [PS4] Minecraft: Playstation 4 Edition (Sony Interactive Entertainment) {2015.12.03} – 740 / 381,351
43./33. [PS4] Battlefield V (Electronic Arts) {2018.11.20} – 714 / 187,659
44./57. [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Welcome amiibo (Nintendo) {2016.11.23} – 706 / 426,868
45./39. [PS4] Dead by Daylight (3goo) {2018.11.29} – 700 / 37,752
46./56. [NSW] Fortnite (Warner Entertainment Japan) {2018.12.13} – 694 / 37,077
47./24. [PS4] Kingdom Hearts III (Square Enix) {2019.01.25} – 692 / 755,559
48./50. [NSW] Fit Boxing (Imagineer) {2018.12.20} – 641 / 41,910
49./49. [PS4] Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (From Software) {2019.03.22} – 606 / 280,948
50./58. [PS4] Ys: Memories of Celceta – Kai (Nihon Falcom) {2019.05.16} – 600 / 25,912
Source: Dengeki
Data compiled by: ZSaberLink (ResetERA)
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