Japan: more sales data for Week 32 2018, Summer season, more (Media Create, Dengeki)

More sales data from Japan, with the latest reports from Media Create, Dengeki, and Famitsu!

Media Create (Week 32, pre-Obon)

Today, Media Create shared their weekly report on video games sales in Japan. It reveals that Software sales topped 460 000 units during Week 32, which is 92.64% of Week 31 sales. That drop is mostly due to the new releases, which all sold rather small amounts: total sales of new games only account for 53.85% of their sales during Week 31.On the other hand, sales of previously released games increased to 118.54% of Week 31 sales, but unfortunately, it wasn’t enough to compensate for the drop in sales of new games.

WarioWare Gold had a rather good second week: it sold 60% of Week 31 sales during Week 32, which is a rather soft drop. This shows that there’s noticeable interest in the game.

Media Create points out that Obon has had a positive impact on games on Nintendo platforms, giving Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker as example. The Nintendo Switch version sold 11 000 units this week, which is 137.95% of Week 31 sales!

Unfortunately, since the Obon holidays are spread out this year, sales of previously released games only account for 60% of sales during the same period last year (August 7th to August 13th). Total Software sales (including new releases) are also down: they only account for 70.05% of sales during the same period. So far, the Obon period has been rather week this year.

Source: Media Create

Dengeki (Week 32, Summer Season)

Dengeki report that Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum ‘n’ Fun was the best-selling game during Week 32 in Japan. It sold about 23 000 units during its 4th week on the market, bringing the total since launch to over 150 000 units. Fun fact: the first three games all sold about 23 000 units each, and the end results were actually pretty close. This Top 3 could have ended up looking different if even one game had sold a few hundreds copy more than it did! As for Okami HD, it sold about 12 000 units at launch.

This week, the market is both down and up at the same time:

• Hardware sales are up by 5.2%, to 88 000 units
• Software sales are down by 7.2%, to 453 000 units.

Overall, both Hardware and Software were on the low side, especially Software as no game managed to sell even 30 000 units… not the best of outlooks for the Summer holidays! As pointed out several times before, this rather week performance is due to the lack of big hit this year. The previous years all had one or several games that sold a lot in July and August:

• 2014: Yo-kai Watch 2 (Nintendo 3DS, 2.77 million units)
• 2015: Yo-kai Watch Busters (Nintendo 3DS, 1.2 million units)
• 2016: Yo-kai Watch 3 (Nintendo 3DS, 1.09 million units)
• 2017: Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age (Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation 4, 3.02 million units), and Splatoon 2 (Nintendo Switch, 1.09 million units).

2014 to 2017 all had million-sellers to pull the market up, but there’s no such game this year. As of this week, the best-selling game is Octopath Traveler, which has sold over 170 000 units: it’s not even reached 200 000 units yet, so forget about million-sellers… (It definitely would have sold a lot more with ample stock, but that’s another story!).

The worst thing is, the few weeks left for the Summer season will not be any better: there isn’t any game that could sell over 200 000 units on the horizon, so they expect the market to enter a rough period starting the week after the next one (Week 34).

For the Summer season as a whole, the key point will be how much the evergreen titles on Nintendo Switch will be able to pull the market on their own.

Next, here’s Software sales for each platform:

Platforms	This week	This week (%)	Fiscal Year	Fiscal Year (%)
PS4	131,406	29.0％	2,310,704	33.5％
Vita	22,766	5.0％	477,162	6.9％
Switch	219,987	48.6％	3,222,999	46.8％
3DS	77,036	17.0％	841,298	12.2％
ETC	1,703	0.4％	38,408	0.6％
Total	452,898	100.0％	6,890,571	100.0％

And here’s Hardware sales:

Platforms	This week	This week (%)	Fiscal Year	Fiscal Year (%)
PS4	20,891	23.6％	360,241	25.8％
Vita	2,675	3.0％	51,577	3.7％
Switch	53,716	60.7％	818,204	58.6％
3DS	11,115	12.6％	163,222	11.7％
ETC	93	0.1％	3,146	0.2％
Total	88,490	100.0％	1,396,390	100.0％

Finally, here’s the Top 50 Software:

01./04. [NSW] Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum ‘n’ Fun! (Bandai Namco Games) {2018.07.19} – 23,474 / 150,850
02./03. [3DS] WarioWare Gold (Nintendo) {2018.08.02} – 23,442 / 58,131
03./00. [PS4] Yakuza 3 (Sega) {2018.08.09} – 23,123 / NEW
04./05. [NSW] Splatoon 2 (Nintendo) {2017.07.21} – 19,367 / 2,567,683
05./00. [PS4] Fire Pro Wrestling: World (Spike Chunsoft) {2018.08.09} – 19,206 / NEW
06./07. [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft Game Studios) {2018.06.21} – 18,639 / 205,379
07./02. [NSW] Pro Baseball Famista Evolution (Bandai Namco Games) {2018.08.02} – 17,141 / 62,274
08./08. [NSW] Mario Tennis Aces (Nintendo) {2018.06.22} – 16,278 / 300,305
09./10. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo) {2017.04.28} – 15,194 / 1,687,776
10./00. [PS4] Bullet Girls: Phantasia (D3Publisher) {2018.08.09} – 14,113 / NEW
11./00. [NSW] Okami HD (Capcom) {2018.08.09} – 12,145 / NEW
12./12. [NSW] Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (Nintendo) {2018.07.13} – 11,517 / 99,962
13./06. [NSW] Octopath Traveler (Square Enix) {2018.07.13} – 11,318 / 171,212
14./00. [NSW] Layton’s Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaire’s Conspiracy DX (Level 5) {2018.08.09} – 11,244 / NEW
15./01. [3DS] Etrian Odyssey X (Atlus) {2018.08.02} – 9,093 / 79,046
16./15. [NSW] Kirby Star Allies (Nintendo) {2018.03.16} – 6,900 / 605,849
17./00. [PSV] Bullet Girls: Phantasia (D3Publisher) {2018.08.09} – 6,706 / NEW
18./16. [3DS] Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (Nintendo) {2018.07.13} – 5,594 / 44,329
19./17. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo) {2017.03.03} – 5,572 / 815,662
20./00. [PSV] CharadeManiacs (Idea Factory) {2018.08.09} – 5,414 / NEW
21./19. [NSW] Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo) {2017.10.27} – 5,167 / 1,695,307
22./09. [PS4] SaGa: Scarlet Grace (Square Enix) {2018.08.02} – 4,407 / 18,747
23./13. [PS4] Friday the 13th: The Game (Natsume Atari) {2018.08.02} – 3,429 / 12,294
24./18. [PS4] Mega Man X Legacy Collection 1+2 (Capcom) {2018.07.26} – 3,411 / 38,510
25./26. [NSW] Nintendo Labo Toy-Con 01: Variety Kit (Nintendo) {2018.04.20} – 3,206 / 201,759
26./00. [PS4] Jake Hunter Detective Story: Prism of Eyes (Arc System Works) {2018.08.09} – 3,144 / NEW
27./24. [3DS] Pokemon Ultra Sun (Pokemon Co.) {2017.11.17} – 3,133 / 846,116
28./25. [NSW] Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (Nintendo) {2018.05.03} – 3,039 / 209,926
29./23. [3DS] Pokemon Ultra Moon (Pokemon Co.) {2017.11.17} – 2,856 / 820,450
30./00. [NSW] Jake Hunter Detective Story: Prism of Eyes (Arc System Works) {2018.08.09} – 2,733 / NEW
31./22. [PS4] The Last of Us Remastered [PlayStation Hits] (Sony Interactive Entertainment) {2018.07.26} – 2,725 / 10,831
32./14. [NSW] SaGa: Scarlet Grace (Square Enix) {2018.08.02} – 2,369 / 10,784
33./00. [PS4] Darkest Dungeon (Kadokawa Games) {2018.08.09} – 2,353 / NEW
34./27. [PS4] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2018 (Konami) {2018.04.26} – 2,267 / 227,908
35./21. [PS4] Kingdom Hearts HD I.5 + II.5 ReMIX (Square Enix) {2017.03.09} – 2,256 / 192,428
36./31. [NSW] Pokken Tournament DX (Pokemon Co.) {2017.09.22} – 2,244 / 283,950
37./11. [PS4] Border Break: Starter Pack (Sega) {2018.08.02} – 1,913 / 12,066
38./39. [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Welcome amiibo (Nintendo) {2016.11.23} – 1,778 / 370,883
39./34. [NSW] ARMS (Nintendo) {2017.06.16} – 1,756 / 445,703
40./40. [NSW] 1-2-Switch (Nintendo) {2017.03.03} – 1,550 / 474,813
41./33. [NSW] FIFA 18 (Electronic Arts) {2017.09.29} – 1,522 / 147,239
42./48. [PS4] Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege – Advanced Edition (Ubisoft) {2018.03.01} – 1,447 / 70,432
43./35. [3DS] Mario Party: The Top 100 (Nintendo) {2017.12.28} – 1,444 / 216,246
44./44. [PSV] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2018 (Konami) {2018.04.26} – 1,433 / 109,237
45./20. [NSW] Mega Man X Legacy Collection 1+2 (Capcom) {2018.07.26} – 1,311 / 22,691
46./32. [NSW] Dragon Quest X: All in One Package (Square Enix) {2018.07.26} – 1,300 / 6,107
47./42. [PS4] Monster Hunter: World (Capcom) {2018.01.26} – 1,275 / 2,003,566
48./46. [NSW] LEGO The Incredibles (Warner Entertainment Japan) {2018.08.02} – 1,217 / 2,461
49./37. [PS4] Detroit: Become Human (Sony Interactive Entertainment) {2018.05.25} – 1,206 / 82,454
50./50. [PS4] Minecraft: Playstation 4 Edition (Sony Interactive Entertainment) {2015.12.03} – 1,194 / 329,845

Source: Dengeki
Top 50 data compiled by ZSaberLink (ResetEra)

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