Japan: more sales data for Week 37 2018, Nintendo Labo (Media Create, Dengeki)

Media Create (Week 37)

Today, Media Create shared their weekly report on video games sales in Japan. It reveals that Software sales topped 366 000 units during Week 37, which is 87.86% of Week 36 sales. This week, sales concentrated on the usual evergreen titles but also games released the previous week. As a result, sales of previously released games increased: they account for 124.76% of Week 36 sales.

As for Nintendo Labo Toy-Con 03: Vehicle Kit, it sold about 12 000 units during launch week. In comparison, Toy-Con 01: Variety Kit and Toy-Con 02: Robot Kit sold about 90 000 units and 29 000 units at launch respectively. In other words, sales of the new set is quite disappointing.

For Media Create, Nintendo has no other choice but to continue airing ads for the game on TV and support retailers if it wants Nintendo Labo to keep selling through the slow autumns months and during the holiday season.

Media Create – Day 1 Sell-through (Week 38)

This week, we have the Day-1 sell-through for two Nintendo Switch titles:

• [PS4][NSW][PSV] Steins;Gate Elite (MAGES.) – 40%. Respectable debut;
• [PS4][NSW] Atelier Arland Trilogy (Koei-Tecmo) – 40% for the Nintendo Switch version, which sold less than the PlayStation 4 version and had a worse sell-through (70%).

Source: Media Create
Via: Mpl90

Media Create (Week 38)

This week, Dengeki report that Nintendo Labo Toy-Con 03: Drive Kit sold about 11 000 units at launch, and NBA 2K19 on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 (combined) about 8 000 units. No big changes regarding the usual evergreen titles on Nintendo Switch.

Back to Nintendo Labo. Since launch, in April, the Variety Kit has sold 210 000 units, and the Robot Kit has sold 50 000 units. If you add the sales of the Vehicle Kit, then you end up with about 270 000 for the Nintendo Labo “series” in total.

All in all, over 250 000 units sold is definitely not a bad result in the current market: plenty of publishers would be more than happy if their games (and especially a brand new IP) sold that much. But that’s not that good for Nintendo, who was aiming for Nintendo Labo to help them reach a much broader audience; so far, it’s pretty safe to say it’s struggling to play that role.

In the past, Nintendo has been extremely successful in expanding the gaming population, and reaching people who had never used a video game console before, on the Nintendo DS and Wii:

• Nintendo DS: Brain Age series (8.59 million units), Tomodachi Collection (3 650 000 units)
• Wii: Wii Fit series (5.89 million units), Wii Sports series (6.67 million units)

That’s for this reason that they hope that not only existing series, but also brand new IPs like the Nintendo Labo series will be able to further stimulate the Nintendo Switch market.

Next, here’s Software sales for each platform:

Platforms	This week	This week (%)	Fiscal Year	Fiscal Year (%)
PS4	191,738	56.3％	3,136,874	35.7％
Vita	11,625	3.4％	550,446	6.3％
Switch	106,515	31.3％	3,966,224	45.2％
3DS	29,393	8.6％	1,082,278	12.3％
ETC（※2）	1,507	0.4％	47,442	0.5％
Total	340,778	100.0％	8,783,264	100.0％

And here’s Hardware sales:

Platforms	This week	This week (%)	Fiscal Year	Fiscal Year (%)
PS4	20,775	31.2％	473,909	26.4％
Vita	1,848	2.8％	63,830	3.6％
Switch	37,159	55.9％	1,046,792	58.3％
3DS（※1）	6,642	10.0％	206,244	11.5％
ETC（※2）	94	0.1％	3,673	0.2％
Total	66,518	100.0％	1,794,448	100.0％

Finally, here’s the Top 50 Software:

01./01. [PS4] Marvel’s Spider-Man (Sony Interactive Entertainment) {2018.09.07} – 73,533 / 202,352
02./00. [PS4] Shadow of the Tomb Raider (Square Enix) {2018.09.14} – 31,988 / NEW
03./04. [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft Game Studios) {2018.06.21} – 14,128 / 299,620
04./05. [NSW] Splatoon 2 (Nintendo) {2017.07.21} – 11,178 / 2,646,444
05./00. [NSW] Nintendo Labo Toy-Con 03: Drive Kit (Nintendo) {2018.09.14} – 11,137 / NEW
06./02. [PS4] Winning Eleven 2019 (Konami) {2018.08.30} – 10,156 / 106,821
07./08. [PS4] Conan Exiles (Spike Chunsoft) {2018.08.23} – 8,925 / 71,263
08./06. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo) {2017.04.28} – 7,982 / 1,747,304
09./00. [PS4] NBA 2K19 (Take-Two Interactive Japan) {2018.09.11} – 6,006 / NEW
10./09. [NSW] Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum ‘n’ Fun! (Bandai Namco Games) {2018.07.19} – 5,620 / 206,019
12./03. [PS4] Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner Mars (Konami) {2018.09.06} – 5,150 / 22,963
13./00. [PS4] Black Clover: Quartet Knights (Bandai Namco Games) {2018.09.13} – 4,945 / NEW
14./00. [NSW] Undertale (8-4) {2018.09.15} – 4,787 / NEW
15./10. [NSW] Mario Tennis Aces (Nintendo) {2018.06.22} – 4,667 / 344,617
15./15. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo) {2017.03.03} – 3,656 / 839,407
16./16. [NSW] Kirby Star Allies (Nintendo) {2018.03.16} – 3,611 / 632,044
17./11. [3DS] WarioWare Gold (Nintendo) {2018.08.02} – 3,572 / 109,079
18./00. [PSV] NG (Experience) {2018.09.13} – 3,137 / NEW
19./14. [NSW] Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (Nintendo) {2018.07.13} – 3,089 / 131,285
20./12. [NSW] My Hero: One’s Justice (Bandai Namco Games) {2018.08.23} – 2,767 / 43,139
21./20. [NSW] Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo) {2017.10.27} – 2,756 / 1,714,163
22./18. [NSW] Pro Baseball Famista Evolution (Bandai Namco Games) {2018.08.02} – 2,256 / 91,654
23./23. [NSW] Octopath Traveler (Square Enix) {2018.07.13} – 2,094 / 191,229
24./00. [PS4] Hitman: Definitive Edition (Square Enix) {2018.09.13} – 2,011 / NEW
25./13. [PS4] Persona 5 [New Price Edition] (Atlus) {2018.09.06} – 1,969 / 6,089
26./00. [NSW] NBA 2K19 (Take-Two Interactive Japan) {2018.09.11} – 1,909 / NEW
27./31. [3DS] Pokemon Ultra Moon (Pokemon Co.) {2017.11.17} – 1,767 / 833,117
28./26. [3DS] Pokemon Ultra Sun (Pokemon Co.) {2017.11.17} – 1,672 / 859,113
29./24. [3DS] Etrian Odyssey X (Atlus) {2018.08.02} – 1,667 / 93,663
30./21. [PS4] My Hero: One’s Justice (Bandai Namco Games) {2018.08.23} – 1,583 / 25,104
31./28. [3DS] Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (Nintendo) {2018.07.13} – 1,450 / 60,283
32./07. [PS4] SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy (SNK) {2018.09.06} – 1,353 / 9,980
33./32. [PS4] Kingdom Hearts HD I.5 + II.5 ReMIX (Square Enix) {2017.03.09} – 1,311 / 200,615
34./40. [NSW] Pokken Tournament DX (Pokemon Co.) {2017.09.22} – 1,250 / 292,567
35./22. [NSW] Little Dragons Cafe (Marvelous) {2018.08.30} – 1,211 / 14,739
36./34. [PS4] Yakuza 3 (Sega) {2018.08.09} – 1,183 / 38,556
37./33. [NSW] Okami HD (Capcom) {2018.08.09} – 1,183 / 23,588
38./35. [NSW] Layton’s Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaire’s Conspiracy DX (Level 5) {2018.08.09} – 1,178 / 25,989
39./00. [NSW] Code:Realize – Bouquet of Rainbows for Nintendo Switch (Idea Factory) {2018.09.13} – 1,088 / NEW
40./47. [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Welcome amiibo (Nintendo) {2016.11.23} – 1,039 / 378,065
41./37. [NSW] Nintendo Labo Toy-Con 01: Variety Kit (Nintendo) {2018.04.20} – 1,022 / 211,126
42./36. [NSW] Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (Nintendo) {2018.05.03} – 1,000 / 219,015
43./43. [PS4] Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege – Advanced Edition (Ubisoft) {2018.03.01} – 994 / 76,104
44./46. [PS4] Minecraft: Playstation 4 Edition (Sony Interactive Entertainment) {2015.12.03} – 956 / 336,569
45./53. [PS4] Monster Hunter: World [Best Price] (Capcom) {2018.08.02} – 950 / 9,320
46./39. [PS4] The Last of Us Remastered [PlayStation Hits] (Sony Interactive Entertainment) {2018.07.26} – 906 / 18,938
47./25. [PS4] Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker (Bandai Namco Games) {2018.08.30} – 889 / 13,144
48./30. [PSV] Pioneer no Banshou (Idea Factory) {2018.08.30} – 854 / 11,888
49./44. [NSW] ARMS (Nintendo) {2017.06.16} – 817 / 452,586
50./17. [NSW] SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy (SNK) {2018.09.06} – 793 / 4,266

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