Japan: more sales data for Week 38 2019, The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening (Media Create, Dengeki)
Media Create – Day 1 Sell-through (Week 39)
This week, we have the Day 1 sell-through for a couple of Nintendo Switch games (games and platforms are listed from best-selling to worst-selling):
- [PS4] [NSW] Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout (Koei Tecmo) – 60%. A pretty good debut, apparently an all-time record for the series according to Takashi Mochizuki from the Wall Street Journal;
- [NSW] Disaster Report 4 Plus: Summer Memories (Granzella) – 10%. A poor debut in line with many other late ports on Nintendo Switch.
Source: Media Create
Via: hiska-kun (ResetERA)
Dengeki (Week 38)
Dengeki report that The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening sold about 132 000 units at launch, which is about 60% of all units shipped to retailers. This may seem a bit on the low side, but retailers will have no trouble selling the remaining units (especially with the public holiday on Monday).
In comparison, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild sold about 204 000 units at launch (and 1.22 million units LTD). It enjoyed strong sales in the long run, and Dengeki are hoping The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening will do the same.
Other entries this week include Cardfight!! Vanguard EX on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 with 13 000 units sold (10 000 units on Nintendo Switch alone), and Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch on the same platforms with 15 000 units sold (9 739 units on Nintendo Switch alone).
Here’s how the other entries in the Top 50 fared:
- Jakou no Lyla ~Trap of Musk~ (Idea Factory): 4 185 units. A surprisingly decent performance for an Otome game on Nintendo Switch;
- AI: The Somnium Files (Spike-Chunsoft): 1 767 units on Nintendo Switch, and 2 267 units on PlayStation 4. An unexpected poor performance for a game pretty much exclusively aimed at western players.
Dengeki report that the Nintendo Switch Lite sold about 170 000 units at launch. Combined with the OG model (61 000 units), the Nintendo Switch sold about 231 000 units during Week 38, accounting for 73.6% of sales during that week. They also point out that it’s the first time since Week 1 that sales are above the 200 000 units/week threshold.
So far this Fiscal Year, the ratio of home consoles vs portable consoles is 86.4% / 13.6%. The market is quite clearly centered around home consoles, and more specifically the Nintendo Switch and the PlayStation 4. It will be interesting to see how this ratio will evolve with the handheld-only Nintendo Switch Lite on the market.
Week 38 was pretty strong for the video games market:
- Hardware: 261 000 units (+198.9%), best week so far this Fiscal Year
- Software: 446 000 units (+16.9%)
Here’s the Software sales for each platform:
| Platforms | This week | This week | Fiscal Year | Fiscal Year (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PS4 | 115,742 | 26.0％ | 2,560,580 | 32.2％ |
| Vita | 2,739 | 0.6％ | 163,890 | 2.1％ |
| Switch | 319,067 | 71.6％ | 4,903,179 | 61.7％ |
| 3DS | 7,527 | 1.7％ | 294,213 | 3.7％ |
| ETC | 565 | 0.1％ | 20,674 | 0.3％ |
| Total | 445,640 | 100.0％ | 7,942,536 | 100.0％ |
And here’s Hardware sales:
| Platforms | This week | This week (%) | Fiscal Year | Fiscal Year (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PS4 | 27,788 | 10.6％ | 435,093 | 23.6％ |
| Vita | 52 | 0.0％ | 5,607 | 0.3％ |
| Switch | 60,789 | 23.3％ | 1,161,311 | 62.9％ |
| Switch Lite | 170,349 | 65.2％ | 170,349 | 9.2％ |
| 3DS | 1,689 | 0.6％ | 71,324 | 3.9％ |
| ETC | 427 | 0.2％ | 3,415 | 0.2％ |
| Total | 261,094 | 100.0％ | 1,847,099 | 100.0％ |
Finally, here’s the Top 50 Software:
01./00. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening (Nintendo) {2019.09.20} – 132,160 / NEW
02./01. [PS4] Monster Hunter: World – Iceborne Master Edition (Capcom) {2019.09.06} – 40,955 / 360,115
03./02. [PS4] eFootball Winning Eleven 2020 (Konami) {2019.09.12} – 18,006 / 79,475
04./05. [NSW] Super Mario Maker 2 (Nintendo) {2019.06.28} – 14,983 / 586,967
05./07. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo) {2018.12.07} – 12,983 / 3,337,538
06./08. [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft Game Studios) {2018.06.21} – 11,367 / 975,442
07./04. [NSW] Daemon X Machina (Marvelous) {2019.09.13} – 10,911 / 45,005
08./06. [NSW] Fishing Spirits: Nintendo Switch Version (Bandai Namco Games) {2019.07.25} – 10,672 / 175,377
09./03. [PS4] Borderlands 3 (Take-Two Interactive Japan) {2019.09.13} – 10,178 / 49,987
10./09. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo) {2017.04.28} – 10,176 / 2,303,549
11./00. [NSW] Card Fight!! Vanguard EX (FuRyu) {2019.09.19} – 10,067 / NEW
12./00. [NSW] Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch (Level 5) {2019.09.20} – 9,739 / NEW
13./10. [NSW] Fire Emblem: Three Houses (Nintendo) {2019.07.26} – 5,744 / 267,852
14./11. [NSW] Super Mario Party (Nintendo) {2018.10.05} – 5,467 / 1,121,695
15./16. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo) {2017.03.03} – 5,300 / 1,085,939
16./13. [NSW] Splatoon 2 (Nintendo) {2017.07.21} – 5,122 / 3,093,504
17./00. [PS4] Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Remastered (Level 5) {2019.09.20} – 4,820 / NEW
18./00. [PS4] F1 2019 (Game Source Entertainment) {2019.09.19} – 4,600 / NEW
19./15. [NSW] New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe (Nintendo) {2019.01.11} – 4,589 / 718,504
20./00. [NSW] Jakou no Lyla: Trap of Musk (Idea Factory) {2019.09.19} – 4,185 / NEW
21./17. [NSW] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball (Konami) {2019.06.27} – 3,783 / 167,775
22./22. [NSW] Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! (Pokemon Co.) {2018.11.16} – 2,922 / 884,458
23./00. [PS4] Card Fight!! Vanguard EX (FuRyu) {2019.09.19} – 2,733 / NEW
24./12. [NSW] Astral Chain (Nintendo) {2019.08.30} – 2,678 / 52,285
25./19. [NSW] Olympic Games Tokyo 2020: The Official Video Game (Sega) {2019.07.24} – 2,544 / 49,022
26./20. [NSW] Yo-kai Watch 4: We Are Looking Up at the Same Sky (Level 5) {2019.06.20} – 2,444 / 270,476
27./00. [PS4] AI: The Somnium Files (Spike Chunsoft) {2019.09.19} – 2,267 / NEW
28./28. [NSW] Pokemon: Let’s Go, Eevee! (Pokemon Co.) {2018.11.16} – 2,250 / 719,693
29./30. [PS4] Kingdom Hearts III (Square Enix) {2019.01.25} – 2,247 / 765,604
30./24. [NSW] Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum ‘n’ Fun! (Bandai Namco Games) {2018.07.19} – 2,100 / 385,109
31./27. [NSW] Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo) {2017.10.27} – 2,000 / 1,857,284
32./31. [NSW] Doraemon: Story of Seasons (Bandai Namco Games) {2019.06.13} – 1,767 / 99,120
33./00. [NSW] AI: The Somnium Files (Spike Chunsoft) {2019.09.19} – 1,767 / NEW
34./29. [NSW] Kirby Star Allies (Nintendo) {2018.03.16} – 1,672 / 777,922
35./14. [PS4] NBA 2K20 (2K) {2019.09.06} – 1,525 / 14,410
36./32. [NSW] Tetris 99 (Nintendo) {2019.08.09} – 1,383 / 12,477
37./43. [NSW] Sumikko Gurashi: Gakkou Seikatsu Hajimerun Desu (Nippon Columbia) {2019.07.18} – 1,311 / 20,458
38./34. [NSW] Yoshi’s Crafted World (Nintendo) {2019.03.29} – 1,283 / 180,332
39./35. [NSW] Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate [Best Price] (Capcom) {2018.11.15} – 1,187 / 35,494
40./23. [PS4] Monster Hunter: World [Best Price] (Capcom) {2019.07.18} – 1,172 / 36,905
41./18. [PS4] Azur Lane: Crosswave (Compile Heart) {2019.08.29} – 1,047 / 41,879
42./42. [NSW] Puyo Puyo Tetris [Special Price] (Sega) {2019.08.08} – 1,022 / 8,579
43./46. [NSW] Fortnite (Warner Entertainment Japan) {2018.12.13} – 983 / 47,528
44./26. [PS4] Professional Baseball Spirits 2019 (Konami) {2019.07.18} – 972 / 243,144
45./40. [NSW] Super Bomberman R [Smile Price Collection] (Konami) {2018.11.29} – 965 / 38,282
46./38. [NSW] Rune Factory 4 Special (Marvelous) {2019.07.25} – 961 / 55,905
47./36. [PS4] Grand Theft Auto V (Take-Two Interactive Japan) {2018.12.06} – 947 / 44,003
48./25. [NSW] NBA 2K20 (2K) {2019.09.06} – 929 / 5,249
49./50. [NSW] Puyo Puyo Champions (Sega) {2019.06.27} – 778 / 14,653
50./45. [NSW] Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet – Complete Edition for
Nintendo Switch (Bandai Namco Games) {2019.08.08} – 772 / 23,250
Source: Dengeki
Data compiled by: ZSaberLink (ResetERA)
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