Japan: more sales data for Week 40 2019, Fiscal Year (Media Create, Dengeki)
Media Create – Day 1 Sell-through (Week 41)
This week, we have the Day 1 sell-through data for a couple of Nintendo Switch games (games and platforms listed from best-selling to worst-selling):
- [NSW] Disney Tsum Tsum Festival (Bandai Namco Games) (¥6.100) – 30%. A decent but for this game, but it’s during the holiday season that this game will truly shine. The bundle with a Nintendo Switch console is seemingly selling better than expected;
- [NSW] [PS4] The Alliance Alive HD Remastered (FuRyu) (¥6.280) – 20%. Low debut, but that was to be expected for a pricey remaster that didn’t sell all that much on Nintendo 3DS to begin with…
Source: Media Create
Via: hiska-kun (ResetERA)
Dengeki (Week 40)
Dengeki report that Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age Definitive Edition sold 63 000 additional units this week, bringing total sales to 374 000 units.
Here’s how much the other entries in the Top 50 fared this week:
- Super Robot Taisen V (Bandai-Namco): 4 223 units sold. Poor performance, but that’s expensive late ports for you…
- AMNESIA LATER×CROWD for Nintendo Switch (Idea Factory): 2 550 units sold. The usual poor performance for Otome ports on Nintendo Switch.
This time, we get some more data about the Japanese market during the first half of the current Fiscal Year (April 1st to September 29th). As mentioned last week, total sales topped 117.8 billion Yen, which is a 0.2% drop compared to the same period the previous year. Unfortunately, only the Nintendo Switch saw an increase in sales (both Hardware and Software), and all the platforms saw a sharp drop.
Total Hardware sales increased by 8.7% to 61.6 billion Yen, exclusively thanks to the Nintendo Switch:
- Nintendo Switch (including Nintendo Switch Lite): 28.4 billion Yen (+28.4%)
- PlayStation 4: 16.7 billion Yen (-6.3%)
- Others: 1.4 billion Yen (-72.1%)
Dengeki point out that the Nintendo Switch Lite sold 270 000 units during the first two weeks, generating 5.3 billion Yen in revenue. If we substract that from Total Hardware sales, we end up with 56.3 billion Yen (-0.6% Year on Year). In other words: it’s thanks to the Nintendo Switch Lite specifically that Hardware sales are up during the first half of the current Fiscal Year.
Software-wise, sales were down by 8.5%, to 56.2 billion Yen. Once again, only the Nintendo Switch showed growth:
- Nintendo Switch: 34 billion Yen (+33.9%)
- PlayStation 4: 19.4 billion Yen (-24.1%)
- Others: 2.8 billion Yen (-73.3%)
Here’s the Software sales for each platform:
| Platforms | This week | This week (%) | Fiscal Year | Fiscal Year (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PS4 | 143,287 | 39.4％ | 3,011,453 | 32.7％ |
| Vita | 2,027 | 0.6％ | 169,509 | 1.8％ |
| Switch | 211,046 | 58.0％ | 5,710,858 | 61.9％ |
| 3DS | 6,979 | 1.9％ | 309,457 | 3.4％ |
| ETC | 300 | 0.1％ | 21,627 | 0.2％ |
| Total | 363,639 | 100.0％ | 9,222,904 | 100.0％ |
And here’s Hardware sales:
| Platforms | This week | This week (%) | Fiscal Year | Fiscal Year (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PS4 | 12,539 | 11.3％ | 474,030 | 21.6％ |
| Vita | 49 | 0.0％ | 5,712 | 0.3％ |
| Switch | 54,723 | 49.1％ | 1,328,434 | 60.5％ |
| Switch Lite | 42,698 | 38.3％ | 307,931 | 14.0％ |
| 3DS | 1,274 | 1.1％ | 74,883 | 3.4％ |
| ETC | 143 | 0.1％ | 3,843 | 0.2％ |
| Total | 111,426 | 100.0％ | 2,194,833 | 100.0％ |
Finally, here’s the Top 50 Software:
01./01. [NSW] Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age S – Definitive Edition (Square Enix) {2019.09.27} – 62,750 / 374,134
02./00. [PS4] Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Breakpoint (Ubisoft) {2019.10.04} – 48,793 / NEW
03./03. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening (Nintendo) {2019.09.20} – 17,450 / 199,957
04./02. [PS4] Code Vein (Bandai Namco Games) {2019.09.26} – 15,083 / 76,489
05./08. [PS4] Monster Hunter: World – Iceborne Master Edition (Capcom) {2019.09.06} – 13,333 / 399,392
06./10. [NSW] Super Mario Maker 2 (Nintendo) {2019.06.28} – 10,561 / 613,522
07./11. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo) {2018.12.07} – 10,067 / 3,361,794
08./12. [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft Game Studios) {2018.06.21} – 9,167 / 997,376
09./06. [PS4] FIFA 20 (Electronic Arts) {2019.09.27} – 9,069 / 44,589
10./13. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo) {2017.04.28} – 8,583 / 2,323,976
11./04. [PS4] Ys IX: Monstrum Nox (Nihon Falcom) {2019.09.26} – 7,519 / 57,106
12./07. [PS4] World War Z (H2 Interactive) {2019.09.26} – 7,345 / 36,105
13./15. [NSW] Fishing Spirits: Nintendo Switch Version (Bandai Namco Games) {2019.07.25} – 6,533 / 192,188
14./05. [PS4] Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout (Koei Tecmo) {2019.09.26} – 4,833 / 46,133
15./16. [PS4] eFootball Winning Eleven 2020 (Konami) {2019.09.12} – 4,688 / 92,982
16./20. [NSW] Super Mario Party (Nintendo) {2018.10.05} – 4,328 / 1,132,384
17./00. [NSW] Super Robot Wars V (Bandai Namco Games) {2019.10.03} – 4,223 / NEW
18./14. [NSW] FIFA 20 Legacy Edition (Electronic Arts) {2019.09.27} – 4,133 / 14,540
19./22. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo) {2017.03.03} – 4,013 / 1,095,591
20./21. [NSW] Splatoon 2 (Nintendo) {2017.07.21} – 3,571 / 3,102,808
21./18. [PS4] Borderlands 3 (Take-Two Interactive Japan) {2019.09.13} – 3,493 / 60,760
22./26. [NSW] New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe (Nintendo) {2019.01.11} – 3,153 / 726,640
23./23. [NSW] Daemon X Machina (Marvelous) {2019.09.13} – 3,111 / 53,583
24./09. [NSW] Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout (Koei Tecmo) {2019.09.26} – 2,633 / 27,786
25./30. [NSW] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball (Konami) {2019.06.27} – 2,617 / 174,142
26./17. [NSW] Dead by Daylight (3goo) {2019.09.26} – 2,593 / 10,813
27./25. [NSW] Fire Emblem: Three Houses (Nintendo) {2019.07.26} – 2,550 / 275,669
28./00. [NSW] Amnesia Later x Crowd for Nintendo Switch (Idea Factory) {2019.10.03} – 2,550 / NEW
29./19. [NSW] Ninja Box (Bandai Namco Games) {2019.09.26} – 2,312 / 9,252
30./34. [NSW] Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum ‘n’ Fun! (Bandai Namco Games) {2018.07.19} – 2,000 / 389,631
31./27. [PS4] Tropico 6 (Square Enix) {2019.09.27} – 1,772 / 6,512
32./31. [NSW] Pokemon: Let’s Go, Eevee! (Pokemon Co.) {2018.11.16} – 1,728 / 724,493
33./33. [NSW] Olympic Games Tokyo 2020: The Official Video Game (Sega) {2019.07.24} – 1,717 / 53,578
34./32. [NSW] Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! (Pokemon Co.) {2018.11.16} – 1,689 / 889,075
35./28. [NSW] Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch (Level 5) {2019.09.20} – 1,535 / 15,509
36./36. [NSW] Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo) {2017.10.27} – 1,467 / 1,861,051
37./37. [NSW] Yo-kai Watch 4: We Are Looking Up at the Same Sky (Level 5) {2019.06.20} – 1,422 / 274,137
38./40. [NSW] Kirby Star Allies (Nintendo) {2018.03.16} – 1,222 / 780,994
39./00. [PS4] Gran Turismo Sport [PlayStation Hits] (Sony Interactive Entertainment) {2019.10.04} – 1,054 / NEW
40./41. [NSW] Astral Chain (Nintendo) {2019.08.30} – 1,050 / 55,118
41./47. [NSW] Doraemon: Story of Seasons (Bandai Namco Games) {2019.06.13} – 944 / 101,353
42./53. [NSW] Fortnite (Warner Entertainment Japan) {2018.12.13} – 882 / 49,449
43./45. [NSW] Yoshi’s Crafted World (Nintendo) {2019.03.29} – 876 / 182,625
44./43. [PS4] Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Remastered (Level 5) {2019.09.20} – 835 / 7,255
45./50. [NSW] Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate [Best Price] (Capcom) {2018.11.15} – 800 / 37,425
46./46. [NSW] Sumikko Gurashi: Gakkou Seikatsu Hajimerun Desu (Nippon Columbia) {2019.07.18} – 789 / 22,630
47./39. [NSW] Card Fight!! Vanguard EX (FuRyu) {2019.09.19} – 756 / 12,901
48./35. [NSW] Disaster Report 4 Plus: Summer Memories (Granzella) {2019.09.26} – 722 / 3,062
49./44. [NSW] Tetris 99 (Nintendo) {2019.08.09} – 722 / 14,671
50./59. [PS4] Grand Theft Auto V (Take-Two Interactive Japan) {2018.12.06} – 700 / 45,559
Source: Dengeki
Data compiled by: ZSaberLink (ResetERA)
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