Japan: more sales data for Week 41 2019, Disney Tsum Tsum Festival, Fiscal Year (Media Create, Dengeki)
Media Create – Day 1 Sell-through (Week 42)
This week, we have the Day 1 sell-through data for a couple of Nintendo Switch games (games listed from best-selling to worst-selling):
- [NSW] Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town (Marvelous) – 60%. A pretty good performance. Hopefully, Marvelous have prepared enough copies for an additional shipment, or some stores might run out of copies during the weekend;
- [NSW] The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Complete Edition <RPG> (Spike Chunsoft) (¥6.480) – 50%. A fairly solid start for a late port;
- [NSW] Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth – Hacker’s Memory <RPG> (Bandai Namco Games) (¥5.980) – 30%. Fairly average debut.
Source: Media Create
Via: hiska-kun (ResetERA)
Dengeki (Week 41)
Dengeki report that Disney Tsum Tsum Festival sold about 31 000 units at launch, with a satisfactory sell-through for a family-friendly game expected to sell in the long-run: 40%. As for Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age Definitive Edition, it sold 25 000 additional units, bringing total sales to 399 000 units. Finally, the Nintendo Switch port of Yo-kai Watch 1 didn’t do too hot, with only 10 000 units sold at launch.
Next, here’s how the other entries fared this week:
- Genso Kissa Enchanté (Idea Factory): 2 963 units sold. In line with most Otome releases on Nintendo Switch;
- The Alliance Alive HD Remastered (FuRyu): about 4 500 units sold, with 2 632 units sold on Nintendo Switch. Rather average debut for a HD Remaster of game that already didn’t set the charts on fire when it was released on Nintendo 3DS;
- Arc of Alchemist for Nintendo Switch (Idea Factory): 753 units sold. Really poor performance, even for a late port of a niche game.
This week, Dengeki share some more data for the first half of the current Fiscal Year (April 1st to September 29th). To the surprise of no one, Nintendo was the most successful publisher thanks to various popular games:
- Super Mario Maker 2 (600 000 units sold)
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (300 000 units sold)
- Fire Emblem: Three Houses (270 000 units sold)
Not only Nintendo is once again #1, its market share also rose from 30.3% to 32.3%.
Bandai-Namco is #2, thanks to popular port of Tsuri Spirits Nintendo Switch Version (190 000 units sold), and various games based on popular IPs.
As for the other publishers:
- 3) Square-Enix (thanks to Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age Definitive Edition), up Year on Year
- 4) Konami (thanks to their sports game), up Year on Year
- 5) Capcom (thanks to Monster Hunter World: Iceborn, which sold 350 000 units and was the second best-selling game during the period)
Both Sony and Microsoft dropped from the Top 5 due to a lack of major titles.
As usual, it’s pretty much the same companies dominating sales in Japan, though the major releases during the second half of the Fiscal Year should shake things up a bit. For example, The Pokémon Company is pretty much guaranteed to join the Top 5 thanks to Pokémon Sword and Shield.
Here’s the Software sales for each platform:
Platforms | This week | This week (%) | Fiscal Year | Fiscal Year (%) |
---|---|---|---|---|
PS4 | 76,182 | 29.9% | 3,087,635 | 32.6% |
Vita | 1,583 | 0.6% | 171,092 | 1.8% |
Switch | 171,137 | 67.2% | 5,881,995 | 62.1% |
3DS | 5,292 | 2.1% | 314,749 | 3.3% |
ETC | 478 | 0.2% | 22,105 | 0.2% |
Total | 254,672 | 100.0% | 9,477,576 | 100.0% |
And here’s Hardware sales:
Platforms | This week | This week (%) | Fiscal Year | Fiscal Year (%) |
---|---|---|---|---|
PS4 | 8,376 | 12.7% | 482,406 | 21.3% |
Vita | 21 | 0.0% | 5,733 | 0.3% |
Switch | 37,211 | 56.4% | 1,365,645 | 60.4% |
Switch Lite | 19,160 | 29.1% | 327,091 | 14.5% |
3DS | 1,072 | 1.6% | 75,955 | 3.4% |
ETC | 87 | 0.1% | 3,930 | 0.2% |
Total | 65,927 | 100.0% | 2,260,760 | 100.0% |
Finally, here’s the Top 50 Software:
01./00. [NSW] Disney Tsum Tsum Festival (Bandai Namco Games) {2019.10.10} – 31,139 / NEW
02./01. [NSW] Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age S – Definitive Edition (Square Enix) {2019.09.27} – 25,047 / 399,181
03./02. [PS4] Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Breakpoint (Ubisoft) {2019.10.04} – 12,373 / 61,166
04./00. [NSW] Yo-kai Watch 1 for Nintendo Switch (Level 5) {2019.10.10} – 9,500 / NEW
05./05. [PS4] Monster Hunter: World – Iceborne Master Edition (Capcom) {2019.09.06} – 8,694 / 408,086
06./03. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening (Nintendo) {2019.09.20} – 8,156 / 208,113
07./08. [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft Game Studios) {2018.06.21} – 7,200 / 1,004,576
08./06. [NSW] Super Mario Maker 2 (Nintendo) {2019.06.28} – 7,153 / 620,675
09./10. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo) {2017.04.28} – 7,053 / 2,331,029
10./04. [PS4] Code Vein (Bandai Namco Games) {2019.09.26} – 7,050 / 83,539
11./07. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo) {2018.12.07} – 6,865 / 3,368,659
12./13. [NSW] Fishing Spirits: Nintendo Switch Version (Bandai Namco Games) {2019.07.25} – 5,094 / 197,282
13./11. [PS4] Ys IX: Monstrum Nox (Nihon Falcom) {2019.09.26} – 4,510 / 61,616
14./14. [PS4] Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout (Koei Tecmo) {2019.09.26} – 4,100 / 50,233
15./12. [PS4] World War Z (H2 Interactive) {2019.09.26} – 3,908 / 40,013
16./16. [NSW] Super Mario Party (Nintendo) {2018.10.05} – 3,865 / 1,136,249
17./09. [PS4] FIFA 20 (Electronic Arts) {2019.09.27} – 3,669 / 48,258
18./15. [PS4] eFootball Winning Eleven 2020 (Konami) {2019.09.12} – 2,994 / 95,976
19./00. [NSW] Gensou Kissa Enchante (Idea Factory) {2019.10.10} – 2,963 / NEW
20./19. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo) {2017.03.03} – 2,856 / 1,098,447
21./20. [NSW] Splatoon 2 (Nintendo) {2017.07.21} – 2,806 / 3,105,614
22./18. [NSW] FIFA 20 Legacy Edition (Electronic Arts) {2019.09.27} – 2,681 / 17,221
23./00. [NSW] The Alliance Alive HD Remastered (FuRyu) {2019.10.10} – 2,632 / NEW
24./22. [NSW] New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe (Nintendo) {2019.01.11} – 2,306 / 728,946
25./21. [PS4] Borderlands 3 (Take-Two Interactive Japan) {2019.09.13} – 1,933 / 62,693
26./00. [PS4] The Alliance Alive HD Remastered (FuRyu) {2019.10.10} – 1,900 / NEW
27./25. [NSW] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball (Konami) {2019.06.27} – 1,850 / 175,992
28./17. [NSW] Super Robot Wars V (Bandai Namco Games) {2019.10.03} – 1,794 / 6,017
29./27. [NSW] Fire Emblem: Three Houses (Nintendo) {2019.07.26} – 1,793 / 277,462
30./30. [NSW] Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum ‘n’ Fun! (Bandai Namco Games) {2018.07.19} – 1,735 / 391,366
31./24. [NSW] Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout (Koei Tecmo) {2019.09.26} – 1,477 / 29,263
32./23. [NSW] Daemon X Machina (Marvelous) {2019.09.13} – 1,447 / 55,030
33./00. [PS4] Concrete Genie (Sony Interactive Entertainment) {2019.10.10} – 1,323 / NEW
34./33. [NSW] Olympic Games Tokyo 2020: The Official Video Game (Sega) {2019.07.24} – 1,267 / 54,845
35./29. [NSW] Ninja Box (Bandai Namco Games) {2019.09.26} – 1,187 / 10,439
36./36. [NSW] Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo) {2017.10.27} – 1,178 / 1,862,229
37./26. [NSW] Dead by Daylight (3goo) {2019.09.26} – 1,177 / 11,990
38./34. [NSW] Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! (Pokemon Co.) {2018.11.16} – 1,117 / 890,192
39./37. [NSW] Yo-kai Watch 4: We Are Looking Up at the Same Sky (Level 5) {2019.06.20} – 978 / 275,115
40./39. [PS4] Gran Turismo Sport [PlayStation Hits] (Sony Interactive Entertainment) {2019.10.04} – 954 / 2,008
41./32. [NSW] Pokemon: Let’s Go, Eevee! (Pokemon Co.) {2018.11.16} – 944 / 725,437
42./38. [NSW] Kirby Star Allies (Nintendo) {2018.03.16} – 894 / 781,888
43./35. [NSW] Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch (Level 5) {2019.09.20} – 893 / 16,402
44./31. [PS4] Tropico 6 (Square Enix) {2019.09.27} – 853 / 7,365
45./00. [NSW] Arc of Alchemist for Nintendo Switch (Compile Heart) {2019.10.10} – 753 / NEW
46./41. [NSW] Doraemon: Story of Seasons (Bandai Namco Games) {2019.06.13} – 718 / 102,071
47./65. [NSW] Puyo Puyo Tetris [Special Price] (Sega) {2019.08.08} – 678 / 10,513
48./42. [NSW] Fortnite (Warner Entertainment Japan) {2018.12.13} – 665 / 50,114
49./46. [NSW] Sumikko Gurashi: Gakkou Seikatsu Hajimerun Desu (Nippon Columbia) {2019.07.18} – 628 / 23,258
50./45. [NSW] Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate [Best Price] (Capcom) {2018.11.15} – 617 / 38,042
Source: Dengeki
Data compiled by: ZSaberLink (ResetERA)
Click here for more Japanese sales data!