Japan: more sales data for Week 44 2018, Fiscal Year (Media Create, Dengeki)

Here’s the latest sales data reports from Media Create, and Dengeki!

Media Create (Week 44)

On Monday, Media Create shared their weekly report on video games sales in Japan. It reveals that total Software sales topped 276 000 units, which is 65.88% of Week 43 sales. It’s the first time in 4 months (since the first week of July) that sales dropped below the 300 000 units/week threshold.

The main reason the sales drop is so noticeable? It’s because sales of new games literally plummeted to about 4 000 units. There was only one new release in the Top 50, Neko Tomo, which sold… about 4 000 units. In comparison, previously released games saw their sales increase to 272 000 units (109.93% of Week 43 sales), but it was nowhere near enough to compensate for the complete lack of new releases, which really hurt sales.

Source: Media Create

Media Create – Day 1 Sell-through (Week 45)

This week, we have the Day 1 sell-through for a Nintendo 3DS game and a Nintendo Switch game:

• [3DS] Luigi’s Mansion (Nintendo) (¥4.980) – 20%. Low sell-through, but sales should improve during the weekend;
• [NSW] Pikachin-Kit: Game de Pirameki Daisakusen! (FuRyu) – less than 10%. A downright terrible performance, seemingly even worse than your average FuRyu licenced game… Either that or retailers ordered more copies than usual, which is quite unlikely.

Source: Media Create
Via: hiska-kun (ResetERA)

Dengeki (Week 44, Fiscal Year)

This week, Dengeki report that Neko Tomo on Nintendo Switch sold about 4 000 units at launch (more or less the same as Media Create). As for Super Mario Party, it sold 29 000 additional units, bringing the total since launch to 304 000 units.

This time, we get some more data for the current Fiscal Year, with the market share of the two main platform holders. So far, Nintendo is dominating with 56.4% of total sales (Nintendo Switch: 49.2%, Nintendo 3DS: 7.2%), leaving Sony with 43.3% (PlayStation 4: 38.8%, PlayStation Vita: 4.5%).

But that’s only for the Fiscal Year as a whole. When you look at monthly trends, the market leader is not always the same. Nintendo dominated sales from April to August, especially starting in July with the Summer season. In July, its market share was 68.7%, and in August, it was 65.3%.

However, it’s a different story in September and October, thanks to hits from oversea publishers (such as Call of Duty Black Ops IIII): its market share was 53% and 50.9% in September and October respectively.

Of course, this is highly unlikely to have an impact on the full Fiscal Year, since Nintendo has some pretty heavy-hitters lined-up: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! / Let’s Go, Eevee!, and Super Mario Bros U Deluxe. Granted, Sony platforms do have big titles lined-up (such as the long-awaited Kingdom Hearts III), but Dengeki do not expect much change in the market now dominated by stationary consoles.

Next, here’s Software sales for each platform:

Platforms	This week	This week (%)	Fiscal Year	Fiscal Year (%)
PS4	131,168	48.7％	4,744,761	40.4％
Vita	6,593	2.4％	628,137	5.3％
Switch	105,944	39.3％	5,046,925	42.9％
3DS	24,249	9.0％	1,271,629	10.8％
ETC	1,340	0.5％	59,854	0.5％
Total	269,294	100.0％	11,751,306	100.0％

And here’s Hardware sales:

Platforms	This week	This week (%)	Fiscal Year	Fiscal Year (%)
PS4	18,893	27.3％	615,349	26.7％
Vita	1,403	2.0％	79,405	3.4％
Switch	42,656	61.5％	1,352,567	58.7％
3DS	6,180	8.9％	251,839	10.9％
ETC	193	0.3％	4,795	0.2％
Total	69,325	100.0％	2,303,955	100.0％

Finally, here’s the Top 50 Software:

01./02. [PS4] Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII (Sony Interactive Entertainment) {2018.10.12} – 36,727 / 421,359
02./01. [PS4] Red Dead Redemption II (Take-Two Interactive Japan) {2018.10.26} – 35,780 / 171,489
03./03. [NSW] Super Mario Party (Nintendo) {2018.10.05} – 29,211 / 304,093
04./05. [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft Game Studios) {2018.06.21} – 9,578 / 381,496
05./09. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo) {2017.04.28} – 6,512 / 1,795,271
06./10. [NSW] Splatoon 2 (Nintendo) {2017.07.21} – 5,624 / 2,705,034
07./07. [PS4] Soul Calibur VI (Bandai Namco Games) {2018.10.18} – 4,261 / 33,008
08./00. [NSW] Cats Together (Bandai Namco Games) {2018.11.01} – 4,217 / NEW
09./13. [PS4] Marvel’s Spider-Man (Sony Interactive Entertainment) {2018.09.07} – 3,524 / 286,328
10./11. [PS4] Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey (Ubisoft) {2018.10.05} – 3,194 / 77,643
11./04. [PS4] Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection (Capcom) {2018.10.25} – 3,131 / 15,962
12./19. [NSW] Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum ‘n’ Fun! (Bandai Namco Games) {2018.07.19} – 2,983 / 233,263
13./17. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo) {2017.03.03} – 2,833 / 861,979
14./14. [PS4] Warriors Orochi 4 (Koei Tecmo) {2018.09.27} – 2,567 / 156,270
15./23. [NSW] Kirby Star Allies (Nintendo) {2018.03.16} – 2,456 / 651,184
16./20. [NSW] Dragon Ball FighterZ (Bandai Namco Games) {2018.09.27} – 2,328 / 47,293
17./24. [NSW] Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo) {2017.10.27} – 2,183 / 1,731,313
18./21. [PS4] FIFA 19 (Electronic Arts) {2018.09.28} – 2,013 / 80,767
19./22. [NSW] FIFA 19 (Electronic Arts) {2018.09.28} – 1,939 / 32,806
20./12. [NSW] Dark Souls Remastered (From Software) {2018.10.18} – 1,933 / 20,530
21./06. [NSW] Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection (Capcom) {2018.10.25} – 1,778 / 8,469
22./29. [PS4] Winning Eleven 2019 (Konami) {2018.08.30} – 1,733 / 130,190
23./27. [NSW] Mario Tennis Aces (Nintendo) {2018.06.22} – 1,729 / 364,990
24./08. [NSW] Beyblade Burst: Battle Zero (FuRyu) {2018.10.25} – 1,700 / 7,544
25./35. [PS4] Kingdom Hearts HD I.5 + II.5 ReMIX (Square Enix) {2017.03.09} – 1,694 / 211,490
26./15. [PS4] Cry Star (FuRyu) {2018.10.18} – 1,676 / 14,989
27./25. [NSW] Warriors Orochi 4 (Koei Tecmo) {2018.09.27} – 1,617 / 43,596
28./26. [NSW] Nintendo Labo Toy-Con 03: Drive Kit (Nintendo) {2018.09.14} – 1,556 / 30,870
29./33. [3DS] Pokemon Ultra Sun (Pokemon Co.) {2017.11.17} – 1,489 / 871,120
30./32. [3DS] Pokemon Ultra Moon (Pokemon Co.) {2017.11.17} – 1,411 / 844,578
31./34. [NSW] Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (Nintendo) {2018.07.13} – 1,339 / 145,602
32./42. [NSW] Pro Baseball Famista Evolution (Bandai Namco Games) {2018.08.02} – 1,271 / 102,925
33./40. [3DS] WarioWare Gold (Nintendo) {2018.08.02} – 1,233 / 122,856
34./44. [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Welcome amiibo (Nintendo) {2016.11.23} – 1,117 / 386,553
35./30. [PS4] The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV – The End of Saga (Nihon Falcom) {2018.09.27} – 1,100 / 125,422
36./36. [NSW] Sumikko Gurashi: Atsumare! Sumikko Town (Nippon Columbia) {2018.10.04} – 1,024 / 11,782
37./18. [NSW] Yomawari: The Long Night Collection (Nippon Ichi Software) {2018.10.25} – 967 / 3,661
38./43. [3DS] Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (Nintendo) {2018.07.13} – 956 / 68,928
39./31. [NSW] Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy: Bonus Edition (Sega) {2018.10.18} – 939 / 8,446
40./54. [NSW] Pokken Tournament DX (Pokemon Co.) {2017.09.22} – 889 / 299,739
41./52. [3DS] Mario Party: The Top 100 (Nintendo) {2017.12.28} – 812 / 226,665
42./51. [NSW] My Hero: One’s Justice (Bandai Namco Games) {2018.08.23} – 729 / 53,858
43./47. [PS4] Minecraft: Playstation 4 Edition (Sony Interactive Entertainment) {2015.12.03} – 722 / 342,771
44./136. [PS4] Detroit: Become Human (Sony Interactive Entertainment) {2018.05.25} – 720 / 89,696
45./58. [NSW] ARMS (Nintendo) {2017.06.16} – 689 / 458,458
46./64. [PS4] Persona 5 [New Price Edition] (Atlus) {2018.09.06} – 673 / 11,729
47./80. [PS4] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2018 (Konami) {2018.04.26} – 665 / 240,952
48./55. [NSW] Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (Nintendo) {2018.05.03} – 641 / 224,678
49./39. [PS4] Varnir of the Dragon Star: Ecdysis of the Dragon (Compile Heart) {2018.10.11} – 633 / 12,523
50./48. [NSW] Mega Man 11 (Capcom) {2018.10.04} – 628 / 21,838

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

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