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Japan: more sales data for Week 15, 2017 (Media Create, Dengeki)

Week 15, 2017 (Media Create)

Today, Media Create published its weekly report on video game sales in Japan during Week 15, 2017. It reveals that total Software sales topped 277 000 units, which is 75.78% of Week 14 sales. They note that it’s the first time since the second week of September 2016 that sales dropped below 300 000 units.

New games didn’t really fare well: none of this week’s entries managed to sell at least 5 000 units, which is already a pretty low bar. Total sales for new games this week only amount to 83.30% of last week’s sales (even less than last week). As for previously released games, they sold 75.46% of Week 14 sales.

They also note that Monster Hunter XX topped sales for the 5th week in a row, with 1 366 000 units sold since launch. But as mentioned before, the drop from Monster Hunter Generations is quite visible: that game had already sold over 2 392 000 units by its 5th week. Even Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate did better (2 105 000 units), which already was lower than Monster Hunter 4 (2 653 000 units).

So far, Monster Hunter XX is selling between 700 000 to 1.3 million less than its predecessor, which is rather disappointing (though not really worrying, unless the next entry also suffers from similarly “low” sales).

Source: Media Create

Day 1 sell-through (Media Create)

Here’s the Day 1 sell-through for select games:

  • [3DS] Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia (Nintendo) – 60%. A rather good start for a remake;
  • [3DS] Pro Baseball Famista Climax (Bandai Namco Games) – 30%
  • [NSW] Minna de Wai Wai! Spelunker (Square Enix) (¥4.980) – 20%

Via: hiska-kun

Week 15, 2017, Fiscal Year 2016 (Dengeki)

Dengeki report a drop in sales for the market as a whole:

  • Hardware: 93 000 units (-9%)
  • Software: 265 000 units (-26.3%)

Monster Hunter XX also topped sales for the 5th week in a row for Dengeki, who report 380 000 units sold this week, and 1.47 million since launch (with 1.5 million units to be reached next week).

Dengeki also take a look at the gap between the best-selling games and the worst-selling ones in. They note that the gap had been widening in the past couple of years (what with the rise and dominance of Free 2 Start games on smart devices), and Fiscal Year 2016 (April 1st 2016 to March 31st 2017) saw a further widening of that gap.

In 2016, there were only 4 million-sellers (same as in 2015), and 5 games sold between 500 000 units and 1 million units (1 more than last year). On the other hand, the number of games that sold between 30 000 and 50 000 units dropped from 73 to 43. Meanwhile, more games than ever sold less than 30 000 units: 333 (66% of all games released, 309 last year).

Also, the number of games selling less than 10 000 units has been steadily growing: 87 in 2014, 114 in 2015, and 149 in 2016. In fact, 30% of all games released in 2016 did not sell more than 10 000 units.

Dengeki hopes that the release of major Nintendo Switch titles (such as Splatoon on July 21st) and Dragon Quest XI: Sugisarishi Toki o Motomete (on July 29th) will revitalise the market.

Next, here’s Software sales for each platform:

Platforms This week This week (%) Fiscal Year Fiscal Year (%)
PS4 72,108 27.3% 165,289 26.5%
PS3 3,566 1.3% 7,402 1.2%
Vita 30,908 11.7% 65,457 10.5%
Switch 37,320 14.1% 82,408 13.2%
Wii U 10,734 4.1% 25,802 4.1%
3DS 109,689 41.5% 276,751 44.4%
X One 260 0.1% 612 0.1%
Total 264,585 100.0% 623,721 100.0%

And here’s the Hardware sales:

Platforms This week This week (%) Fiscal Year Fiscal Year (%)
PS4 18,529 20.0% 38,095 20.4%
PS3 540 0.6% 1,232 0.7%
Vita 5,878 6.3% 11,970 6.4%
Switch 43,215 46.6% 84,817 45.4%
Wii U 226 0.2% 553 0.3%
3DS 19,988 21.5% 41,357 22.1%
2DS 4,351 4.7% 8,741 4.7%
X One 77 0.1% 164 0.1%
Total 92,804 100.0% 186,929 100.0%

And here’s Dengeki’s Top 50 Software sales:

01./01. [3DS] Monster Hunter Double Cross (Capcom) {2017.03.18} – 38,076 / 1,469,505
02./02. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo) {2017.03.03} – 17,894 / 381,688
03./03. [3DS] Mario Sports Superstars (Nintendo) {2017.03.30} – 10,817 / 64,222
04./04. [NSW] 1-2-Switch (Nintendo) {2017.03.03} – 9,611 / 194,946
05./07. [PS4] Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands (Ubisoft) {2017.03.09} – 5,851 / 155,930
06./05. [PS4] LEGO Worlds (Warner Entertainment Japan) {2017.04.06} – 4,651 / 17,186
07./12. [PS4] NieR: Automata (Square Enix) {2017.02.23} – 4,617 / 281,614
08./09. [3DS] Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS (Nintendo) {2016.12.01} – 4,594 / 1,037,875
09./08. [WIU] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo) {2017.03.03} – 4,517 / 94,352
10./10. [NSW] Super Bomberman R (Konami) {2017.03.03} – 4,172 / 79,476
11./06. [PS4] Warriors Stars (Koei Tecmo) {2017.03.30} – 4,050 / 54,285
12./14. [3DS] Yo-Kai Watch 3: Sukiyaki (Level 5) {2016.12.15} – 3,750 / 732,828
13./13. [PS4] Horizon: Zero Dawn (Sony Interactive Entertainment) {2017.03.02} – 3,689 / 194,327
14./00. [PS4] Winning Eleven 2017 [Konami the Best] (Konami) {2017.04.13} – 3,083 / NEW
15./00. [PSV] RepKiss # (Entergram) {2017.04.13} – 2,917 / NEW
16./20. [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Welcome amiibo (Nintendo) {2016.11.23} – 2,678 / 150,125
17./11. [PS4] Blue Reflection: Maboroshi ni Mau – Shoujo no Ken (Koei Tecmo) {2017.03.30} – 2,538 / 40,659
18./00. [PSV] Zero Escape: The Nonary Games (Spike Chunsoft) {2017.04.13} – 2,494 / NEW
19./17. [3DS] Pokemon Sun (Pokemon Co.) {2016.11.18} – 2,444 / 1,690,605
20./27. [PS4] Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege (Ubisoft) {2015.12.10} – 2,361 / 189,962
21./22. [PS4] Grand Theft Auto V (Take-Two Interactive Japan) {2015.10.08} – 2,350 / 257,029
22./15. [PSV] Warriors Stars (Koei Tecmo) {2017.03.30} – 2,344 / 24,089
23./23. [PSV] Minecraft: Playstation Vita Edition (Sony Interactive Entertainment) {2015.03.19} – 2,339 / 1,079,465
24./19. [PS4] Kingdom Hearts HD I.5 + II.5 ReMIX (Square Enix) {2017.03.09} – 2,322 / 94,034
25./18. [3DS] Pokemon Moon (Pokemon Co.) {2016.11.18} – 2,156 / 1,549,896
26./24. [3DS] Poochy & Yoshi’s Woolly World (Nintendo) {2017.01.19} – 2,083 / 116,730
27./28. [PSV] Accel World Vs. Sword Art Online: Millennium Twilight (Bandai Namco Games) {2017.03.16} – 2,017 / 55,158
28./31. [NSW] Dragon Quest Heroes I & II for Nintendo Switch (Square Enix) {2017.03.03} – 1,944 / 43,455
29./16. [PSV] Blue Reflection: Maboroshi ni Mau – Shoujo no Ken (Koei Tecmo) {2017.03.30} – 1,906 / 22,880
30./26. [3DS] Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 3 – Professional (Square Enix) {2017.02.09} – 1,883 / 197,922
31./25. [3DS] Miitopia (Nintendo) {2016.12.08} – 1,800 / 207,115
32./30. [NSW] Puyo Puyo Tetris S (Sega) {2017.03.03} – 1,756 / 30,556
33./21. [3DS] Kawaii Pet to Kurasou! Wan Nyan & Mini Mini Animal (Nippon Columbia) {2017.04.06} – 1,711 / 4,770
34./32. [3DS] Mario Kart 7 (Nintendo) {2011.12.01} – 1,578 / 2,623,584
35./34. [PS4] Minecraft: Playstation 4 Edition (Sony Interactive Entertainment) {2015.12.03} – 1,572 / 196,732
36./33. [WIU] Minecraft: Wii U Edition (Microsoft Game Studios) {2016.06.23} – 1,517 / 297,484
37./00. [PS4] Zero Escape: The Nonary Games (Spike Chunsoft) {2017.04.13} – 1,429 / NEW
38./37. [PS4] Senran Kagura: Peach Beach Splash (Marvelous) {2017.03.16} – 1,388 / 65,545
39./00. [PS4] RepKiss # (Entergram) {2017.04.13} – 1,376 / NEW
40./36. [3DS] Doraemon the Movie: Nobita no Nankyoku Kachikochi Daibouken (FuRyu) {2017.03.02} – 1,322 / 20,826
41./29. [PS4] Accel World Vs. Sword Art Online: Millennium Twilight (Bandai Namco Games) {2017.03.16} – 1,300 / 44,160
42./38. [3DS] Sumikko Gurashi: Mura o Tsukurundesu (Nippon Columbia) {2016.07.21} – 1,233 / 169,203
43./39. [3DS] Kirby: Planet Robobot (Nintendo) {2016.04.28} – 1,194 / 515,687
44./40. [PS4] Final Fantasy XV (Square Enix) {2016.11.29} – 1,131 / 947,022
45./42. [3DS] Mario Party Star Rush (Nintendo) {2016.10.20} – 1,022 / 168,191
46./44. [WIU] Splatoon (Nintendo) {2015.05.28} – 994 / 1,516,508
47./47. [PS4] Nioh (Koei Tecmo) {2017.02.09} – 967 / 141,893
48./35. [PSV] Re:Zero – Kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu – Death or Kiss (5pb.) {2017.03.30} – 850 / 16,376
49./41. [3DS] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball Heroes (Konami) {2016.12.15} – 839 / 121,227
50./45. [3DS] Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS (Nintendo) {2014.09.13} – 806 / 2,415,037

Source: Dengeki
Software sales compiled by: ZSaberLink (NeoGAF)

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