Japan: more sales data for Week 8 2018, February (Media Create, Dengeki)

Media Create (Week 8)

Today, Media Create published their weekly report on video game sales in Japan during Week 8, 2018. It reveals that total Software sales topped 437 000 units, which is 88.34% of Week 7 sales. Despite more games releasing that week (13, which is 5 more than the previous one), Software dropped because most of the new releases didn’t even reach 10 000 units sold.

It was a pretty lackluster week overall, and unfortunately, Hardware wasn’t much better (87.40% of Week 7 sales).

Source: Media Create

Media Create (Day 1 sell-through)

This week, we have the Day 1 sell-through for a couple of Nintendo Switch games and one Nintendo 3DS titles:

• [NSW] Dragon Quest Builders (Square Enix) (¥4.800) – 20%. A slow debut, but sales should improve during the week-end. Also, sales are expected to remain steady in the weeks following launch;
• [NSW] Doom (Bethesda Softworks) (¥6.980) – 20%. The game didn’t really shine when it launched on PlayStation 4, and it was unlikely things would be any different on Nintendo Switch;
• [3DS] Doraemon: Nobita no Takarajima (FuRyu) (¥5.480) – 0-9%. Really poor debut yet another mediocre licenced game from FuRyu.

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

Dengeki (February)

Here’s some data for February (January 29th to February 25th):

• Hardware: 500 000 units (+80.8% Year on Year) / 15.1 billion Yen (+115.1%)
• Software: 2.15 million units (+20.1%) / 15.8 billion Yen (+35.8%)
• Total: 30.9 billion Yen (+65.7%)

Dengeki points out that the market as a whole grew again in February, for the 8th month in a row.

Next, here’s Software sales for each platform:

Platforms	This week	This week (%)	Fiscal Year	Fiscal Year (%)
PS4	234,565	55.6％	10,328,246	34.4％
PS3	1,643	0.4％	167,122	0.6％
Vita	30,924	7.3％	1,400,569	4.7％
Switch	103,272	24.5％	8,228,278	27.4％
Wii U	1,776	0.4％	291,615	1.0％
3DS	49,797	11.8％	9,601,863	32.0％
X One	140	0.0％	15,425	0.1％
Total	422,117	100.0％	30,033,118	100.0％

And here’s Hardware sales:

Platforms	This week	This week (%)	Fiscal Year	Fiscal Year (%)
PS4	35,964	39.0％	1,885,156	27.9％
PS3	41	0.0％	7,521	0.1％
Vita	5,248	5.7％	231,088	3.4％
Switch	38,870	42.1％	3,229,005	47.8％
Wii U	107	0.1％	4,528	0.1％
3DS	4,175	4.5％	613,803	9.1％
2DS	7,751	8.4％	777,033	11.5％
X One	173	0.2％	6,725	0.1％
Total	92,329	100.0％	6,754,860	100.0％

Finally, here’s the Top 50 Software: coming soon.

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

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