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Famitsu Sales: Week 42, 2023 (Oct 09 - Oct 15)

Software

1st Switch Return of Detective Pikachu
16,248 (total 101,887) -81% / Pokemon / October 6, 2023

2nd Switch Pikmin 4
14,114 (total 912,398) -10% / Nintendo / July 21, 2023

3rd Switch Game of Life for Nintendo Switch
13,443 (total 43,710) -56% / Takara Tomy / October 6, 2023

4th Switch Rear Sekai
6,464 (total 6,464) NEW / Bushiroad / October 12, 2023

5th Switch Pokemon Scarlet/Violet
6'381 (total 5,157,822) -3% / Pokemon / November 18, 2022

6th Switch Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
6,253 (total 5,514,955) -17% / Nintendo / April 28, 2017

7th Switch Minecraft
5,898 (total 3,286,698) +0% / Microsoft Japan / June 21, 2018

8th Switch Downtown Nekketsu Monogatari SP
5,722 (total 5,722) NEW / Arc System Works / October 12, 2023

9th Switch Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
4,566 (total 5,304,914) -8% / Nintendo / December 7, 2018

10th Switch EA SPORTS FC 24
4,557 (total 27,046) -24% / Electronic Arts / September 29, 2023

Hardware sales volume

• Switch - 5,170 (total 19,571,417)
• Switch Lite - 4,828 (total of 5,522,561)
• Switch Oled - 34,472 (total 5,832,653)
• PS5 - 18,565 (total 3,920,351)
• PS5 Digital Edition - 1,144 (total 588,041)
• Xbox Series X - 609 (total 224,410)
• Xbox Series S - 477 (total 289,738)
• PS4 - 2,054 (total 7,900,950)
• New Nintendo 2DS LL - 85 (total 1,192,508)

 

[daclynk]

The PS software for last week?

 

[Mownoc]

Big drop for Switch due to the large boost it had from Mario OLED last week. Big drop for PS5 too, maybe from the Slim announcement making people prefer to wait a few weeks?

Spider-Man 2 and Mario Wonder next week anyway so both should shoot back up again, though very likely Switch to a much greater extent.

 

[Elios83]

Big drop for PS5, the wait for Slim on November 10th begins.

 

[Saber]

Pikimin 4 still holding, thats incredibly impressive.
And PS4 still selling, hanging in there.

 

[jm89]

• Xbox Series X - 609 (total 224,410)
• Xbox Series S - 477 (total 289,738)
• PS4 - 2,054 (total 7,900,950)

 

[Luminoth-4545]

Pretty awful week for everything apart from PS4.

 

[Luminoth-4545]

It's the first time since Week 1 that PS5 has been down year over year.

 

[Physiognomonics]

I read there was stock issues for PS5 in Japan. Which would logically explain the increased PS4 sales.

 

[Fake]

PS4 and Pikimin doing good in my book. Is not even a competition for Switch there now.

But PS4 beating PS5 DE is the best news today.

 

[Woopah]

Slow week, but next week will be big and then we have several other interesting releases to watch before the holiday season kicks into gear.

 

[Azelover]

No PS games in the top 10 yet again.. my happiness was short lived..

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

• PS5 - 18,565 (total 3,920,351)
• PS5 Digital Edition - 1,144 (total 588,041)

That other user would love to comment on these numbers this week.

 

[thismeinteil]

Coul

I read there was stock issues for PS5 in Japan. Which would logically explain the increased PS4 sales.

Could also be Sony using up the old model stock, in preparation for the new Slim.

 

[Raonak]

Big drops for everything I guess.

 

[Luminoth-4545]

Nintendo hardware sales in Japan

- N64 numbers are from Game Data Library
- GBA, GCN, NDS, Wii, 3DS and Wii U numbers are from Media Create
- NSW numbers are from Famitsu

 

[MrA]

I read there was stock issues for PS5 in Japan. Which would logically explain the increased PS4 sales.

They do have to run out of old stock,
Nobody wants dead stock on hand

 

[Physiognomonics]

They do have to run out of old stock,
Nobody wants dead stock on hand

If they have stock issues I doubt they have much old stock left. PS4 odd spike is very logical as people can play most PS5 games on PS4 (gaas, Hogwart, elden ring etc.)

 

[Walter Matthau]

Will be interesting if Mario Wonder does well in Japan. I think NSMBU on Switch took a couple years to top a million units.

 

[MrA]

If they have stock issues I doubt they have much old stock left. PS4 odd spike is very logical as people can play most PS5 games on PS4 (gaas, Hogwart, elden ring etc.)

Thats the point, they've been clearing out old stock for the past few weeks and now they're waiting on the slim

 

[RoboFu]

Pretty awful week for everything apart from PS4.

Umm the switch holds all spots and was launched in 2017. I'd say it's doing pretty okey-dokey.

 

[Interfectum]

Pretty awful week for everything apart from PS4.

Switch is above last year. Pretty good week even if it dropped a lot from the big number last week.

 

[Woopah]

Umm the switch holds all spots and was launched in 2017. I'd say it's doing pretty okey-dokey.

It's good in context, but still a low number considering what Switch has been doing this year.