Famitsu Top 50 2025 (Unofficial Ranking)
- [NS2] Mario Kart World (Nintendo) - 1.299.219
- [PS5] Monster Hunter Wilds (Capcom) - 816.454
- [NS] Super Mario Party: Jamboree (Nintendo) - 384.041
- [NS] Donkey Kong Country Returns HD (Nintendo) - 275.840
- [NS] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo) - 198.643
- [NS] Minecraft (Microsoft) - 166.281
- [NS] Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time (Level 5) - 141.175
- [NS] Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo) - 138.057
- [NS] Tamagotchi Plaza (Bandai Namco) - 126.462
- [NS] Xenoblade Chronicles X (Nintendo) - 113.492
- [PS5] Dynasty Warriors: Origins (Koei Tecmo) - 101.119
- [NS] Switch Sports (Nintendo) - 93.939
- [NS] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo) - 88.939
- [NS] Pokemon Scarlet / Violet (Pokemon Co) - 86.025
- [PS5] Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii (Sega) - 83.533
- [PS5] Death Stranding 2 (Sony) - 83.435
- [NS] Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake (Square Enix) - 78.014
- [PS5] Elden Ring: Nightreign (From Software) - 68.688
- [NS] Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma (Marvelous) - 68.666
- [NS] Yu-Gi-Oh! Early Days Collection (Konami) - 55.042
- [NS] Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics (Nintendo) - 53.518
- [NS] Suikoden I & II HD Remaster (Konami) - 53.136
- [NS] Super Mario Bros. Wonder (Nintendo) - 51.924
- [PS4] Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii (Sega) - 48.500
- [NS] Splatoon 3 (Nintendo) - 44.379
- [NS] Mobile Suit Gundam Seed: Battle Destiny Remastered (Bandai Namco) - 38.094
- [NS] Ring Fit Adventure (Nintendo) - 38.022
- [NS] Kirby and the Forgotten Land (Nintendo) - 36.703
- [NS] Atelier Yumia (Koei Tecmo) - 36.304
- [NS] Tales of Graces f Remastered (Bandai Namco) - 35.936
- [PS5] Atelier Yumia (Koei Tecmo) - 35.896
- [NS] Pikmin 4 (Nintendo) - 34.952
- [NS] Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 (Sega) - 34.785
- [NS] Momotaro Dentetsu World (Konami) - 34.322
- [NS] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo) - 33.515
- [PS5] Assassin's Creed: Shadows (Ubisoft) - 33.008
- [NS] The Battle Cats Unite! (Ponos) - 32.796
- [NS2] Tamagotchi Plaza (Bandai Namco) - 32.600
- [NS] The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy (Aniplex) - 31.492
- [NS] Mario & Luigi: Brothership (Nintendo) - 30.904
- [NS] Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythm Festival (Bandai Namco) - 30.854
- [NS] It Takes Two (Electronic Arts) - 29.047
- [NS] Raidou Remastered (Atlus) - 27.750
- [NS] Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo) - 26.535
- [NS] The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Nintendo) - 26.348
- [NS] Power Pros 2024-2025 (Konami) - 26.134
- [NS] Tokimeki Memorial: Forever with You Emotional (Konami) - 25.791
- [NS2] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo) - 26.462
- [NS] The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (Nintendo) - 24.164
- [NS] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo) - 24.056
NS -
38
PS5 -
7
NS2 -
4
PS4 -
1
TOTAL:
5.502.978
NSW:
2.852.021 (51.8%)
NS2:
1.382.337 (25.1%)
PS5:
1.220.120 (22.2%)
PS4:
48.500 (0.9%)
Famitsu Top 50 (Week 27 2024)
NSW - 37
PS5 - 10
PS4 - 3
TOTAL: 5.197.317
NSW: 3.839.955 (73.9%)
PS5: 1.159.789 (22.3%)
PS4: 197.573 (3.8%)
Year over year the market is
up by about 6% mainly due to the launch of the Switch 2
Switch is down 26% YoY as evergreen sales on the system have slowed down compared to last year while not receiving any major titles thus far this year. Still with
Pokemon,
DQI&II Remakes in the fall it should stack up favorably with last years major fall games
Jamboree &
DQIIIR so the decline will probably be under 25% YoY. Switch ended up with
9 million software sold last year within the Top 50 this year, so over
6.5 million this year is what we are likely going to see but
Pokémon Legends: Z-A potentially could upend this by outperforming my current expectations which would be
2.5 million for the year on the Switch
So far only four Switch 2 have managed to crack the Top 50 with
Mario Kart World topping the Top 50 in a matter of weeks.
Donkey Kong Bananza we can expect around
~150K launch and legs so it should slot in the Top 10 post launch and climb up the rankings for the remainder of the year, potentially hitting
500K+ sales by EOY. With good WoM its possible that
Bananza actually outperforms this but so far going off pre-order data thats what I'm expecting.
Pokémon Legends: Z-A is definitely the other game that should surpass
1 million physical on the Switch 2 in 2025.
Despite the launch of
Monster Hunter Wilds PlayStation Ecosystem is down about 6.5%,
Ghost of Yotei is the game with the highest potential for the rest of the year but it remains to be seen if it can match
DQIIIR from last year as most sequels have had 50% drop compared to the PS4 entries. Last year PlayStation ecosystem ended up with about
1.8 million units across the Top 50 however it was a weaker overall year for the Switch ecosystem so a lot more PS5/PS4 titles ended up ranking in the Top 50, this year we are looking at about 5-10 titles from the PS5 to rank in the Top 50 with only
Wilds and
Yotei surpassing
200K so I expect to see
over 15% decline YoY
Top 10 Publishers
- Nintendo - 3.043.652 (55.3%)
- Capcom - 816.454 (14.8%)
- Other - 387.820 (7%)
- Bandai Namco - 263.946 (4.8%)
- Konami - 192.836 (3.5%)
- Koei Tecmo - 173.319 (3.1%)
- Sega - 166.818 (3%)
- Microsoft - 166.281 (3%)
- Level 5 - 141.175 (2.6%)
- Pokemon Co - 86.025 (1.6%)
- Sony - 83.435 (1.5%)
Top 10 Publishers
- Nintendo - 2.568.795 (49.4%)
- Square Enix - 375.610 (7.2%)
- Sony - 366.981 (7%)
- Other - 339.221 (6.5%)
- Konami – 329.325 (6.3%)
- Sega - 309.602 (6.1%)
- Atlus - 308.002 (5.9%)
- Pokemon Co - 171.686 (3.3%)
- Microsoft - 165.423 (3.2%)
- Spike Chunsoft - 138.824 (2.7%)
- Cygames - 91.491 (1.8%)
So far we are pretty much guaranteed
Nintendo &
Pokemon Co will be the #1 & #2 publisher by the end of the year.
We will see what other games get announced by third parties for the fall as so far
Elden Ring(FromSoftware),
DQI&IIR(Square Enix),
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment(Koei Tecmo),
Everybody's Golf Hot Shots(Bandai Namco),
Elden Ring(FromSoftware),
Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road(Level 5),
Professor Layton and the New World of Steam(Level 5),
Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar(Marvelous) &
Daemon X Machina: Titanic Scion(Marvelous) are the only ones with potential of charting at the EOY Top 50 but we are likely to see more games revealed by the end of September.
Wilds ended up with 50% decline and much worse legs than
Monster Hunter World so
Capcom might not even manage to remain the #3 publisher by end of the year as so far there is nothing announced that would help them surpass
1 million units in the Top 50 physical rankings.
if there is a surprise overperformance by one of the other third party publishers (
Bandai Namco, Level 5 or
Marvelous) they could easily end up snatching the Top Third Party spot.
Fantasy Life i was the Top selling title on the Switch eShop in H1 greatly outperforming its physical sales in the first half of the year, it displaying good legs and a Switch 2 SKU is about to drop in August, so we are likely looking at
300K+ physical units by end of the year, if
Inazuma Eleven or
Professor Layton end up launching in 2025 with the same kind of good WoM its very possible for
Level 5 to be one of the Top third party publishers by the end of the year for the first time since their 3DS days when
Yo-Kai was challenging
Pokemon in Japan. So far the redemption ark is off to a great start but we will see what happens with the upcoming titles.
Marvelous is also well positioned with
Guardians of Azuma seemingly on its way to match
Rune Factory 5 due to stronger legs after a smaller launch.
Grand Bazaar is the title that could finally push them to the next level if it has the needed level of polish as the prior entry in the franchise
Olive Town had a big launch but bad WoM due to being pushed out when it was obviously not ready.
Daemon X Machina is another title that could see a greater result on the Switch 2 compared to Switch so obviously from a third party perspective
Marvelous has done a great job to ensure three major IPs launch during the Switch 2's launch year which will help with strong legs if all three are well received. Could be the first time in their history they manage over
1 million physical units in an year.
Bandai Namco's ability to have casual hits on the Switch in Japan is somewhat underestimated but
Taiko and
Fishing Spirits both managed to hit over
1 million units when we account digital sales. Tamagotchi is their latest hit and honestly I dont think Famitsu's numbers make much sense the game should easily be over
200K physical already based on the Amazon.co.jp results we saw - probably when M-C releases the Top 1000 next year there would be a huge discrepancy between the trackers. Next important casual title is
Everybody's Golf its definetly a game that has a long term potential to be revived on Nintendo's ecosystem but we will see how its received.
Square have
DQI&IIR,
FFT and
FFVIIR so they also do have enough titles to hit 1 million but its questionable how much the DQ remakes will sell as
III was definitely the bigger deal,
Tactics as a franchise is unlikely to hit over
200K without some stellar WoM & legs, while
FFVIIR is a very old port so I'm not expecting much as the early buyers of the Switch 2 are likely the same people that own all systems and already played it on the PS4
.
Koei's situation puts them in the middle of the park... having a new
Hyrule Warriors is definetly great for them but
Wild Hearts was a flop already so not expecting much from that title. Still
Age of Imprisonment is a title that could hit
500K units so that definetly gives them an outside shot to be one of the Top publishers this year.
Kadokawa probably has more titles besides
Elden Ring / Duskbloods in the works with
Spike Chunsoft obviously being the more likely to reveal something by end of the year. In the end it does seem that the Group as a whole should be a big supported of the Switch 2 in the coming years.
Sega/Atlus, Konami & Microsoft are the ones that dont have anything major slated for the fall... we will see how things change
