Famitsu Sales: Week 31, 2025 (Jul 28 - Aug 03)

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[Weekly Software & Hardware Sales] "Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - The Hinokami Chronicles 2" takes the top spot. Castlevania Advance Collection and Holo Hanafuda, featuring Holomen, also make the top 10 [July 28th - August 3rd]


Famitsu's sales rankings. This time we bring you a summary of estimated weekly sales figures for game software and hardware from July 28 to August 3, 2025 in Japan.

Four titles (three counting by platform) made their debut in this week's rankings, making it into the top 10. Taking the top spot among them was the Nintendo Switch version of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - The Hinokami Chronicles 2. This demon-slaying fighting action game is based on the popular manga

"Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba by Koyoharu Gotouge , and the PlayStation 5 version also ranked fifth. Total cumulative sales for both versions have reached 66,842 copies, suggesting continued sales are likely to continue.

Coming in at number four is Holo no Hanafuda, a digital Hanafuda adventure game starring Holomen (livers) from the VTuber agency Hololive Production .

In addition to familiar rules like Koi Koi, Oicho Kabu, and Hanaawase, players can also enjoy the game's original, unconventional rule, Holoawase... and it has recorded strong sales of 16,200 units.

Also ranked 7th is the packaged version of Castlevania Advance Collection, the download version of which was released in 2021. The game includes three games from the Castlevania series that were released for the Game Boy Advance .

Famitsu Sales Week 31, 2025 (Jul 28 - Aug 04)


1st [Switch] Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - The Hinokami Chronicles 2
54,491 (New) total 54,491 / Aniplex / August 1, 2025

2nd [ Switch 2] Mario Kart World
51,544 (-32%) total 1,445,628 / Nintendo / June 5, 2025

3rd [Switch 2} Donkey Kong Country Bananza
25,199 (-53%) total 207,055 / Nintendo / July 17, 2025

4th [Switch] Holo Hanafuda
16,200 (New) total 16,200 / Gem Drop / July 31, 2025

5th [PS5] Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - The Hinokami Chronicles 2
12,351 (New) total 12,351 / Aniplex / August 1, 2025

6th [Switch 2] Super Mario Party Jamboree + Jamboree TV
10,250 (-44%) total 28,419 / Nintendo / July 24, 2025

7th [Switch] Castlevania Advance Collection
9,101 (New) total 9,101 / Super Deluxe Games / July 31, 2025

8th [Switch] Minecraft
7,932 (-2%) total 3,955,307 / Microsoft Japan / June 21, 2018

9th [Switch] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
7,027 (-31%) total 6,398,596 / Nintendo / April 28, 2017

10th [Switch] Tamagotchi Puchi Puchi Omisetchi Thank you for waiting!
5,574 (-17%) total of 161,597 / Bandai Namco Entertainment / June 26, 2025

Hardware

  • Switch 2: 62,733 (total 1,677,123)
  • Switch: 2,626 (total 20,130,468)
  • Switch Lite: 5,505 (total 6,623,998)
  • Switch OLED: 10,506 (total 9,115,134)
  • PS5: 4,426 (total 5,729,645)
  • PS5 DE: 831 (total 981,517)
  • PS5 Pro: 1,884 (total 235,217)
  • Xbox Series X: 78 (total 321,223)
  • Xbox Series X DE: 38 (total 21,174)
  • Xbox Series S: 155 (total 339,042)
  • PS4: 19 (total 7,929,811)

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There has to be something Sony can do to improve sales for PS5 in Japan somewhat (assuming they even care to)
 
hououinkyouma00 said:
Yeah I guess. I thought Demon Slayer was boring (gorgeous but boring) and couldn't make it past S1.

I don't really like any Shonen anime though outside of HxH, FMAB and Jojos.
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it's so big that the first movie is literally the highest grossing film of all time in japan (except for one 1942 film after inflation). infinity castle is probably gonna beat that. maybe.
 
Switch 2 is completely sold out in Japan and only available through store lottery systems. Nintendo done amazingly well to keep it in stock for the first two months but it will slow down now until they can catch back up with demand.
 
Looks like Demon Slayer 2 won't quite sell as well as the first one.

Strong legs for DK though, word of mouth seems to be good!
 


1. Dragon Quest I&II HD-2D (NSW) - 657
2. Pragmata - 456
3. Dragon Quest I&II HD-2D (PS5) - 413
4. Super Robot Wars Y - 371
5. Kirby Air Riders - 283
6. Hyrule Warriors Age of Imprisonment - 270
7. Pokémon Legends ZA - 201
8. Persona 4 Revival - 186
9. Resident Evil Requiem - 182
10. Metal Gear Solid Delta - 180
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Square Enix should put more love into Dragon Quest Monsters franchise. For beat a game like Pokemon is no easy job.
 
LakeOf9 said:
There has to be something Sony can do to improve sales for PS5 in Japan somewhat (assuming they even care to)
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Sony hikes the price of PS5 by 19% in Japan


Totoki and Nishino are leading PS Japan into oblivion:

PS5 LTD (Nov 9, 2020 - Sep 1, 2024)

6,107,484 (Average weekly sales 30,239)
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JOGA market research report 2025
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Japan's gamer population was estimated to be around 40 million


"There are approximately 14 million people who play only on smart devices and 13 million people who play games on both smart devices and consoles"


Active Users

Nintendo 18.57 m (Nintendo eShop 12.90 m)

PlayStation 7.95 m (PS Store 5.66 m)

Steam 2.38 m

Microsoft Store 1.36 m

Epic Games Store 0.87 m

EA app 0.47 m

Battle.net 0.31 m

Ubisoft Connect 0.25 m

GOG.com 0.22 m
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People need to realize Nintendo's gotta start pulling back on the reins a bit to stockpile for the Pokémon Z/A bundles. We're still in the lazy summer months. Wars will break out over Christmas.
 
look at the weekly chart releases there almost nothing most weeks if you own ps5. That's the problem, the stuff that does release is unappealing to japan. It's what happens when you focus on the West only. Even if ps5 had a handheld it wouldn't do shit as the software Japanese gamers like already release on switch.
 
Fake said:
Software.



What is a handheld without software to appeal the japanese market?
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It's funny to say that when a large portion of the games on Famitsu's "Most Wanted" chart are (or will be) available on PlayStation.

The problem with PlayStation is their price. And of course, a handheld in Japan would certainly help them.
 
kaizenkko said:
It's funny to say that when a large portion of the games on Famitsu's "Most Wanted" chart are (or will be) available on PlayStation.

The problem with PlayStation is their price. And of course, a handheld in Japan would certainly help them.
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Funny will be the charts.

And no, the problem isn't the price. Copium is the problem.

There is no solution to this problem. Sony stopped caring about Japan and Japan stopped caring about Sony. No handheld will solve this problem.
 
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Fake said:
Funny will be the charts.

And no, the problem isn't the price. Copium is the problem.

There is no solution to this problem. Sony stopped caring about Japan and Japan stopped caring about Sony. No handheld will solve this problem.
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Of course Sony is the problem, but the PS5 was selling around 20-25K every week before the price increase.
 
LordOcidax said:
Of course Sony is the problem, but the PS5 was selling around 20-25K every week before the price increase.
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Imagine the sales of PS5 without PS4 BC.

There is no solution because Sony doesn't see as a problem. They want more focus on western countries, I quite sure they want a handheld for those territory, nothing to do with Japan at all.

As soon as Sony start to port their games to NS, will be no more reason at all.
 
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Fake said:
Imagine the sales of PS5 without PS4 BC.

There is no solution because Sony doesn't see as a problem. They want more focus on western countries, I quite sure they want a handheld for those territory, nothing to do with Japan at all.

As soon as Sony start to port their games to NS, will be no more reason at all.
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The PS6 handheld is going to put Sony in the Japan market again. Cant wait.
 
kaizenkko said:
It's funny to say that when a large portion of the games on Famitsu's "Most Wanted" chart are (or will be) available on PlayStation.

The problem with PlayStation is their price. And of course, a handheld in Japan would certainly help them.
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Famitsu's most wanted chart has almost no relation to what the Japanese market will actually buy though. It's very niche.
 
kaizenkko said:
It's funny to say that when a large portion of the games on Famitsu's "Most Wanted" chart are (or will be) available on PlayStation.

The problem with PlayStation is their price. And of course, a handheld in Japan would certainly help them.
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Famitsu's most wanted charts survey ~1,500+ readers of a gaming magazine (in the year 2025) for their opinion, if you think that is even remotely representative of the actual general gaming population there, I have a lovely bit of property at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave to sell you
 
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