Famitsu Sales: Week 36, 2025 (Sep 01 - Sep 07)

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[Weekly Software & Hardware Sales] "Mario Kart World" tops the charts for the 11th time! "Everybody's Golf World" and "Demon Ex Machina: Titanic Scion" also made the list. Total PS5 sales in Japan surpass 7 million units [September 1st - September 7th]


Famitsu's sales rankings. This time we bring you a summary of estimated weekly sales figures for game software and hardware from September 1st to September 7th, 2025 in Japan.

In its 14th week since it's release Mario Kart World continues to perform well. This week it sold 38,483 units, taking the top spot for the 11th time. The first official tournament will be held at the game event "Nintendo Live 2025" on Saturday, October 4th and Sunday, October 5th, 2025, which is also expected to be a big hit.

Next on the list is Everybody's Golf World which allows anyone to easily experience authentic golf and is the latest installment in the long running series. The Nintendo Switch version came in second and the PlayStation 5 version came in third with cumulative sales of both versions reaching 51,214 units.

Also making its first appearance is DAEMON X MACHINA TITANIC SCION made the list. This sequel to the mecha action game boasts challenging battles and a high degree of customization freedom and it's another title whose future sales are sure to be interesting.

Meanwhile, looking at the hardware the cumulative domestic sales of the PlayStation 5 (including Pro) finally surpassed 7 million units this week.

Famitsu Sales: Week 36, 2025 (Sep 01 - Sep 07)

Software


1st place [Switch 2] Mario Kart World
38,483 (+9%) total 1,694,409 / Nintendo / June 5, 2025

2nd [Switch] Everybody's Golf World
35,139 (New) total 35,139 / Bandai Namco Entertainment / September 4, 2025

3rd [PS5] Everybody's Golf World
16,075 (New) total 16,075 / Bandai Namco Entertainment / September 4, 2025

4th [Switch] Harvest Moon Let's! Grand Bazaar of the Wind
13,505 (-71%) total 60,091 / Marvelous / August 28, 2025

5th [Switch] Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - The Hinokami Chronicles 2
12,061 (+411%) total 109,486) / Aniplex / August 1, 2025

6th [Switch 2] Donkey Kong Bananza
10,445 (+0%) total 296,564) / Nintendo / July 17, 2025

7th Switch Super Robot Wars Y
10,180 (-83%) total 70,712 / Bandai Namco Entertainment / August 28, 2025

8th [PS5] METAL GEAR SOLID Δ: SNAKE EATER
9,748 (-85%) 73,333 total / Konami / August 28, 2025

9th [PS5] DAEMON X MACHINA TITANIC SCION
8,413 (New) total 8,413 / Marvelous / September 5, 2025,

10th [Switch] Minecraft
6,410 (-13%) 3,996,318 total / Microsoft Japan / June 21, 2018

Hardware

  • Switch 2: 46,403 (total 1,980,483)
  • Switch: 3,207 (total 20,145,209)
  • Switch Lite: 8,285 (total 6,657,654)
  • Switch Oled: 12,683 (total 9,166,792)
  • PS5: 22,247 (total 5,771,474)
  • PS5 DE: 7,315 (total 992,697)
  • PS5 Pro: 2,133 (total 245,766)
  • Xbox Series X: 98 (total 322,062)
  • Xbox Series X DE: 37 (total 21,433)
  • Xbox Series S: 25 (total 339,432)
  • PS4: 14 (total 7,929,886)

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Strong legs for DK still and Demon Slayer got a restock on Switch. DxM looks like a bomb though.

Price promotion for PS5 has a strong effect.
 
It's obvious that if Sony wished for PS5 could be selling healthy numbers in Japan. That's what happens when you go from having people that understand gaming to people that look at the stock market first and don't realize that playing the long game is more important. Suits near videogames have basically destroyed the industry.
 
Physiognomonics said:
At this point I truely believe execs at Sony want people to invest into PC instead of their Playstation. I just don't see another point of their current price strategy.
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My guess is they're more or less happy with user base + subscription numbers and are trying to cover some of the increased R&D and upcoming manufacturing costs for the next console.
 
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Physiognomonics said:
At this point I truely believe execs at Sony want people to invest into PC instead of their Playstation. I just don't see another point of their current price strategy.
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That would be suicide for them. If that were true they wouldn't be investing on a PS6 that will have a handheld and a traditional PS.

Sony will never have PC as their main focus for one reason: PS store.

They make 100% of the money from their games in there and 30% of everything 3rd party. Imagine how catastrophic for them it would be if people stopped to find a reason to invest on their own ecosystem and just move on to steam? Sony would be getting only 70% of their games sold and nothing from 3rd party stuff. Their biggest money making machine is that store.
They are literally looking for ways to make the PS6 cheaper to produce as we speak, by not making weird designs like the PS5 for a reason. They want this to be a mainstream product, not something niche. Then the handheld as well. PS Portal is sold for 200 bucks which is accessible. That makes me think they will keep that up for the PS6 portable (even if that's going to allow games to be played natively...so around 400 bucks maybe)
 
Tiago Rodrigues said:
That would be suicide for them. If that were true they wouldn't be investing on a PS6 that will have a handheld and a traditional PS.

Sony will never have PC as their main focus for one reason: PS store.

They make 100% of the money from their games in there and 30% of everything 3rd party. Imagine how catastrophic for them it would be if people stopped to find a reason to invest on their own ecosystem and just move on to steam? Sony would be getting only 70% of their games sold and nothing from 3rd party stuff. Their biggest money making machine is that store.
They are literally looking for ways to make the PS6 cheaper to produce as we speak, by not making weird designs like the PS5 for a reason. They want this to be a mainstream product, not something niche. Then the handheld as well. PS Portal is sold for 200 bucks which is accessible. That makes me think they will keep that up for the PS6 portable (even if that's going to allow games to be played natively...so around 400 bucks maybe)
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Oh yes I agree, but they are commiting suicide since 2020. Maybe selling their games and transactions on Steam is their endgame. No more investing and risking billions into hardware. It's working for Rockstar.

Of course they are gravely mistaken. In a few years, Playstation will be a shadow of its PS4 peak.
 
Physiognomonics said:
Oh yes I agree, but they are commiting suicide since 2020. Maybe selling their games and transactions on Steam is their endgame. No more investing and risking billions into hardware. It's working for Rockstar.

Of course they are gravely mistaken. In a few years, Playstation will be a shadow of its PS4 peak.
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Chill…PS5 is like 2M below the PS4 at this point. How are they committing suicide?

Did you read the rest of my post? They have no interest on people leaving their ecosystem and going to steam .
 
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mckmas8808 said:
I swear to god Sony might be the dumbest idiots on Earth sometimes. THIS SHOULD BE THE PERMENANT JAPAENSE PRICE!!!
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Sony have an issue with people buying PS5 to export to the Chinese market when they lower the price, which is less than the price the PS5 have in China. That's why you don't see a correlation between hardware bump and software sales this gen in Japan. Still they can do some strategies like Nintendo to prevent this…
 
LordOcidax said:
Sony have an issue with people buying PS5 to export to the Chinese market when they lower the price, which is less than the price the PS5 have in China. That's why you don't see a correlation between hardware bump and software sales this gen in Japan. Still they can do some strategies like Nintendo to prevent this…
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But this is a terrible reason to not have the correct price in Japan.
 
LordOcidax said:
Probably Sony executives thinks that is not worth the effort and don't represent and immediate return in the investment.
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This is bean-counter thinking. I'd hope they aren't thinking that anymore.

asdasdasdbb said:
I wonder if they did something like what Nintendo does (make it Japanese only)... would sales really increase if the discounts just mean more gray shipping to China.
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But at least somebody in China will have a PS5. I'd assume they'd spend money on games and accessories in China from that point going forward.
 
Ps5 need a very big and permanent price cut in Japan just to at least slim down Switch lead. The price of ps5 is a major hindrance for Japanese to buy ps5 along with few Japan centric exclusives. And as early as possible, release PSPnext in Japan. Bring back Sony Japan studio AA and A exclusives.
 
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