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【ソフト＆ハード週間販売数】『かまいたちの夜×3』が首位を獲得！ トップ10常連『マリオカート8 デラックス』は国内累計販売本数600万本を突破【9/16～9/22】 | ゲーム・エンタメ最新情報のファミ通.com​

[Weekly software and hardware sales figures] "Kamaitachi no Yoru x3" takes the top spot! Top 10 regular "Mario Kart 8 Deluxe" surpasses 6 million units sold in Japan [9/16-9/22]​

Sales ranking announced by Famitsu. This time we bring you a summary of the estimated weekly sales of game software and hardware from September 16th to September 22nd, 2024.

Kamaitachi no Yoru x3 took the top spot in its first appearance. This is the third remaster of the classic sound novel Kamaitachi no Yoru, released to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the series. It includes the main story of the original Kamaitachi no Yoru and Kamaitachi no Yoru 2 as well as the third in the trilogy which is the final installment.

Additional features such as the ability to change the text font and a sound player that allows you to listen to all 74 BGM tracks have also been implemented and these points seem to have been well received with sales exceeding 20,000 units.

Another title worth noting is Mario Kart 8 Deluxe which came in second. Released in 2017, it has been a regular in the top 10 almost every week to this day and this week it finally surpassed 6 million units sold in Japan. It's still selling well, so we can expect continued sales in the future.

Famitsu Sales: Week 38, 2024 (Sep 16 - Sep 22)​

Software​

1st [Switch] Kamaitachi no Yoru x3
23,051 (total 23,051) New / Spike Chunsoft / September 19, 2024

2nd [Switch] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
7,811 (total 6,005,594) +0% / Nintendo / April 28, 2017

3rd [PS5] Astro Bot
6,967 (total 28,521) -22% / Sony Interactive Entertainment / September 6, 2024

4th [Switch] Nintendo Switch Sports
6,258 (total 1,428,479) -11% / Nintendo / April 29, 2022

5th [Switch] Animal Crossing: New Horizons
6,203 (total 7,914,922) -11% / Nintendo / March 20, 2020

6th [Switch] Minecraft
5,960 (total 3,637,144) +4% / Microsoft Japan / June 21, 2018

7th [Switch] Powerful Pro Baseball 2024-2025
4,430 (total 292,389) -7% / Konami / July 18, 2024

8th [Switch] Ring Fit Adventure
4,156 (total 3,631,813) +17% / Nintendo / October 18, 2019

9th [Switch] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
3,949 (total 5,587,522) +0% / Nintendo / December 7, 2018

10th [Switch] Pokemon Scarlet and Violet
3,758 (total 5,415,264) -11% / Pokémon / November 18, 2022

Hardware​

• Switch: 4,797 (total 19,902,018)
• Switch Lite: 12,514 (total 6,063,736)
• Switch Oled: 35,044 (total 7,902,577)
• PS5: 7,186 (total 5,193,843)
• PS5 DE: 1,571 (total: 853,500)
• Xbox Series X: 288 (total 307,270)
• Xbox Series S: 311 (total 318,908)
• PS4: 37 (total 7,928,477)

 

[DenchDeckard]

under 10k vs over 50k just seems unfair.

Sony feeling like MS in their home country.....(Sony are American now I guess)

 

[Woopah]

Astrobot continues to do well. That's good word of mouth at work.

Pro baseball is also good, closing in on 300,000 physical.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

How the fuck are people buying 50k Switch consoles per week with Switch 2 reveal imminent?

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Astrobot continues to do well. That's good word of mouth at work.

How is 30k total for a platformer of the generation good?

 

[Woopah]

How the fuck are people buying 50k Switch consoles per week with Switch 2 reveal imminent?

A decent chunk are likely to be exports due to the weak yen. Domestic demand is still strong though.

 

[Mr Moose]

under 10k vs over 50k just seems unfair.

Sony feeling like MS in their home country.....(Sony are American now I guess)

Sony HQ is in Japan. I think it's the PS one that's US.

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

A decent chunk are likely to be exports due to the weak yen. Domestic demand is still strong though.

This was always my theory behind why PS5 were high the past 12 months until the price rise. I'd speculated before that something was fishy considering the hardware was flying and the software was just abysmal and games were barely charting.

Now that sales have fallen off a cliff perhaps the actual amount of console being bought and used by the Japanese was always in this region of 10,000-20,000 and the rest were being exported or picked up by foreign tourists.

 

[MasterDerico]

Keep woke Sony, the facts don't lie.

 

[LordOcidax]

How is 30k total for a *first party platformer of the generation good?

Don’t be that rude…

 

[Bruno_Arrais85]

under 10k vs over 50k just seems unfair.

Sony feeling like MS in their home country.....(Sony are American now I guess)

Playstation is now made in California lol.

 

[Robb]

Approximately three more weeks and Switch will have sold 34M in Japan alone. Crazy.

[Switch] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
total 6,005,594

Also cool to see Mario Kart 8 Deluxe breaking the 6M mark.

 

[Luminoth-4545]

 

[Fake]

Good legs for Astro Bot.

edit: Dude, about PS5 sales. Sony really hate his homeland, at least Sony USA.

 

[Woopah]

How is 30k total for a platformer of the generation good?

Because it was supply constrained at launch and has had very soft drops in week 2 and 3. That indicates strong word of mouth.

 

[LordOcidax]

Because it was supply constrained at launch and has had very soft drops in week 2 and 3. That indicates strong word of mouth.

That was the launch week, second and third week was not supplied constrained and sales numbers still low for a first party title.

 

[Woopah]

This was always my theory behind why PS5 were high the past 12 months until the price rise. I'd speculated before that something was fishy considering the hardware was flying and the software was just abysmal and games were barely charting.

Now that sales have fallen off a cliff perhaps the actual amount of console being bought and used by the Japanese was always in this region of 10,000-20,000 and the rest were being exported or picked up by foreign tourists.

Sony did say that the price rise was specifically targeted at resellers. So yes, I think the real domestic demand was somewhere between what PS5 used to sell and what it sells now.

Keep woke Sony, the facts don't lie.

What's woke got to do with this?

 

[MasterDerico]

Sony did say that the price rise was specifically targeted at resellers. So yes, I think the real domestic demand was somewhere between what PS5 used to sell and what it sells now.

What's woke got to do with this?

Japan man...

 

[Woopah]

That was the launch week, second and third week was not supplied constrained and sales numbers still low for a first party title.

Overall numbers are low, but the legs are really good. And PS5 needs more leggy games.

Japan man...

Sorry, I don't understand still.

 

[Hookshot]

Approximately three more weeks and Switch will have sold 34M in Japan alone. Crazy.


Also cool to see Mario Kart 8 Deluxe breaking the 6M mark.

I'd love to see a revised version of the infamous Polygon charts just to see how successful 8 actually was.

 

[LordOcidax]

Overall numbers are low, but the legs are really good. And PS5 needs more leggy games.

The “Legs” is due to the out of stock situation of the first week, I don’t see anything special in those numbers, if the numbers go UP that’s another story, but right now those sales numbers are bad.

 

[Woopah]

The “Legs” is due to the out of stock situation of the first week, I don’t see anything special in those numbers, if the numbers go UP that’s another story, but right now those sales numbers are bad.

It got another shipment in week 2. And yet in week 3 it only fell 22%. That's good legs.

 

[LordOcidax]

It got another shipment in week 2. And yet in week 3 it only fell 22%. That's good legs.

The game is coming from sell 12K in launch week, is not like the game come from sell 100K, of course the drop WoW is not going to be that big, but 30K in 3 weeks for a major first party title is not a good number by any metric. And let’s not forget that the game got a good marketing push in Japan… If the game doesn’t go UP WoW this week, at least in Japan, the game is going to fail in term of sales.

 

[Woopah]

The game is coming from sell 12K in launch week, is not like the game come from sell 100K, of course the drop WoW is not going to be that big, but 30K in 3 weeks for a major first party title is not a good number by any metric. And let’s not forget that the game got a good marketing push in Japan… If the game doesn’t go UP WoW this week, at least in Japan, the game is going to fail in term of sales.

Games can launch at that level and not have those soft drops.

Sonic Frontiers PS5 launced at 11,111. The next week it did less than 2,500.
R&C Rift Apart launched at 14,663 (so higher than Astrobot). It dropped 78% in its 2nd week and was out of the chart entirely by its third week.

If these legs continue, Astrobot is likely to hit over 100,000 lifetime in digital and physical. Not bad at all for a PS5 exclusive platformer in Japan.

 

[lachesis]

Playstation in Japn, is really geared towards old men - ones who grew up in 90s and 2000s…. so it’s not too surprising that a platformer, a genre often associated being kid friendly isn’t selling earth shattering amount on PS platform….

Then again, it is still selling respectable amount, because it touches nostalgia of those older ones who grew up with PS. Well, at least that’s how I see it.

 

[kazuyamishima]

People still forget that the system is now 73k and 80k yen respectively in Japan.

Problem is that it's the only region where Sony hasn't done any temporary price cuts ever.

 

[Woopah]

People still forget that the system is now 73k and 80k yen respectively in Japan.

Problem is that it's the only region where Sony hasn't done any temporary price cuts ever.

Who is forgetting? The high price is well know.

 

[kazuyamishima]

Who is forgetting? The high price is well know.

I mean, some people are acting surprised about the low number sales, so maybe they forget about the high price.