Here’s the latest sales data report from Media Create and Dengeki!

Media Create – Day 1 Sell-through (Week 36)

Unfortunately, no Day 1 sell-through data this week!

Dengeki (Week 35)

Dengeki report that Astral Chain was the best-selling game during Week 35, with about 35 000 units sold. Just like in Famitsu data, the gap between the games ranked #1 and #2 is quite small (barely a thousand units). The sell-through ratio for this game is quite good: about 85%, with strong sales leading to shortages in some stores (though it was not particularly hard to find new copies).

Other than the two new entries, not much activity in the top of the charts. Super Mario Maker 2 sold 22 000 additional units, bringing total sales to 541 000 units.

Here’s how the other entries in the Top 50 Software fared:

Friday the 13th: The Game Ultimate Slasher Edition (Natsume Atari): 2 064 units sold. Unsurprising low debut for the late port of a niche game;

Psikyo Shooting Library Vol. 2 (City Connection): 1 739 units sold. This is a collection of retro games already available on the Nintendo eShop, so low sales were expected;

Toraware no Palm (Capcom): 1 650 units sold. No, late ports of Otome games do not fare better if they’re published by Capcom;

Dead or School (Studio Nanafushi): 1 565 units sold on Nintendo Switch (and 1 967 units on PlayStation 4). A low profile release with low sales;

BROTHERS CONFLICT Precious Baby for Nintendo Switch (Idea Factory): 1 400 units sold. Late ports of Otome games on Nintendo Switch pretty much all share the same fate;

Raspberry Cube (iMel): 1 231 units on Nintendo Switch (and 1 194 units on PlayStation 4). The usual sales for a niche Visual Novel.

Hardware-wise, the release of the new Nintendo Switch model with improved battery led to a significant increase in sales. Said sales increased by 2.5 times, to about 76 000 units (a significantly lower number than the one reported by Famitsu earlier this week, for some reason). This is, so far, the best weekly sales for the console this Fiscal Year.

But despite that big increase, Hardware sales are down in August (July 29th to September 1st), and Software sales are the same:

Hardware: 330 000 units (-24.6%) / 10 billion Yen (-20.6%)

Software: 1 490 000 units (-28.8%) / 8.9 billion Yen (-25.9%)

Total: 18.9 billion units (-23.2%)

Bad news: the Summer season (July 1st to September 1st) was quite bad, with the lowest numbers on record since 2000:

Hardware: 18.4 billion Yen (-15.6%)

Software: 19.3 billion Yen (-4%)

Total: 37.7 million Yen (-10%)

Here’s the Software sales for each platform:

Platforms This week This week (%) Fiscal Year Fiscal Year (%) PS4 88,462 30.0％ 1,933,732 29.0％ Vita 4,940 1.7％ 155,486 2.3％ Switch 191,029 64.8％ 4,294,631 64.3％ 3DS 9,632 3.3％ 272,009 4.1％ ETC 582 0.2％ 19,039 0.3％ Total 294,645 100.0％ 6,674,897 100.0％

And here’s Hardware sales:

Platforms This week This week (%) Fiscal Year Fiscal Year (%) PS4 11,144 12.5％ 335,839 24.3％ Vita 62 0.1％ 5,464 0.4％ Switch 75,765 85.1％ 970,477 70.3％ 3DS 2,015 2.3％ 66,336 4.8％ ETC 69 0.1％ 2,860 0.2％ Total 89,055 100.0％ 1,380,976 100.0％

Finally, here’s the Top 50 Software:

01./00. [NSW] Astral Chain (Nintendo) {2019.08.30} – 35,487 / NEW

02./00. [PS4] Azur Lane: Crosswave (Compile Heart) {2019.08.29} – 34,106 / NEW

03./01. [NSW] Super Mario Maker 2 (Nintendo) {2019.06.28} – 22,333 / 540,878

04./04. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo) {2018.12.07} – 11,550 / 3,304,360

05./06. [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft Game Studios) {2018.06.21} – 9,922 / 947,575

06./08. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo) {2017.04.28} – 8,718 / 2,278,377

07./07. [NSW] Fire Emblem: Three Houses (Nintendo) {2019.07.26} – 7,628 / 251,269

08./05. [NSW] Fishing Spirits: Nintendo Switch Version (Bandai Namco Games) {2019.07.25} – 7,553 / 144,566

09./09. [NSW] Super Mario Party (Nintendo) {2018.10.05} – 5,771 / 1,106,886

10./02. [PS4] Oninaki (Square Enix) {2019.08.22} – 4,800 / 20,080

11./10. [NSW] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball (Konami) {2019.06.27} – 4,733 / 157,875

12./13. [PS4] Monster Hunter: World [Best Price] (Capcom) {2019.07.18} – 4,706 / 30,622

13./15. [NSW] Splatoon 2 (Nintendo) {2017.07.21} – 3,994 / 3,081,465

14./11. [NSW] Olympic Games Tokyo 2020: The Official Video Game (Sega) {2019.07.24} – 3,878 / 42,116

15./17. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo) {2017.03.03} – 3,747 / 1,074,032

16./03. [NSW] Oninaki (Square Enix) {2019.08.22} – 3,700 / 15,940

17./16. [NSW] New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe (Nintendo) {2019.01.11} – 3,629 / 707,444

18./14. [NSW] Yo-kai Watch 4: We Are Looking Up at the Same Sky (Level 5) {2019.06.20} – 3,228 / 263,982

19./12. [PS4] Professional Baseball Spirits 2019 (Konami) {2019.07.18} – 2,794 / 238,887

20./20. [NSW] Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum ‘n’ Fun! (Bandai Namco Games) {2018.07.19} – 2,312 / 379,297

21./00. [NSW] Friday The 13th: The Game – Ultimate Slasher Edition (Natsume Atari) {2019.08.29} – 2,064 / NEW

22./19. [NSW] Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! (Pokemon Co.) {2018.11.16} – 2,000 / 878,183

23./22. [NSW] Tetris 99 (Nintendo) {2019.08.09} – 1,989 / 8,966

24./00. [PS4] Dead or School (Studio Nanafushi) {2019.08.29} – 1,967 / NEW

25./00. [PS4] Immortal: Unchained (Oizumi Amuzio) {2019.08.29} – 1,767 / NEW

26./00. [NSW] Psikyo Shooting Library Vol.2 (City Connection) {2019.08.29} – 1,739 / NEW

27./00. [NSW] Towaware no Palm (Capcom) {2019.08.30} – 1,650 / NEW

28./26. [NSW] Doraemon: Story of Seasons (Bandai Namco Games) {2019.06.13} – 1,639 / 94,859

29./23. [NSW] Pokemon: Let’s Go, Eevee! (Pokemon Co.) {2018.11.16} – 1,617 / 714,724

30./00. [NSW] Dead or School (Studio Nanafushi) {2019.08.29} – 1,565 / NEW

31./00. [PSV] Kannagi no Mori Satsukiame Tsuzuri (Matatabi) {2019.08.29} – 1,556 / NEW

32./00. [NSW] Brothers Conflict: Precious Baby for Nintendo Switch (Idea Factory) {2019.08.29} – 1,400 / NEW

33./27. [PS4] Grand Theft Auto V (Take-Two Interactive Japan) {2018.12.06} – 1,346 / 41,271

34./18. [NSW] Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet – Complete Edition for Nintendo Switch (Bandai Namco Games) {2019.08.08} – 1,317 / 20,992

35./30. [NSW] Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo) {2017.10.27} – 1,306 / 1,852,702

36./00. [NSW] Raspberry Cube (iMel) {2019.08.29} – 1,231 / NEW

37./00. [PS4] Raspberry Cube (iMel) {2019.08.29} – 1,194 / NEW

38./25. [NSW] Rune Factory 4 Special (Marvelous) {2019.07.25} – 1,183 / 53,309

39./36. [NSW] Puyo Puyo Tetris [Special Price] (Sega) {2019.08.08} – 1,171 / 6,119

40./33. [NSW] Kirby Star Allies (Nintendo) {2018.03.16} – 1,159 / 773,933

41./31. [PS4] Judgment [New Price Edition] (Sega) {2019.07.18} – 1,047 / 11,288

42./32. [NSW] Attack on Titan 2: Final Battle (Koei Tecmo) {2019.07.04} – 1,039 / 41,639

43./35. [PS4] Minecraft: Playstation 4 Edition (Sony Interactive Entertainment) {2015.12.03} – 1,029 / 50,534

44./34. [NSW] Yoshi’s Crafted World (Nintendo) {2019.03.29} – 1,029 / 177,211

45./37. [NSW] Sumikko Gurashi: Gakkou Seikatsu Hajimerun Desu (Nippon Columbia) {2019.07.18} – 1,006 / 17,563

46./29. [PS4] Olympic Games Tokyo 2020: The Official Video Game (Sega) {2019.07.24} – 1,000 / 15,725

47./38. [NSW] Fortnite (Warner Entertainment Japan) {2018.12.13} – 933 / 44,995

48./28. [PSV] Professional Baseball Spirits 2019 (Konami) {2019.07.18} – 859 / 59,051

49./40. [NSW] Super Bomberman R [Smile Price Collection] (Konami) {2018.11.29} – 824 / 35,936

50./39. [PS4] Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition (Sony Interactive Entertainment) {2019.06.27} – 807 / 13,506

Source: Dengeki

Data compiled by: ZSaberLink (ResetERA)

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