Media Create Sales: Week 16, 2020 (Apr 13 - Apr 19)

[sir_crocodile]

I see amazon jp has FFVIIR stock now, have the supply problems from last week that led to the dropoff being so huge since been resolved or are dept stores still out of stock?

 

[Xevross]

They shared Digital numbers last week

Its 1.1 mil last week sales with Digital

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Yep, but I want to see digital sales going forward so we can see if digital share is increasing to pick up the slack for physical supply issues.

 

[hiska-kun]

Switch YTD Hardware Sales Comparison

Switch vs 3DS

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|    |    Nintendo 3DS    |   Nintendo Switch  |  Difference  | 
|    |    (2011/02/26)    |    (2017/03/03)    |              | 
|----|---------|----------|---------|----------|--------------| 
|Week|  Weekly |    LTD   |  Weekly |    LTD   |   NSW - 3DS  | 
|----|---------|----------|---------|----------|--------------|
| 162|   57.695|15.385.402|  154.640|13.238.423|    -2.146.979|
| 163|   31.680|15.417.082|   25.313|13.263.736|    -2.153.346|
| 164|   24.044|15.441.126|   27.874|13.291.610|    -2.149.516|
| 165|   22.347|15.463.473|         |          |              |
| 166|   33.358|15.496.831|         |          |              |
| 167|   42.647|15.539.478|         |          |              |
| 168|   40.068|15.579.546|         |          |              |
| 169|   25.440|15.604.986|         |          |              |
| 170|   25.015|15.630.001|         |          |              |
| 171|   24.485|15.654.486|         |          |              |
|----|---------|----------|---------|----------|--------------|

PS4 vs PS3

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|    |    PlayStation 3   |    PlayStation 4   |  Difference  | 
|    |    (2006/11/11)    |    (2014/02/22)    |              | 
|----|---------|----------|---------|----------|--------------| 
|Week|  Weekly |    LTD   |  Weekly |    LTD   |   PS4 - PS3  | 
|----|---------|----------|---------|----------|--------------|
| 320|   50.216| 8.690.226|   19.535| 8.937.864|       247.638|
| 321|   54.107| 8.744.333|   79.059| 9.016.923|       272.590|
| 322|   64.834| 8.809.167|   34.500| 9.051.423|       242.256|
| 323|   21.445| 8.830.612|         |          |              |
| 324|   19.042| 8.849.654|         |          |              |
| 325|   17.242| 8.866.896|         |          |              |
| 326|   16.346| 8.883.242|         |          |              |
| 327|   14.149| 8.897.391|         |          |              |
| 328|   13.703| 8.911.094|         |          |              |
| 329|   17.015| 8.928.109|         |          |              |
|----|---------|----------|---------|----------|--------------|

Extra

 

[Franco_Tech]

I really want to know the digital sales of FF7 Remake too bad that not possible. Remember last week when a Lot of people where saying FF7 not have stock issues, then those reports came, and now we are looking at it.

 

[Mpl90]

A shame the news about new Switch stock were...overestimated? Or better, we know Nintendo restarted shipments last week, and Chris1964 posted multiple times how there were signs of much better stock compared to last week. At the same time, he said the week-end would've been essential to understand how much stock Nintendo prepared, so maybe that's when the stock stopped coming?

The other possibility is that Famitsu has started including tracking of digital stores for software, but not hardware...how much can that be realistic, though.

Anyway, if AC is capable of selling this much in spite of Switch shortages, what kind of numbers will cross once GW happens? 400,000 in a single week?

...500,000?

 

[mclem]

(-2%)

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Blimey.

 

[Jawbreaker]

Shame about the FFVIIR stock issues. Hopefully they'll get a restock soon enough.

Animal Crossing is a beast.

 

[Tbone5189]

AC being flat with so little Switch sold is bonkers.

The game will cross 4m at retail in less than 2 weeks.

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Looks like my optimistic post from the other thread predicting AC sales wasn't good.... lol

 

[Oregano]

I see amazon jp has FFVIIR stock now, have the supply problems from last week that led to the dropoff being so huge since been resolved or are dept stores still out of stock?

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It's a JRPG so a massive drop was to be expected. KH3 and FFXV had drops in the High 80s.

 

[Deleted member 60185]

Animal Crossing is just insane.
And Switch actually gained ground on the 3DS this week lol

 

[RPGamer2]

Its odd that people can make a statement about legs of a game for week 2, and with stock problems to boot.

 

[DrWong]

After Animal Crushing it's now time for Animal Cruising.

 

[7threst]

Damn, AC is rocking on! Honestly expected for FFVII Remake to stay #1 because of Switch shortages....

 

[sir_crocodile]

It's a JRPG so a massive drop was to be expected. KH3 and FFXV had drops in the High 80s.

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Agreed, but there were also stock issues last week right?

Though I suppose a lot of people will have turned to digital/second hand rather than waiting now.

 

[Chris1964]

>250k 5th week

Famitsu Sales: Week 51, 1999 (Dec 13 - Dec 19)
01./02. [GMB] Pokemon Gold / Silver |GameBoy/GameBoy Color/Super GameBoy| <RPG> (Nintendo) {1999.11.21} (¥3.800) - 436.828 / 3.055.379 (+45%)

Famitsu Sales: Week 51, 2002 (Dec 16 - Dec 22)
01./01. [GBA] Pokemon Ruby / Sapphire <RPG> (Pokemon Co.) {2002.11.21} (¥4.571) - 437.352 / 2.812.148 <93,10%> (+30%)

Famitsu Sales: Week 52, 2005 (Dec 19 - Dec 25)
02./02. [NDS] Animal Crossing: Wild World <ETC> (Nintendo) {2005.11.23} (¥4.571) - 381.927 / 1.169.757 (+98%)

Famitsu Sales: Week 1, 2010 (Dec 28 - Jan 03)
01./01. [WII] New Super Mario Bros. Wii <ACT> (Nintendo) {2009.12.03} (¥5.524) - 254.494 / 2.740.644 (-50%)

Famitsu Sales: Week 1, 2011 (Dec 27 - Jan 02)
01./01. [PSP] Monster Hunter Freedom 3 # <ACT> (Capcom) {2010.12.01} (¥5.524) - 317.471 / 3.798.460 (-18%)

Famitsu Sales: Week 1, 2019 (Dec 31 - Jan 06)
01./01. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate # <FTG> (Nintendo) {2018.12.07} (¥7.200) - 267.432 / 2.628.087 <80-100%> (+5%)

Famitsu Sales: Week 16, 2020 (Apr 13 - Apr 19)
01./02. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons # <ETC> (Nintendo) {2020.03.20} (¥5.980) - 286.586 / 3.611.246 (-2%)
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Animal Crossing 5th week

Famitsu Sales: Week 52, 2005 (Dec 19 - Dec 25)
02./02. [NDS] Animal Crossing: Wild World <ETC> (Nintendo) {2005.11.23} (¥4.571) - 381.927 / 1.169.757 (+98%)

Famitsu Sales: Week 51, 2008 (Dec 15 - Dec 21)
03./02. [WII] Animal Crossing: City Folk # <ETC> (Nintendo) {2008.11.20} (¥5.524) - 158.731 / 727.555 (+86%)

Famitsu Sales: Week 50, 2012 (Dec 03 - Dec 09)
04./03. [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf # <ETC> (Nintendo) {2012.11.08} (¥4.571) - 115.556 / 1.509.380 <99,00%> (-3%)

Famitsu Sales: Week 16, 2020 (Apr 13 - Apr 19)
01./02. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons # <ETC> (Nintendo) {2020.03.20} (¥5.980) - 286.586 / 3.611.246 (-2%)

 

[Deleted member 31092]

AC is really insane.

 

[Andri]

Code:
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| | Nintendo 3DS | Nintendo Switch | Difference |
| | (2011/02/26) | (2017/03/03) | |
|----|---------|----------|---------|----------|--------------|
|Week| Weekly | LTD | Weekly | LTD | NSW - 3DS |
|----|---------|----------|---------|----------|--------------|
| 162| 57.695|15.385.402| 154.640|13.238.423| -2.146.979|
| 163| 31.680|15.417.082| 25.313|13.263.736| -2.153.346|
| 164| 24.044|15.441.126| 27.874|13.291.610| -2.149.516|
| 165| 22.347|15.463.473| | | |
| 166| 33.358|15.496.831| | | |
| 167| 42.647|15.539.478| | | |
| 168| 40.068|15.579.546| | | |
| 169| 25.440|15.604.986| | | |
| 170| 25.015|15.630.001| | | |
| 171| 24.485|15.654.486| | | |
|----|---------|----------|---------|----------|--------------|

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Kinda impressive how Switch is still matching 3DS in weekly sales with these big shortages.
Maybe with GW this year being less of a Golden Weak, the gap between them could shrink bellow 2m soon.

 

[klanar]

Next page.

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100 posts gang

 

[cw_sasuke]

lol@Animal Crossing.

Straight up ridiculous. Making a fool of Pokemon, DQ and Monster Hunter - hah.

 

[Deleted member 65994]

At this speed, we need to ditch the 'which game gonna sell better, animal crossing or FF7r' to 'which game gonna sell better, animal crossing or Cyberpunk 2077'

 

[Ryng™]

|----|--------------------|--------------------|
|    |         3DS        |      Switch        |
|----|----------|---------|---------|----------|
|Week|  Weekly  |  2012   |  Weekly |   2020   |
|----|----------|---------|---------|----------|
|  01|   203.605|  203.605|  284.827|   284.827|
|  02|   257.377|  460.982|  116.301|   401.128|
|  03|   101.697|  562.679|   96.458|   497.586|
|  04|    77.519|  640.198|   67.987|   565.573|
|  05|    81.699|  721.897|   75.922|   641.495|
|  06|    69.180|  791.077|  100.961|   741.456|
|  07|    60.231|  851.308|   80.312|   821.768|
|  08|    88.909|  940.217|   41.490|   863.258|
|  09|    72.032|1.012.249|   53.098|   916.356|
|  10|    71.797|1.084.046|   50.585|   967.941|
|  11|    63.717|1.147.763|   57.274| 1.025.215|
|  12|    63.746|1.211.509|  392.576| 1.417.791|
|  13|    94.776|1.306.285|  282.561| 1.700.352|
|  14|   118.072|1.424.357|  154.640| 1.854.992|
|  15|    67.312|1.491.970|   25.313| 1.880.305|
|  16|    62.653|1.554.623|   27.874| 1.908.179|
|----|----------|---------|---------|----------|

Switch need an avg. of 103.294 units for the next 36 weeks to beat 3DS peak year.

 

[Skittzo]

I'm honestly amazed at how AC is selling right now. This type of continued performance is unprecedented outside of the holiday season, right?

Is this going to become the best selling game in Japan of all time this year?

 

[Tbone5189]

Could AC be close to 4.5m sold at retail by the end of Golden Week ? (W19)

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good point it needs 900k about. I'm telling everyone 7mil by end of June is a good possibility

 

[mclem]

Out of interest, are there any records of the highest selling non-physical releases of all time?

I appreciate it's going to be somewhat confused with free-to-play and cheap mobile titles out there, so it depends on what metrics are actually considered, but I'm curious where AC might be. Has there been a pure-digital million-seller (Minecraft before the retail release?)

 

[Chris1964]

2nd week

Famitsu Sales: Week 50, 2016 (Dec 05 - Dec 11)
04./01. [PS4] Final Fantasy XV # <RPG> (Square Enix) {2016.11.29} (¥8.800) - 72.545 / 789.194 <60-80%> (-90%)

Famitsu Sales: Week 5, 2019 (Jan 28 - Feb 03)
01./01. [PS4] Kingdom Hearts III # <RPG> (Square Enix) {2019.01.25} (¥8.800) - 81.795 / 722.201 <80-100%> (-87%)

Famitsu Sales: Week 16, 2020 (Apr 13 - Apr 19)
02./01. [PS4] Final Fantasy VII Remake # <RPG> (Square Enix) {2020.04.10} (¥8.980) - 70.652 / 773.505 (-90%)

 

[hiska-kun]

If FFVII has a decent drop next week I will add a graph comparison with FFXV and KHIII. If it has a hard drop again then I'll pass.

 

[AndyVirus]

Jesus, FFVIIR dropped like a rock (As it should).

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Excuse me?

 

[Deleted member 2791]

good point it needs 900k about. I'm telling everyone 7mil by end of June is a good possibility

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it'll crash down to 2k a week once it reaches 5.9M

 

[Deleted member 31092]

I'm honestly amazed at how AC is selling right now. This type of continued performance is unprecedented outside of the holiday season, right?

Is this going to become the best selling game in Japan of all time this year?

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Looking at Chris' post, a >250k 5th week never happened outside of December.

 

[Skittzo]

good point it needs 900k about. I'm telling everyone 7mil by end of June is a good possibility

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The fact that this is even a possibility is absolutely mind blowing.

What's the cap on sales for its first year, 9M? 10M? Jesus.

 

[K Samedi]

Animal Crossing sales are amazing to witness. I've never seen something like this. The game is hitting every demographic possible. I feel like more of these type of games are needed to actually grow the console industry.

 

[Comic Obsessed]

Excuse me?

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Ending.

 

[Mpl90]

Also, yeah: how is the Switch stock situation looking like this week? Is it stalling, witnessing another (small growth) WOW or what? We know a big restock is happening once GW starts, due to the amount of lotteries and how many units have been reserved for them.

 

[MysticGon]

RIP in peace my FF7 prediction. Lol

 

[Tbone5189]

Next week: Best selling Switch game.

Next year: Best selling game.

Prepare yourself!

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Honestly There is a possibility that it could be best selling game before years end... :)

 

[Odeko]

-2%!

GOD
DAAAAAAMMNN

 

[Deleted member 31092]

Damn, AC is rocking on! Honestly expected for FFVII Remake to stay #1 because of Switch shortages....

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This is gonna be the story of the year, just swap FF7 with the logo of any upcoming game.

 

[Deleted member 31092]

Also, yeah: how is the Switch stock situation looking like this week? Is it stalling, witnessing another (small growth) WOW or what? We know a big restock is happening once GW starts, due to the amount of lotteries and how many units have been reserved for them.

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I think we had Chris posting it was looking like a 50k-100k week

 

[Oregano]

Agreed, but there were also stock issues last week right?

Though I suppose a lot of people will have turned to digital/second hand rather than waiting now.

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Sure,stock issues have definitely exacerbated it but there's a good chance it would have been 80%+ just based on the typical trends.

 

[hannybunny24]

Animal Crossing most likely must have passed 5m already with digital (28% needed), possibly. Really looking forward to the 7th next month to finally get an idea where it's digital split is gonna land.

 

[HaremKing]

If FFVII has a decent drop next week I will add a graph comparison with FFXV and KHIII. If it has a hard drop again then I'll pass.

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FFXV / KH3 / FFVIIR could be a neat graph since the three are so relatively close to eachother and we could compare their (lack of) legs.

 

[Chris1964]

Anecdotal failed on Switch stock last week, it was looking to have 2 sizable shipments.

 

[Fintendo]

Wow. We still don't know digital either!

 

[delete12345]

Switch need an avg. of 103.294 units for the next 36 weeks to beat 3DS peak year.

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I don't think we can beat 3DS this year, maybe next year?

 

[Andri]

|----|--------------------|--------------------|
|    |         3DS        |      Switch        |
|----|----------|---------|---------|----------|
|Week|  Weekly  |  2012   |  Weekly |   2020   |
|----|----------|---------|---------|----------|
|  01|   203.605|  203.605|  284.827|   284.827|
|  02|   257.377|  460.982|  116.301|   401.128|
|  03|   101.697|  562.679|   96.458|   497.586|
|  04|    77.519|  640.198|   67.987|   565.573|
|  05|    81.699|  721.897|   75.922|   641.495|
|  06|    69.180|  791.077|  100.961|   741.456|
|  07|    60.231|  851.308|   80.312|   821.768|
|  08|    88.909|  940.217|   41.490|   863.258|
|  09|    72.032|1.012.249|   53.098|   916.356|
|  10|    71.797|1.084.046|   50.585|   967.941|
|  11|    63.717|1.147.763|   57.274| 1.025.215|
|  12|    63.746|1.211.509|  392.576| 1.417.791|
|  13|    94.776|1.306.285|  282.561| 1.700.352|
|  14|   118.072|1.424.357|  154.640| 1.854.992|
|  15|    67.312|1.491.970|   25.313| 1.880.305|
|  16|    62.653|1.554.623|   27.874| 1.908.179|
|----|----------|---------|---------|----------|

Switch need an avg. of 103.294 units for the next 36 weeks to beat 3DS peak year.

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With an avg. of 103.294 this year, switch would shrink the gap to 3DS by 1.3m, down to 831.378 units by the end of the year.

 

[ChaosXVI]

I can't believe AC is still selling such a ridiculous number week to week, and it's not even including digital. It's completely nuts but it couldn't have come at a better time.

 

[Andri]

it'll crash down to 2k a week once it reaches 5.9M

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good to see you agree to my wisdom.
6m hard cap, programmed into the simulation.(also please somebody disable the Pandemic expansion, it aint any fun)

 

[Mpl90]

I think we had Chris posting it was looking like a 50k-100k week

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That was in reference to this week's numbers. As Chris just said, it seems anecdotal evidences were inaccurate last week. Stock for the Lite increased by a tiny amount, while the regular model was basically flat.

Speaking of which, even if it may be inaccurate again: Chris1964 is anecdotal looking worse or better this week? I do remember how last week Amazon.co.jp got a restock for several Lite models, while so far only the Neon SKU was restocked.

 

[Guaraná]

Aren't switch stocks improvements supposed to appear on charts only next week?

 

[Ryng™]

I don't think we can beat 3DS this year, maybe next year?

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Not sure if you mean 3DS LTD sales or 3DS peak year.

The first should happen next year yes, the second one i don't think can happen if this year fail to beat 3DS 2012, because i think 2020 will be Switch peak.

But i don't think 2021 will have an hard drop, so anything is possible .