Media Create Sales: Week 30, 2019 (Jul 22 - Jul 28)

Chris1964 · Jul 31, 2019

Media Create Sales: Week 30, 2019 (Jul 22 - Jul 28)

01./00. [NSW] Fire Emblem: Three Houses # <SLG> (Nintendo) {2019.07.26} (¥6.980)
02./00. [NSW] Fishing Spirits: Nintendo Switch Version <SPT> (Bandai Namco Games) {2019.07.25} (¥5.700)
03./00. [NSW] Rune Factory 4 Special # <SLG> (Marvelous) {2019.07.25} (¥4.980)
04./02. [NSW] Super Mario Maker 2 # <ACT> (Nintendo) {2019.06.28} (¥5.980)
05./01. [PS4] Professional Baseball Spirits 2019 <SPT> (Konami) {2019.07.18} (¥8.800)
06./07. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe <RCE> (Nintendo) {2017.04.28} (¥5.980)
07./00. [NSW] Olympic Games Tokyo 2020: The Official Video Game <SPT> (Sega) {2019.07.24} (¥4.990)
08./08. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate # <FTG> (Nintendo) {2018.12.07} (¥7.200)
09./03. [PSV] Professional Baseball Spirits 2019 <SPT> (Konami) {2019.07.18} (¥7.500)
10./05. [NSW] Yo-kai Watch 4: We Are Looking Up at the Same Sky <RPG> (Level 5) {2019.06.20} (¥5.980)

Top 10

NSW - 8
PS4 - 1
PSV - 1

(Taiwan)
01./00. [NSW] Doraemon: Story of Seasons <SLG> (Bandai Namco Games) {2019.07.25}
02./00. [NSW] Fire Emblem: Three Houses <SLG> (Nintendo) {2019.07.26}
03./00. [NSW] Fishing Spirits: Nintendo Switch Version <SPT> (Bandai Namco Games) {2019.07.25}
04./00. [NSW] Olympic Games Tokyo 2020: The Official Video Game <SPT> (Sega) {2019.07.24}
05./02. [NSW] Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order <ACT> (Nintendo) {2019.07.19}

Top 5

NSW - 5

(South Korea)
01./00. [NSW] Fire Emblem: Three Houses <SLG> (Nintendo) {2019.07.26}
02./00. [NSW] Doraemon: Story of Seasons <SLG> (Bandai Namco Games) {2019.07.25}
03./00. [PS4] Olympic Games Tokyo 2020: The Official Video Game <SPT> (Sega) {2019.07.24}
04./02. [NSW] Super Mario Maker 2 <ACT> (Nintendo) {2019.06.28}
05./00. [NSW] Olympic Games Tokyo 2020: The Official Video Game <SPT> (Sega) {2019.07.24}

Top 5

NSW - 4
PS4 - 1

Famitsu Sales: Week 30, 2019 (Jul 22 - Jul 28)

01./00. [NSW] Fire Emblem: Three Houses # <SLG> (Nintendo) {2019.07.26} (¥6.980) - 143.130 / NEW <60-80%>
02./00. [NSW] Fishing Spirits: Nintendo Switch Version <SPT> (Bandai Namco Games) {2019.07.25} (¥5.700) - 47.700 / NEW <60-80%>
03./02. [NSW] Super Mario Maker 2 # <ACT> (Nintendo) {2019.06.28} (¥5.980) - 37.941 / 418.083 <80-100%> (-18%)
04./00. [NSW] Rune Factory 4 Special # <SLG> (Marvelous) {2019.07.25} (¥4.980) - 37.916 / NEW <60-80%>
05./01. [PS4] Professional Baseball Spirits 2019 <SPT> (Konami) {2019.07.18} (¥8.800) - 27.334 / 202.523 <80-100%> (-84%)
06./00. [NSW] Olympic Games Tokyo 2020: The Official Video Game <SPT> (Sega) {2019.07.24} (¥4.990) - 9.425 / NEW <20-40%>
07./08. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate # <FTG> (Nintendo) {2018.12.07} (¥7.200) - 8.088 / 3.175.474 <80-100%> (-8%)
08./03. [PSV] Professional Baseball Spirits 2019 <SPT> (Konami) {2019.07.18} (¥7.500) - 7.989 / 52.259 <80-100%> (-82%)
09./09. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe <RCE> (Nintendo) {2017.04.28} (¥5.980) - 7.849 / 2.380.413 <80-100%> (-1%)
10./07. [NSW] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball <SPT> (Konami) {2019.06.27} (¥6.980) - 7.519 / 122.191 <80-100%> (-17%)
11./10. [NSW] Minecraft # <ADV> (Microsoft Game Studios) {2018.06.21} (¥3.600) - 7.110 / 859.609 <80-100%> (-4%)
12./05. [NSW] Yo-kai Watch 4: We Are Looking Up at the Same Sky <RPG> (Level 5) {2019.06.20} (¥5.980) - 6.566 / 238.965 <80-100%> (-32%)
13./00. [NSW] Pioneer no Banshou: Ricordo # <ADV> (Idea Factory) {2019.07.25} (¥6.300) - 5.279 / NEW <80-100%>
14./00. [PS4] Kill la Kill the Game: If # <FTG> (Arc System Works) {2019.07.25} (¥6.800) - 5.220 / NEW <40-60%>
15./12. [NSW] Splatoon 2 # <ACT> (Nintendo) {2017.07.21} (¥5.980) - 4.628 / 3.120.306 <80-100%> (-11%)
16./16. [NSW] Super Mario Party # <ETC> (Nintendo) {2018.10.05} (¥5.980) - 4.592 / 1.066.227 <80-100%> (+2%)
17./19. [PS4] Monster Hunter: World [2][Best Price] <ACT> (Capcom) {2019.07.18} (¥2.990) - 4.194 / 8.393 <20-40%> (+0%)
18./15. [NSW] Pokemon: Let's Go, Pikachu! / Let's Go, Eevee! # <RPG> (Pokemon Co.) {2018.11.16} (¥5.980) - 4.182 / 1.586.332 <80-100%> (-12%)
19./00. [PS4] Olympic Games Tokyo 2020: The Official Video Game <SPT> (Sega) {2019.07.24} (¥4.990) - 4.150 / NEW <20-40%>
20./17. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild # <ADV> (Nintendo) {2017.03.03} (¥6.980) - 4.074 / 1.367.397 <80-100%> (-10%)
21./04. [PS4] Kingdom Come: Deliverance # <RPG> (DMM Games) {2019.07.18} (¥8.180) - 3.952 / 17.010 <60-80%> (-70%)
22./22. [NSW] New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe <New Super Mario Bros. U \ New Super Luigi U> <ACT> (Nintendo) {2019.01.11} (¥5.980) - 3.240 / 657.102 <80-100%> (-5%)
23./06. [NSW] Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order <ACT> (Nintendo) {2019.07.19} (¥6.980) - 3.082 / 12.506 <40-60%> (-67%)
24./13. [NSW] God Eater 3 <ACT> (Bandai Namco Games) {2019.07.11} (¥6.800) - 2.673 / 28.770 <80-100%> (-48%)
25./11. [NSW] Sumikko Gurashi: Gakkou Seikatsu Hajimerun Desu <ETC> (Nippon Columbia) {2019.07.18} (¥5.800) - 2.620 / 9.558 <40-60%> (-62%)
26./00. [NSW] Kill la Kill the Game: If # <FTG> (Arc System Works) {2019.07.25} (¥6.800) - 2.615 / NEW <40-60%>
27./00. [PSV] Aoki Tsubasa no Chevalier <RPG> (Experience) {2019.07.25} (¥6.800) - 2.308 / NEW <60-80%>
28./21. [NSW] Attack on Titan 2: Final Battle <ACT> (Koei Tecmo) {2019.07.04} (¥7.800) - 2.201 / 31.679 <80-100%> (-39%)
29./23. [NSW] Doraemon: Story of Seasons <SLG> (Bandai Namco Games) {2019.06.13} (¥6.100) - 2.180 / 80.556 <80-100%> (-31%)
30./20. [PS4] Judgment [New Price Edition] <ADV> (Sega) {2019.07.18} (¥4.540) - 2.007 / 5.835 <40-60%> (-48%)

Top 30

NSW - 22
PS4 - 6
PSV - 2

HARDWARE

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+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+-------------+
|System |  This Week |  Last Week |  Last Year |     YTD    |  Last YTD  |     LTD     |
+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+-------------+
|  NSW  |     42.689 |     45.596 |     47.446 |  1.703.487 |  1.359.612 |   8.593.033 |
| PS4 # |     11.182 |     13.484 |     17.572 |    694.115 |  1.036.451 |   8.246.205 |
| 3DS # |      2.667 |      2.517 |      8.413 |    140.440 |    365.138 |  24.445.404 |
| PSV # |        243 |        315 |      2.653 |     36.651 |    128.853 |   5.862.005 |
| XB1 # |         51 |        121 |        335 |      4.155 |      9.720 |     107.086 |
+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+-------------+
|  ALL  |     56.832 |     62.033 |     76.435 |  2.578.848 |  2.901.346 |  47.253.733 |
+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+-------------+
| XB1 X |         34 |         58 |         72 |      2.835 |      6.844 |      16.291 |
| XB1 S |         17 |         63 |        263 |      1.320 |      2.876 |      18.793 |
|PS4 Pro|      4.332 |      4.670 |      4.459 |    250.075 |    248.996 |   1.222.665 |
|  PS4  |      6.850 |      8.814 |     13.113 |    444.040 |    787.455 |   7.023.540 |
|  PSV  |        243 |        315 |      2.653 |     36.651 |    128.853 |   5.862.005 |
|n-2DSLL|      2.340 |      2.109 |      5.316 |    112.776 |    225.758 |   1.057.020 |
| n-3DS |        327 |        408 |      2.773 |     26.573 |    124.012 |   5.882.398 |
+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+-------------+

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Media Create Sales: Week 29, 2019 (Jul 15 - Jul 21)

Lite_Agent · Jul 31, 2019

That's much lower than expected for Fire Emblem, looks like the vouchers really hurt retail sales. Too bad we'll have to wait for October before getting data for digital sales.

Much better debut than expected for Tsuri Spirits, though. Wasn't expecting 47k. RF4S did fairly ok, come to think of it.

Ok sales for the Switch.

OfficerRaichu15 · Jul 31, 2019

Very low for FE. These vouchers really changing the course lol.

Deleted member 31092 · Jul 31, 2019

Oh God a 3 month long "SMM2 sales are disappointing" incoming.

Dark Cloud · Jul 31, 2019

No digital sales so this doesn't mean much. Like we should overreact to retail sales nowadays lol

Comic Obsessed · Jul 31, 2019

Not that impressive for FE sadly. One would think that Japan would receive this better than Awakening.

ILikeFeet · Jul 31, 2019

Welp, FE is a bust. Time to bring back Advance Wars

this is sarcasm

Deleted member 2791 · Jul 31, 2019

Digital did play a huge part to FE's debut. Adding in the same ratio as Mario Maker, we're going for roughly 200k.

High debut for Fish spirits as well.

Deleted member 249 · Jul 31, 2019

What happened to Fire Emblem

cw_sasuke · Jul 31, 2019

Is the Sega Olympic Game not also on PS4 ?

FE did well - digital sales are probably higher because its one of the games where you saved the most getting it through the voucher program.

kuroneko0509 · Jul 31, 2019

Phantom Thief said:
What happened to Fire Emblem

voucher happened

sfortunato · Jul 31, 2019

Always said Three Houses was going to sell less than 3DS entries in Japan while selling more in the West. Of course, we have yet to know actual sales given digital promotion.

The fishing game and Rune Factory did pretty well.

ZSaberLink · Jul 31, 2019

Normally digital sales aren't that bug but these vouchers are affecting things. Rune Factory and Fishing Spirits did well. Honestly unless digital is crazy FE might've disappointed.

Mpl90 · Jul 31, 2019

One thing is clear, I fear: our prediction models need important overhauls due to vouchers' relevance.

Oh right: Fishing Spirit really came out of nowhere. It's unfortunate no one could pre-oh wait :P

Deleted member 249 · Jul 31, 2019

kuroneko0509 said:
voucher happened

Is there anything to suggest the vouchers have actually been a success in the traditionally digital averse Japan?

Bunkles · Jul 31, 2019

Phantom Thief said:
What happened to Fire Emblem

It's potentially missing 40% of its sales.

Kingpin Rogers · Jul 31, 2019

Surprising that Fire Emblem had no effect on Switch hardware sales. Figured it'd boost numbers up a bit.

Bruno MB · Jul 31, 2019

For first time since I am following these Japanese sales threads I really don't know what to comment regarding the launch (performance) of one title in Japan due to factors out of my knowledge.

Skittzo · Jul 31, 2019

Even considering digital it's interesting how we have another Switch game breaking records in the west (UK and probably US at least) but not Japan. They desperately need the Lite at a lower price point for the Switch to really break out in the same way it has in the west.

Aleh · Jul 31, 2019

Vouchers are really gonna make comparisons harder huh. Can't wait for all the concern trolling discussions about franchises opening lower than past entries.

Bunkles · Jul 31, 2019

Phantom Thief said:
Is there anything to suggest the vouchers have actually been a success in the traditionally digital averse Japan?

Mario Maker 2's digital numbers in Japan.

skullwaker · Jul 31, 2019

This is depressing.

Deleted member 2791 · Jul 31, 2019

Phantom Thief said:
Is there anything to suggest the vouchers have actually been a success in the traditionally digital averse Japan?

Mario Maker 2.

Deleted member 249 · Jul 31, 2019

Foorbits said:
Mario Maker 2's digital numbers in Japan.

Sorry, to rephrase, is there concrete data regarding that?

Zedark · Jul 31, 2019

Retail number is quite tough for FETH, unless digital is way larger than for SMM2, it represents a decline in first week sales for the franchise.

SMM2 holding well, comparison to SMM1 WIIU:

04./08. [WIU] Super Mario Maker # <ACT> (Nintendo) {2015.09.10} (¥6.156) - 24.533 / 299.865 (-19%)

Fishing spirits and RF4S did very well, great performances there.

Personablue · Jul 31, 2019

Even if digital sales were 100k (unlikely) this seems like a below par result for an ambitious home console fire emblem that has been promoted 10x times more than previous entries.

Fularu · Jul 31, 2019

The vouchers are going to enable so much doom and gloom in the foreseeable future

burger rain · Jul 31, 2019

Phantom Thief said:
What happened to Fire Emblem

Lack of face-fondling minigame or the ability to make characters fuck/make babies really hurt its popularity among the otaku crowd.

Dark Cloud · Jul 31, 2019

Aleh said:
Vouchers are really gonna make comparisons harder huh. Can't wait for all the concern trolling discussions about franchises opening lower than past entries.

Don't worry there will be plenty of concern trolling when Nintendo's next biggest titles don't sell as well at retail compared to the past.

Skittzo · Jul 31, 2019

Phantom Thief said:
Is there anything to suggest the vouchers have actually been a success in the traditionally digital averse Japan?

Some Japanese Switch games are priced much higher than they are in the west. FE 3H is one of them. Yet you can still use a voucher for this game, which equates to a pretty massive discount over the retail price. So for this game in particular (and some others, I think Astral Chain is one) we're expecting much higher digital splits than normal because of the giant discount you get from using a voucher.

Oregano · Jul 31, 2019

Vouchers have definitely played a part but we've got to be careful not just to start applying arbitrary percentages to numbers.

Peleo · Jul 31, 2019

Foorbits said:
Mario Maker 2's digital numbers in Japan.

What's the split for Mario Maker 2 Digital/Retail?

ILikeFeet · Jul 31, 2019

VOUCHERS

Strings · Jul 31, 2019

Slightly higher first week than the best game in the franchise (New Mystery of the Emblem opened up to 136k in 2010 (and ended up the second worst selling game in the series, just ahead of Thracia 776, another excellent entry)).

burger rain said:
Lack of face-fondling minigame or the ability to make characters fuck/make babies really hurt its popularity among the otaku crowd.

There is a face minigame unfortunately (if you do tea right, it lets you move your cursor over the character and they make weird comments).

Chris1964 · Jul 31, 2019

skittzo0413 said:
Even considering digital it's interesting how we have another Switch game breaking records in the west (UK and probably US at least) but not Japan. They desperately need the Lite at a lower price point for the Switch to really break out in the same way it has in the west.

Lite has nothing to do with software sales. 3DS was weak at west, it's expected records are broken with Switch outside Japan.

Vorpal · Jul 31, 2019

Not half bad for Rune Factory 4 given that it's not a particularly robust rerelease.

Panda Andino · Jul 31, 2019

Phantom Thief said:
Is there anything to suggest the vouchers have actually been a success in the traditionally digital averse Japan?

2 vouchers in japan are 92 dollars, FE3H is 70 dollars without it

cw_sasuke · Jul 31, 2019

skittzo0413 said:
Even considering digital it's interesting how we have another Switch game breaking records in the west (UK and probably US at least) but not Japan. They desperately need the Lite at a lower price point for the Switch to really break out in the same way it has in the west.

Wow ..slow down.
Even a Switch Lite wouldnt change much when it comes to physical sales when they have such attractive digital sales going on at the same time.

Digital makes more and more sense on Switch. If you are interested in F3H, you would just pay a bi more to get the game and Mario Maker 2 via the Voucher program for a little bit more.

Zalman · Jul 31, 2019

Vouchers ruining the fun

Dark Cloud · Jul 31, 2019

The Switch Lite is going to be great for Japan.

sfortunato · Jul 31, 2019

skittzo0413 said:
Even considering digital it's interesting how we have another Switch game breaking records in the west (UK and probably US at least) but not Japan. They desperately need the Lite at a lower price point for the Switch to really break out in the same way it has in the west.

...or this just shows the strength of 3DS in the domestic market vis-à-vis the rest of the world.

Also, Smash broke records in Japan just a few months ago.

dean_rcg · Jul 31, 2019

Chris1964 said:
03./02. [NSW] Super Mario Maker 2 # <ACT> (Nintendo) {2019.06.28} (¥5.980) - 37.941 / 418.083 (-18%)

And some people think it's doing badly...

Dust · Jul 31, 2019

What were FWs of Awakening and Fates?

Zedark · Jul 31, 2019

Personablue said:
Even if digital sales were 100k (unlikely) this seems like a below par result for an ambitious home console fire emblem that has been promoted 10x times more than previous entries.

The bolded is not actually a thing that tends to mean better sales performance in Japan, actually. As for the marketing, do we have info for that compared to Japan? Japan has always been the primary market with the first launch of the game, so marketing might be as big there as it was in the past (but again I don't know).

John Dunbar · Jul 31, 2019

is that a ghost fishing game?

Skittzo · Jul 31, 2019

Chris1964 said:
Lite has nothing to do with software sales. 3DS was weak at west, it's expected records are breaked with Switch outside Japan.

I'm not sure how that factors into it. The west has found the Switch to be a much better value proposition than the 3DS, while Japan has not, and this is reflected in their respective sales of the two. The biggest factor in that is probably price, so when the Lite launches for 2/3 of the regular price it should, in theory, bring aboard more of the 3DS audience in Japan.

sfortunato said:
...or this just shows the strength of 3DS in the domestic market vis-à-vis the rest of the world.

Also, Smash broke records in Japan just a few months ago.

Yeah I'm not saying nothing has broken records in Japan, just that several games that are breaking records in the west (SMM2 is another) are not doing so in Japan, even if we consider digital.

Oregano · Jul 31, 2019

Kingpin Rogers said:
Surprising that Fire Emblem had no effect on Switch hardware sales. Figured it'd boost numbers up a bit.

Considering the Lite is a known entity and that the battery life revision is also a thing the fact that it's still selling 40k probably indicates that it did give something of a boost.

Mbolibombo · Jul 31, 2019

While I still expected it to be higher, considering the huge advantage of using vouchers, especially an expensive game like this. I am not surprised by the result, we are really seeing the effect of digital even on Nintendo platforms at this point. I believe this game has charted #1 for a couple of weeks on the e-shop chart now.

Hardware for sure lower than I though though. People might really hold off until the new hardware hits store.

Rune Factory and the fishing game though.. did not expect that much

Fularu · Jul 31, 2019

skittzo0413 said:
Even considering digital it's interesting how we have another Switch game breaking records in the west (UK and probably US at least) but not Japan. They desperately need the Lite at a lower price point for the Switch to really break out in the same way it has in the west.

Vouchers mean people buying Fire Emblem digitally are prety much getting it at half price

It's almost a no brainer.

wrowa · Jul 31, 2019

Passing Assassin said:
Digital did play a huge part to FE's debut. Adding in the same ratio as Mario Maker, we're going for roughly 200k.

Even at 200k sales would still be slightly disappointing, wouldn't they? Putting sales still below the openings of both Fates and Awakening.

Three Houses is all around weird, though. For one because of the voucher situation that potentially let you save a whopping 2k yen when buying the game, but also because it releases so soon before the Switch Lite, which potentially keeps FE fans who haven't yet purchased a Switch away from buying game and console.

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