Media Create Sales: Week 48, 2019 (Nov 25 - Dec 01)

Andri · Dec 4, 2019

Also of note, even if you completely remove Switch lite from existance, OG Switch 2019 is confortably ahead of OG Switch 2018.

toutoune134 · Dec 4, 2019

Mr Swine said:
so what's up with Pokemon? Is it already dead with no legs???

It's the opposite. Legs are better compared to XY and SM. It has a better third week than them and this is without digital.

Bruno MB · Dec 4, 2019

hiska-kun said:
Ring Fit stock situation is terrible...

It is frustrating Nintendo is only able to produce 25.000 - 30.000 weekly units, they have had time to react since late October when it was evident it was going to be big in Japan. They didn't seem to have that many problems producing balance boards. They should send European or American Ring Fit Adventures copies to Japan since in those regions is not having stock issues and demand is lower lol

Deleted member 5334 · Dec 4, 2019

Legit, that's actually a nice boost for Xbox One. What even caused that?

Also, really impressed at how steady (and rising) Switch sales have been. Absolutely insane. And we're not even done with the holidays yet.

schuelma · Dec 4, 2019

Pokemon bad word of mouth catching up to it.

dean_rcg · Dec 4, 2019

Blade24070 said:
Luigi's Mansion 3 sales are way too low for my liking. Hopefully with the west it sells better than Dark Moon.

It's going to sell a lot more over the next few weeks.

Mr Swine · Dec 4, 2019

Sander VF said:
It got left out from the op.

Edit: I see it's fixed.

Sandfox said:
Pokemon and Switch are doing very well.

I can't tell if this is serious or not.

toutoune134 said:
It's the opposite. Legs are better compared to XY and SM. It has a better third week than them and this is without digital.

I didn't see Pokemon at the top of the list so just ignore what I wrote

HaremKing · Dec 4, 2019

werezompire said:
Opening weeks for the most recent Vanillaware releases:

Muramasa Rebirth (2013) - 45k (Vita)
Dragon's Crown (2013) - 175k (PS3+Vita)
Odin Sphere Leifthrasir (2016) - 95k (PS4+PS3+Vita)

Curious if the MSRP for the regular edition of those games was also almost 9,000 yen.

nenned · Dec 4, 2019

Nintendo's market share fell from 96% last week to only 94% this week. Doomed.

massoluk · Dec 4, 2019

schuelma said:
Pokemon bad word of mouth catching up to it.

Game Freak done fuck up, I see no way out but to apologise for the disaster that is Pokemon Sword and Shield

Waluigilicious · Dec 4, 2019

How does Mario and Sonic compare to previous entries now?

WestEgg · Dec 4, 2019

Lelouch0612 said:
The OG Switch alone is up YoY.

That's insanity lol.

NotLiquid · Dec 4, 2019

werezompire said:
Opening weeks for the most recent Vanillaware releases:

Muramasa Rebirth (2013) - 45k (Vita)
Dragon's Crown (2013) - 175k (PS3+Vita)
Odin Sphere Leifthrasir (2016) - 95k (PS4+PS3+Vita)

Single platform looking like it's hurting the game.

sfortunato · Dec 4, 2019

Chris1964 said:
09./10. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe <RCE> (Nintendo) {2017.04.28} (¥5.980) - 9.834 / 2.543.292 (+34%)

This is going to outsell Mario Kart 7 at retail by January.

Next achievement: Mario Kart Wii at 3.7m.

LBsquared · Dec 4, 2019

A game about walking had no legs.

Aleh · Dec 4, 2019

Mpl90 said:
01./01. [NSW] Pokemon Sword / Shield # <RPG> (Pokemon Co.) {2019.11.15} (¥5.980) - 275.959 / 2.023.043 (-28%)

Sword & Shield's third week is actually higher than X & Y / Sun & Moon's third week (Famitsu)

01./01. [3DS] Pokemon X / Y # <RPG> (Pokemon Co.) {2013.10.12} (¥4.800) - 265.984 / 2.953.059 <80-100%> (-55%)
02./01. [3DS] Pokemon Sun / Moon # <RPG> (Pokemon Co.) {2016.11.18} (¥4.980) - 225.697 / 2.553.150 <80-100%> (-47%)

That's incredible considering digital is also higher

hiska-kun · Dec 4, 2019

01./00. [3DS] Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon <ACT> (Nintendo) {2013.03.20} (¥4.800) - 301.080 / NEW
01./01. [3DS] Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon <ACT> (Nintendo) {2013.03.20} (¥4.800) - 102.445 / 403.525 (-66%)
01./01. [3DS] Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon <ACT> (Nintendo) {2013.03.20} (¥4.800) - 64.046 / 467.571 (-37%)
01./01. [3DS] Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon <ACT> (Nintendo) {2013.03.20} (¥4.800) - 64.804 / 532.375 <80-100%> (+1%)
04./01. [3DS] Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon <ACT> (Nintendo) {2013.03.20} (¥4.800) - 49.123 / 581.498 <80-100%> (-24%)

02./00. [NSW] Luigi's Mansion 3 <ACT> (Nintendo) {2019.10.31} (¥5.980) - 150.649 / NEW <40-60%>
02./02. [NSW] Luigi's Mansion 3 <ACT> (Nintendo) {2019.10.31} (¥5.980) - 54.680 / 205.329 <60-80%> (-64%)
03./02. [NSW] Luigi's Mansion 3 <ACT> (Nintendo) {2019.10.31} (¥5.980) - 29.718 / 235.047 (-46%)
03./03. [NSW] Luigi's Mansion 3 <ACT> (Nintendo) {2019.10.31} (¥5.980) - 23.872 / 258.919 (-20%)
05./03. [NSW] Luigi's Mansion 3 <ACT> (Nintendo) {2019.10.31} (¥5.980) - 26.256 / 285.175 (+10%)

Difference
Week 1 - 150.431
Week 2 - 198.196
Week 3 - 232.524
Week 4 - 273.456
Week 5 - 296.323

Deleted member 60185 · Dec 4, 2019

I hope we find a random XBOX game in the top 30 in one of those weeks xD

Sandfox · Dec 4, 2019

LBsquared said:
A game about walking had no legs.

I didn't even notice how Death Stranding completely collapsed.

Deleted member 32106 · Dec 4, 2019

Death Stranding?
more like Dead Standing!

tolkir · Dec 4, 2019

Luigi is back and this time he's angry.

Lite_Agent · Dec 4, 2019

Bruno MB said:
It is frustrating Nintendo is only able to produce 25.000 - 30.000 weekly units, they have had time to react since late October when it was evident it was going to be big in Japan. They didn't seem to have that many problems producing balance boards. They should send European or American Ring Fit Adventures copies to Japan since in those regions is not having stock issues and demand is lower lol

It's not that they can only produce that many units, their statement last week made it rather obvious they're stockpiling for the end of the month (my guess is Christmas week and New Year).

zero_suit · Dec 4, 2019

Great hold for Pokemon, and a nice increase for Switch HW.

NintendoMariah · Dec 4, 2019

Amazing hold for Pokémon. The holidays are going to be fun!!

cw_sasuke · Dec 4, 2019

werezompire said:
Opening weeks for the most recent Vanillaware releases:

Muramasa Rebirth (2013) - 45k (Vita)
Dragon's Crown (2013) - 175k (PS3+Vita)
Odin Sphere Leifthrasir (2016) - 95k (PS4+PS3+Vita)

Gotta respect them for doing something like 13 Sentinels when everyone was expecting/hoping for Murasama or Dragon Crown follow-ups.
Or at least games in that style.

Puroresu_kid · Dec 4, 2019

Death Stranding is in fact dead.

Yuntu · Dec 4, 2019

dean_rcg said:
Soft drop for Pokemon, any chance weekly sales go up before Xmas?

If it follows Let's Go next week could be possible that one dropped 1% in its fourth week, but it is already dropping softer than Let's Go did %-wise (that one dropped 75% second week and 42% third week).

Deleted member 2791 · Dec 4, 2019

Also this week is the 10th year anniversary of MC threads, isn't it ?

DarkDetective · Dec 4, 2019

Great week for Pokémon. I did not expect it to sell 275k units this week. It's already at 2 million units physical after 3 weeks (two weeks of legs added 48.3% to FW sales).

Gundam sold 109.820 units sold across PS4 and NSW, and has a platform split of 59/41. The game's opening is only 7.5% lower than Super Robot Taisen T, which doesn't look too bad, but sales are significantly lower than the first week sales of Genesis across PS4 and PSV in November 2016 (down 31.1% from 159.281 units).

13 Sentinels had a mediocre opening, as expected, at only 34.608 units sold. This is a very sad sight, compared to the opening week of Odin Sphere: Leifthrasir (81.786 units across PS4, PSV, and PS3). It's even lower than Muramasa Rebirth (39.248 units on PSV), which had great legs, which extended sales to 84k. I doubt 13 Sentinels will have big legs. So this is not great news for Vanillaware.

Ring Fit Adventure's sales are a shame. Nintendo is prioritising other games, which are more season-bound, so that makes sense. It would have cool to have a surprise 500k+ or even 1M+ seller this year tho.

In general, Switch evergreens are doing great, and so are Switch hardware sales. The Switch had a hardware market share of 94.4% this week...

Btw, what did cause both Xbox One models to rise in sales so much this week? Some special promotion?

Bosch · Dec 4, 2019

Any chance PS4 will get to 10 million in Japan?

HaremKing · Dec 4, 2019

Bosch said:
Any chance PS4 will get to 10 million in Japan?

Not if it stays at 30k yen.

sfortunato · Dec 4, 2019

Passing Assassin said:
Also this week is the 10th year anniversary of MC threads, isn't it ?

I think of Chris creating MC threads.

Japanese sales threads date back to at least 2004 as far as I remember.

Arex · Dec 4, 2019

Pokemon is pokemoning as usual lol

Death stranding is never gonna have legs

Xx 720 · Dec 4, 2019

Did MS do a SAD promotion in Japan?

Atheerios · Dec 4, 2019

Famitsu numbers comparison for past Pokémon games for the same time period

SWSH: 275.9k
LGPE: 94.7k
USUM: 107.6k
SM: 225.6k
ORAS: 167.5k
XY: 265.9k

z0m3le · Dec 4, 2019

Bosch said:
Any chance PS4 will get to 10 million in Japan?

It would be very surprising. PS5 will be on the market this time next year and PS4 won't sell very well when that console drops, if it's already regularly below 5 digits.

Yuntu · Dec 4, 2019

I'm actually surprised at Pokemon. And its not even gonna have a Smash this year so this could get even better from here on out.

hiska-kun · Dec 4, 2019

Switch YTD Hardware Sales Comparison

Code:

+----+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+
|    |       Switch 2018     |       Switch 2019     | Difference|
|Week|   Weekly  |     YTD   |   Weekly  |     YTD   |2019 - 2018|
+----+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+
| 43 |    38.448 | 1.935.990 |    69.438 | 2.787.964 |   851.974 |
| 44 |    40.344 | 1.976.334 |   119.397 | 2.907.361 |   931.027 |
| 45 |    53.385 | 2.029.719 |    88.772 | 2.996.133 |   966.414 |
| 46 |   180.585 | 2.210.304 |   180.136 | 3.176.269 |   965.965 |
| 47 |   113.341 | 2.323.645 |   179.992 | 3.356.261 | 1.032.616 |
| 48 |   107.450 | 2.431.095 |   186.763 | 3.543.024 | 1.111.929 |
| 49 |   278.313 | 2.709.408 |           |           |           |
| 50 |   285.513 | 2.994.921 |           |           |           |
| 51 |   300.661 | 3.295.582 |           |           |           |
| 52 |   186.806 | 3.482.388 |           |           |           |
+----+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+

Switch vs Lite (weekly)

Switch vs PS2

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|    |    PlayStation 2   |   Nintendo Switch  |  Difference  | 
|    |    (2000/03/04)    |    (2017/03/03)    |              | 
|----|---------|----------|---------|----------|--------------| 
|Week|  Weekly |    LTD   |  Weekly |    LTD   |   NSW - PS2  | 
|----|---------|----------|---------|----------|--------------|
| 142|   30.860|10.414.329|  180.136|10.065.797|      -348.532|
| 143|   34.668|10.448.997|  179.992|10.245.807|      -203.190|
| 144|   56.393|10.505.390|  186.763|10.432.570|       -72.820|
| 145|   78.970|10.584.360|         |          |              |
| 146|  109.747|10.694.107|         |          |              |
| 147|  157.759|10.851.866|         |          |              |
| 148|  152.833|11.004.699|         |          |              |
| 149|  193.758|11.198.457|         |          |              |
| 150|   89.428|11.287.885|         |          |              |
| 151|   68.252|11.356.137|         |          |              |
|----|---------|----------|---------|----------|--------------|

PS4 vs PS3

Code:

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|    |    PlayStation 3   |    PlayStation 4   |  Difference  | 
|    |    (2006/11/11)    |    (2014/02/22)    |              | 
|----|---------|----------|---------|----------|--------------| 
|Week|  Weekly |    LTD   |  Weekly |    LTD   |   PS4 - PS3  | 
|----|---------|----------|---------|----------|--------------|
| 300|   14.544| 8.207.463|    8.094| 8.491.265|       283.802|
| 301|   13.740| 8.221.203|    7.073| 8.498.338|       277.135|
| 302|   19.202| 8.240.405|    8.626| 8.506.964|       266.559|
| 303|   12.243| 8.252.648|         |          |              |
| 304|   12.846| 8.265.494|         |          |              |
| 305|   12.210| 8.277.704|         |          |              |
| 306|   14.455| 8.292.159|         |          |              |
| 307|   12.034| 8.304.193|         |          |              |
| 308|    9.380| 8.313.573|         |          |              |
| 309|   43.870| 8.357.443|         |          |              |
|----|---------|----------|---------|----------|--------------|

Dwebble · Dec 4, 2019

Pokémon's legs are looking remarkable.

Chris1964 · Dec 4, 2019

Since 13 Sentinels sales will collapse next week Gundam will be the only PS4 game in top 10 and that will be in general how holidays will go.

Fisico · Dec 4, 2019

HaremKing said:
Curious if the MSRP for the regular edition of those games was also almost 9,000 yen.

Not hard to find.

01./00. [PSV] Odin Sphere: Leifthrasir <ACT> (Atlus) {2016.01.14} (¥7.980) - 43.394 / NEW <74,37%>
02./00. [PS4] Odin Sphere: Leifthrasir <ACT> (Atlus) {2016.01.14} (¥7.980) - 42.263 / NEW <69,56%>
10./00. [PS3] Odin Sphere: Leifthrasir <ACT> (Atlus) {2016.01.14} (¥7.980) - 9.771 / NEW <64,52%>

02./00. [PS3] Dragon's Crown <ACT> (Atlus) {2013.07.25} (¥8.190) - 104.359 / NEW <94,73%>
03./00. [PSV] Dragon's Crown <ACT> (Atlus) {2013.07.25} (¥8.190) - 71.083 / NEW <83,38%>
11./00. [PS4] Dragon's Crown Pro # <ACT> (Atlus) {2018.02.08} (¥7.980) - 11.691 / NEW

05./00. [PSV] Muramasa: The Demon Blade <RPG> (Marvelous AQL) {2013.03.28} (¥4.980) - 45.660 / NEW

Not a big difference and that's not the game main problem, skipping handhelds and/or the game gameplay loop not looking appealing for a wide audience are.

NotLiquid · Dec 4, 2019

LBsquared said:
A game about walking had no legs.

They decided to use zip lines instead of walking to speed things up since that's what everyone keeps recommending that you do

DrWong · Dec 4, 2019

Meanwhile in China.

From the other thread.

pld said:
Apparently pre-orders passed the 100k for both models on JD already.

Kanann · Dec 4, 2019

Ironically, the game scale (13 sentinels) is really massive, it's 50 hours of pure dialogues and actions.

Deleted member 31092 · Dec 4, 2019

werezompire said:
Opening weeks for the most recent Vanillaware releases:

Muramasa Rebirth (2013) - 45k (Vita)
Dragon's Crown (2013) - 175k (PS3+Vita)
Odin Sphere Leifthrasir (2016) - 95k (PS4+PS3+Vita)

If only there was a succesful alternative to the Vita on the market to avoid being stuck on a declining PS4.

silpheed-mcd · Dec 4, 2019

PACMAN!

fiendcode · Dec 4, 2019

Hopefully 13 Sentinels does better overseas. If Vanillaware needs cash there always a certain hybrid console they could port their back catalog to with relative ease and it's audience loves buying JP games, particularly in the west.

Kandinsky · Dec 4, 2019

Congrats on the tenth year anniversary Chris1964 !

DarkDetective · Dec 4, 2019

Nintendo Switch hardware
YTD 2018 after 52 weeks: 3.534.165
YTD 2019 after 48 weeks: 3.543.024

The Switch's YTD 2019 is now bigger than its full year 2018 sales.

z0m3le · Dec 4, 2019

Yeah Congrats Chris1964 for 10 years of really establishing the Japanese video game sales discussion. I know it existed before you, but you really did create what we have today. Thanks to all the other users who helped keep this place improving too!

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