Gran Turismo Sport tore up the UK charts earlier this week, and now it's busy doing a victory lap in Japan. The PlayStation 4 exclusive sped straight to number one in the Land of the Rising Sun, shifting just over 150,000 copies. Not a bad result by any means, but the series continues its decline in its native Japan. It was followed by Sammy's most anticipated title, City Shrouded in Shadow, which sold around 50,000 copies.
The Evil Within 2 also made the cut, settling in third place. However, it wasn't able to top the sales of its predecessor, moving just about 43,000 copies. The first game did around 60,000 copies on PlayStation 4 alone -- it did another 60,000 or so on PlayStation 3 -- and at the time of its release back in 2014, that was considered a bit of a flop.
These new PS4 releases didn't really do much for the console itself, though. Hardware sales did jump, but only slightly, to about 31,000 units across the standard model and PS4 Pro.
Hardware sales
- Switch – 31,092 (40,803)
- PlayStation 4 – 25,075 (16,933)
- New 2DS LL – 8,449 (10,569)
- PlayStation 4 Pro – 6,203(5,773)
- New 3DS LL – 6,187 (8,369)
- PlayStation Vita – 3,535 (3,938)
- 2DS – 1,367 (1,565)
- New 3DS – 195 (242)
- Xbox One – 69 (71)
- PlayStation 3 – 50 (65)
- Wii U – 40 (58)
Software sales
- [PS4] Gran Turismo Sport (Limited Edition Included) (SIE, 10/19/17) – 150,286 (New)
- [PS4] City Shrouded in Shadow (Bandai Namco, 10/19/17) – 48,935 (New)
- [PS4] The Evil Within 2 (Bethesda Softworks, 10/19/17) – 42,941 (New)
- [PS4] Itadaki Street: Dragon Quest & Final Fantasy 30th Anniversary (Square Enix, 10/19/17) – 42,092 (New)
- [PSV] Uta no Prince-sama: Amazing Aria & Sweet Serenade Love (Broccoli, 10/19/17) – 19,904 (New)
- [PSV] Itadaki Street: Dragon Quest & Final Fantasy 30th Anniversary (Square Enix, 10/19/17) – 18,784 (New)
- [NSW] Splatoon 2 (Nintendo, 07/21/17) – 16,483 (1,249,006)
- [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04,28,17) – 11,142 (758,597)
- [PS4] Middle-earth: Shadow of War (Warner Bros., 10/12/17) – 8,083 (28,227)
- [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Limited Edition Included) (Nintendo, 03/03/17) – 5,430 (616,383)
- [NSW] Pokken Tournament DX (Nintendo, 09/22/17) – 5,224 (102,359)
- [3DS] Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser’s Minions (Nintendo, 10/05/17) – 5,092 (43,094)
- [PS4] FIFA 18 (Limited Editions and Bundles Included) (Electronic Arts, 09/29/17) – 3,910 (79,701)
- [PS4] No Heroes Allowed! VR (SIE, 10/14/17) – 3,464 (8,925)
- [PS4] Pro Evolution Soccer 2018 (Konami, 09/14/17) – 2,987 (105,005)
- [3DS] The Snack World: Trejarers (Level-5, 08/10/17) – 2,882 (183,780)
- [NSW] Monster Hunter XX Nintendo Switch Ver. (Capcom, 08/25/17) – 2,814 (158,448)
- [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf Amiibo+ (Nintendo, 11/23/16) – 2,748 (256,413)
- [NSW] NBA 2K18 (2K Games, 10/17/17) – 2,689 (New)
- [PS4] The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III (Limited Edition Included) (Falcom, 09/28/17) – 2,473 (107,772)
[source 4gamer.net, via gematsu.com]
Comments 32
Pretty good week for PS4 software but not great for the hardware considering the number of releases. I imagine Switch is going to go nuclear with Mario if they've got the stock.
Psycho Break 2 in third place, not bad.
xbox one is solidly beating ps3. Finally Microsoft is winning
honestly with sales like that why does MS even bother releasing their system in Japan
@legalstep Next target: ps4 and then switch
@MadAussieBloke MK8 on switch didn't take off? Fastest selling in franchise history, they sold half a million launch day in the US alone and were up to in 3.5 million after basically 2 months. I'd say it took off just fine for them lol.
Any chance of Itadaki Street 30th Anniversary getting localized?
wow..strong sales for fortune street. would import that but waay too expensive for a board game.
Crazy how PS4 actually (together w Pro) outsold Switch this week
Didn’t know Gran Turismo was popular in Japan
@get2sammyb
I’m reading elsewhere that the PSVR sold around 27,000 units during this period. That’s pretty good on the hardware front.
@lacerz That's amazing, do you have a link?
Good numbers for PS4, as is to be expected with this kind of a lineup. The PS4 version of Itadaki Street alone already sold better than the previous entry on Wii.
@redd214 You've got bunk data. For example, at this point in its lifecycle Mario Kart Wii had already sold around 1.8 million copies in Japan alone, and it's the same story worldwide, and likewise with Mario Kart DS and Mario Kart 7. How can Mario Kart 8 be "fastest-selling" when it's selling so much less than previous entries?
After July 2008, Mario Kart Wii had already sold close to 5 million copies worldwide. MK8 NS isn't even on the same level.
@get2sammyb
My bad, it’s a different research firm that is referring to the previous week, which coincided with the launch of the new PSVR headset in Japan. The sales numbers match up with last week’s numbers.
https://www.vrfocus.com/2017/10/new-playstation-vr-model-brings-boost-in-sales/
https://www.m-create.com/ranking/
@lacerz Thanks for sharing this.
@Mahe https://www.polygon.com/platform/amp/2017/5/1/15502234/mario-kart-8-deluxe-sales-record-nintendo-switch
https://www.vg247.com/2017/07/26/arms-sells-over-1-million-units-worldwide-mario-kart-8-deluxe-up-to-3-5-million/amp/
It outsold MK wii at launch (at least in the US) so yes, fastest selling in the biggest territory. I get what you're saying, point being saying "MK8D didn't take off" is a ludicrous statement.
@redd214 This is why you should never ever trust Polygon.
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/npd-us-april-game-revs-spike-on-gtaiv/1100-6191066/
Mario Kart Wii sold 1.12 million copies in US alone in the same timeframe.
How is 0.5 million bigger than 1.12 million?
Add to that MK Wii and other entries also kept selling faster than MK8 NS after launch. So yeah, MK8 NS didn't "take off", relative to the standard of the series.
@redd214 Here's how much MK8 NS is currently behind other entries in the same timeframe just in Japan:
Mario Kart Wii vs. MK8 NS - over 1 million
Mario Kart DS vs. MK8 NS - around 1 million
Mario Kart 7 vs. MK8 NS - around 650.000
And those differences are just going to get bigger, like they've gotten bigger from launch to here.
@Mahe don't trust polygon ok, take your pick:
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170501005869/en/
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2017/05/01/mario-kart-8-deluxe-is-the-fastest-selling-mario-kart-game-of-all-time/amp/&ved=0ahUKEwib2tbjoYzXAhWY0YMKHezxAZsQFggzMAE&usg=AOvVaw11VInNEq7wLfGdcWcyoqDZ&cf=1
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://bgr.com/2017/05/01/mario-kart-8-deluxe-switch-sales/amp/&ved=0ahUKEwib2tbjoYzXAhWY0YMKHezxAZsQFgg8MAI&usg=AOvVaw2WExgMeDk6EE9wYwsFagSZ&cf=1
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2017/5/1/15503022/nintendo-mario-kart-8-deluxe-switch-fastest-selling&ved=0ahUKEwib2tbjoYzXAhWY0YMKHezxAZsQFghIMAQ&usg=AOvVaw1h4C2wd48yjDK5rt7iBKw9&cf=1
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://gematsu.com/2017/05/mario-kart-8-deluxe-first-day-sales-top-459000-us-fastest-selling-entry-franchise-history&ved=0ahUKEwib2tbjoYzXAhWY0YMKHezxAZsQFgh3MAw&usg=AOvVaw2b4feFgFtuwu89K6GRRgsw
To reiterate, It outsold MK wii at launch (at least in the US) so yes, fastest selling (initially) in the biggest territory. So to say fastest selling is still 100% accurate, at least according to Nintendo.
Anyways done with this convo tho, you win im wrong will crawl back in my hole lol😁
Sorry I derailed the comments
@redd214 Alright, it seems that this is a problem with Nintendo PR, and these sites (several of them amateur or "contributor" sites) just swallowed the Nintendo PR hook, line and sinker, without checking the numbers themselves.
Obviously MK8 NS can't be the fastest-selling anything when MK Wii and other entries were so far ahead of it. Headlines and PR may lie, but the numbers don't.
But yeah, this is enough for this conversation.
@mahe That gamespot article you linked to is counting an entire month of Mario Kart Wii sales -_-
Redd's many links are counting 7 days of MK8Deluxe sales.
MK8Deluxe took off like crazy, it's ridiculous to assume otherwise just because it's in 8th place after 6 months on the market.
I actually had some Nintendo questions in mind while reading this article. Great to see that this comment section has turned into a Nintendo discussion! With that said... I’m surprised to see Splatoons sales numbers. Was the first game a hit in the UK? I was surprised by the Switch being number one. I was under the assumption that Nintendo was just doing ok in the UK. And that Nintendo always played second fiddle to Sony. Has Nintendo ever won a generation, saleswise, in the UK?
@outsider83 7th gen.
@legalstep I guess slow and steady really does win the race.
@FullbringIchigo that’s like trying to figure out why Nintendo is still a Console Manufacturer...
I thought this was a PlayStation fan site.
@Mart1ndo_
Yes, but, also, Nintendo fans may be Playstation fans, then, all right; and well, it's internet, is some "normal" that when is a "apple topic", in less of 5 min (5 comments), will be a "pear topic"
@Mart1ndo_ it is but it doesn't mean PlayStation is the only system we like
@FullbringIchigo @SakuraHaruka
I'm a Nintendo fan too, but it can get a bit boring talking about a 3 1/2 year old MK game. I'm here for PlayStation news.
@BraveFencerZan You know what? So is the Polygon article and the Nintendo PR. That's how the NPD system works. Even if a game is released in the last days of the month, it's counted for the "whole month".
And again, it's selling so much worse than previous entries in the series. It didn't take off, not at launch, not after launch.
@Mart1ndo_ Yeah, but with some unfortunate Nintendo trolls on the side, regurgitating unfounded fabrications just to defend the NS.
@mahe wow lol, you're wrong. Just accept that.
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