Anyone who's played an Uncharted game will know of Nathan Drake's insane ability to grip even the smallest environmental outcrop, but rather than hanging on for dear life, Uncharted 4: A Thief's End is actually enjoying its time at the top of the Japanese software charts for the second week in a row. The PlayStation 4 exclusive sold through another 21,155 copies, bringing its total sales to 149,879. Not too shabby.
Elsewhere, things are pretty bleak for new PlayStation releases. Mediocre first person shooter Homefront: The Revolution entered in third, but only shifted a dismal 9,422 copies, while much better first person shooter DOOM debuted in seventh, moving an even worse 6,164 units. Still, neither sunk lower than Battleborn, which sold through just 5,145 copies in eleventh place.
As for the hardware charts, the PlayStation 4 remained number one, but sales dropped by around 5000 units compared to the week prior. In other words, Nathan Drake's latest adventure is the only real bright spot for Sony this time around.
Hardware sales
- PlayStation 4 – 18,430 (23,239)
- New 3DS LL – 12,051 (13,623)
- PlayStation Vita – 10,954 (12,299)
- Wii U – 4,109 (3,896)
- New 3DS – 2,552 (3,021)
- PlayStation 3 – 1,001 (997)
- 3DS – 700 (823)
- 3DS LL – 103 (128)
- Xbox One – 72 (115)
Software sales
- [PS4] Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (SIE, 05/10/16) – 21,155 (149,879)
- [3DS] Kirby: Planet Robobot (Nintendo, 04/29/16) – 19,383 (268,334)
- [PS4] Homefront: The Revolution (Spike Chunsoft, 05/19/16) – 9,422 (New)
- [3DS] Yo-kai Sangokushi (Level-5, 04/02/16) – 8,913 (518,492)
- [PSV] Kenka Bancho Otome (Spike Chunsoft, 05/19/16) – 8,534 (New)
- [PSV] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2016 (Konami, 04/29/16) – 6,763 (126,073)
- [PS4] Doom (Bethesda Softworks, 05/19/16) – 6,164 (New)
- [PS4] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2016 (Konami, 04/29/16) – 6,057 (140,448)
- [3DS] My Hero Academia: Battle For All (05/19/16) – 5,607 (New)
- [PSV] Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition (SIE, 03/19/15) – 5,564 (774,096)
- [PS4] Battleborn (2K Games, 05/19/16) – 5,145 (New)
- [Wii U] Splatoon (Nintendo, 05/28/15) – 5,038 (1,367,268)
- [Wii U] Super Mario Maker (Nintendo, 09/10/15) – 4,088 (878,493)
- [3DS] Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 3 (Square Enix, 03/24/16) – 4,047 (596,369)
- [PS3] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2016 (Konami, 04/29/16) – 3,952 (80,392)
- [PSV] Period Cube: Torikago no Amadeus (Idea Factory, 05/19/16) – 3,850 (New)
- [Wii U] Star Fox Zero / Star Fox Guard Double Pack (Nintendo, 04/21/16) – 3,735 (36,177)
- [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf Happy Price Selection (Nintendo, 03/17/16) – 2,373 (47,974)
- [3DS] Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games (Nintendo, 02/18/16) – 2,319 (161,048)
- [PS4] Dying Light: The Following (Warner Bros., 04/21/16) – 2,118 (15,336)
[source 4gamer.net, via gematsu.com]
Comments 23
That's a huge 2nd week drop for Uncharted.
I think the Japanese are starting to warm up to western games quite a bit, at least for the Japanese core gamer crowd........it's no longer odd to see a western AAA title hit the top 10, or even top 5.
Hopefully Japanese development teams can draw inspiration from western titles while keeping the charm and traits that Japanese games often uniquely have.
It is in a week like this that I can see how far is my taste in gaming from japanese people...
How a sh##ty game like Homefront had a strongest launch than Doom is out of my cognitive abilities
@sub12 fir the sake of talking, but after seeing the numbers this week I had the opposite perception than yours. It seems to me that in Japan only cartoonish/catchthemall/animerpg actually sell.
U4 is a masterpiece and Doom is one of the best shooter inbthe latter years and still, they sell poorly there...
@arnoldlayne83
Your looking at it the wrong way IMO......they are in the top 10 on a "regular" basis.....maybe they aren't the hottest selling, but it's no longer odd to see a western game, or a couple of them, in the top 10........that's a feat onto it's own. As far as DOOM, maybe the Japanese don't have much if any nostalgia or ties to the franchise like we do.
That's the first time i've seen a western game be top 2 week's in a row in japan I think, might be wrong I have a crap memory, either way it's still very impressive.
Love the numbering of the hardware chart
@gingerfrog WHOOPS. Good job you pointed that out, fixed now.
@arnoldlayne83
Over 100K units for Uncharted 4 in Japan is actually pretty good all things considered. What's concerning for me as a Star Fox fan is how much that game seems to have bombed there, of course there are circumstances that led up to this. Hopefully Nintendo remasters it for NX and gives it a traditional control scheme. There's no way I can see NX being as much of a bomb as the Wii U is at retail so I actually think just a few minor changes and Star Fox Zero could be a hit.
Ouch. Not many consoles sold for anyone.
@Gamer83
Poor Star Fox
How hard is it to do a traditional sequel to Star Fox 64 (or F-Zero). Miyamoto screwing things up again.
@sub12
I've been saying it and keep taking heat for it but won't change my opinion... Miyamoto is well past his prime and should be looking to retire. He's a legend and I appreciate the hell out of what he accomplished and gave to us gamers over the years, but nothing lasts forever. Like legendary athletes who eventually have to step away, the time has come for Miyamoto. He's out of touch with the current industry and doesn't seem interested at all in trying to adapt. Regardless of what anybody thinks of the way gaming is in 2016, people have to be willing to change and when they're not it's time to find something else to do.
@brendon987
Horrendous numbers for sure. NX is the last hope for console gaming in Japan.
@Gamer83
Amen to that, Splatoon was a good showcase of what the younger developers can do......surprised Miyamoto didn't ruin that one either, lol (he's not that bad, just close).
@sub12
I think the younger staff has been heavily involved with the recent 3D Mario platformers with Miyamoto taking a more supervisor role. There's obviously enough talent on the staff that Miyamoto could transition into retirement and not have to worry about his creations being destroyed.
@sub12 Fzero gx (possibly the best game on gc) and Star Fox assault on the GameCube are direct sequels. If you haven't played f zero gx you owe it to yourself to play it. Made by amusement vision they took the series to a whole new level.
Japan has moved to Mobile pretty much - but if you ever visit there the place is cramped and you can understand why. No surprise to see console sales down.
@Grawlog
I'd be interested to know Uncharted's prior performance in Japan. There's a handful of Western titles that have an audience in Japan, Uncharted may be one of them.
@Grawlog
Yeah, I know about those GCN titles, it just baffles me that Nintendo can't just make a vanilla sequel. For Star Fox, stop trying to force in gimmicks within the franchise......just make a proper sequel to 64. For F-Zero, just make a new F-Zero game!!! Take GX, adjust the difficulty, give it online and better graphics, etc. What's so hard about that?
Yet, Miyamoto will get his new Pikmin game......
I love japanese games, to me they are much more appealing that general western games (while Mass Effect is probably my favorite trilogy ever made), but the situation in Japan is just weird...but hell yeah screw those dark and bloody FPS!
@Frank90
You were born a little late,.......Japanese games were the best from the mid 80's to the mid 00's. Not anymore.....
@sub12 Actually you're wrong, I've been playing japanese games since the NES, and yet a lot remain great. Just look at Fire Emblem, Fates is one of the best entries, Persona get better and better and 5 looks promissing, FFXV looks amazing, so a LOT of japanese games still awesome.
Congratulations to Naugthy Dog once again, they genuinely deserve it, I'm sure it's going to keep selling just like The Nathan Drake Collection and The Last of Us Remastered.
@Gamer83 @sub12 Don't forget that one of the young Nintendo teams is completely responsible for New Super Mario Bros. 2 rubbish (while the older people were working on New Super Mario Bros. U). I read that on Iwata asks. The whole Nintendo company (old and young) has to reflect on what they are doing with their most beloved and popular franchises (such as Mario, Zelda, or Metroid). And perhaps do something different every now and then and not only platformers: a new Wave Race, F-Zero, a new Metroid Prime instead of Force Federation (what the...?).
Nintendo's efforts are lame lately: Animal Crossing Amiibo Festival, Animal Crossing Happy Home Designer, Mario Tennis Ultra Smash, Paper Mario Sticker Star, Mario Party 10. I thought Nintendo was working really hard when they stopped developing Wii games around two years before their next console was released, but they have been releasing cheap cash grabbers (like the ones mentioned before) except for a few excellent Wii U and 3DS games.
Star Fox Zero is just a pure mess, a lame 4 1/2 hours (http://howlongtobeat.com/) single campaign where you spend half of the time trying to figure out the controls, without proper multiplayer, without online and little replay value (and all that for €50). I thought after skipping Wii entirely we would get an awesome Star Fox Zero game instead of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS4MP4d9j0M
(thank you @arnoldlayne83 for letting me know about the video and for everything else).
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