The latest Japanese software charts are in, and two PlayStation 4 titles are at the top. The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III entered in first place, selling around 87,000 copies. That's not a bad showing for a sequel in a somewhat niche series. Meanwhile, FIFA 18 sprinted into second, shifting 56,000 copies. Most popular sport in the world and all that.
These two new releases didn't appear to do much for PS4 sales, however. Sony's system still sits in second place behind the Nintendo Switch, moving close to 30,000 units across the base model and the PS4 Pro.
Hardware sales
- Switch – 73,231 (43,426)
- PlayStation 4 – 22,822 (18,396)
- New 3DS LL – 9,915 (8,726)
- New 2DS LL – 8,359 (8,508)
- PlayStation 4 Pro – 6,547 (5,418)
- PlayStation Vita – 3,732 (3,707)
- 2DS – 1,655 (1,659)
- New 3DS – 392 (379)
- Xbox One – 71 (76)
- Wii U – 68 (56)
- PlayStation 3 – 64 (87)
Software sales
- [PS4] The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III (Limited Edition Included) (09/28/17) – 87,261 (New)
- [PS4] FIFA 18 (Electronic Arts, 09/29/17) – 55,919 (New)
- [NSW] Fire Emblem Warriors (Nintendo, 09/28/17) – 41,491 (New)
- [NSW] Splatoon 2 (Nintendo, 07/21/17) – 29,704 (1,190,563)
- [NSW] Pokken Tournament DX (Nintendo, 09/22/17) – 23,543 (76,938)
- [3DS] Fire Emblem Warriors (Nintendo, 09/28/17) – 18,357 (New)
- [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04,28,17) – 15,098 (720,741)
- [NSW] FIFA 18 (Electronic Arts, 09/29/17) – 12,616 (New)
- [PS4] Genkai Tokki: Castle Panzers (Compile Heart, 09/28/17) – 10,389 (New)
- [PS4] Pro Evolution Soccer 2018 (Konami, 09/14/17) – 10,250 (91,446)
- [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Limited Edition Included) (Nintendo, 03/03/17) – 7,615 (598,670)
- [PS4] Destiny 2 (SIE, 09/06/17) – 7,371 (88,688)
- [PS4] Fallout 4: Game of the Year Edition (Bethesda Softworks, 09/28/17) – 6,507 (New)
- [NSW] Monster Hunter XX Nintendo Switch Ver. (Capcom, 08/25/17) – 6,350 (146,883)
- [PS4] Coven and Labyrinth of Refrain (NIS, 09/28/17) – 5,681 (New)
- [3DS] Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age (Square Enix, 07/29/17) – 5,639 (1,733,552)
- [3DS] The Snack World: Trejarers (Level-5, 08/10/17) – 5,073 (172,833)
- [PSV] Shinobi, Koi Utsutsu: Kanmitsu Hana Emaki (Idea Factory, 09/28/17) – 4,629 (New)
- [NSW] Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 for Nintendo Switch (Bandai Namco, 09/07/17) – 4,419 (36,085)
- [PS4] Everybody’s Golf (SIE, 08/31/17) – 4,213 (148,645)
[source 4gamer.net, via gematsu.com]
Comments 14
looks like the dragon quests hype has died down
legend of heroes trial of cold steel is the best rpg I play since ni no kuni.
Xbox One – 71 (76)
Wii U – 68 (56)
PlayStation 3 – 64 (87)
The last gen battle is still alive with Sony at the bottom!
Knack 2 didn't even chart
Excellent Switch sales : )
@PhenomenalOne They left it off as it put the others to shame.
@themcnoisy I believe that's the first week the Xbox One has managed to outsell BOTH Wii U and PS3 in Japan.
I wonder why Microsoft even bothers releasing on that market.
Excellent result for Trails 3. It did around 20,000 better than the PS3 installments, and that's on a system that doesn't have any Trails games before. Trails 3 is the first installment of the series on PS4.
And it will probably keep selling for a while too, so crossing 100,000 is pretty much certain with these opening numbers.
@Areus Dragon Quest XI has already sold over 3,300,000 copies between PS4, 2DS and 3DS, with digital included. It was bound to slow down eventually, even these kinds of figures are super rare in Japan.
@ricklongo Its region free (i think) so why not? But I do see your point, it probably costs more to microsoft to have any kind of visibility.
@JoeBlogs that was a joke lol.
Trails 3 is out soon then? Only started the 2nd act on trails 2, like 14 hours in haha
Nice almost 100 K
@themcnoisy Yep and the console is discontinued. 😀 😁 😂 🤣
And the developers of The Legend of Heroes said recently that they wouldn't bother to release their games on PS4 if Steam was big in Japan. Let's see what they will say about these numbers now.
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