Every now and again, the Japanese sales charts enter a slump and there's barely anything to talk about. Unfortunately, that can be said of the latest figures, which make for some yawn-inducing reading.
On the software side of things, a Compile Heart title named Death end re;Quest entered the top five on PlayStation 4, but it only moved a measly 15,303 copies. It's telling that the charts have been topped by a Switch game we've never even heard of -- a game that only shifted 36,000 copies. Low numbers across the board, then.
Well, at least Monster Hunter: World has finally broken the two million retail sales in Japan mark. The action role-playing game is still hanging on in 16th place.
Things are similarly dire on the hardware front, with Sony's current-gen system slipping even further. Across the standard PS4 and PS4 Pro, the console managed 11,000 units or so. That's the lowest total in a long time.
Hardware sales
- Switch – 36,308 (40,016)
- PlayStation 4 – 9,491 (9,530)
- New 2DS LL – 4,564 (5,006)
- New 3DS LL – 3,366 (3,865)
- PlayStation Vita – 2,921 (2,929)
- PlayStation 4 Pro – 1,473 (4,970)
- 2DS – 616 (551)
- Xbox One – 55 (72)
- Xbox One X – 17 (47)
Software sales
- [NSW] The Snack World: Trejarers Gold (Level-5, 04/12/18) – 35,655 (New)
- [NSW] Kirby: Star Allies (Nintendo, 03/16/18) – 23,659 (416,108)
- [NSW] Splatoon 2 (Bundle Version Included) (Nintendo, 07/21/17) – 18,729 (2,232,305)
- [PS4] Death end re;Quest (Compile Heart, 04/12/18) – 15,303 (New)
- [PS4] Far Cry 5 (Ubisoft, 03/29/18) – 14,472 (116,678)
- [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 12,415 (1,473,250)
- [PS4] Cities: Skylines PlayStation 4 Edition (Spike Chunsoft, 04/12/18) – 11,366 (New)
- [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Limited Edition Included) (Nintendo, 03/03/17) – 6,990 (954,532)
- [NSW] Super Mario Odyssey (Bundle Version Included) (Nintendo, 10/27/17) – 6,924 (1,691,031)
- [PS4] Super Robot Wars X (Limited Edition Included) (Bandai Namco, 03/29/18) – 5,182 (105,504)
- [PS4] Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom (Limited Edition Included) (Level-5, 03/23/18) – 4,184 (87,251)
- [PS4] Steins;Gate 0 (5pb., 12/10/15) – 4,087 (60,990)
- [3DS] Pokemon Ultra Sun / Ultra Moon (Nintendo, 11/17/17) – 3,931 (1,614,909)
- [3DS] Detective Pikachu (The Pokemon Company, 03/23/18) – 3,837 (68,392)
- [PS4] Rainbow Six Siege Advanced Edition (Ubisoft, 03/01/18) – 3,700 (38,976)
- [PS4] Monster Hunter: World (Limited and Bundle Editions Included) (Capcom, 01/26/18) – 3,640 (2,003,054)
- [PSV] Super Robot Wars X (Limited Edition Included) (Bandai Namco, 03/29/18) – 3,340 (63,946)
- [PS4] Hokuto ga Gotoku (Limited Edition Included) (Sega, 03/08/18) – 3,074 (163,636)
- [NSW] Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition (Koei Tecmo, 03/22/18) – 3,070 (40,408)
- [PS4] Attack on Titan 2 (Limited Edition Included) (Koei Tecmo, 03/15/18) – 2,822 (52,102)
[source 4gamer.net, via gematsu.com]
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That's b/c everybody in Japan is waiting on the cardboard.
http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/04/japan_is_more_excited_about_nintendo_labo_than_god_of_war
Link to actual Amazon Japan page.
https://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/bestsellers/videogames%5B/url%5D
Curios to see next's weeks numbers. How many of those PS4 Pro GoW bundles will sell? Slim usually sells 2-1 better there, though everybody might be waiting on that bundle next week and who knows Pro could top Slim. And do the charts even contain Labo sales? Well if they do at least we won't have to wonder about digital downloads, hard to get all of that cardboard through the internet.
I think we can all agree it's a slow week when the #1 game, and a new game at that, sells only 35,000 copies. Even for a week in Japan that's pretty weak. See ya all next week then.
Monster Hunter stalled more than I thought, figured it hit 2million by end of February.
Utterly pathetic across the board. Even when it seems like Japanese companies are having a revival you look at the Japanese charts and nobody is buying a damn thing. Major issue because we've already seen enough Japanese talent turn to mobile.
@BraveBiT To be fair to Monster Hunter it's now over 3 million in Japan counting digital sales.
Golden Week is coming up soon. People are saving money for travelling to various parts of Japan.
Edit: you'd be surprised how many people travel at this time of year and how expensive everything becomes
Cities Skyline has done pretty well. Ive never seen a city builder in the top 10 before.
@ShogunRok The Snack World is Level-5's newest IP, and its a 3DS port. Low numbers explained XD
Only 55 xboxs and 17 xbox1xs sold lol
@VR_Gamer Latest week's sales followed by previous week's sales in brackets.
The Xbox is dead in Japan.
@Flaming_Kaiser Can't kill what was never alive.
Labo vs GoW, tis gonna b gud!
@ShogunRok 🤣
Slow? Or just slow for Sony? Seems decent enough numbers in there for systems that didn't release under the blue umbrella of Sony.
Jeezo Sony shifts twice as many Vita's compared to pro's in Japan?!
@R1spam Japan loves its handheld gaming.
Damn the switch is killing it!
I think it's quite possible that GoW will lose out to Metal Max. But with the Golden Week timing I don't think anything has a chance of touching Labo (unless Nintendo screws up supply - and it usually does). It'll pretty telling if it doesn't do well. I think the Caligula remake next month is gonna be the next 'big' PS4 game.
@R1spam Handhelds do well in Japan, even PS Vita. PS4 only passed it in lifetime sales a few months ago.
And the Pro never was Japan's favorite PS4 model, it has always been the Slim.
@Flaming_Kaiser xbox was never alive in japan. but it has a small but dedicated fan base there
@rjejr people will be buying the GoW PS4 bundle to use the box for labo LOL
@manu0 It wouldn't' surprise me. They'll build giant axes out of the boxes and attach Joycon to it and try to play GoW that way.
[Not Safe for Work] The Snack World: Trejarers Gold
The mind boggles 😯
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