Well, Mega Man X Legacy Collection's reign at the top of the Japanese software charts didn't last long, did it? One week later and Capcom's remastered collection dropped all the way from number 1 to number 20, shifting just 4700 additional copies.
Its fall from the top 10 meant that Nintendo could continue its recent domination. Only one PlayStation title made it into the upper half of the charts, and that was SaGa: Scarlet Grace - Hiiro no Yabou -- an updated version of a 2016 Vita RPG on PlayStation 4. Friday the 13th: The Game also stomped onto the scene, moving a rather low 10,000 copies on Sony's System.
On the hardware side of things very little has changed since the week prior. The PS4 still can't break 20,000 units across the regular model and the PS4 Pro.
Hardware charts
- Switch – 50,799 (48,370)
- PlayStation 4 – 13,113 (13,666)
- New 2DS LL – 9,015 (5,459)
- PlayStation 4 Pro – 5,889 (4,979)
- PlayStation Vita – 3,339 (3,414)
- New 3DS LL – 3,010 (2,723)
- 2DS – 561 (532)
- Xbox One X – 53 (317)
- Xbox One – 21 (48)
Software charts
- [3DS] Etrian Odyssey X (Atlus, 08/02/18) – 71,946 (New)
- [NSW] Pro Yakyuu Famista Climax (Bandai Namco, 08/02/18) – 42,846 (New)
- [3DS] WarioWare Gold (Nintendo, 08/02/18) – 31,018 (New)
- [NSW] Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum ‘n’ Fun! (Bandai Namco, 07/19/18) – 21,642 (119,891)
- [NSW] Splatoon 2 (Bundle Version Included) (Nintendo, 07/21/17) – 20,989 (2,511,028)
- [NSW] Octopath Traveler (Square Enix, 07/13/18) – 18,448 (164,235)
- [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 15,755 (1,670,751)
- [NSW] Mario Tennis Aces (Nintendo, 06/22/18) – 15,454 (280,682)
- [NSW] Minecraft: Nintendo Switch Edition (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 15,101 (169,218)
- [PS4] SaGa: Scarlet Grace – Hiiro no Yabou (Square Enix, 08/02/18) – 14,971 (New)
- [PS4] Friday the 13th: The Game (Shichifukujin, 08/02/18) – 10,110 (New)
- [NSW] SaGa: Scarlet Grace – Hiiro no Yabou (Square Enix, 08/02/18) – 9,586 (New)
- [PS4] Border Break Starter Pack (Sega, 08/02/18) – 8,249 (New)
- [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Limited Edition Included) (Nintendo, 03/03/17) – 7,940 (1,066,339)
- [NSW] Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (Nintendo, 07/13/18) – 7,883 (79,248)
- [NSW] Kirby: Star Allies (Nintendo, 03/16/18) – 7,048 (579,839)
- [3DS] Pokemon Ultra Sun / Ultra Moon (The Pokemon Company, 11/17/17) – 6,177 (1,688,813)
- [NSW] Super Mario Odyssey (Bundle Version Included) (Nintendo, 10/27/17) – 5,177 (1,782,798)
- [PS4] Monster Hunter: World (Best Price!) (Bundle Edition Included) – 4,889 (New)
- [PS4] Mega Man X Legacy Collection 1+2 (Capcom, 07/26/18) – 4,704 (33,974)
[source 4gamer.net, via gematsu.com]
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Guess they realised X sucks once you get past X4.
It's going to be interesting to see what they do in Japan moving forwards. They are actually up year-over-year but it's felt for a long time like dedicated consoles are on the way out over there.
The hardware sales are fine for a system at this stage in its life, but the software charts are pretty grim at the moment.
@get2sammyb the only way is Trending games exclusivity... either get Yokai Watch, Monster Hunter (Post MHW/MH Switch [Capcom in a investors call said there’s a new MH Post MHGU being made for Switch dunno if exclusive], Dragon Quest (Post DQXI), Shin Megami Tensei, etc to jump or stick w PlayStation & they become exclusive. Now why Exclusive? Because the other system may steal sales very possibly due to Japan’s preference (to an extent)
Bolder choice but never will happen because Portable gaming is dead everywhere else:
New Next Gen PlayStation Portable.
@get2sammyb To be fair, the way it's going it won't be up this year by the end of the year. Hardly seems matter to though considering the sales in the West.
It's time for playstation portable 2 in japan
@Derpie1 I just wonder if it would be worth the investment going after money hats purely for Japan.
@Chocorin1907 And yeah, the other point is that they've done a good job in nations that we don't really get any information about, but contribute heavily to growing the overall brand. So how much does Japan really matter anymore?
It's all quite interesting.
@get2sammyb well Monster Hunter, yes. Yokai Watch if it won’t sell well on THAT system I’m sorry I don’t think PlayStation will do it much better... ITS A POKEMON CLONE! Dragon Quest? That depends on DQXI tbh... Shin Megami Tensei... I don’t know man... Persona tho easily will sell so long as it is not a spin off...
In all fairness, PS4 has been around a few years, has majority western games and hasn't really catered for the changing Japanese market.
I doubt that will change for the PS5, it will great first sales then probably end up the same, probably sooner than the PS4 started declining. The west loves a console so I doubt Sony will be bothered. It will likely pull over more xbox owners too.
I would think sites will start ignoring Japanese sales by then.
@NintendoFan4Lyf Meh, this isn't like the old days anymore - Sony not doing as well as Nintendo in Japan really doesn't affect Sony fans in any meaningful way (whereas Wii U sold badly in most places, and it showed). Unless you live in Japan I guess? But even then, every time I've been there I've seen plenty of PlayStation stuff around, pretty big presence in shops etc. Nothing on Ninty's level, but still not bad. Glad to see Nintendo doing so well though. Loving my Switch atm, but still buying most of my games on PS4 in general.
@Knuckles-Fajita The exact reason I'll probably never buy the second X collection.
Although, honestly, I'm not even a huge fan of the early X games. X4 is my favorite, but that's due purely to nostalgia (PS1 was my jam as a kid, and X4 was one of the first games I got for the system).
Love normal Mega Man, though. Can't wait for MM11.
@JoeBlogs They have smaller houses and fewer TVs per house. It's not unusual for a Japanese home to only have one TV whereas the average US home has at least 3.
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