The latest Japanese sales charts see a number of new titles make their way into the top 20, with PES 2019: Pro Evolution Soccer sprinting straight to number one on PlayStation 4. Konami's footie sim shifted a respectable 73,300 copies, beating out prior software leader Conan Exiles, which, rather impressively, only dropped down to second place with 20,500 additional copies sold.
Other fresh PS4 entries include Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker, PlayStation VR title Firewall Zero Hour, and Little Dragon Cafe. However, none of them did especially well. You'd probably expect low numbers from Firewall and Little Dragon Cafe, but Shinobi Striker only managed a rather damning 10,700 copies. Granted, Naruto games have never been huge in Japan, but that's a low point for the excitable ninja and his pals.
On the hardware side of things, PS4 numbers dropped once again. The standard model lost around 2000 sales, while Pro sales were cut in half.
Hardware sales
- Switch – 42,151 (46,259)
- PlayStation 4 – 12,189 (14,122)
- New 2DS LL – 5,670 (5,015)
- PlayStation 4 Pro – 4,402 (8,716)
- PlayStation Vita – 2,452 (2,540)
- New 3DS LL – 2,126 (2,420)
- 2DS – 496 (362)
- Xbox One X – 45 (58)
- Xbox One – 24 (53)
Software sales
- [PS4] Pro Evolution Soccer 2019 (Konami, 08/30/18) – 73,389 (New)
- [PS4] Conan Exiles (Spike Chunsoft, 08/23/18) – 20,509 (52,626)
- [NSW] Minecraft: Nintendo Switch Edition (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 19,110 (249,514)
- [NSW] Splatoon 2 (Bundle Version Included) (Nintendo, 07/21/17) – 16,960 (2,589,842)
- [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 13,259 (1,735,297)
- [NSW] Little Dragons Cafe (Marvelous, 08/30/18) – 11,860 (New)
- [PS4] Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker (Bandai Namco, 08/30/18) – 10,685 (New)
- [NSW] Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum ‘n’ Fun! (Bandai Namco, 07/19/18) – 9,766 (182,614)
- [NSW] Mario Tennis Aces (Nintendo, 06/22/18) – 7,721 (332,211)
- [NSW] My Hero One’s Justice (Bandai Namco, 08/23/18) – 7,669 (32,294)
- [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Limited Edition Included) (Nintendo, 03/03/17) – 7,416 (1,099,210)
- [3DS] WarioWare Gold (Nintendo, 08/02/18) – 6,217 (85,627)
- [NSW] Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (Nintendo, 07/13/18) – 5,747 (114,445)
- [3DS] Pokemon Ultra Sun / Ultra Moon (The Pokemon Company, 11/17/17) – 5,639 (1,715,350)
- [PS4] Firewall Zero Hour (Bundle Version Included) (SIE, 08/30/18) – 5,468 (New)
- [PS4] Little Dragons Cafe (Marvelous, 08/30/18) – 5,308 (New)
- [NSW] Kirby: Star Allies (Nintendo, 03/16/18) – 5,203 (606,779)
- [PS4] My Hero One’s Justice (Bandai Namco, 08/23/18) – 5,192 (21,218)
- [PSV] Piofiore no Banshou (Limited Edition Included) (Idea Factory, 08/30/18) – 5,153 (New)
- [NSW] Pro Yakyuu Famista Climax (Bandai Namco, 08/02/18) – 4,830 (82,581)
[source 4gamer.net, via gematsu.com]
Comments 8
Kind of feel bad about Naruto bombing. They tried something new but apparently people aren't interested in it. Then again, it's the first Naruto game in a decade I won't be buying at launch so maybe it's just not a must buy for fans.
wow little dragon's cafe on ps4 got outsold by the switch version 2:1
@ShogunRok Are you kidding me? This article is so misleading!
You need to change your title ASAP whoever wrote this because you're putting out false information.
Naruto Shinobi Striker has been out for 3 DAYS and it sold that many copies, it's 3rd in the charts! It hasn't bombed, the game hasn't even been out for a full week yet! How can you judge a game on 3 days worth of sales and say it bombed?
The Media Crate Sales in Japan showed from 29th August - 2nd September. Shinobi Striker had been out for 3 days then. How can you say a game bombed in the charts like its true? You didn't even read that it was only counting 3 days of sales, you just wrote this article without getting any proper information to make it look like a game flopped.
CHANGE THE TITLE IT'S A LIE.
@somisleading Is this a joke?
Show me the sales charts next week and we'll see if it breaks 30k, which is still terrible.
@somisleading And now I see you've spammed comments. Great way to get your point across.
Get banned kid
Switch still rockin' 'em sales. Damn daugh, image when Smash and Pokémon are out... O_O
Solid Xbone sales once again
Very good for Konami and its PES, although it's a shame we can not see the same in the West...
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