It's been a busy week in Japan as far as new releases on PS4 are concerned. Jump Force (perhaps unsurprisingly) topped the software charts, moving a decent 77,000 copies. Not too far behind in second place was Catherine: Full Body with 52,000 copies. The Vita version of Full Body didn't quite make the top ten, but it did settle in 13th with a rather low 9000 copies.
Both Far Cry: New Dawn and Metro: Exodus did crack the top ten, however. The former shifted 26,000 copies in fifth place, while the latter moved 18,000 copies in seventh. Not the highest numbers in the world, but it's still nice to see Western games like these put in an appearance.
Despite all the new software, though, the PS4 itself continues to just trundle along. Across the standard PS4 and PS4 Pro combined, we're looking at the usual 20,000 units.
Hardware sales
- Switch – 65,958 (61,280)
- PlayStation 4 – 11,792 (11,583)
- PlayStation 4 Pro – 7,892 (8,111)
- New 2DS LL – 3,358 (3,216)
- PlayStation Vita – 1,767 (1,475)
- New 3DS LL – 1,254 (1,070)
- 2DS – 142 (138)
- Xbox One X – 55 (129)
- Xbox One – 13 (16)
Software sales
- [PS4] Jump Force (Bandai Namco, 02/14/19) – 76,894 (New)
- [PS4] Catherine: Full Body (Limited Edition Included) (Atlus, 02/14/19) – 51,824 (New)
- [NSW] New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe (Nintendo, 01/11/19) – 34,541 (431,771)
- [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 12/07/18) – 29,843 (2,860,986)
- [PS4] Far Cry: New Dawn (Ubisoft, 02/15/19) – 26,285 (New)
- [PS4] Kingdom Hearts III (Limited Edition Included) (Square Enix, 01/25/19) – 19,265 (755,810)
- [PS4] Metro Exodus (Spike Chunsoft, 02/15/19) – 17,513 (New)
- [NSW] Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! / Let’s Go, Eevee! (Bundle Editions Included) (Nintendo, 11/16/18) – 15,287 (1,490,789)
- [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 12,249 (2,133,021)
- [PS4] Resident Evil 2 (Z Version and Limited Edition Included) (Capcom, 01/25/19) – 11,636 (338,492)
- [NSW] Super Mario Party (Bundle Version Included) (Nintendo, 10/05/18) – 10,942 (1,018,889)
- [PS4] Nobunaga’s Ambition: Taishi with Power-Up Kit (Koei Tecmo, 02/14/19) – 10,326 (New)
- [PSV] Catherine: Full Body (Atlus, 02/14/19) – 9,241 (New)
- [NSW] Minecraft: Nintendo Switch Edition (Bundle Version Included) (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 8,905 (607,502)
- [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Limited Edition Included) (Nintendo, 03/03/17) – 8,235 (1,292,065)
- [NSW] Splatoon 2 (Bundle Version Included) (Nintendo, 07/21/17) – 7,193 (2,932,629)
- [PSV] Kin’iro no Corda: Octave (Limited Edition Included) (Koei Tecmo, 02/14/19) – 4,585 (New)
- [PS4] Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown (Limited Edition Included) (Bandai Namco, 01/17/19) – 3,758 (231,659)
- [NSW] Dragon Quest Builders 2 (Square Enix, 12/20/18) – 3,758 (231,659)
- [NSW] Nobunaga’s Ambition: Taishi with Power-Up Kit (Koei Tecmo, 02/14/19) – 3,705 (New)
[source 4gamer.net, via gematsu.com]
Comments 5
Jump Force honestly did better than i expected. Especially considering some of the issues i heard with the performance of the game.
But Shonen is huge.
Good for Jump Force I suppose. It definitely has its share of problems. Hopefully the DLC is something to look forward to.
Not as huge as J Stars' numbers but still decent enough.
I get that these numbers are supposed to be decent all things considered, but we're talking about some of the most successful manga and anime in Japan. 76,894 units is pretty bad, if you think how many games have done better with no particular relevance to Japanese culture and interests.
I think Sony need to release a PS4 one third the size and the sales will increase massively in Japan. More so than any game release. That and maybe a new Final Fantasy game should do the trick.
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