Dead or Alive 6 has topped the latest Japanese software charts, but not by much. Only just beating out the evergreen Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Koei Tecmo's fighter managed a meagre 26,000 copies. We're hoping that Dead or Alive 6 did a bit better digitally, because that total is pretty darn low, and it's only going to get lower.
Left Alive scraped into the top five as well, but much like Dead or Alive, 18,000 copies is barely worth a mention. ANTHEM, meanwhile, is sticking it out in fourth after topping the charts last week.
And as per usual, there's not much to say about PS4 hardware numbers. Sony's console continues to sit around the 20,000 mark across the standard PS4 and PS4 Pro.
Hardware sales
- Switch – 68,666 (53,270)
- PlayStation 4 – 11,871 (10,632)
- PlayStation 4 Pro – 7,986 (6,956)
- New 2DS LL – 6,202 (3,388)
- PlayStation Vita – 3,287 (3,600)
- New 3DS LL – 1,203 (1,052)
- 2DS – 116 (113)
- Xbox One X – 67 (51)
- Xbox One – 23 (21)
Software sales
- [PS4] Dead or Alive 6 (Square Enix, 03/01/19) – 26,442 (New)
- [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 12/07/18) – 25,617 (2,909,033)
- [NSW] New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe (Nintendo, 01/11/19) – 24,436 (479,443)
- [PS4] Anthem (Limited Edition Included) (Electronic Arts, 02/22/19) – 20,368 (98,306)
- [PS4] Left Alive (Square Enix, 02/28/19) – 17,622 (New)
- [NSW] Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! / Let’s Go, Eevee! (Bundle Editions Included) (Nintendo, 11/16/18) – 12,864 (1,514,711)
- [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 12,369 (2,154,698)
- [PS4] Kingdom Hearts III (Limited Edition Included) (Square Enix, 01/25/19) – 10,983 (781,051)
- [NSW] Zoids Wild: King of Blast (Takara Tomy, 02/28/19) – 10,030 (New)
- [NSW] Super Mario Party (Bundle Version Included) (Nintendo, 10/05/18) – 9,900 (1,037,559)
- [NSW] Darius Cozmic Collection (Limited Edition Included) (Taito, 02/28/19) – 9,495 (New)
- [NSW] Splatoon 2 (Bundle Version Included) (Nintendo, 07/21/17) – 8,986 (2,947,577)
- [PS4] Jump Force (Bandai Namco, 02/14/19) – 8,655 (103,020)
- [NSW] Minecraft: Nintendo Switch Edition (Bundle Version Included) (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 8,638 (624,521)
- [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Limited Edition Included) (Nintendo, 03/03/17) – 7,694 (1,307,507)
- [PS4] NieR: Automata Game of the YoRHa Edition (Square Enix, 02/21/19) – 6,625 (27,950)
- [PS4] Far Cry: New Dawn (Ubisoft, 02/15/19) – 6,000 (44,668)
- [PS4] Resident Evil 2 (Z Version and Limited Edition Included) (Capcom, 01/25/19) – 4,505 (348,778)
- [NSW] Doraemon: Nobita’s Chronicle of the Moon Exploration (FuRyu, 02/28/19) – 3,370 (New)
- [PS4] Catherine: Full Body (Limited Edition Included) (Atlus, 02/14/19) – 3,000 (61,855)
[source 4gamer.net, via gematsu.com]
Comments 20
Dead or Alive 6 is DOA.
Those Kingdom Hearts 3 PS4 numbers are pretty good though. 780,000 units sold in a month. But good grief — Super Smash Bros is killing it at 3 million already.
fun fact soulcalibur 6 sold less physically in japan week 1 compared to doa 6. doa aint selling in the west compared to soulcalibur 6. This just says how niche fighting games are.
@Frigate I believe we should have a review soon.
Last year the only games that top 100k unit sold were Dissidia FF NT and SSBU.
I was looking at the archive of "japenese sales charts" of this site, and the headlines for almost all the fighting games contain the word "barely".
Is there a reason to believe that fighting games sold a lot in Japan?
Well, I guess there’s always the DOA Extreme series in Japan eh? Also, I know DOA is Tecmo’s game but does Square Enix publish it over there or something? I noticed it’s name next to DOA6.
Graphics aren't everything but DOA looks dated...
well what do you expect when a F2P version has already been announced
I watched a trailer for that Left Alive on the PS Store. The horrible cheesy voice acting gave me an insufferable cringe attack.
Looks like boobs don’t sell even in Japan...
Atleast it did better than poor Left Alive.
Click bait article , if you check gematsu page it says the sales are from the 26 February to March 3rd ... the game released on March 1st so those 26,000 copies are just from 2 or 3 days , not even a whole week
$60 fighting game with $90+ season pass 1, which means there will be another season pass, no wonder the game isn't selling 😑.
@El_cochinote It doesn't matter — come back next week and I can almost guarantee you that weekly sales will have at least halved.
Games don't sell most of their stock in their first week, they sell the majority of it in their first day thanks to pre-orders.
Seems like fighting games are dropping in general, would expect only those who play competitively really buy into them.
Oh wow, DOA sold more than Soulcalibur? That is a surprise.
Looking forward to seeing how much it sold digitally, since in the West that was the only collectors/deluxe version a lot of people had no choice.
Dead On Arrival is more like it;D
Take the Mick by releasing a game and asking for full price then add on a season pass that's near £100 and bare in mind it's marked as Season pass 1 so there will be another 1 or 2 and no wonder it's not selling well. DoA died years ago when they stripped the game and made a light edition and asked you to buy costumes and characters seperatly
DOA6 is gonna get a refresher when the F2P version hits. Also, yeah...I wouldn’t expect fighting games to sell very well these days. Definitely my new favorite genre, and DOA6 is currently my favorite game (in part to my 0.5 W/L ratio online, which is miles above my usual 0.25 in other games).
@Nakatomi_Uk
The game director going on a media tour where he bashes the older games, bends the knee to people who have never and will never care for the series and admonishes the older fanbase (the people who actually bought the games and kept the series around for decades so he could eventually work on it) didn't help matters.
At this point it seems the only company that really can sell games in big numbers in Japan is Nintendo because it understands the market over there better. Some of these games, like Resident Evil and Kingdom Hearts, get helped by big sales in the West but if it wasn't true before this gen it is now, the days of traditional home consoles in Japan are over.
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