The remake of the original modern “Persona” game just released this week, “Persona 3 Reload” won the first and third place respectively with the PlayStation 5 version of the game selling 76,368 units, and the PlayStation 4 version of the game with 40,024 units sold. . The dual version totals about 116,000 sets.
Compared with other highly homogeneous “Persona 4 Golden Edition” sales of approximately 150,000 units in the first week and “Persona 5 Royal Edition” sales of approximately 200,000 units in the first week, it is obviously not very good. . Even compared with the approximately 160,000 units in the first week of Persona 5 Brawl: Phantom Strikers, a spin-off work that is different from the game type, there is still a big gap.
Although the official has issued a press release announcing that the total shipments of the game exceeded one million units within one week after its release, making it the fastest-selling game in the company’s history. But this is largely due to the fact that this game is actually a new main-level “Persona” work, and it is the first time that it has been launched simultaneously across platforms around the world. There is no way to directly compare it with past works.
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Of course, because of this, a certain number of Japanese users will be absorbed by the PC version that will be launched simultaneously for the first time, but even taking this into account, it is difficult to say that it can tie the numbers of other works. I believe it may also have been influenced by the remastered version of “Persona 3 Portable Edition” which was just released a year ago. This film release strategy is really incomprehensible.
Next is “Granblue Fantasy Relink”, a derivative of the well-known web game, which ranked second and fifth respectively with sales of 48,754 units of the PlayStation 5 version of the game and 22,083 units of the PlayStation 4 version of the game. The total number of dual versions is approximately 70,000. Compared with the approximately 86,000 copies of Granblue Fantasy Versus in its first week, which is also a spin-off game, the decline is so obvious that it cannot be ignored.
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In addition, this game is an action role-playing game, which is obviously more popular than fighting games in terms of game type. The biggest reason is of course that the influence of the original web game has continued to decline in the past few years, which has caused the number of draws that can be brought by the bonus serial numbers included in the game to continue to decline. As a result, the number of pre-orders for the game could not rise in the first time, and therefore the volume of channel orders was also very limited.
Therefore, even though the trial version was well received after the release and attracted many non-original game players who were still waiting to see the game, it was unable to change the first batch of game shipments, causing the game to be severely out of stock after its release. And even if this means that the market demand has not been met at the first time, according to the official announcement, the physical tablets shipped after the official announcement will no longer come with serial numbers. On the premise that the resale price of Japanese serial numbers is still reasonable, they will continue to choose to purchase physical tablets in the future. I’m afraid the number of players for this film is limited.
It is also worth mentioning that this game also performs very well on the STEAM platform, with the highest number of people online at the same time exceeding 110,000, which is a new record for this type of Japanese animation-style role-playing game. Moreover, the version sold by STEAM does not come with a serial number, which means that this game has attracted so many players by its own strength, which is probably something that many people could not imagine when it was first announced.
Next is Juju Kaisei Souka Ranbu, adapted from the popular manga, ranking fourth and 19th with sales of 25,242 units for the Nintendo Switch version and 4,009 units for the PlayStation 5 version respectively. The total sales volume of the two versions is about 30,000 units, which is quite impressive compared to the first week of about 114,000 units of “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Fire God Blood Wind Tan” adapted from JUMP magazine’s popular work. gap.
But even though it is also a JUMP mainstay work, compared to “Demon Slayer”, which has become a truly national social phenomenon due to the right time, place and people, “Demon Slayer” cannot be completely compared to “Jutsu Kaisen”. . And although this game also has a PlayStation 4 version, it is only available for download, and no physical film has been released. It can also be seen from the gap between the Nintendo Switch version and the PlayStation 5 version that this game is still a mass-market work. The lack of an observable PlayStation 4 version of the game should have a considerable impact.
Ranking game title launch platform Cumulative sales volume for the week 1 “Persona 3 Reload (ペルソナ3 リロード)”
PS5 76368 76368 2 《Granblue Fantasy Relink》
PS5 48754 48754 3 《Goddess Ibunko 3 Reload (Persona 3 Reload)》
PS4 40024 40024 4 “Magic Kaishu Shuanghua Ranbu (媪jutsu Kaishen Shuanghua Ranbu)”
NS 25242 25242 5 《Granblue Fantasy Relink》
PS4 22083 22083 6 《Mystery Dungeon Furai no Shiren 6 Toguro Island Exploration Record》
NS 18103 103527 7 《Ryu ga Gotoku 8》
PS4 16503 93637 8 《Ryu ga Gotoku 8》
PS5 15388 118328 9 《Super Mario Brothers Wonder (Super Mario Bros. Wonder)》
NS 14140 1715110 10 《Momotaro Electric Railway World ~ Hopeful Movement by Earth Circle! ~(Momotaro Dentetsu World ~The earth revolves around hope!~)》
NS 11464 960282 11 “Marvel’s Spiderman 2”
PS5 10786 275674 12 《Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Edition》
NS 7634 5695589 13 “Minecraft”
NS 5518 3435788 14 “Tekken 8 (Tekken 8)”
PS5 5374 25890 15 《Assemble! Animal Forest Friendship Association (Animal Crossing: New Horizons)
NS 5348 7684237 16 《Nintendo Myojo Daigo Special Edition (Super Smash Bros. SPECIAL)》
NS 5066 5439632 17 《Treasure Kamu Vermilion‧Purple (Pokémon Scarlet Violet)》
NS 4908 5288899 18 《Dragon Quest Monsters 3 The Journey of the Demon Prince and the Elf》
NS 4853 543698 19 “Magic Kaishuan Shuanghua Ranwu (媪书会戦戦华双乱)”
PS5 4009 4009 20 《Pikmin 4》
NS 3842 1169803
In terms of consoles, the three models of the Nintendo Switch family sold a total of 41,966 units this week. Although it continues to dip below the bottom, the range is not large, and it is a normal performance in all aspects. It is worth mentioning that in Nintendo’s recently released financial statements for the third quarter of fiscal year 2024, it can be seen that Nintendo Switch shipments in Japan have reached 33.34 million units, which is about 1.4 million units away from the statistical value. . In addition to part of the market inventory, it is also because Nintendo is very active in official online shopping for direct shipments in this generation. This part is a black number in the market that cannot be counted. It can be said that Nintendo Switch has actually surpassed NDS became the dominant player in the history of Japanese game consoles. Of course, as mentioned last week, even if you only look at the statistics, it is absolutely certain that this record will be reached within this year.
The two PlayStation 5 models sold a total of 34,484 units, a very obvious decline. It may be because the “Marvel’s Spider-Man 2” value bundle that has driven console purchases in the past two months seems to have been digested, thus weakening players’ motivation to buy consoles. It can be seen from the game list that some bundled sets were sold this week, so next week’s PlayStation 5 console sales will be a very important observation point.
Console name Cumulative sales for the week NS 4171 19714895 NS Lite 7376 5729137 NS OLED 30419 6625872 PS5 27066 4474632 PS5 digital version 7418 710189 Xbox Series X 1564 251045 Xbox Series S 1613 299893 PS4 60 5 7918515 N2DSLL 12 1192813
