“Mario vs. Donkey Kong”, which was released in its second week, once again took the first place this week with a sales volume of 27,113 units. In addition to the fact that there were relatively few key works on sale this week, this game is similar to last week. The decline rate is only slightly more than 50%, which is one of the main reasons for its amazing sustainability.
Taking second place this week was the newly released game adaptation of the well-known longevity comic “Crayon Shin-chan: Noob of Coal Town”, which entered the second place with a sales volume of 21,593 units. However, compared with “Crayon Shin-chan and My Doctor’s Summer Vacation ~The Never-Ending Seven-Day Journey~”, which is said to be the direct predecessor of this game, it exceeded 100,000 units in its first week, a decline of nearly 80%. Moreover, the channel may order goods based on the performance of the previous product, so the digestibility is seriously insufficient, which should immediately cause strong inventory pressure on small stores.
It is most likely because although it is billed as a direct sequel, the gameplay has undergone major changes, unlike the previous game which reminded people of the classic game “My Summer Vacation”. Furthermore, the same changes have been observed in “Doraemon Ranch Story” in the past. It can be seen that this type of adaptation is really not suitable for launching a new work in a short period of time.
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Next is “Amusement Park CX Arino’s Challenge Book 1+2 REPLAY” adapted from the TV show of the same name, which ranked third with sales of 13,686 units. Although the past three works have approximately 30,000 to 40,000 in their first week, the latest generation is already ten years ago, and the business environment has changed a lot. Moreover, this game is actually an enhanced ported version of some additional content from the first two generations of the series, so it cannot be said that the performance of this game is disappointing.
In addition, other new games on the list include “Love Live!” related spin-off “Phantom of the Night – Mirage Numa Azusa -“. Its Nintendo Switch version of the game ranked 12th with 4,418 units sold. As well as the new beautiful girl love game “Uniform Kona”, the Nintendo Switch version of the game ranked 26th with 2,325 units sold. Although both of these two works have released physical versions of PlayStation 4 or PlayStation 5 products, they have not made it into the top 30 list.
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In terms of existing games, one of the more noteworthy games this week is “Sprawl 3”, which entered the tenth place with a sales volume of 5,230 units. Not only did it return to the top ten, but its sales volume also increased significantly compared with last week. It should be because the main gameplay of the additional downloadable content “Expansion Ticket Order” was launched this week, and because it is quite topical, it has slightly stimulated a wave of purchase.
Ranking game title launch platform Cumulative sales volume for the week 1 “Mario vs. Donkey Kong (Mario vs. ドンキーコング)”
NS 27113 89043 2 《Crayon Shin-chan “Shiro of Charcoal Town”》
NS 21593 21593 3 《Amusement Center CX Arino’s Challenge 1+2 REPLAY (Game Center CX Arino’s Challenge 1+2 REPLAY)》
NS 13686 13686 4 《Super Mario Brothers Wonder (Super Mario Bros. Wonder)》
NS 11025 1756149 5 《Momotaro Electric Railway World ~ Hopeful Movement by Earth Circle! ~(Momotaro Dentetsu World ~The earth revolves around hope!~)》
NS 8358 989249 6 《Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Edition》
NS 8084 5718949 7 《Mystery Dungeon Furai no Shiren 6 Furai no Kiren 6 Hebijima Exploration Story (Mystery Dungeon Furai no Shiren 6 Toguro Island Exploration Record)》
NS 6183 127455 8 “Minecraft”
NS 5482 3452647 9 《Gather! Animal Forest Friendship Association (Animal Crossing: New Horizons)
NS 5433 7700900 10 《Splatoon 3》
NS 5230 4234095 11 《Nintendo Myojo Daigo Special Edition (Super Smash Bros. SPECIAL)》
NS 4670 5453107 12 《NUMAZU in the MIRAGE – NUMAZU in the MIRAGE -》
NS 4418 4418 13 《Nintendo Switch 運動（Nintendo Switch Sports）》
NS 4006 1278941 14 《Treasure Kamu Vermilion‧Purple (Pokémon Scarlet/Violet)》
NS 3874 5301222 15 《Goddess Ibunka 3 Reload (Persona 3 Reload)》
PS5 3701 95063 16 《Mario Party Super Stars》
NS 3695 1405024 17 “Marvel’s Spiderman 2”
PS5 3428 291166 18 《Ryu ga Gotoku 8》
PS4 3414 109839 19 《Super Dance Made in Wario》
NS 3304 171194 20 《Pikmin 4》
NS 3270 1180243
In terms of consoles, the three models of the Nintendo Switch family sold a total of 50,886 units this week, a slight increase compared with last week, and once again reached 50,000 units. However, for the Nintendo Switch this week, there are really no external factors that will obviously affect the purchase sentiment. It can only be considered that it just hits the high mark of the floating range.
On the other hand, the two PlayStation 5 models sold a total of 33,504 units this week, a more obvious drop compared with last week. It is really difficult to explain why this is the case. Since next week will be the release of “FF 7 Rebirth” on the Japanese PlayStation platform this year, and may even be the most important game in the overall market, we can only hope that most players who are scheduled to buy a console in the near future are gathering their energy and plan to buy it together with the game. Checked out.
Console name Cumulative sales for the week NS 4659 19729496 NS Lite 8102 5752499 NS OLED 38125 6739729 PS5 28692 4571297 PS5 digital version 4812 725985 Xbox Series X 2287 256541 Xbox Series S 826 302250 PS4 362 7920284 N2DSLL 10 1192852
