There were almost no new games launched this week. Once again, Super Mario Bros. Amazing took back the top spot for the third time with 16,978 units sold. Next is “Momotaro Dentetsu World ~ The Earth Rotates Around Hope!” which has not been on the charts since its release at the end of last year! ~”, ranking second with a sales volume of 10,254 units. Perhaps because Japan has three days of holidays this week, works that are more susceptible to fluctuations in mass market demand have performed significantly better. “Super Mario Bros.” even bucked the trend and rose again.
The third place went to “The Ever-Changing Labyrinth: Wind Comes from the Wind 6: The Adventure Story of Snake Island”, which was released in its third week, with sales of 10,244 units. As mentioned during the week of release, this game was severely out of stock immediately after its release due to insufficient demand for reservations. Even with small-scale replenishment in the past two weeks, it seems that it is still not fully satisfied. Market demand and inventory levels are still quite tight.
Due to shortages in the physical market, many users switched to the download version. The company announced on February 6 that the total shipment volume of this game, including the download version, exceeded 200,000 units, making it the fastest sales in the history of the series. work. Coupled with this week’s small-scale replenishment and the fact that it is still at the top of the Nintendo Switch console download list, it should be confirmed that it has surpassed the “Changing Labyrinth Wind 2: Ghost Attack” on the N64 console! Xi Lian Cheng”, setting a record of a total career sales of approximately 220,000.
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Key titles launched on the PlayStation platform in the first two weeks have experienced a more obvious decline. First of all, “Persona 3 Reload” released last week sold 9,686 units of the PlayStation 5 version of the game, and 6,811 units of the PlayStation 4 version of the game. Sales volume entered the fourth and tenth places. The total number of dual versions is about 16,000, which is a drop of more than 85% compared with the previous week. Even for the category of Japanese role-playing games, it is quite serious, and the digestibility of this game is not very good, even if The inventory on the market should not be extremely large, but it may force some stores to negotiate prices.
“Granblue Fantasy Relink”, released on the same day, also ranked fifth and 16th with sales of 8,448 units of the PlayStation 5 version of the game and 3,855 units of the PlayStation 4 version of the game. Although there was a severe shortage on the release day, distributors responded very quickly and immediately added additional shipments, so there was actually no out-of-stock situation this week. However, as mentioned last week, the additional shipment version is no longer available. It comes with serial numbers for original game props, which indeed has an impact on the demand for physical products.
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“Dragon Among Us 8”, which was released a week earlier, ranked sixth and ninth with sales of 8,054 units of the PlayStation 4 version of the game and 7,164 units of the PlayStation 5 version of the game respectively. Because the release date is one week earlier, the decline is of course relatively gentle and not as severe as the previous two works. However, the digestibility of this game is still between 60% and 80% after three weeks, which has already affected many small stores. There is quite serious inventory cost pressure, and sporadic price cuts can currently be seen as a result.It can be seen that Channel seems to be a little too optimistic about this wave of key works launched on the PlayStation platform.
As mentioned before, there are almost no new games released this week, so there is only one game on the list, “Battle Soldiers 2”, which ranked 20th with 3,558 units sold. Although this game is a PlayStation title launched by Sony Interactive Entertainment, the game type is less accepted in the Japanese market, and because the development scale is not large, it cannot be said to be taken seriously. There is almost no publicity in Japan, so I handed over this game. This report card is not surprising.
It must be emphasized that although this game is a first-party PlayStation work, it has been simultaneously launched on the computer. Considering that the official has mentioned on the Internet that the total shipment volume of this game has reached one million, and the number of active players is half and half on both platforms. According to Steam’s real-time statistics, the peak number of online players at the same time is more than 200,000. It can be seen that a large number of users of this game are on computers. Considering that the computer game market has been developing rapidly in Japan in recent years, I believe there should be quite a few. Only a certain level of computer version users exist.
Ranking game title Launched on the platform, cumulative sales volume for the week 1 “Super Mario Bros. Surprise (スーパーマリオブラザーズワンダー)”
NS 16978 1732088 2 《Momotaro Electric Railway World ~ Hopeful Movement by Earth Circle! ~(Momotaro Dentetsu World ~The earth revolves around hope!~)》
NS 10254 970536 3 《Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wind 6: The Adventures of Toguro Island》
NS 10244 113771 4 《Goddess Ibunka 3 Reload (Persona 3 Reload)》
PS5 9686 86054 5 《Granblue Fantasy Relink》
PS5 8448 57202 6 《Ryu ga Gotoku 8》
PS4 8056 101691 7 《Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Edition》
NS 7669 5703258 8 “Marvel’s Spiderman 2”
PS5 7415 283089 9 《Ryu ga Gotoku 8》
PS5 7164 125492 10 《Goddess Ibunko 3 Reload (Persona 3 Reload)》
PS4 6811 46835 11 “Minecraft”
NS 5774 3441562 12 《Gather! Animal Forest Friendship Association (Animal Crossing: New Horizons)
NS 5514 7689751 13 “Spells Return to War Shuang Hua Ran Wu (媪 Techniques Return to War Shuang Hua Ran Wu)”
NS 4507 29749 14 《Nintendo Myojo Daigo Special Edition (Super Smash Bros. SPECIAL)》
NS 4437 5444069 15 《Treasure Kamu Vermilion‧Purple (Pokémon Scarlet Violet)》
NS 4146 5293045 16 《Granblue Fantasy Relink》
PS4 3855 25938 17 《Pikmin 4》
NS 3770 1173573 18 《Splatoon 3》
NS 3701 4224784 19 《Nintendo Switch 運動（Nintendo Switch Sports）》
NS 3418 1271617 20 “Helldivers 2”
PS5 3358 3358
In terms of consoles, this week the three models of the Nintendo Switch family sold a total of 49,543 units, while the two PlayStation 5 models sold a total of 40,745 units, and the two Xbox Series X/S models sold a total of 3,093 units. tower. On the one hand, it is out of the trough period after the end-of-year holidays, and on the other hand, as mentioned earlier, Japan has three days of holidays this week, which will somewhat boost the buying momentum for some entertainment products, causing all consoles to hand over their returns. Not a bad number.
It’s just that the upcoming release list of Nintendo Switch is quite empty. The only works with confirmed dates are “Princess Peach Show Time!” in March! 》It has attracted more attention. The February live broadcast, which was originally fixed in recent years, has not appeared even after the middle of the month. I don’t know if there are other arrangements. Although PlayStation 5 also has two masterpieces “Dragon Doctrine 2” and “Ronin” in March, the current response in the Japanese market is not very popular. The key may be “Final Fantasy VII Rebirth” which will be launched at the end of this month. As for the Xbox Series , usually the heat comes and goes quickly, and you don’t know how long it will last.
Console name Cumulative sales for the week NS 4742 19719637 NS Lite 8031 5737168 NS OLED 36770 6662642 PS5 34940 4509572 PS5 digital version 5805 715994 Xbox Series X 2167 253212 Xbox Series S 926 300819 PS4 940 7919455 N2DSLL 15 1192828
