Video Game Sales Thread

[Kerotan]

Made a thread of charts about ps4 this week in Japan outselling the xbox 1 lifetime numbers and I tell you that the salt is real.  

They can't just accept it and move on.  The lengths they'll go to damage control.  At least it's entertaining.

[DerNebel]

Made a thread of charts about ps4 this week in Japan outselling the xbox 1 lifetime numbers and I tell you that the salt is real.  

They can't just accept it and move on.  The lengths they'll go to damage control.  At least it's entertaining.

Talking with Xbox zealots about Japan is pointless, I just get agitated by the fact that they simply put the blame for the Xbox brands failure on japanese nationalism rather than MS, which is BS. There are more than enough western companies that do well to great in Japan to show that the japanese are not hostile towards western products. Sure they have very unique tastes in many regards including gaming but if you appeal to those tastes then you can have success with a western console over there too.

MS was laying the groundwork for that in the first half of the 7th gen and was definitely seeing first successes with that strategy, but that apparently didn't go fast enough so they pulled support for the market and the result of that can easily be followed if you look at japanese Xbox sales as well as developer support nowadays.

[Kerotan]

Well said DerNebel.  But as I said I find it entertaining.  it's just so hard to damage control but they're so persistent haha

[DerNebel]

PS4 > Wii U in Japan

Also Persona 5 is now the best selling single Atlus release in Japan at 397k

[Kerotan]

PS4 > Wii U in Japan

Also Persona 5 is now the best selling single Atlus release in Japan at 397k

Great week for ps4. King of Japan and Persona 5 and Utawarerumono showing really healthy sales.  Before that it was PES and BEASTERIA impressing.  Next week it's Fifa 17.

2016. Year of the ps4!

[Dr. Pezus]

Post the sales

[ethomaz]

Media Create Sales: Week 38, 2016 (Sep 19 - Sep 25)

01./00. [PSV] Utawarerumono: Futari no Hakuoro # <SLG> (Aqua Plus) {2016.09.21} (¥6.800) - 47.363 / NEW
02./01.  [PS4] Persona 5 # <RPG> (Atlus) {2016.09.15} (¥8.800) - 45.178 / 309.971 (-83%)
03./00. [PS4] Utawarerumono: Futari no Hakuoro # <SLG> (Aqua Plus) {2016.09.21} (¥6.800) - 38.507 / NEW
04./05.  [3DS] Yo-Kai Watch 3: Sushi / Tempura <RPG> (Level 5) {2016.07.16} (¥4.800) - 20.842 / 1.245.218 (+6%)
05./03.  [PS4] Winning Eleven 2017 <SPT> (Konami) {2016.09.15} (¥7.600) - 16.446 / 82.483 (-75%)
06./02.  [PS3] Persona 5 # <RPG> (Atlus) {2016.09.15} (¥8.800) - 14.771 / 87.744 (-80%)
07./00. [PS3] Utawarerumono: Futari no Hakuoro # <SLG> (Aqua Plus) {2016.09.21} (¥6.800) - 11.248 / NEW
08./07.  [WIU] Minecraft: Wii U Edition <ADV> (Microsoft Game Studios) {2016.06.23} (¥3.600) - 9.117 / 130.912 (+27%)
09./00. [3DS] One Piece: Daikaizoku Coliseum <FTG> (Bandai Namco Games) {2016.09.21} (¥5.700) - 9.097 / NEW
10./04.  [PS3] Winning Eleven 2017 <SPT> (Konami) {2016.09.15} (¥6.600) - 8.703 / 43.205 (-75%)
11./06.  [3DS] Dragon Ball: Fusions # <RPG> (Bandai Namco Games) {2016.08.04} (¥5.700) - 6.058 / 165.696 (-16%)
12./12.  [PSV] Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition <ADV> (Sony Computer Entertainment) {2015.03.19} (¥2.400) - 5.959 / 880.325 (+20%)
13./11.  [3DS] Kirby: Planet Robobot <ACT> (Nintendo) {2016.04.28} (¥4.700) - 5.691 / 439.426 (+5%)
14./09.  [3DS] Puzzle & Dragons X: God Chapter / Dragon Chapter <RPG> (GungHo Online Entertainment) {2016.07.28} (¥4.800) - 5.403 / 180.356 (-7%)
15./08.  [3DS] Super Battle For Money Sentouchuu: Kyuukyoku no Shinobu to Battle Player Choujou Kessen! <ACT> (Bandai Namco Games) {2016.09.15} (¥5.300) - 4.804 / 11.394 (-27%)
16./13.  [3DS] Pokemon Omega Ruby / Alpha Sapphire <RPG> (Pokemon Co.) {2014.11.21} (¥4.571) - 4.575 / 2.899.251 (-4%)
17./15.  [PS4] Grand Theft Auto V [New Price Edition] <ACT> (Take-Two Interactive Japan) {2015.10.08} (¥4.990) - 4.312 / 164.912 (+3%)
18./19.  [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf [Nintendo Selects] <ETC> (Nintendo) {2016.03.17} (¥2.700) - 3.929 / 97.110 (+35%)
19./18.  [WIU] Splatoon # <ACT> (Nintendo) {2015.05.28} (¥5.700) - 3.892 / 1.472.704 (+15%)
20./14.  [PS4] The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition <The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt \ The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Hearts of Stone \ The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Blood and Wine> <RPG> (Spike Chunsoft) {2016.09.01} (¥6.480) - 3.130 / 25.041 (-25%)

Top 20

3DS - 8
PS4 - 5
PS3 - 3
PSV - 2
WIU - 2

HARDWARE

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+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+-------------+
|System |  This Week |  Last Week |  Last Year |     YTD    |  Last YTD  |     LTD     |
+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+-------------+
|  PS4  |     49.652 |     96.433 |      4.071 |    966.163 |    827.399 |   3.267.243 |
| 3DS # |     33.898 |     38.140 |     29.110 |  1.029.024 |  1.371.579 |  21.215.026 |
| PSV # |      9.817 |     12.931 |     19.868 |    600.030 |    689.368 |   5.193.428 |
|  WIU  |      2.731 |      2.703 |     18.024 |    244.666 |    452.995 |   3.265.329 |
|  PS3  |      1.105 |      1.099 |      2.630 |     50.462 |    187.073 |  10.438.542 |
|  XB1  |        124 |        156 |        232 |      4.333 |     12.722 |      68.224 |
+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+-------------+
|  ALL  |     97.327 |    151.462 |     73.935 |  2.894.678 |  3.541.136 |  43.447.792 |
+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+-------------+
|  PSV  |      9.817 |     12.931 |     19.078 |    600.030 |    664.566 |   5.007.975 |
|  2DS  |     14.492 |     18.754 |            |     33.246 |            |      33.246 |
|n-3DSLL|     15.491 |     15.808 |     21.765 |    752.865 |    899.564 |   3.222.984 |
| n-3DS |      3.379 |      3.047 |      5.069 |    168.986 |    290.145 |   1.001.433 |
| 3DSLL |         74 |        106 |        747 |     12.077 |     87.162 |   6.955.342 |
|  3DS  |        462 |        425 |      1.529 |     61.850 |     94.708 |  10.002.029 |
+-------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+-------------+

[Dr. Pezus]

Victory!

[the-pi-guy]

Since sell through was so high. I think it's possible that a lot of people bought PS3 version instead, but it will be interesting to see what it will pull next week.  If it can pull another 30-60k more copies, that'd be crazy good.  

Persona 5 did the exact middle ish of my range.  
But then again, it was a pretty big range.  

[Aura7541]

Also, previously, the Persona game that had the highest LTD sales was the first game at ~391K. Persona 5 is just short of 400K in two weeks. It's possible that the PS4 version alone can surpass Persona 1's LTD sales, though that might not happen until like next year.

[Kerotan]

50k this week is exceptional for ps4. Hopefully it stays above 40k next week.  

[Aura7541]

50k this week is exceptional for ps4. Hopefully it stays above 40k next week.  

Interestingly, the PS3 slim had the higher second week than the PS4 slim. However, it also had the larger drop.

[Legend]

Party!

[Kerotan]

From hiska-kun on gaf.  If I'm reading this correctly ps4 has until mid point of next year to hit 4.5m and stay on track with ps3. Basically it's going to be either ahead or a little behind and that's the big ps3 push.  

When will the doom mongers on gaf and chartz finally get it into their heads, the ps4 is tracking very well in Japan.

[Aura7541]

From hiska-kun on gaf.  If I'm reading this correctly ps4 has until mid point of next year to hit 4.5m and stay on track with ps3. Basically it's going to be either ahead or a little behind and that's the big ps3 push.  

When will the doom mongers on gaf and chartz finally get it into their heads, the ps4 is tracking very well in Japan.

So far, it's looking good, though you can see that the PS3 gets two really huge bursts later on. Not sure if the PS4 can maintain its lead, but it can track ahead if it maintains a higher baseline.

Just imagine if the PS4's library catered to the Japanese audience from the get go. Overall sales would be much higher by now.