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NEWS: Japan's Video Game Rankings, August 29-September 4 [2022-09-10]




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Silver Kirin



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PostPosted: Sat Sep 10, 2022 11:54 am Reply with quote
In terms of hadware sales the Switch sold almost 100k units this week, the hype for Splatoon 3 is real. As for the software this week it's pretty interesting:
JoJo sold more units on Switch than both the PS4 and PS5 versions combined, still the original All-Star battle on PS3 debuted at 300k units, though to be fair the original game was released during the height of the PS brand in Japan and the JoJo anime was brand new so there was much more hype around it. Not to mention that fighting games, even anime arena fighters, don't sell as much in Japan as they used to, unless you're Smash Bros.
Don't know if it's fair to compare TLoU P1 to its predecessors but the original debuted in Japan at 117k, the PS4 remaster at 30k and Part 2 at 178k. Don't know if this has more to do with the fact that the PS5 isn't as popular in Japan as previous PS consoles.
And finally, Soul Hackers 2 fell of the Top 10 very quickly, even other RPGs like Xenoblade and Live-A-Live had better legs, I remember hearing Atlus wanted SH to become another pillar of the SMT series, but it couldn't even reach SMT V numbers even though it realeased in more consoles. I haven't heard many people talking about the game, I don't know if a Switch version would've helped, though it seems like the game has some serious performance issues even on next gen consoles
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Rob19ny



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PostPosted: Sat Sep 10, 2022 10:16 pm Reply with quote
Silver Kirin wrote:
JoJo sold more units on Switch than both the PS4 and PS5 versions combined, still the original All-Star battle on PS3 debuted at 300k units


425k via Media Create. 391k via Famitsu. For the unaware, Media Create is the best tracker. Has been historically, which is why you see "Media Create Sales" as a headline or being sourced if you don't follow sales in a hardcore manner. Famitsu is only prioritized now (for the past few years) because MC went private and pay for numbers route.
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ZelosZoidberg



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 12, 2022 12:32 pm Reply with quote
Early word is Splatoon 3 sold over 3 million in 3 days just in Japan. We are looking at the next Pokemon and Mario Kart.
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