Famitsu has released its videogame sales chart for the week from 30 October to 5 November 2023.
For the 3rd week in a row Super Mario Bros. Wonder (SWI) is the top seller with 108,449 units sold, followed by the highest new entries of the week : Fashion Dreamer (SWI) with 30,884 units sold at #2 and WarioWare: Move It! (SWI) with 29,584 units sold at #3.
November is started and two things can be noticed, sales are starting increasing with the approach of the winter holidays (and bonus for employees) and the number of new releases is increasing : this week 8 titles debuted in the chart, aside the above mentioned new entries we have Star Ocean : The Second Story R that sold 28,850 units on Switch at #4, 14,367 units sold for PlayStation 5 at #6 and 7,360 units sold for PlayStation 4 at #9, for a total of 50,577 units sold.
Other new entries are the Pokemon Scarlet / Violet + The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero (SWI) with 5,994 units sold at #11, Model Debut 3 #Nicola (SWI) with 3,165 units sold at #20 and My Time at Sandrock (SWI) with 1,954 units sold at #29.
The last quarter of the year is the time when sales are stronger and the trend can be confirmed by total sales of the top 10 titles, 259,884 units sold which is more than the previous week, 243,361 units sold despite no big titles being released. Most of Switch titles in the chart are increasing sales and this trend is expected to continue in the coming weeks.
The same situation can be seen regarding hardware sales, where Switch has doing better than the previous week with all models, followed by Xbox Series that saw a spike in Series S sales while Series X dropped a little but still over 2,000 units sold for the 3rd week in a row. PlayStation 5 sales dropped to a thousand units due to the lack of stock followed the announcement of the new models which will be available in the next week, so it will be interesting to see the response of the market after a month of stock problems and the new price for the new PS5, higher than before.
Software sales from 30 October to 5 November 2023
(Physical units only, new entries in bold, games returned into the chart in italic) :
01.[SWI] Super Mario Bros. Wonder (Nintendo, 20/10/2023) – 108,449 (910,259)
02.[SWI] Fashion Dreamer (Marvelous, 02/11/2023) – 30,884 (NEW)
03.[SWI] WarioWare: Move It! (Nintendo, 03/11/2023) – 29,584 (NEW)
04.[SWI] Star Ocean: The Second Story R (Square Enix, 02/11/2023) – 28,850 (NEW)
05.[SWI] Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo, 20/03/2020) – 15,933 (7,565,970)
06.[PS5] Star Ocean: The Second Story R (Square Enix, 02/11/2023) – 14,367 (NEW)
07.[SWI] Pikmin 4 (Nintendo, 21/07/2023) – 10,158 (940,696)
08.[SWI] The Game of Life for Nintendo Switch (Takara Tomy, 06/10/2023) – 7,974 (71,388)
09.[PS4] Star Ocean: The Second Story R (Square Enix, 02/11/2023) – 7,360 (NEW)
10.[PS5] Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 (SIE, 20/10/2023) – 6,325 (96,182)
11.[SWI] Pokemon Scarlet / Pokemon Violet + The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero (The Pokemon Company, 03/11/2023) – 5,994 (NEW)
12.[SWI] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 28/04/2017) – 5,969 (5,530,992)
13.[SWI] Minecraft (Microsoft, 21/06/2018) – 5,748 (3,301,740)
14.[SWI] Nintendo Switch Sports (Nintendo, 29/04/2022) – 5,434 (1,198,650)
15.[SWI] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 07/12/2018) – 4,799 (5,316,592)
16.[SWI] Pokemon Scarlet / Pokemon Violet (The Pokemon Company, 18/11/2022) – 4,593 (5,172,824)
17.[SWI] Mario Party Superstars (Nintendo, 29/10/2021) – 3,573 (1,326,568)
18.[SWI] The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Nintendo, 12/05/2023) – 3,354 (1,883,818)
19.[SWI] Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 1 (Konami, 10/24/23) – 3,269 (22,59)
20.[SWI] MODEL DEBUT 3 #nicola (FuRyu, 02/11/2023) – 31,65 (NEW)
21.[SWI] Splatoon 3 (Nintendo, 09/09/2022) – 2,760 (4,133,289)
22.[SWI] Ring Fit Adventure (Nintendo, 18/10/2019) – 2,442 (3,486,081)
23.[SWI] Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics (Nintendo, 22/06/22/2020) – 2,363 (1,177,993)
24.[SWI] EA Sports FC 24 (Electronic Arts, 28/09/2023) – 2,163 (34,462)
25.[SWI] Pikmin 1+2 (Nintendo, 22/09/2023) – 2,148 (45,009)
26.[SWI] Detective Pikachu Returns (The Pokemon Company, 06/10/2023) – 2,112 (111,748)
27.[SWI] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe + Booster Course Pass (Nintendo, 05/10/2023) – 2,108 (11,421)
28.[SWI] Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythm Festival (Bandai Namco, 22/09/2022) – 2,066 (229,639)
29.[SWI] My Time at Sandrock (DMM Games, 03/11/2023) – 1,954 (NEW)
30.[SWI] Fate/Samurai Remnant (Koei Tecmo, 28/09/2023) – 1,730 (46,684)
Hardware sales from 30 October to 5 November 2023
01. Switch OLED – 58,932 (5,996,897)
02. Switch Lite – 23,627 (5,558,037)
03. Switch – 10,693 (19,593,360)
04. Xbox Series S – 2,405 (292,704)
05. Xbox Series X – 2,332 (232,230)
06. PlayStation 4 – 1,306 (7,904,699)
07. PlayStation 5 – 1,090 (3,932,322)
08. PlayStation 5 Digital – 127 (590,064)