Famitsu weekly sales 1 – 7 August 2022

2022-08-21 / by Luca / in News, PS4, PS5, Switch
Japan weekly sales

Famitsu has published the sales data relative to week from 1 to 14 August, due to the summer holidays only the hardware sales are combined but the software sales are splitted in two.

The first week in August saw a huge comeback from various Switch evergreen titles, something that usually happens when holidays hit the country; there were 2 new entries but they are minor titles.
Xenoblade 3 still holds the top spot while the podium is completed by Nintendo Switch Sports and Gran Turismo 7, as usual the only PS5 title in the chart.
Some evergreen titles raised from the previous week, +7 spots for Ring Fit Adventure (#7), +8 for Smash Bros Ultimate (#10) and +10 for Momotaro Dentetsu (#10), one of the few third party titles which is a long-seller; the last Nobunaga’s Ambition for both Swith and PS4 held well and overall more than 63,000 physical units have been sold, a great result for one of the longest Japanese franchise (the first title was released in 1983 !).

From the #24 spot until the #29 one there are all games returned into the chart, classic Nintendo games such as Splatoon 2 (#24) or Super Mario 3D World (#29) and other 2 long-seller titles from third parties, Human Fall Flat (#25) with almost 300,000 units sold since its release in 2020 and Taiko no Tatsujin (#28) with over 730,000 units sold, a come back probably related to Japanese Summer Festivals (Bon Odori) where tambourines are used during dancing perfomance.

Week from 1 to 7 August 2022 (the first sale number is related to the current week, the second is the total; new releases in bold; back in top30 in italic)

  1. [NSW] Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Nintendo, 2022/07/29) – 26,569 / 139,297 (=)
  2. [NSW] Nintendo Switch Sports (Nintendo, 2022/04/29) – 23,374 / 646,867 (+1)
  3. [PS5] Gran Turismo 7 (SIE, 2022/03/04) – 14,938 / 154,826 (+3)
  4. [NSW] Kirby and the Forgotten Land (Nintendo, 2022/03/25) – 13,135 / 837,044 (+4)
  5. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 2017/04/28) – 12,979 / 4,758588 (+2)
  6. [NSW] Monster Hunter Rise + Sunbreak Set (Capcom, 2022/06/30) – 11,766 / 212,029 (-2)
  7. [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure (Nintendo, 2019/10/18) – 9,683 / 3,237,690 (+7)
  8. [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 2018/06/21) – 9,532 / 2,737,398 (+2)
  9. [NSW] Live A Live (Square Enix, 2022/07/22) – 7,324 / 92,559 (-4)
  10. [NSW] Super Smash Bros Ultimate (Nintendo, 2018/12/07) – 5,518 / 4,941,832 (+8)
  11. [NSW] Momotarou Dentetsu : Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! (Konami, 2020/11/19) – 5,372 / 2,690,794 (+10)
  12. [NSW] Animal Crossing : New Horizons (Nintendo, 2020/03/20) – 5,163 / 7,302,637 (+5)
  13. [NSW] Mario Party Superstars (Nintendo, 2021/10/29) – 5,014 / 1,009,741 (+7)
  14. [NSW] Digimon Survive (Bandai Namco, 2022/07/28) – 4,780 / 33,316 (-12)
  15. [NSW] eBaseball Powerful Pro Baseball 2022 (Konami, 2022/04/21) – 4,272 / 212,406 (+8)
  16. [NSW] Nobunaga’s Ambition: Rebirth (Koei Tecmo, 2022/07/21) – 4,004 / 32,364 (-1)
  17. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo, 2017/03/03) – 3,282 / 2,061,595 (+8)
  18. [PS4] Nobunaga’s Ambition: Rebirth (Koei Tecmo, 2022/07/21) – 2,936 / 31,336 (+1)
  19. [NSW] Pokemon Brilliant Diamond / Shining Pearl (The Pokemon Company, 2021/11/19) – 2,924 / 2,575,554 (N/A)
  20. [NSW] Pokemon Legends : Arceus (Pokemon Company, 2022/01/28) – 2,888 / 2,279,420 (+8)
  21. [NSW] Demon Slayer : Hinokami Chronicles (Aniplex, 2022/06/09) – 2,761 / 149,795 (+6)
  22. [NSW] Apathy: Narugami Gakuen Nana Fushigi (Mebius, 2022/08/04) – 2,618 / 2,618
  23. [NSW] Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics (Nintendo, 2020/06/05) – 2,559 / 1,003,782 (+6)
  24. [NSW] Splatoon 2 (Nintendo, 2017/07/21) – 2,189 / 4,105,711 (N/A)
  25. [NSW] Human Fall Flat (Teyon Japan, 2020/06/25) – 2,051 / 276,388 (N/A)
  26. [NSW] Pokemon Sword / Shield (The Pokemon Company, 2019/11/15) – 2,006 / 4,360,515 (N/A)
  27. [NSW] Mario Strikers: Battle League (Nintendo, 2022/06/10) – 1,941 / 74,124 (N/A)
  28. [NSW] Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum ‘n’ Fun (Bandai Namco, 2018/07/19) – 1,852 / 731,829 (N/A)
  29. [NSW] Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury (Nintendo, 2021/02/12) – 1,707 / 1,065,600 (N/A)
  30. [NSW] Gesshizu: Minna de Chokomaka Muradukuri (Nippon Columbia, 2022/08/04) – 1,605 / 1,605

Source : Famitsu

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