Famitsu weekly sales 15-21 August 2022

2022-08-28 / by Luca / in News, PS4, PS5, Switch

The week after a holiday period is always marked by huge drop in sales and the week from 15 to 21 August didn’t break the rule.
The podium is the same of the previous week with Nintendo Switch Sports at the top followed by Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Kirby and the Forgotten Land.
The rest of the chart didn’t see many changes considering 7 titles held the previous position and other 7 titles just lost one position due to the only entry of the week, Kirby’s Dream Buffet (#6) which was released only as download card but Famitsu counts them as retail sales.
The sales low numbers affected the bottom of the chart with some titles coming back into it : the budget version of Dragon Quest XI S (#26), Super Mario Party (#27) and Super Mario Maker 2 (#30).
It could be also pointed out that this chart, again, is completely filled with Switch titles, but in the last 2 years this has become almost the normal and with the upcoming price increase for PlayStation 5 things won’t change so much in the short time.

Week from 15 to 21 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] Nintendo Switch Sports (Nintendo, 2022/04/29) – 18,668 / 696,061 (=)
  2. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 2017/04/28) – 16,052 / 4,790,937 (=)
  3. [NSW] Kirby and the Forgotten Land (Nintendo, 2022/03/25) – 10,877 / 862,743 (=)
  4. [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 2018/06/21) – 10,697 / 2,759,736 (+3)
  5. [NSW] Monster Hunter Rise + Sunbreak Set (Capcom, 2022/06/30) – 8,625 / 250,277 (+1)
  6. [NSW] Kirby’s Dream Buffet (Download Card) (Nintendo, 2022/08/17) – 7,218 / 7,218
  7. [NSW] Super Smash Bros Ultimate (Nintendo, 2018/12/07) – 7,014 / 4,956,081 (+4)
  8. [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure (Nintendo, 2019/10/18) – 6,748 / 3,253,767 (=)
  9. [NSW] Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Nintendo, 2022/07/29) – 6,714 / 158,971 (-4)
  10. [NSW] Mario Party Superstars (Nintendo, 2021/10/29) – 6,056 / 1,023,061 (=)
  11. [NSW] Momotarou Dentetsu : Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! (Konami, 2020/11/19) – 5,759 / 2,703,961 (-2)
  12. [NSW] Animal Crossing : New Horizons (Nintendo, 2020/03/20) – 5,411 / 7,313,745 (=)
  13. [NSW] Live A Live (Square Enix, 2022/07/22) – 5,152 / 111,386 (-9)
  14. [NSW] eBaseball Powerful Pro Baseball 2022 (Konami, 2022/04/21) – 3,603 / 220,707 (-1)
  15. [NSW] Splatoon 2 (Nintendo, 2017/07/21) – 3,263 / 4,112,322 (+2)
  16. [NSW] Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics (Nintendo, 2020/06/05) – 3,206 / 1,010,514 (-1)
  17. [NSW] Pokemon Legends : Arceus (Pokemon Company, 2022/01/28) – 3,056 / 2,285,962 (-1)
  18. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo, 2017/03/03) – 3,023 / 2,068,403 (-4)
  19. [NSW] Pokemon Sword / Shield (The Pokemon Company, 2019/11/15) – 2,683 / 4,365,910 (+1)
  20. [NSW] Demon Slayer : Hinokami Chronicles (Aniplex, 2022/06/09) – 2,461 / 155,489 (+3)
  21. [NSW] Monster Hunter Rise (Best Price) (Capcom, 2021/12/16) – 2,401 / 89,819 (+9)
  22. [NSW] Human Fall Flat (Teyon Japan, 2020/06/25) – 2,106 / 281,078 (-1)
  23. [NSW] Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury (Nintendo, 2021/02/12) – 2,059 / 1,070,032 (-1)
  24. [NSW] Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum ‘n’ Fun (Bandai Namco, 2018/07/19) – 1,724 / 735,907 (-1)
  25. [NSW] Nobunaga’s Ambition: Rebirth (Koei Tecmo, 2022/07/21) – 1,718 / 35,321 (-1)
  26. [NSW] Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age Definitive Edition (New Price) (Square Enix, 2020/12/04) – 1,647 / 220,986 (N/A)
  27. [NSW] Super Mario Party (Nintendo, 2018/10/05) – 1,617 / 2,094,782 (N/A)
  28. [NSW] Mario Strikers: Battle League (Nintendo, 2022/06/10) – 1,607 / 78,050 (-4)
  29. [NSW] Pokemon Brilliant Diamond / Shining Pearl (The Pokemon Company, 2021/11/19) – 1,596 / 2,579,081 (=)
  30. [NSW] Super Mario Maker 2 (Nintendo, 2019/06/28) – 1,579 / 1,233,705 (N/A)

Regarding hardware, the situation is similar to the software with huge drop for all systems except for Xbox Series family which registered sales similar to the previous week (and to be precise, they are even on the rise) and in total passed the 300,000 milestone : for comparison, Xbox One sold in total around 140,000 units and the original Xbox 470,000 units).
There is not so much left to pointing out, the Nintendo domination is clear also on hardware side.

Hardware sales from 15 to 21 August 2022

  1. Nintendo Switch OLED – 31,275 / 2,223,821
  2. Nintendo Switch – 15,988 / 18,598,486
  3. Sony PlayStation 5 – 14,609 / 1,607,405
  4. Nintendo Switch Lite – 11,133 / 4,862,082
  5. Microsoft Xbox Series S – 4,984 / 157,017
  6. Microsoft Xbox Series X – 4,836 / 144,531
  7. Sony PlayStation 5 Digital – 1,046 / 258,831

Source : Famitsu (software), Gematsu (hardware)

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