Famitsu has released its videogame sales chart for the week from 6 November to 12 November 2023.
For the 4th week in a row Super Mario Bros. Wonder (SWI) is the top seller with 65,017 units sold followed by Like a Dragon Gaiden : The Man Who Erased His Name which sold 63,319 units on PlayStation 5 and 60,134 units on PlayStation 4.
Other new entries are Call of Duty : Modern Warfare II which sold 22,132 units on PlayStation 5 and 8,962 units on PlayStation 4, Tales of Arise : Beyond the Dawn Edition which sold 4,279 units on PlayStation 5 and 1,812 units on PlayStation 4 while the last new title is Double Dragon Collection (SWI) with 3,094 units sold.
Super Mario Party re-entered the chart at #16 with 3,792 units sold but this is due to the new bundle released with Green and Yellow Pastel Joy-Con that strangely is counted by Famitsu as the basic edition and not splitted in a new brand title like, for example, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe + Booster Course Pass.
Sales in general have been strong with 261,68 units sold for the titles in the top 10 which is a result similar to the previous week (259,884 units) and from now they should rise more until the end of the year, next week there will be Super Mario RPG which is the last big title release for 2023 in Japan.
On hardware side the release of the new PlayStation 5 models changed the chart and PlayStation 5 was the most sold console in Japan with 86,869 units, followed by Switch OLED with 44,217 units and PlayStation 5 Digital with 21,084 units.
Now will be interesting to see if PlayStation 5 will have solid sales in the incoming weeks or this week numbers are only the result of 4 weeks with low stocks due the announcement of the new models, the price of both new models have been raised again for the second time since their introduction on the market in 2020 so it’s hard to predict how sales will be.
Software sales from 6 November to 12 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) – 65,017 (975,276)
02.[PS5] Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name (SEGA, 09/11/2023) – 63,319 (NEW)
03.[PS4] Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name (SEGA, 09/11/2023) – 60,134 (NEW)
04.[PS5] Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III (Activision, 10/11/2023) – 22,132 (NEW)
05.[SWI] WarioWare: Move It! (Nintendo, 03/11/2023) – 13,340 (42,924)
06.[PS4] Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III (Activision, 10/11/2023) – 8,962 (NEW)
07.[SWI] Fashion Dreamer (Marvelous, 02/11/2023) – 8,166 (39,050)
08.[SWI] Pikmin 4 (Nintendo, 21/07/2023) – 7,511 (948,207)
09.[SWI] Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo, 20/03/2020) – 7,186 (7,573,156)
10.[SWI] The Game of Life for Nintendo Switch (Takara Tomy, 06/10/2023) – 5,913 (77,301)
11.[SWI] Star Ocean: The Second Story R (Square Enix, 02/11/2023) – 5,528 (34,378)
12.[SWI] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 28/04/2017) – 4,980 (5,535,972)
13.[SWI] Minecraft (Microsoft, 21/06/2018) – 4,809 (3,306,549)
14.[PS5] Tales of Arise: Beyond the Dawn Edition (Bandai Namco, 09/11/2023) – 4,279 (NEW)
15.[SWI] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 07/12/2018) – 3,873 (5,320,465)
16.[SWI] Super Mario Party (Nintendo, 05/10/2018) – 3,792 (2,188,490)
17.[SWI] Pokemon Scarlet / Pokemon Violet + The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero (The Pokemon Company, 03/11/2023) – 3,725 (9,719)
18.[PS5] Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 (SIE, 20/10/2023) – 3,698 (99,880)
19.[SWI] Pokemon Scarlet / Pokemon Violet (The Pokemon Company, 18/11/2022) – 3,576 (5,176,400)
20.[SWI] Ring Fit Adventure (Nintendo, 18/10/2019) – 3,354 (3,489,435)
21.[SWI] Double Dragon Collection (Arc System Works, 09/11/2023) – 3,094 (NEW)
22.[SWI] Nintendo Switch Sports (Nintendo, 29/04/2022) – 3,034 (1,201,684)
23.[SWI] Detective Pikachu Returns (The Pokemon Company, 06/10/2023) – 2,678 (114,426)
24.[SWI] The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Nintendo, 12/05/2023) – 2,675 (1,886,493)
25.[SWI] Mario Party Superstars (Nintendo, 29/10/2021) – 2,496 (1,329,064)
26.[PS5] Star Ocean: The Second Story R (Square Enix, 02/11/2023) – 2,471 (16,838)
27.[SWI] Splatoon 3 (Nintendo, 09/09/2022) – 2,303 (4,135,592)
28.[SWI] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe + Booster Course Pass (Nintendo, 05/10/2023) – 2,140 (13,561)
29.[SWI] Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics (Nintendo, 22/06/22/2020) – 1,923 (1,179,916)
30.[PS4] Tales of Arise: Beyond the Dawn Edition (Bandai Namco, 09/11/2023) – 1,812 (NEW)
Hardware sales from 6 November to 12 November 2023
01. PlayStation 5 – 86,869 (4,019,191)
02. Switch OLED – 44,217 (6,041,114)
03. PlayStation 5 Digital – 21,084 (611,148)
04. Switch Lite – 13,846 (5,571,883)
05. Switch – 7,720 (19,601,080)
06. Xbox Series X – 1,996 (234,226)
07. PlayStation 4 – 1,330 (7,906,029)
08. Xbox Series S – 582 (293,286)