Famitsu weekly sales 9-15/10/2023
Famitsu has released its videogame sales chart for the week from 9 October to 15 October 2023.
Detective Pikachu Returns (SWI) keeps the top spot with 16,248 units sold, followed by Pikmin 4 (SWI) with 14,114 and The Game of Life (SWI) with 30,267 units sold.
Not so many new entries for the second week of October but the highest is placed at #4 : Rear Sekai (SWI) with 6,464 units sold, followed by River City : Rival Showdown with a total of 7,553 units sold split between Switch version (5,722 units) and PlayStation 4 (1,831 units).
This week was an interlude among a week full of new entries (the previous one) and the next with two hits such as Super Mario Bros. Wonder (SWI) and Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 (PS5) and this can be noticed not only from the low sales of the top spot but also considering the top 10, only 83,646 units were sold compared to 200,450 units sold last week.
The only other thing worth mentioning is the return of Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythm Festival (SWI) in the chart at #28.
Hardware side, sales dropped for both Switch and PlayStation 5 : Switch OLED shrank to 34,471 units compared to over 100,000 from the previous week due to Red Mario new colour release while PlayStation 5 went to 18,565 after the announcement of the new model coming out in November and a lot of stores in the country already have finished their stocks, so let’s expect even lower numbers for the incoming week; PlayStation 4 keeps rising and passed PlayStation 5 Digital, not bad for an almost 10 years old system while Xbox Series systems kept their sales around one thousand units.
Software sales from 9 October to 15 October 2023
(Physical units only, new entries in bold, games returned into the chart in italic) :
01.[SWI] Detective Pikachu Returns (The Pokemon Company, 06/10/2023) – 16,248 (101,887)
02.[SWI] Pikmin 4 (Nintendo, 21/07/2023) – 14,114 (912,398)
03.[SWI] The Game of Life for Nintendo Switch (Takara Tomy, 06/10/2023) – 13,443 (43,710)
04.[SWI] Rear Sekai (Bushiroad Games, 12/10/2023) – 6,464 (NEW)
05.[SWI] Pokemon Scarlet / Pokemon Violet (The Pokemon Company, 18/11/2022) – 6,381 (5,157,822)
06.[SWI] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 28/04/2017) – 6,253 (5,514,955)
07.[SWI] Minecraft (Microsoft, 21/06/2018) – 5,898 (3,286,698)
08.[SWI] River City: Rival Showdown (Arc System Works, 12/10/2023) – 5,722 (NEW)
09.[SWI] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 07/12/2018) – 4,566 (5,304,914)
10.[SWI] EA Sports FC 24 (Electronic Arts, 28/09/2023) – 4,557 (27,046)
11.[PS5] EA Sports FC 24 (Electronic Arts, 28/09/2023) – 4,159 (24,474)
12.[SWI] Mario Party Superstars (Nintendo, 29/10/2021) – 3,793 (1,317,642)
13.[SWI] Splatoon 3 (Nintendo, 09/09/2022) – 3,420 (4,125,675)
14.[PS5] Assassin’s Creed Mirage (Ubisoft, 05/10/2023) – 3,402 (23,809)
15.[SWI] The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Nintendo, 12/05/2023) – 3,349 (1,874,942)
16.[SWI] Nintendo Switch Sports (Nintendo, 29/04/2022) – 3,288 (1,188,486)
17.[SWI] Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo, 20/03/2020) – 3,271 (7,545,208)
18.[SWI] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe + Booster Course Pass (Nintendo, 05/10/2023) – 3,209 (5,813)
19.[SWI] Pikmin 1+2 (Nintendo, 22/09/2023) – 3,197 (38,439)
20.[SWI] Fate/Samurai Remnant (Koei Tecmo, 28/09/2023) – 2,688 (42,032)
21.[SWI] Ring Fit Adventure (Nintendo, 18/10/2019) – 2,261 (3,478,485)
22.[SWI] Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics (Nintendo, 22/06/22/2020) – 2,130 (1,171,810)
23.[SWI] Luigi’s Mansion 3 (Nintendo, 31/10/2019) – 2,211 (929,499)
24.[SWI] Infinity Strash: Dragon Quest The Adventure of Dai (Square Enix, 28/09/2023) – 2,070 (31,010)
25.[PS4] EA Sports FC 24 (Electronic Arts, 28/09/2023) – 1,957 (7,345)
26.[PS5] Sword Art Online: Last Recollection (Bandai Namco, 05/10/2023) – 1,935 (13,675)
27.[PS4] Assassin’s Creed Mirage (Ubisoft, 05/10/2023) – 1,890 (9,919)
28.[SWI] Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythm Festival (Bandai Namco, 22/09/2022) – 1,878 (224,352)
29.[PS4] River City: Rival Showdown (Arc System Works, 12/10/2023) – 1,831 (NEW)
30.[PS4] Sword Art Online: Last Recollection (Bandai Namco, 05/10/2023) – 1,566 (10,120)
Hardware sales from 9 October to 15 October 2023
01. Switch OLED – 34,471 (5,832,653)
02. PlayStation 5 – 18,565 (3,920,351)
03. Switch – 5,170 (19,571,417)
04. Switch Lite – 4,828 (5,522,561)
05. PlayStation 4 – 2,054 (7,900,950)
06. PlayStation 5 Digital – 1,144 (588,041)
07. Xbox Series X – 609 (224,410)
08. Xbox Series S – 477 (289,738)