Famitsu has released its videogame sales chart for the week from 1 to 7 April 2024.
The top seller game for the third week in a row is Princess Peach: Showtime! (SWI) with 19,612 units sold while the runner-up surprisingly is Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (SWI) with 13,055 units sold, increasing sales for the third week in a row while the third place is held by Rise of the Ronin (PS5) with 12,080 units sold and it’s the third week in a row that joins the podium, not properly a usual thing for a PlayStation 5 game.
There are no new entries this week but numerous games have re-entered the chart as a result of low sales: Unicorn Overlord (SWI) with 5,336 units sold at #12 finally solved its stock problems, It Takes Two (SWI) with 2,436 units at #21 also reappeared, same for Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythm Festival (SWI) with 2,150 units sold at 24 which is directly followed by Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! (SWI) with 2,064 units (last appearence was at the end of January) and at the last spot is held by The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (SWI) with 1,665 units sold.
As anticipated above, this week sales were quite low and this situation affected also the top 10 with a total sales of 92,981 units, a new decrease from the previous week and the third worst week in 2024.
But if software sales are decreasing, hardware sales are surprisingly rising: this week the top seller system was Switch OLED with 55,386 units, quite a huge progression from the previous week (42,957 units), followed by PlayStation 5 with 20,269 units and Switch Lite with 9,188 units while Switch sold 7,368 units and PlayStation 5 Digital 4,707 units.
The low part of the chart sees Xbox Series X coming back selling more than a thousand units (1,443 in total) followed by Xbox Series S with 670 units and the last place is held by PlayStation 4 with only 107 units sold (but at least Famitsu is not stop tracking the system as was feared for a system that entered its 11th year on the market).
Software sales from from 1 to 7 April 2024
(Physical units only, new entries in bold, games returned into the chart in italic):
01.[SWI] Princess Peach: Showtime! (Nintendo, 22/03/2024) – 19,612 (124,432)
02.[SWI] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 28/04/2017) – 13,055 (5,781,663)
03.[PS5] Rise of the Ronin (Koei Tecmo, 22/03/2024) – 12,080 (96,865)
04.[SWI] Super Mario Bros. Wonder (Nintendo, 20/10/2023) – 9,898 (1,813,645)
05.[SWI] Minecraft (Microsoft, 21/06/2018) – 7,464 (3,491,021)
06.[SWI] Splatoon 3 (Nintendo, 09/09/2022) – 6,569 (4,270,899)
07.[SWI] Nintendo Switch Sports (Nintendo, 29/04/2022) – 6,497 (1,306,180)
08.[SWI] Momotaro Dentetsu World: Chikyuu wa Kibou de Mawatteru! (Konami, 16/11/2023) – 6,189 (1,029,313)
09.[SWI] Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo, 20/03/2020) – 6,110 (7,735,293)
10.[SWI] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 07/12/2018) – 5,507 (5,481,777)
11.[SWI] Mario vs. Donkey Kong (Nintendo, 16/02/2024) – 5,409 (142,778)
12.[SWI] Unicorn Overlord (Atlus, 08/03/2024) – 5,336 (67,290)
13.[SWI] Pokemon Scarlet / Pokemon Violet (The Pokemon Company, 18/11/2022) – 4,235 (5,325,234)
14.[PS5] Dragon’s Dogma II (Capcom, 22/03/2024) – 4,171 (81,935)
15.[PS5] Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Square Enix, 29/02/2024) – 3,819 (314,415)
16.[SWI] Mario Party Superstars (Nintendo, 29/10/2021) – 3,774 (1,423,482)
17.[SWI] Winning Post 10 2024 (Koei Tecmo, 28/03/2024) – 3,637 (16,482)
18.[SWI] Pikmin 4 (Nintendo, 21/07/2023) – 2,547 (1,197,429)
19.[SWI] Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics (Nintendo, 22/06/22/2020) – 3,109 (1,268,304)
20.[SWI] Ring Fit Adventure (Nintendo, 18/10/2019) – 2,507 (3,540,836)
21.[SWI] It Takes Two (Electronic Arts, 08/12/2022) – 2,436 (33,547)
22.[SWI] Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 Special Price (SEGA, 17/11/2022) – 2,325 (151,268)
23.[SWI] The Game of Life for Nintendo Switch (Takara Tomy, 06/10/2023) – 2,158 (200,153)
24.[SWI] Taiko no Tatsujin: Rhythm Festival (Bandai Namco, 22/09/2022) – 2,150 (311,713)
25.[SWI] Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! (Konami, 19/11/2020) – 2,064 (2,988,926)
26.[SWI] Super Mario Party (Nintendo, 05/10/2018) – 1,973 (2,272,810)
27.[PS5] Winning Post 10 2024 (Koei Tecmo, 28/03/2024) – 1,909 (8,642)
28.[SWI] The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Nintendo, 12/05/2023) – 1,836 (1,972,217)
29.[SWI] Luigi’s Mansion 3 (Nintendo, 31/10/2019) – 1,719 (969,574)
30.[SWI] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo, 30/03/2017) – 1,665 (2,285,010)
Hardware sales from 1 to 7 April 2024
01. Switch OLED – 55,386 (7,014,166)
02. PlayStation 5 – 20,269 (4,733,271)
03. Switch Lite – 9,188 (5,802,893)
04. Switch – 7,368 (19,763,280)
05. PlayStation 5 Digital – 4,707 (751,268)
06. Xbox Series X – 1,443 (264,117)
07. Xbox Series S – 670 (307,116)
08. PlayStation 4 – 107 (7,925,446)