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Software

1. [NSW] Pikmin 4 – 401,853 / NEW
2. [NSW] Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – 15,616 / 1,775,035
3. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 10,749 / 5,385,022
4. [NSW] Nobunaga's Ambition: Awakening – 10,633 / NEW
5. [PS4] Nobunaga's Ambition: Awakening – 10,434 / NEW
6. [NSW] Minecraft – 7,512 / 3,200,000
7. [NSW] Splatoon 3 – 6,337 / 4,066,350
8. [NSW] Nintendo Switch Sports – 5,784 / 1,131,645
9. [PS5] Final Fantasy XVI – 4,904 / 401,376
10. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 4,844 / 5,239,500

Hardware

Switch - 71,180
PS5 - 46,561
PS4 - 4,309
XBS - 1,158
3DS - 22

By SKU:

• Switch OLED – 47,940
• PS5 – 42,967
• Switch – 14,815
• Switch Lite – 8,425
• PS4 – 4,309
• PS5 Digital Edition – 3,594
• Xbox Series X – 1,078
• Xbox Series S – 80
• New 2DS LL – 22

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Those Pikmin 4 numbers are lit! Both PS5 and Switch HW continuing to sell strong!

 

[Punished Miku]

If you told me Pikmin 4 would outsell FFXVI I wouldn't have believed you.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

By comparison the first Pikmin sold 101,299 in its first week, Pikmin 2 sold 161,930 and Pikmin 3 sold 92,720.

 

[Woopah]

I guessed 350,000 for Pikmin 4 so looks like I underestimated it.

Japan continues selling a lot of hardware, and I particularly like Minecraft's total sales. Nice round figure!

If you told me Pikmin 4 would outsell FFXVI I wouldn't have believed you.

As of right now Pikmin leads by 477, so very very close!

 

[Mr Moose]

If you told me Pikmin 4 would outsell FFXVI I wouldn't have believed you.

Those 30 million Switches helped.

 

[lh032]

Japan is basically a portable console land.
Almost every Switch 1st party game sells in Japan (except third party games)

 

[Punished Miku]

Those 30 million Switches helped.

Sure, but it's fair play to just notice the trend. FF used to drive system adoption since PS1, not the other way around. And it's fair to wonder about their system strategy. FF could be exclusive to Nintendo if they wanted, like they were on 1-6.

I wouldn't be surprised if they did some FFXVI Pocket Edition for Switch honestly, like they did for XV.

 

[Woopah]

Japan is basically a portable console land.
Almost every Switch 1st party game sells in Japan (except third party games)

PS5 is doing much better hardware-wise in its third year than the Vita or PSP did in their third year. So its not really down to portability. Third parties can learn from the way Nintnedo have built up their brands in Japan.

 

[ChiefDada]

The Xbox Series consoles are getting outsold 4:1 by the Playstation

Spoiler

4

 

[lh032]

PS5 is doing much better hardware-wise in its third year than the Vita or PSP did in their third year. So its not really down to portability. Third parties can learn from the way Nintnedo have built up their brands in Japan.

doesnt seem to be alot of software sales though, somethings wrong here?

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

FF doing very poorly in Japan.

 

[Woopah]

doesnt seem to be alot of software sales though, somethings wrong here?

The brands that PlayStation has tradionally relied on (FF, DQ, MH, KH) have either declined or gone to other platforms. The PS ecosystem has had some new successes in recent years with GoT, Elden Ring and Hogwarts, they just need more things like that.

 

[Kerotan]

Great to see the leading traditional home consoles increase this week. Over 50k sold between ps4 and 5. PlayStation continues to dominate.

 

[Fake]

Pikmin is a beast.

edit: Playstation 5 Digital Edition wof... losing to base PS4.

 

[ahtlas7]

Nintendo is on

 

[Labadal]

I wonder if they will have BC on Switch 2...

 

[onQ123]

The way PS4 is making a comeback in Japan is also crazy Sony should have made a PS4mini

 

[Woopah]

PS5 is dominating Japan's traditional home console market just like the GameCube did.

 

[Fake]

The way PS4 is making a comeback in Japan is also crazy Sony should have made a PS4mini

Sony is losing a huge deal not making a PS4 lite/mini like PSvita sucessor with OLED screen.
With the catalogue PS4 had and devs still making games for base PS4, not to mention AMD sure have cheap components for a mini PS4 as this technology got outdated.

 

[RoboFu]

OHH that FF16 drop off.

 

[Saber]

I'm just happy for Pikimin. It isn't a blockbuster series and its considered by some a bit of outdated. I love the series, so its great to see it selling so well.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

I wonder if they will have BC on Switch 2...

That's the big question, isn't it? If they don't have BC people who invested in their Switch digital game libraries will go wild.

 

[Robb]

Thats quite a bit more for Pikmin than I would’ve guessed. Nintendo is just firing in all cylinders this year.

 

[Woopah]

I wonder if they will have BC on Switch 2...

That's the big question, isn't it? If they don't have BC people who invested in their Switch digital game libraries will go wild.

Nintendo wants people to move their NSO accounts to the new console, so I reckon it will have BC.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Nintendo wants people to move their NSO accounts to the new console, so I reckon it will have BC.

I'm not convinced, tbh, other than that generic statement there's no further communication to reassure fans that their Switch library will indeed carry over onto the next-gen Nintendo hardware. Hope I'm wrong here, but I just don't trust Nintendo's coyness on this, especially if the rumor mill is right and Switch 2 is releasing early next year. MVG did a interesting opinion piece here on the technical hurdles that Nintendo might be dealing with this in order to provide BC.

 

[Musashipan]

Pikmin outsold ff16 already
Switch is unstoppable

 

[Unknown?]

Japan is basically a portable console land.
Almost every Switch 1st party game sells in Japan (except third party games)

*shhhhh* a certain banned member will tell you it's a home console.

 

[daclynk]

Wow looks like Pikmin was a better choice than StarFox. hmmm

 

[Roman Empire]

Switchland going strong. People complaining or mocking for Pikmin 4 outselling Final Fantasy XVI, you need to understand that Japan is a portable/mobile gaming centered market for more than 10+ years, with the exception of Nintendo consoles.

 

[Woopah]

I'm not convinced, tbh, other than that generic statement there's no further communication to reassure fans that their Switch library will indeed carry over onto the next-gen Nintendo hardware. Hope I'm wrong here, but I just don't trust Nintendo's coyness on this, especially if the rumor mill is right and Switch 2 is releasing early next year. MVG did a interesting opinion piece here on the technical hurdles that Nintendo might be dealing with this in order to provide BC.

I wouldn't expect Nintendo to talk about the backwards compatability of an unannounced console. But they've been pretty good with physical BC and this time they have a big incentive to be good with Digital BC.

*shhhhh* a certain banned member will tell you it's a home console.

To classify it as only a home console or only a portable is to misunderstand its appeal. Its both.

 

[Ronin_7]

Ps4 refuses to die.

 

[Fake]

Ps4 refuses to die.

 

[mckmas8808]

I guessed 350,000 for Pikmin 4 so looks like I underestimated it.

Yep! The 320,000 prediction based on COMG score undercut it too. Great job Nintendo!!!

 

[mckmas8808]

The way PS4 is making a comeback in Japan is also crazy Sony should have made a PS4mini

It'll be the biggest waste of money of ALL TIME!

 

[onQ123]

It'll be the biggest waste of money of ALL TIME!

Not really because there is a lot of money still being made on PSN from PS4 content.

Drop the disc drive & HDD add some cheap flash storage & hit the markets that they missed

 

[Kerotan]

Pikmin is a beast.

edit: Playstation 5 Digital Edition wof... losing to base PS4.

Ps4 isn't losing to digital ps5 when you consider one is a traditional dedicated home console with a disc drive and the other is a traditional home console with no drive. Two separate categories and they're both number one in them.

 

[blacktout]

Ps4 isn't losing to digital ps5 when you consider one is a traditional dedicated home console with a disc drive and the other is a traditional home console with no drive. Two separate categories and they're both number one in them.

Your commitment to this bit is commendable, honestly. It used to annoy me, but you've elevated it to performance art. Keep going, you're filling the void Nautilus left behind.

 

[Kerotan]

Your commitment to this bit is commendable, honestly. It used to annoy me, but you've elevated it to performance art. Keep going, you're filling the void Nautilus left behind.

It was actually me who set him into loco mode. He used to annoy everybody so I had a bit of banter back at him and he took it too serious.

 

[mckmas8808]

Not really because there is a lot of money still being made on PSN from PS4 content.

Drop the disc drive & HDD add some cheap flash storage & hit the markets that they missed

And what would the ROI on that be? Because you can't sell that in North America and Europe and think it'll sell much.

 

[onQ123]

And what would the ROI on that be? Because you can't sell that in North America and Europe and think it'll sell much.

You do know that Sony clipped PS4 wings to produce more PS5s right?

It's a waste compared to getting people to buy PS5 but trust me PS4 could have easily sold another 20 million as a mini

 

[Kerotan]

You do know that Sony clipped PS4 wings to produce more PS5s right?

It's a waste compared to getting people to buy PS5 but trust me PS4 could have easily sold another 20 million as a mini

This is true. If they did one final revision with another price cut it and sufficient stock throughout COVID it would have sold a lot.

The ps2 had this luxury the ps4 did not.

 

[mckmas8808]

You do know that Sony clipped PS4 wings to produce more PS5s right?

It's a waste compared to getting people to buy PS5 but trust me PS4 could have easily sold another 20 million as a mini

Maybe, if it had come out in 2021 probably. But not in 2023.

 

[onQ123]

Maybe, if it had come out in 2021 probably. But not in 2023.

My original post says that they should have made a PS4 mini . I didn't say that they should make one today

 

[Sojiro]

Piiiiiiikmmmmmmiiiiinnnnn 4! Glad to see people buying into this great series! Fuck yeah!

 

[Raonak]

Good numbers PS5

 

[GigaBowser]

Strong hold PS5

TOTK will bees on that list for the next 6 years until theys release the new one

 

[KU_]

Glad to see Pikmin getting the love it deserves!

 

[MrA]

It was actually me who set him into loco mode. He used to annoy everybody so I had a bit of banter back at him and he took it too serious.

pretty funny to say considering you threw a tantrum when I called the ps5 a wasteful tv-tethered dinosaur and that sony broke the traditional console mode by making wasteful power-hungry hardware when they couldn't compete with real video game companies and had to just spend their way into their current position.

 

[Kerotan]

pretty funny to say considering you threw a tantrum when I called the ps5 a wasteful tv-tethered dinosaur and that sony broke the traditional console mode by making wasteful power-hungry hardware when they couldn't compete with real video game companies and had to just spend their way into their current position.

Considering I don't remember that it couldn't have been that big a tantrum. This ain't reality TV!