Japanese Charts: Ring Fit Adventure Is Still Selling Well, But Nothing Can Stop Momotaro Dentetsu

Good Lord, they must really love Momotaro Dentetsu

Switch sales are up 50% YoY compared to this same week last year. In fact, weekly Switch sales have yet to dip below 100,000 units since late October 2020, which is amazing.

Good to see some more PS5 stock in Japan.

And who said Konami doesn't make games anymore!

I still don't know what's up with that Momotaro Dentetsu game, I looked it up in it looks like a very generic board game like game. Why does it sell so crazy?

@jump tbh it is a little disappointing to see this game selling as a blockbuster... you know... (even without a small and cheap translation).
I can see the konami's board of directors together in a room saying "see, we can't spend money and time investing in PES, MGS and other stuff for this platform, let's focus in cheap and niche games with high revenue".

Momotaro Dentetsu today crossed 2.5 million copies shipped, including digital.
Unstoppable!

@westman98 It's even up from last week.

Dear, Konami.
Please release Dance Dance Revolution A20+ for Nintendo Switch.
We need a new DDR on Nintendo Switch so bad.
Just do it, make it happen.

Buddy Mission Bond doesn't seem to have sold that well, though we'll have to see the sell-through percentage to determine if it really underperformed or not.

Both Xbox's outsold by the 2DS! For shame, not even the 3DS!

@jancotianno Being disappointed that a product you personally aren't interested in is selling is the epitome of entitlement.

Not thrilled that Japan is playing SMT Nocturne HD and Disgaea 6 and I'm not

Geez strange monopoly game for the win

Solid enough start for Disgaea 6, I guess. Certainly better than Disgaea 5's Japanese launch.

I'm sure NIS is banking on the Western Switch playerbase to carry the title, which is likely why it's an exclusive outside of Japan.

Animal crossing has sold 6,606,006, which just so happens to be the Devil’s Nintendo friend code.

Konami surely have made enough money to translate Momotaro Dentetsu now right? Seems weird in 2021 to have a 2 million+ seller be Japanese exclusive.

Solid enough start for Disgaea 6, I guess. Certainly better than Disgaea 5's Japanese launch.

@Ralizah I was not aware that Disgaea 5 launched poorly. I'm guessing that the original game was the highest-selling title. Would ~23000 copies be sufficient encouragement for NIS to continue investing in the new title with DLC and such?

@jump The sad thing is that this may never get localized to the west. It's got my curiosity piqued.

@mariomaster96 Japanese love virtual board game and they often love using it as a game for hangout, competition, get together, and parties. It's part of their culture which is why it sell so many. It's also the perfect game for them to get socialize during the pandemic.

Considering momotetsu is at 2.5 million sold already, I don’t think this train is slowing down. I’m waiting on a sale myself.

@jancotianno you are talking about a game you know nothing about with salty words, however， momotaro dentetsu is a interesting game with long history.

The biggest take away here is Disgaea, a game that's always been synonymous with PlayStation, is now performing better on a Nintendo platform.
It's a small game but it's still noteworthy, because it's a result of Sony's shift away from Japan.

@COVIDberry I'm pretty sure Disgaea 6's Japanese launch is well within the expected range for NIS. I wouldn't worry about it not getting additional support. The real question is how it'll sell overseas. NIS quadrupled down on the Switch after preorders for Disgaea 5 Complete on Switch in the UK/US effectively eclipsed the total sales numbers of the base PS4 version. But the thing is that Disgaea 5 had a number of factors going for it: as a traditionally Playstation-oriented franchise, its appearance on a Nintendo console was an event. More importantly, it was a launch window game, making it one of the few really substantive Switch releases before the onslaught of exclusives later in the year.

I think it'll give us an idea of the real level of demand for Disgaea on Switch. Disgaea 5 Complete released near launch, so that was a bad test case. And, frankly, the re-releases of Disgaea 1 & 4 on Switch are bad test cases as well, since a lot of the people who are interested in these games, myself included, like already own them several times over. Disgaea 6 is a brand new mainline entry, though. I'm just hoping it doesn't launch close to something big, which is actually a pretty major risk this year.

@mariomaster96 some insight here: https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/lc9ody/momotaro_dentetsu_showa_heisei_reiwa_mo_teiban/glz1p9h?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3

@nhSnork thx

@Ralizah This sounds like a cogent analysis. Thanks! The strategy RPG market seems healthy enough, so this will be interesting to see indeed.

@jancotianno I sure hope you're right, I'm so sick of 3rd person action adventure games. I'm a big fan of Nintendo because they put out weird things like Clubhouse Games, Animal Crossing, Brain Age, Labo, Mario Party, Ring Fit Adventure, etc., so if more companies want to do that, I'm all for it.

@Nintendo_Thumb It is something very personal. I think among all of these games you've mentioned only Animal Crossing had an investment of triple A title (btw you've mentioned only Nintendo games). Momotarō may be a great game, but still, it is clearly a niche game (and I think I don't need to explain why).
My only concern and disappointment has nothing to do specifically because of this game, but how the market works. Check all Konami games on switch: Super Bomberman R, Contra Rogue Corps... and now Momotarō Dentetsu. After the huge success of this one, I'm pretty sure we won't see something big from Konami anymore (in the Nintendo context). Again, I have nothing against to have these games on switch, but I really would like to see the other big titles from Konami on it too.
Things can change like it did with Capcom: Now with almost 80 million consoles sold, Capcom started to invest in a new Monster Hunter Game for NS, but in the case of Konami, it seems their position for NS is well defined. Anyway, as I said, it's something personal, many people will say (as we can see in other discussions) things like "I don't need PES, Metal Gear Solid or whatever from Konami, just give me Bomberman, I can play PES on my PS5" and think everything is fine. It's personal.

For week ending Jan. 31, Nintendo has 79% of all console market share in Japan.

They are high numbers for Xbox 😅

@westman98 I went to a retailer and they had no copies of Buddy Bond available so it probably wasn’t stocked much. The Youtube reviews I saw of it lauded it saying it’s a really great. But it is a truly niche genre so I doubt Nintendo forecasted many sales and probably didn’t send too many copies to retailers. It’s too bad Nintendo may not bring it West.