Famitsu's Japanese chart figures are now in for the week ending 28th February, revealing that Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury has been knocked out of first place in its third week on sale.
Instead, the coveted number one spot has been gobbled up by Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town this time around, which managed to shift over 200,000 physical copies in its opening weekend. Bravely Default II also debuted strongly in second place, shifting 93,000 physical units.
That puts Super Mario 3D World down in third spot, still ahead of the mighty Momotaro Dentetsu for the time being. Once again, the entire top ten is made up of Switch titles only.
Here are the top 10 (first numbers are this week's estimated sales, followed by total sales):
- [NSW] Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town (Marvelous, 02/25/21) – 202,396 (New)
- [NSW] Bravely Default II (Square Enix, 02/26/21) – 93,061 (New)
- [NSW] Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury (Nintendo, 02/12/21) – 74,811 (422,784)
- [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! (Konami, 11/19/20) – 40,610 (1,974,795)
- [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure (Nintendo, 10/18/19) – 19,032 (2,413,077)
- [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 13,575 (3,699,547)
- [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo, 03/20/20) – 13,332 (6,668,414)
- [NSW] Uta no Prince-sama Debut for Nintendo Switch (Broccoli, 02/25/21) – 10,588 (New)
- [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 12/07/18) – 9,957 (4,175,273)
- [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 9,386 (1,834,873)
In the hardware charts, Switch remains at number one for yet another week, although PS5 sales did manage to outpace those of the Switch Lite. Here are this week's figures, followed by lifetime sales in brackets:
- Switch – 50,141 (15,219,554)
- PlayStation 5 – 30,117 (356,683)
- Switch Lite – 27,908 (3,346,656)
- PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 3,721 (66,176)
- PlayStation 4 – 3,201 (7,764,284)
- Xbox Series X – 1,429 (27,883)
- New 2DS LL (including 2DS) – 673 (1,156,715)
- Xbox Series S – 58 (7,634)
- PlayStation 4 Pro – 16 (1,575,662)
Any surprises this week? Let us know in the comments.
[source famitsu.com, via gematsu.com]
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So good that Bravely Default 2 opened strong.
I wonder what the digital sales are?
Holy crap those Xbox numbers!! What will they do to make that console take off in Japan?
Congrats to my favorite franchise: Story of Seasons!!!! More than doubling the closest competitor!
Sucks that story of seasons doesn’t seem like it even deserves the position in its current state. I am happy for BV2 however.
After seeing the story of seasons hate why the heck is it numBer one. I don’t even want that game I want mineral town I am just confused
@blindsquarel Pre-orders or purchases made before the streamers got the game.
This is all just prelude to Monster Hunter. The Japanese charts, both hardware and software, are going to be ... decisive the last week of March.
Story of Seasons Pioneers of Olive Town had a huge launch. It is less than 40,000 copies away from outselling Trio of Towns on 3DS at retail.
Japanese retail launch sales:
> Bravely Default: 144,909
> Bravely Second: 97,220
> Bravely Default 2: 93,061
Bravely Default 2 launch sales should be bigger than that of Bravely Second but less than Bravely Default 1 once digital sales are factored in.
Is the momo train slowing down?!
Can't believe story of seasons beat bravely default 2
Glad to see Bravely series is doing fine.
@BloodNinja,
Microsoft consoles will never perform well in Japan, the Japanese will always remain loyal to their native companies.
@Ryu_Niiyama It became the moo moo train. For a week, at last.
The Mario 3D compilation has already dropped out of the top 10! I thought it would be there until it was no longer available.
It’s nice to see the PS5 pick up some steam. I don’t own one, or feel the need to get one but, competition makes these types of articles more interesting to read. I would love to see both systems battle it out for the #1 spot. See which exclusives have more pull, when it comes to getting more people to purchase the system. Especially when the Pro hits.
Does the PS5 not had any games in Japan? I don't think I seen any PS5 games in the top 10 Famitsu chart since its launch last year.
What the heck are these new PS5 owners playing though?! Very few games being sold! My neighbors got a PS5 for Christmas I asked them what games they got... FIFA21 and Fortnite 😅 the only two games they played on their, you guessed it, PS4
@Eel lol! Waiting on the Moo Moo train to stop at my station....
Only 58 japanese people bought Xbox Series S. Its a decent little console with game pass.
@AmplifyMJ @Ghost_of_Hasashi I think that scalpers might be buying PS5s up in Japan and then reselling them in Europe and the US.
It's the only way I can see picture the software sales being so low in Japan.
@BloodNinja Do the ninjas not approve of this?
Always good to see the, let’s be honest, slightly lower profile games get the spotlight.
Not that they’re bad or anything, but not necessarily the hard hitters, ya know?
So being ahead of Mario is good news, even if it ends up being just a week or so.
@BloodNinja Hmm... To summarize it...
Japan is currently pretty pissed at Sony (so are fans of Japanese games, like me. That's why I'm here now. Well, not regretting it. Nintendo games are fun... Played my first Mario since GBA and I was surprised how much joy it brings me... BotW even stopped me hating OpenWorld games...), or rather PlayStation, that has its HQ in California for some years now and make the decisions. Sony Japan doesn't really have a lot to say anymore. You can see that easily at nearly all the PlayStation events. You'll mostly see Americans there these days. The only recent (from the last years) Japanese PlayStation video I remember was when that one guy opened the PS5 to show us what's inside.
They also have set up some new rules that for whatever reason only apply to Japanese games. Because headpatting an animegirl is bad, but... uhm... "adulting" your way through western games is completely fine. On PlayStation you literally get trophies for... "adulting" females. I was also kinda surprised that when I was playing Assassins Creed Origins that there are some women that walk around without wearing anything on the top, having their bare chests showing. If that would be a Japanese game half the world would tilt because animugirl badd!!1...
That's pretty unfair and some developers said that they're going to stop supporting PlayStation. That's probably the reason why there are so many ports for Switch lately or why Persona 5 Strikers (Persona is a SpinOff of Shin Megami Tensei. But Persona was mostly for PlayStation and SMT mostly for Nintendo.) is on Switch. Or why I havn't heard much about J-Games for PS5, besides Final Fantasy XVI and Neptunia ReVerse (which is a remaster of a PS4 game which is a remaster of a Vita game which is a remake of a PS3 game.) Most J-Games I'm aware about are either for PS4 but with ports for Switch, games that got ported afterwards to Switch, or cancelled on PlayStation at all.
So... Everyone's mad at Sony or PlayStationUS (heck they even decided to change the button layout for the Japanese market on PS5... How ignorant and rude can you be? As if BLOCKING games wasn't disrespectful enough yet... Oh well, if they're going to piss off SquareEnix at some point in the future the PlayStation will be dead in Japan and for J-Fans.), there are barely news about games for PS5, but that companies are thinking about switching to Nintendo. That's probably also a reason why the Switch sales are exploding again.
Oh. Have you heard about Phantasy Star Online 2? Outside of Japan it will not come for PS, but for... XBox. That's... an interesting move... But I guess that's what you get when you make people angry.
(NA: Win, XBO, XSX - JP: Win, NS, PS4)
@Kirbo100 Apparently, ninjas do NOT approve of Xbox! LOL
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@Altina I feel like I'm out of the loop on 90% of what you're saying, but I'll ask only this: head patting an anime girl vs. adulting through a western game? I'm dumb and have no idea what you are saying. Fix my dumb head. The rest I think I got, but I don't think I'm Japanese enough to understand the fullest context.
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The PS5 is steadily getting more stock there damn I am jealous. 3 weeks ago it was 20k, then 22k and last week was 25k.
@BloodNinja Well, it's against the rules to say the F word here. So I said "adulting females". That apparently is a more and more common feature in western games these days. (In Cyberpunk random women on the street ask you if you want her to make you harder than your childhood. And you can even accept it. But that's okay, because it's a western game...?) While on the other hand western people freak out when you literally just headpat an animegirl in a Japanese game. I don't get why they think about female bodies all day or how THAT seems to be no problem (Personally I would consider it sexist to reduce women to their shapes and that society seems to see them only as a "bed toy"...).
Funfact: CERO (Japanese age rating) doesn't even allow nudity or "adulting" in games. Japanese games are in Japan itself even more innocent than their international releases are. Maybe you heard that Smash Brawl came later in Japan. That was because CERO wasn't happy with how some female characters have been dressed. Which means that the system works, I really don't understand why PlayStationUS is so aggressively overreacting on Japanese games. Even Nintendo is more cool with stuff than PlayStation. What a time to be alive... Nintendo said that they trust in CERO, PEGI, USK, ESRB, whatever, to do their job. PlayStationUS on the other hand wants Japanese devs to send their games to them first and when PS says No, the game is BLOCKED until they change it how PS wants it to be. That's stupid because in western games people even EXPECT to be able to "adult around". People asked CD Projekt what "adulting positions" you can do in Cyperpunk...
But for example the "final bonding scene" in ToCS4...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxOWGt3j1ME
...with Altina, where he even rejects her because of her age and their positions (instructor and student) made people freak out even though absolutely nothing happened. Hypocrisy at its finest... Oh, she didn't even mean "partner" in a romantical way. They're working together. Aside from school, on military jobs. She's a homunculus, an artificial created person. She was designed to be an obedient weapon and had zero feelings or empathy at first. Hanging around with Rean and the others made her understand what humanness is. (And yeah, imo she's a bit overly feely in game4... But, it's okay, she's new to this whole feelings thing.)
I think most people didn't even watch the scene. I read comments that said that everyone should skip the scene because she is a minor and how can they even do that and blah. I DID watch the scene and AS EXPECTED nothing happened. I have no idea why western people think about "adulting" and the female anatomy all day long... or why they believe that Japanese stuff is so dirty... What's wrong with people? Even on this Nintendo site people complain about "weird Japanese crap", even though Nintendo IS a Japanese company lol, when they watch Directs. I have no idea where else I'm supposed to go when hypocrite westeners ruin Nintendo too one day just because people obviously have issues and need to think about pervert stuff ALL DAY LONG and believe for whatever reason that Japan is the worst, while western games literally give you achievements for "doing people"... I just want to play my NON-ADULTING J-games in peace. Is that really too much to ask for?
@Altina Ok, now I’m caught up LOL.
Forgive my ignorance. These kind of topics are outside my social circle.
I get what you mean, you’re talking about a double standard. People will complain about something that one culture does while their own culture has stuff that could be complained about just as much.
“It is unwise to complain about the snow on your neighbors roof, when your own doorstep is unclean,” is a Chinese proverb that comes to mind when I think about stuff like that. It helps me catch myself if I am complaining about something like that.
I think people forget that when they see something that they don’t like in a game or something, that just means it’s not for them. We can all use that reminder, sometimes! It’s also important to NOT take ownership of complaints based on stereotypes.
If someone is complaining about the USA, where I live, I just let it go because I’m not personally responsible for their complaint.
Anyway, it’s nice to have actual conversation while we are all cooped up from quarantine. Cheers!
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@johnvboy Americans are the opposite. This may be the last Xbox we see
@Browntrouser,
Doubt it, Microsoft have more money then sense.
@BloodNinja Yeah, no, ignore people that insult you for being American. You're living in a country of 330 million people. Of course the chance to meet stupid people is higher than anywhere else. How many other countries have so many people? Yeah, the US is warmongering, acts like the world police and even dropped nukes, and kinda always believes to be the best in everything... But that's not your personal fault. Hitler also wasn't my fault, but yet people annoy me about that every now and then.
I dunno, that's just how people are, I guess. They just want to find SOMETHING to attack you because everyone seems to see themself as "the best person ever" and tries so hard to be somehow "better" than you (just look at "social" media. So much anger everywhere...), as if life would be a constant PvP battlefield. Otherwise people wouldn't care about how other people look like (or even rate them from 0 to 10... That's beyond childish imo), how alpha or beta someone is or why people always need to brag with materialistic stuff. I don't care that you've every Apple product, every console, a GaMiNgPc that can do RT and VR, have a palace and drive a Porsche, dude... I mean... Just... be yourself? Like, if I would win the lottery I would pretty sure live like I do right now. Because why should I suddenly need a car? I still have no reason to go anywhere. Why should my 280€/month apartment suddenly not be good enough anymore? Does it matter if I sit on the couch in a 40sqm apartment or in a palace? Seriously, I don't get it. I would just buy more games and hire a maid that's good at cooking so that I can stop eating spaghetti for on a daily base for... I dunno, it's the fourth year now I think. So, if she would do the cooking, preferable vegetarian (but not vegan, please) and would like it to cuddle, doesn't even need to talk much if she doesn't want to, because I'm lazy and lonely... That would be nice, yeah. But even if I would be a millionaire I wouldn't see any reason why I should buy a graphicscard that costs more than all consoles combined (and still has barely games I care about). That's just stupid...
Though, that was pretty offtopic now...
But it's interesting that for you "hugging/headpatting a girl" in a Japanese game is equal worth of complaining to "getting an achievement for literally doing people" in western games. Huh... That's very strange. How are these things "equal"? I like getting hugged and headpatted, but I don't like "being used". Thank you...
@Altina Oh! I must have mis-stated something. I don't have issues with head patting anime girls and stuff like that. I actually LOVE anime, it's what got me into martial arts 20 years ago! Have you ever watched Berserk? : D Love. That. Show. And I mean the 1997 version. Ah, so good.
Shocking that people give you crap over Hitler, of all things. Weirdly enough, someone I met in the united states told me I was a neo nazi, even though I'm half English, half Lebanese. I think a neo nazi would want to kill me LOL. It makes no sense at all, but people see a white guy and automatically assume the worst. I can only imagine what that must be like for you! Don't let people like that ruin your day, they are weak-minded and only view people with their eyes, and not with their hearts.
It was great chatting, hope you're having a great day or night or whatever.
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think this will be a turning point in history again since 1994. nintendo is going to claim back the market.
if rumors are correct and the next switch will have 4k i don't see Sony win back the industry like nintendo lost it in 1994.
i know you never have to underestimate the playstation, but its popularity is faling. xbox is more powerfull is the better console, they have bethesda and the nintendo switch concept is just perfect
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