Famitsu's Japanese chart figures are now in for the two weeks spanning 26th April - 9th May, revealing that New Pokémon Snap has had a great start to life in Nintendo's home country.
In the ten of those 14 days that Snap was available, the game managed to shift a total of 194,385 copies to top this double-week chart. Resident Evil Village sold an impressive 149,884 copies in just two days, however (it launched on 8th May), and would therefore have beaten Snap in this week's rankings if they had been published weekly as usual.
Here are the top ten (first numbers are this week's estimated sales, followed by total sales):
- [NSW] New Pokémon Snap (The Pokémon Company, 04/30/21) – 194,385 (New)
- [NSW] Monster Hunter Rise (Capcom, 03/26/21) – 171,067 (2,141,438)
- [PS4] Resident Evil Village (Capcom, 05/08/21) – 111,171 (New)
- [NSW] Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury (Nintendo, 02/12/21) – 53,347 (728,009)
- [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! (Konami, 11/19/20) – 42,348 (2,167,409)
- [PS5] Resident Evil Village (Capcom, 05/08/21) – 38,713 (New)
- [PS4] NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139… (Square Enix, 04/22/21) – 37,824 (146,662)
- [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure (Nintendo, 10/18/19) – 31,47 (2,554,184)
- [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 31,045 (3,824,997)
- [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 29,549 (1,940,130)
Hardware sales are also combined across the two weeks mentioned, although it's clear that Switch is still outperforming its rivals. Here are this double-week's figures, followed by lifetime sales in brackets:
- Switch – 170,898 (15,981,320)
- Switch Lite – 65,130 (3,771,281)
- PlayStation 5 – 44,960 (595,871)
- PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 8,680 (116,547)
- PlayStation 4 – 2,584 (7,783,139)
- New 2DS LL (including 2DS) – 1,027 (1,163,587)
- Xbox Series X – 808 (32,060)
- Xbox Series S – 399 (10,537)
Any surprises this week? Let us know in the comments.
[source famitsu.com, via gematsu.com]
Comments 44
Poor old Xbox has flopped like my bangers in the late 90s after giving birth to my 6th child.
Any particular reason why they didn't publish the sales last week?
Get the feeling MHR must be around the 6.8m-7m mark by now.
@Rob3008 Iirc Ryan said he was "off last week" in the UK sales chart comments.
RE8 combined on two Sony consoles couldn't sell more than Pokemon Snap, or even MHR which is more than a month old at this point.
Sony is in real trouble in Japan.
Ah yes, two very similar games
Got to be the one to say it, Village is the better game and deserves the win. Capcom is doing fantastic!
No one stops Vampire Mommy.
Resident Evil Switch is going to sell crazy well based on that. Now, I know I said before this generation that I thought the cross over would last much longer than usual, but man, PS5 software sales are in crisis over there!
New Pokemon Snap is sold out at nearly every store near me.
Both games are great and have earned great sales. To argue one is more deserving than the other (or that RE8 is a "threat") is a little weird to me, as they are going for two VERY different audiences. I mean, a person that isn't into B-movie "horror" but is into calm sightseeing tours would probably say Snap is the better game and therefore "deserves" more sales.
Why is this comparison culture still a thing? Would a resident evil fan decide Pokémon is better because Snap did better in sales? I want all games that people enjoy to be successful, for their fans. Never understood how these things are still relevant.
Let's face it. Everything with the Pokemon logo will sell well. Everything!
Almost every Pokemon game has 2 version that are exactly the same and still many people buy both of them. Me included! Yes I am part of the problem ...
Is this the first time since launch that Animal Crossing: New Horizons is not in the top ten?
I can't possibly imagine how Sony thinks they'll sell gangbusters with the PS5 with this horrible distribution. Shouldn't have been released in 2020...
the ps5 resident evil was bad. if RE cannot go number 1 in Japan then I do not see any ps5 game going number one. not even ratchet and clank. it is over for the ps5. pack your bags Sony , Japan is done with your ps5. and fact is Nintendo life, snap and rise came out on top. mavbe not in UK OR USA. but sony is pretty much finished in Japan ps4 cannot last forever.
Took this long to see a PS5 game on the chart, it's too bad it's just a port otherwise it would had been higher on the chart. Also not making any new exclusive Resident Evil game for Switch will come back to bite Capcom in the rear, you got a game that sells in Japan, make it for Switch and it'll sell even better in Japan. Also shouldn't it be called Biohazard Village?
I would say those two Games are not competing much :>
Well, Pokémon prints money. It automatically wins.
But honestly, it really just depends on how big each target market is. People who like Resident Evil might like Pokémon, but people who like Pokémon might not be interested in RE8.
@3RedTriangles sony are not in trouble at all lol.
The home console market there has been in decline for years and add that to the fact ps5 shortages continue and you could say they are doing really well!
Xbox on the other hand…
A threat? It couldn't even outsell MH Rise
Decent golden week numbers.
@Flashlink99 Considering it's still outpacing the PS4, despite the pandemic, I would've been hard to keep up with demand either way. Thing is, they couldn't probably delay it, it probably requires years of planning, not just by themselves, but also with devs. I was fortunate to get one day one.
The Switch has sold 230,000 consoles this week in Japan, pretty good for a regular week.
I’m guessing the comparison is for content. Even if both games are going for two different audiences. Their both major franchises, so why not compare? There isn’t a whole lot going on these days, in terms of news.
They are killing it with Pokemon on the Switch, Let's go 13.28 million, Sword and shield 21 million, and pretty sure snap will do good numbers as well.
@Ghost_of_Hasashi It was revealed by Enterbrain at the end of March that only 180k boxed software on PS5 was sold in Japan which is like 0.3 games sold per system.
Compared to 800k (excluding Knack which was bundled) for the PS4 had sold at the same point in its lifespan. I think it supports the theory that like 75% of the PS5's sold in Japan might have just been scalped to China, Europe or the US.
I'd feel bad for any Japanese dev who's releasing a PS5 exclusive and relying on Japanese Market.
A threat?
Really?
I'm not sure the two are in any actual danger of encroaching on each other's market. ^^
@3RedTriangles did you read the article? It's 2 weeks worth of sales but essentially just 2 days for Resident Evil, in all likelihood it would have been number 1 based on just last week
I bought both Pokemon Snap and Resident Evil Village (not in Japan), both are great games with RE Village being my favourite game of the year so far.
Also funny how so few who commented even bothered to read the article and see that it's 2 weeks worth of sales but just 2 days for RE8
This isn't even an apples and oranges comparison. It's like comparing apples to a bowl of pasta. Yeah both are video games and they have as much in common as apples and pasta - which are both food. But that's it.
I'm sure there's overlap among people who like Pokemon Snap and Resident Evil, but not that much. Totally different genres, different target demographics, pretty much different everything.
@Flashlink99 it's the fastest selling console in US history for the first 5 months. Top selling console in the UK Feb and March. Why should they have delayed it? 🤔
@tntswitchfan68 10 days of sales against 2! Mmmm I wonder why it was number 1!
@Octane Congrats! I will probably get one in 2023 or much later as scalpers get their filthy hands on the little stock that arrives in my country, instead of 500 euros it goes for around 1000...
@Serialsid the limited stock that prevents more people from getting it at a fair price is the main reason it should have been delayed. Just because it is the fastest-selling console out there, it doesn’t make it any better for those who want to buy it. It’s actually discouraging if you ask me
@carlos82 I enjoyed village more than snap, but to be fair, playstation games have terrible legs in japan compared to nintendo stuff these days. It's impressive that village sold that much in two days but snap and monhun will remain in the top ten for a while whereas village will probably be out by week three or four. This isn't the us or uk charts here.
@Dr_Lugae So you feel bad for Compile Heart? They had a PS5-exclusive Neptunia game that flopped so hard in Japan it failed to make the Famitsu Top 30.
@Flashlink99 it's selling more than any launch console in the history of gaming, limited stock happens with all new launches. Delaying it would have just cost money and put them on the back foot against the competition. Their only problem is they can't make them fast enough.
@ryancraddock I don't understand the Momotaro Dentetsu numbers here, after that article about the game selling 3 million does that mean nearly a 3rd of the people buying the game did so digitally? That's a pretty large ratio if so!
Also, how come the two weeks of chart sales were combined? Was there a holiday in Japan last week or something which lead to the figures being added together?
@3RedTriangles
Been this way for a while. I was going to write it has to be a bit concerning for Sony how much better the PS4 version of RE sold than the PS5 version but at this point I think Sony has mostly given up on Japan. And its actions have said as much.
Been playing RE Village on the PS5 since it launched here Stateside. Only about halfway through but great game so far.
@Flashlink99 I bet it will be easier to get one later in the year. If people stopped buying from scalpers, the situation would be a lot better.
@Serialsid Monster Hunter Rise. Your point?
@Serialsid Agreed. Hopefully with the pandemic winding down, the semiconductor shortage crisis will fade as well, then Sony should be able to solve the stock dillema. Right now I am deciding whether to wait for a redesign/price cut of PS5 or prepare my wallet for the theoretical Super Switch
The Nintendo fanboys are in full effect on this one
@Otoemetry Yeah, the sales in these charts are physical only.
And yep, sometimes the Japanese charts skip a week – usually for holidays – and then return as a double-week afterwards 🙂
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