Famitsu's Japanese chart figures are now in for the week ending 29th August, revealing that Tsukihime: A Piece of Blue Glass Moon has debuted at number one.
The visual novel remake launched on 26th August in Japan, earning itself 72,237 physical sales on Switch and a further 66,171 physical sales on PS4 in its opening weekend. The game comfortably leads this week's chart, with Nintendo's Ring Fit Adventure next up in third with 15,671 sales.
No More Heroes III is the only other newcomer in the top ten, picking up 7,951 physical sales to land in ninth. Switch titles make up nine of that list in total, with just the aforementioned PS4 version of Tsukihime breaking the trend.
Here are the top ten (first numbers are this week's estimated sales, followed by total sales):
- [NSW] Tsukihime: A Piece of Blue Glass Moon (Aniplex, 08/26/21) – 72,237 (New)
- [PS4] Tsukihime: A Piece of Blue Glass Moon (Aniplex, 08/26/21) – 66,171 (New)
- [NSW] Ring Fit Adventure (Nintendo, 10/18/19) – 15,671 (2,788,621)
- [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 14,838 (4,009,933)
- [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 13,860 (2,153,053)
- [NSW] Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban! (Konami, 11/19/20) – 12,023 (2,348,554)
- [NSW] Yu-Gi-Oh! Rush Duel: Saikyo Battle Royale!! (Konami, 08/12/21) – 9,491 (122,530)
- [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 12/07/18) – 8,536 (4,397,935)
- [NSW] No More Heroes III (Marvelous, 08/27/21) – 7,951 (New)
- [NSW] Pokémon Sword and Shield (The Pokémon Company, 11/15/19) – 7,499 (4,120,436)
In the hardware charts, Sony's PS5 has had a stronger week than usual and has outsold the Switch Lite during the period. Sales of the original Switch are also down week-on-week, but not enough to ruin its chances of leading the pack. Here are this week's figures, followed by lifetime sales in brackets:
- Switch – 52,488 (16,959,653)
- PlayStation 5 – 17,852 (831,841)
- Switch Lite – 10,766 (4,030,951)
- Xbox Series X – 2,848 (56,941)
- Xbox Series S – 2,821 (26,355)
- PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 2,302 (163,740)
- PlayStation 4 – 2,067 (7,805,991)
- New 2DS LL (including 2DS) – 509 (1,171,305)
Any surprises this week? Let us know in the comments.
[source famitsu.com, via gematsu.com]
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Wonder if Ring Fit will reach 3 million sales in Japan?
@Quarth just a matter of time
@Quarth I remember people around these parts giving it no chance at all.
PS5 will finally pass 1 million in Japan next week. I know it is selling great, despite shortages of parts etc. I wonder how concerned Sony is at the lack of sales in Japan?
Hoping we get some info on upcoming games for the Switch soon. A few games are on my radar upcoming but nothing I'm extremely excited about. Hoping for some announcements that get me excited for the winter and beyond
All hardware is doing well contextually speaking. It's probably because Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania is a multi platform relea-what?
So bizarre to see Tsukihime in headlines again after 20 years. Wonder if the new Melty Blood will top charts the same way?
@WiltonRoots
I doubt anyone including Nintendo themselves expected Ring Fit to sell as much as it has, but yeah, the dismissal toward Nintendo's blue ocean games is always funny to read in hindsight.
Wow. No More Heroes 3 didn't do too well.
Xbox selling alright for their usual numbers. Wonder why people in Japan are picking up the console now?
It's unfortunate that Tsukihime doesn't support English.
https://store-jp.nintendo.com/list/software/70010000039545.html
I wonder if those Xbox numbers are people importing Japanese Xboxes due to the supply issues?
Even though I haven’t bought it yet, I’m a bit bummed for No More Heroes III. Feel like such a passion project should equate to some more recognition.
@WiltonRoots I haven't played it myself, but I'm not surprised it's doing well. It looks like a good combination of training and fun.
@Meteoroid Unlike Nintendo, they have gone fully global
And yet Global Switch sales still are better then PS wonder why. Maybe because Switch is Global in the sense already. Love how people try to spin to fit their narrative.
@Magician It's unfortunate that Tsukihime doesn't support English.
That to me is even a bigger loss in sales force.
Even for Japan, seeing a VN in the top spot is quite a surprise. But a pleasant one!
Good can we get it in English now or do we need to get melty blood to top first
@Magician The author rarely has his works published in anything but Japanese (with any English translations being historically... shaky), so I'll be more surprised if we see it in anything else, ever. On the flip side, the credits are in Romaji as well, so maybe there's a translation in our future?
@kenyowa Makes sense. I was just surprised to see that the new Melty Blood will be in English but that Tsukihime wasn't. I was hoping to get a deeper appreciation of the lore before playing Melty Blood.
@WiltonRoots Yeah, some really love to complain about Nintendo only rehashing old franchises, but when they try something new, people are whining as well. 😅
@Magician Sad face.. If it did I'd be jumping on a physical copy from PlayAsia.. Do you think it might finally get localized for the U.S.?
I hope the Tsukihime remake will get localized. Especially with Melty Blood: Type Lumina releasing worldwide next month.
Either localize it or at least add English text to the Japanese version. I'll happily buy it!
As someone who's eagerly waiting for the new Melty Blood, this is great news. Thanks to rollback netcode, playing with Japanese players is actually possible now!
@Heavyarms55 Not only that, look at those numbers!! Number 3 is practically 1/10th of its combined sales.
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