
The latest Japanese charts are in, courtesy of Famitsu, and it's an expectedly quiet week as we prepare for the stacked September release schedule.
Despite only shifting an additional 10,198 units, Powerful Pro Baseball 2024-25 has held onto the top spot for the fourth week in a row. To be honest, things are equally unremarkable elsewhere too. The familiar faces of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Nintendo Switch Sports and Animal Crossing: New Horizons continue to prove that no amount of slow sales will boot them out of the top 10, while last week's newbie That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime ISEKAI Chronicles is nowhere to be seen.
For the full breakdown, here's a look at the latest top ten in full:
At least the hardware charts are a little more interesting this week as the PS5 has taken the lead over the Switch OLED. Sony's latest managed an additional 28,008 sales this week compared to the OLED on 27,530. Combining the consoles' SKUs puts things back in Nintendo's favour, with the OLED, Lite and standard models totalling 42,958 sales while the standard and digital-only PS5 models hit 31,493.
We'd imagine the surge in PS5 sales comes from Sony's announcement that it'll be upping prices by ¥13,000 (roughly $90) from 2nd September. According to a Japanese PlayStation Blog post, this increase is due to "the recent challenging external environment, including the current fluctuations in the global economic situation, and the impact it will have on our business". Makes sense to get 'em while they're cheap(er), eh?
Here's your look at this week's Japanese hardware chart in full.
Position |
Console |
Unit Sales (29th July - 4th Aug) |
Total Unit Sales |
---|---|---|---|
1 |
PlayStation 5 |
28,008 |
5,142,394 |
2 |
Switch OLED |
27,530 |
7,743,394 |
3 |
Switch Lite |
10,776 |
6,010,801 |
4 |
Switch |
4,653 |
19,880,083 |
5 |
PlayStation 5 - Digital Edition |
3,485 |
841,225 |
6 |
Xbox Series X |
225 |
305,438 |
7 |
PlayStation 4 |
47 |
7,928,287 |
8 |
Xbox Series S |
29 |
317,206 |
What do you make of this week's charts? Let us know your thoughts with a comment down below.
[source famitsu.com]
Comments 13
Yeah, unfortunately not surprised to not see "Slime" here since it was 15th in its second week as I mentioned last time.
Anyway, happy to see Powerful Pro Baseball still on top and all the other Switch games in the top 10 along with Swich on the whole still selling better than other systems in Japan despite PS5 being on top when it comes to the individual models most certainly due to the price increase as mentioned by the article!
Slow burn for the PS5 even with the imminent price bump. The tech twins have both been disappointing this gen.
Clean sweep for Switch software.
The little console that could.
I wonder how Emio is going to place on these charts next week? Also curious if Black Wukong Myth will make any sort of dent. The fall is looking pretty full of big games, hopefully we'll see a shakeup after this summertime lull of repeat perennials.
Would really love to get an English translation of Powerful Pros. I loved playing Power Pros on the Wii back in the day.
Interesting strategy from Sony.
"Buy our console now or we up the price!"
Astro Bot sales will be interesting. Seems to be a quiet spot at the moment. If it can't chart at number one, then Sony are in trouble over there. We won't know for 2 weeks though.
The fact that switch moves over 40k units a week even now is crazy
@SBandy1 They have to make up those Concord losses somehow lol
These low numbers for Switch just prove that almost everyone in Japan got a Switch already, now they are just patiently waiting for the Switch 2 reveal.
@Serpenterror 43,000 is a good week with no notable releases. Still crazy numbers at this stage, even some of the quieter weeks.
Wonder how much overlap Switch will have with Switch 2. I expect the OG will still probably chug along for a couple of years quite nicely after Switch 2 releases.
All said and done though ........ Agree, I think everyone is now ready for the Switch successor. Can't wait!
The PS5 increase is not because of the price increase announcement as that only happened this week and these numbers are for last week up until Sunday.
@Axecon Black Myth Wukong is digital only right now.
Ey...!
Not bad. 😊
PS5 sales on number 1 for this week.
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