Famitsu has served up our latest look at the Japanese gaming charts and after two weeks at the top, Zelda has fallen.
Yes, The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom has dropped down to fifth this week (still with an impressive 19,710 sales, mind you) as a host of new releases mix things up.
It's Metaphor: ReFantazio on PS5 that claims the top spot this week, putting up 82,827 on Sony's latest system and an additional 25,385 on PS4. Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero debuts in second while the Silent Hill 2 remake on PS5 snatches the last podium spot.
Of course, the familiar Nintendo faces are a little further down the top 10, but it's nice to see Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord cropping up at sixth in its debut week with a crisp 8,061 sales.
For the full breakdown, here's a look at the latest top ten in full:
The hardware charts are completely unchanged since last week. The Switch OLED and Lite still lead the pack (all three SKUs combining for 55,082 sales this week), while the two PS5 models continue to see a sales decrease following the console price hike in Japan.
Here's your look at this week's Japanese hardware chart in full.
Position | Console | Unit Sales (7th - 13th Oct) | Total Unit Sales |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Switch OLED | 33,253 | 8,008,745 |
2 | Switch Lite | 16,975 | 6,134,966 |
3 | PlayStation 5 | 9,877 |
5,222,944 |
4 |
Switch |
4,854 |
19,917,860 |
5 |
PlayStation 5 - Digital Edition |
1,927 |
859,553 |
6 |
Xbox Series S |
289 |
319,828 |
7 |
Xbox Series X |
136 | 307,687 |
8 |
PlayStation 4 |
29 |
7,928,584 |
What do you make of this week's charts? Let us know your thoughts with a comment down below.
[source famitsu.com]
Comments 41
That’s a shame, the game is so good. Glad it sold pretty well first week though
For those who are into sales data, are these Zelda Echoes sales numbers in Japan above, below or just as expected? They seem to be a little low considering it's a Zelda game, but I'm not so sure about that
Glad to see Silent Hill off to a decent start.
Oh, well.
9K units of PS5 got shipped. 🙂
It could be better next week.
Oh, I want to add.
The reason I keep praising PS5 sales in Japan weekly because PushSquare didn't provide the article about hardware sales in Japan weekly so the only way I can praise PS5 sales is here, on Nintendolife because the report also including the unit of PS5 got shipped weekly.
I didn't even have any intention to troll here.
I just only see the number of PS5 machine got shipped and give some comments depend on sales situation. That's it.
The reason I don't comment about Switch sales because Switch sales itself is already great so I don't need to keep sugarcoating Switch sales all the time and I can focus to praise other machine that become my hype currently.
PS5 sales report is also very important for me as I really depend on 3rd party kids games by 99.99% for my PS5 machine.
Whenever I see PS5 sales still not below than XBOX sales, at least it gave me some relieve.
There's not a Switch game until 5th place. In Japan.
Someone call the newspapers, I think pigs might be flying.
Edit: on second thought, that's probably just Zelda using Tri to carry Boarblins around. Never mind!
Didn't expect Echoes of Wisdom to be in fifth this week, but definitely don't mind it as all the games above it are great based on what I've seen and heard of them - fingers crossed some if not all of them will eventually come to Switch's successor, too!
Anyway, also pleasantly surprised to see Wizardry in sixth and happy to see the usual Switch suspects filling the rest of the top 10 along with Switch still selling like crazy of course.
Nice to finally see some games from the Sony side this week but sad that it won't last after this. I would imagine had these got Switch versions they would do great numbers for more weeks to come. As awesome as Metaphor: ReFantazio is, the fact that Sony and Sega hardly market the game means it won't last for too long in the chart. It only does good numbers at launch cause of all the reviews but once the hype died down the game will be lost in the shuffle of other similar games.
you do not see that often the top 4 physical games sold in japan are on the ps..
Looks like Metaphor is just narrowly squeezing past P3’s launch. Seems like Echoes is maintaining a solid sales trajectory, considering that most games with big launches in Japan this year have fallen off a cliff at week two, let alone weeks after release. That’s a pretty soft launch number for Silent Hill and honestly Sparking Zero. I sort of expected to see that one soar into the charts with 200k+ copies sold like Zelda had, or at least hitting 100k, but then again, I feel PS players have been taking a hard shift into digital this past two, maybe three years.
What have the biggest selling titles been in Japan this year? Or the biggest launches? Just curious.
no surprise about metaphor it could very well be goty..
@somnambulance most ps games are overwhelming sold digitally and not physically much more then on the switch..
The thumbnail, XD
Really is some sad the sales for Zelda, but is good to know that still is in the fight and don't give up ^^
PS with the top four in the software charts but the Switch hardware just keeps on selling.
@johnedwin Yeah, I would imagine. These physical sales are becoming less and less valid as a metric as fewer gamers outside Switch purchase games physically. I don’t remember many large launches this year on par with Echoes.
Interesting that PS5 had several new releases that sold well, and it didn't help system sales at all. Just an observation.
Echoes of Wisdom deserves to be selling much better. It's an awesome game.
I'll look into Echoes of Wisdom after the Switch 2 is announced and if it has backwards compatibility or not for the potential extra power it should provide.
@mjharper One reason was cause of the PS5 price hike, other reason was cause a majority of the audience either already pick these games up on PC or PS4 instead and had no reason to buy a PS5. Another reason was cause of the experience, why buy a PS5 when a PC and PS4 already give you similar if not the better experience without breaking the bank? Better graphics, good performance, fun gameplay, game streaming on a portable device, you could do all of these on PS4 and PC as well, they are not exclusive to PS5 which is one of the reason the PS5 is dead.
Extremely happy with how well Metaphor is selling worldwide. It improves on the Persona formula in all the right ways (a cast that's diverse in age; a far more balanced combat system; tighter pacing; etc.) without sacrificing the elements that make the modern Persona games so enjoyable in the first place.
Hoping Metaphor makes it's way to Switch 2.
Wondering what DQ3 will do to the charts next month? A remake yes but Japan loves its mainline DQ.
Being outsold by the great new RPG hit from the people behind Persona, the long-anticipated remake of a classic horror game, and DBZ doesn't seem all that bad.
@SakuraHaruka games like Zelda have legs. It will do fine. 👍🙂
Switch lite outselling the total competition on its own. Nintendo struck lightening this gen. All about the games and forever may it continue!
@Anti-Matter you don’t need to justify your comment Anti-Matter 👍
Expect silent hill to be high I don't get why remade 2 before 1 good if somebody can answer I still.waiting for second movie? I liked the first one never played the games. Personally ps5 expensive as it is for lack of games well for me personally I still use my PS4 PS3
@Anti-Matter not much competition Thier with Xbox. I not fanboy or any console me maybe Nintendo for first party titles.iam a playstation fan boy when having bit banter with my daughter as she owns a Xbox and I know how to wind her up 😉 make me happy anyway
@Bluesaxo The developers said
"I think Silent Hill 2 just matches our DNA way better," Lenart began. "It's much more emotional, a much more personal story than, for example, the first game or the third game. And we at Bloober were always fans of telling personal stories about people's experiences, people's feelings and how they go through them. Not so much about, you know, occultism and things from other worlds, right? So I think that was the main reason, basically."
Metaphor sales, at least from a ps5 perspective, look awesome to me. Pretty sure I’d never even heard of the game before today. Must be 1 of the highest openings for the ps5 in Japan so far.
It’s surreal to me to see Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord chart in the top 10 in the year 2024 (in Japan at least). Still a good amount of old-schoolers out there.
@somnambulance Metaphor is only above P3R on PS5 alone. With PS4 together it's behind P3R which sold a combined 116k at launch.
Metaphor PeakFantazio! Haven't played it, but I'm sure it's peak.
@BTB20 Interesting. It appears that Metaphor is the fastest starting Atlus title in the US and Europe. I wonder if digital sales would place it in the same boat as Persona in Japan.
@John_Deacon I would say sales are about what would be expected. Nowhere near ToTK numbers of course, but that was never realistic for this game. I believe it is tracking above what LA remake sold, which is pretty solid.
Three of the biggest Japanese games of the year couldn't move PS5s in Japan. Yikes.
@Anti-Matter No worries. Sony could discontinue the PlayStation brand and Xbox still wouldn't outsell it in Japan.
Problem here is none of that game is on Switch if that the case it would be knocked off but since it's not technically it's still number on the Nintendo charts. So this is just shady comparisons when it's not even released on Switch. This is bias comparison so to do it right it has to be on both since other persona games have come to Switch but for Zelda being IP that harder to do.
@somnambulance P3R and Metaphor probably have a very similar digital share abd since retail copies havevpnly a difference of 8k they are already in the same boat.
But when it comes to P5 it's not even close. It'd need a 70% digital share to be on par with Persona 5's retail launch sales of 344k, which is not the case. P5R launched at 201k retail, so also significantly higher and in 2019 digital in Japan was already groing steadily and not as much of a non factor as it was in 2016.
Curious how the upcoming Party game does.
Metaphor deserves to sell well. Genuinely great game.
that picture lol! im now imagining strohl and the protag beating up zelda...
Metaphor is really good tho. Well deserved.
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