Japanese Charts: FANTASIAN Sneaks Into The Top 10 As Mario Party Rolls Another Winner

Jeez. Jamboree is really staying put at the top, but I'm glad that DQ 3 HD-2D is still coming in strong. Too bad for Fantasian, just too new and unfamiliar to most to make a large impact.

I also had to look up HoneHoneZaurus X Chogattai! Build & Battle. Looks pretty fun for a kid's game, reminds me of Fossil Fighters, but with plastic toys.

Those PS5 pro sales numbers are just hilariously bad lol.

Nintendo truly dominates the list. Jamboree is such a fantastic game and deserves the number one spot, imo.

@Bigmanfan I got one. It's really nice.

Oh, Wow...!
39K from PS5 sales?? 🤯
Great job! 😃

Odd that even when Super Mario Party Jamboree is at the top of the chart, it still failed to beat Dragon Quest III HD 2D's total unit sales and again not counting the PS5 numbers wherever that one is at now. Nice to see Fantasian at least in the top 10 of the chart even if it's a low position. If Square Enix want more dollars to save their very existence, they should know now not to avoid the Switch platform in Japan going forward.

@Anti-Matter Also those are base units too, reason why the base units sell better was cause those are basically premium version of the system. You get better performance, better resolution, a disc drive, backwards compatibility, and an affordable price tag. It's not a ripoff like the PS5 Pro which had worst performance, iffy resolution, no disc drive, and is more expensive.

@MJF I'm sure it is. I've heard a lot of good things. I'm not one of those people who's actively rooting against it or anything, I just find it a little funny.

Jamboree and Dragon Quest are selling even more than last week. Do japanese celebrate christmas and gift each other?

Anyway great sales and I am also really glad about the PlayStation 5 base model sales.

@Jhena In Japan Christmas is actually more of a couples' holiday, sort of like Valentine's Day in America. New Years is when families exchange gifts.

Nintendo always does very well in December, but then usually falls behind Sony in January. If I had to guess, I'd say it's because Switch is more popular to gift directly, but Playstation is more popular among the people who receive money/gift cards. I fully expect that to happen again, and for the usual suspects to fearmonger about how Nintendo is doomed yet again.

OG Switch is sooo close to 20 million now. Should get there by the end of the year at this rate. That’s some going!

@FirstEmperor
Thanks, this is interesting. I will try to observe, what you told me about Nintendo and Sony.

It looks like Fantasian flopped in Japan, which is surprising considering it's an old-school JRPG.

@fenlix Likely because the game was already available there in mobile form on Apple Arcade. Those who already play and finish it had no reason to rebuy it again. It's in a similar situation to games like Various Daylife where those got mobile release first but didn't get a console port until many years later. By then many people who would had bought the game in full lost interest cause they already play and complete it when it was a mobile phone title. Some people won't even buy it knowing that the game was originally a mobile title. This should be a lesson to all videogame companies that the consoles and PC market should always be priority number one when it comes to releasing game first cause releasing those on mobile first and porting them to console later on ain't gonna do so well.

So far playing FANTASIAN Neo Dimension and it's fight mechanics is a nice take and makes one plan strategies more when fight big battles and gimmicks that popup to use those during fights when using your dimension tool. It's JRPG with nice graphics diorama to add to the mix. Bad only 3 at time can be active party. The surprise is the Secret Enemy that can make higher items for you but the catch is make sure at least one character that can power-strike to get it the rewards. The confusing part is when the map rotates don't keep moving in that directions or it throws your direction off. Just stop when it does this and keep moving after.

Seriously though, what games are these 40,000 new PS5 owners playing? Why aren't they showing up on the charts?

@Bigmanfan
Personally, I also appreciate the XSX Digital Edition numbers.

Some of these games have truly poorer sales figures than they should though.