Famitsu Sales: Week 21, 2024 (May 20 - May 26)

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[Weekly software and hardware sales figures] "Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door" tops the charts with 115,000 units sold! Switch version of "Earth Defense Force 2" also enters the top 10 [5/20-5/26]​


Sales ranking announced by Famitsu. Here is a summary of the estimated weekly sales figures for video games and hardware from May 20 to May 26, 2024.

Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door which depicts the great adventure of Mario and friends who have become as thin as paper took the top spot in its first appearance. This title is based on the GameCube version released in 2004 with improvements to the graphics and ease of play. It is a fun title with a variety of stage gimmicks such as using his thin body to fit through narrow gaps and transforming into a paper airplane to fly in the sky and has sold over 100,000 units.

Coming in third is Earth Defense Force 2: World Brothers which is also making its debut. This is a spin-off of the Earth Defense Force series in which you become a member of the Earth Defense Force and fight giant creatures. It is a 3D action shooter that features a world where everything including characters and objects are made up of square voxels. It's a title we'll be keeping an eye on for future sales.

Apart from these, there are a number of familiar titles that appear every week including Stellar Blade which topped the charts for three consecutive weeks but has since dropped in rank to sixth place, making it into the top ten for four consecutive weeks.

Famitsu Sales: Week 21, 2024 (May 20 - May 26)​

Software​

1st Switch Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door
115,649 (total 115,649) New / Nintendo / May 23, 2024

2nd Switch Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
6,056 (total 5,848,388) -15% / Nintendo / April 28, 2017

3rd Switch Earth Defense Force 2: World Brothers
5,711 (total 5,711) New / D3 Publisher / May 23, 2024

4th Switch Ring Fit Adventure
5,122 (total 3,575,312) -51% / Nintendo / October 18, 2019

5th Switch Animal Crossing: New Horizons
5,075 (total 7,777,029) -16% / Nintendo / March 20, 2020

6th PS5 Stellar Blade
4,323 (total 95,422) -60% / Sony Interactive Entertainment / April 26, 2024

7th Switch Minecraft
4,189 (total of 3,537,779) -10%/ Microsoft Japan / June 21, 2018

8th Switch Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
3,875 (total 5,513,822) +5% / Nintendo / December 7, 2018

9th Switch Super Mario Bros. Wonder
3,752 (total of 1,859,718) -11%/ Nintendo / October 20, 2023

10th Switch Splatoon 3
3,733 (total 4,304,838) -5% / Nintendo / September 9, 2022

Hardware​

  • Switch - 3,542 (total: 19,797,357)
  • Switch Lite - 7,546 (total 5,855,582)
  • Switch Oled - 36,944 (total 7,298,794)
  • PS5 -17,476 (total 4,858,377)
  • PS5 DE - 5,892 (total 780,385)
  • Xbox Series X - 1,769 (total 278,159)
  • Xbox Series S - 330 (total 312,929)
  • PS4 - 131 (total 7,926,045)

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2spooky5me

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If PS did a proper super-slim for Japan, I think it would do wonders. In fact, I would bet it would be #1 selling for quite awhile, if done right.
I mean, hell, I would like a really compact PS5, too, but I have the luxury of space... others don't.
 
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If PS did a proper super-slim for Japan, I think it would do wonders. In fact, I would bet it would be #1 selling for quite awhile, if done right.
I mean, hell, I would like a really compact PS5, too, but I have the luxury of space... others don't.
Switch 2 out next year and it'll bury ps5 into the ground unless they somehow get a $300 which will never happen especially with the yen being weak.
 
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All you see is Switch, switch, switch, Stellar, switch, switch, switch 😂
 

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I'm curious, what demographic in Japan is actually still buying Xboxes? It's a drop in the bucket but 2,000 people are still buying them for some reason.
 
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