Super Mario Party Jamboree debuts in Japan with 227,000 copies sold

[John Elden Ring]

Famitsu has just released the physical sales figures for the last week in Japan (October 14-20, 2024) and the recently released Super Mario Party Jamboree has taken the top spot by a long shot.

Super Mario Party Jamboree made its big debut in Japan with 227,569 copies sold, easily outselling all the other games in the top 10 best sellers.

1. [NSW] Super Mario Party Jamboree (Nintendo, 10/17/24) – 227,569 (Novo)
2. [PS5] Professional Baseball Spirits 2024-2025 (Konami, 10/17/24) – 69,078 (Novo)
3. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (Nintendo, 09/26/24) – 13,273 (281,312)
4. [PS5] Dragon Ball: Sparking! ZERO (Bandai Namco, 10/11/24) – 12,928 (76,850)
5. [PS5] Metaphor: ReFantazio (ATLUS, 10/11/24) – 12,492 (95,319)
6. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 7,605 (6,033,177)
7. [NSW] Minecraft (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 5,408 (3,657,912)
8. [NSW] Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo, 03/20/20) – 4,665 (7,935,333)
9. [PS4] Metaphor: ReFantazio (ATLUS, 10/11/24) – 4,610 (29,995)
10. [PS5] Silent Hill 2 (Konami, 10/08/24) – 4,287 (33,661)

 

[RE4-City]

Nintendo Switch outselling all other consoles combined comfortably despite being the best selling hardware ever in Japan already. I heard this week is the week where PS5 finally fell behind PS4 in units sold launch aligned!

 

[ethomaz]

Nintendo Switch outselling all other consoles combined comfortably despite being the best selling hardware ever in Japan already. I heard this week is the week where PS5 finally fell behind PS4 in units sold launch aligned!

PS5 is having stock issues in Japan for several weeks already.
Not sure what is happening.

Installbase is so dumb that they are surprise PS5 hold 10k calling how it received a boost lol
When it basically sold what Sony shipped.

 

[Danja]

PS5 is having stock issues in Japan for several weeks already.
Not sure what is happening.

Installbase is so dumb that they are surprise PS5 hold 10k calling how it received a boost lol
When it basically sold what Sony shipped.

Are they having stock issues or Sony is clearing stock and starving the channels

 

[Kokoloko]

Didnt Mario Party come out like last year?

2nd week seeing 5 PS titles in the top 10 Japan. Rare af lol

 

[DarkLordOtaku]

Didnt Mario Party come out like last year?

2nd week seeing 5 PS titles in the top 10 Japan. Rare af lol

Metaphor feels like it's been a pretty nice win for Atlus/Sega.

 

[Cool hand luke]

Embarrassing for Japan.

 

[RE4-City]

PS5 is having stock issues in Japan for several weeks already.
Not sure what is happening.

Installbase is so dumb that they are surprise PS5 hold 10k calling how it received a boost lol
When it basically sold what Sony shipped.

But even if PS5 was fully in stock, I just don't see it doing 22-30,000 on average like it was before the price increase. I think a Monster Hunter Wild bundle was announced for Japan and wonder how PS5 hardware reacts next year compared to how the boost PS4 got in 2018 with monster Hunter World.

 

[ethomaz]

But even if PS5 was fully in stock, I just don't see it doing 22-30,000 on average like it was before the price increase. I think a Monster Hunter Wild bundle was announced for Japan and wonder how PS5 hardware reacts next year compared to how the boost PS4 got in 2018 with monster Hunter World.

That is a fair point.... we don't know how much the rise in price affected the PS5 sales because most stores didn't have it in stock.

PS5 needs a price cut... 4 years without price cut have it price.

 

[Concurseiro do Futuro]

Looks like Playstation could soon be fighting with Xbox for the 2nd place in Japan. Unbelivable.

 

[Zzero]

Didnt Mario Party come out like last year?

2nd week seeing 5 PS titles in the top 10 Japan. Rare af lol

2021.

Remember a time when 3 years between games was normal? Heck, remember when 3 years between games was a long time?

 

[Kokoloko]

Remember a time when 3 years between games was normal? Heck, remember when 3 years between games was a long time?

Indeed

 

[BillyZ]

Looks like Playstation could soon be fighting with Xbox for the 2nd place in Japan. Unbelivable.

Third place. First place Switch 2, second place Switch, third place who cares at this point.

 

[thicc_girls_are_teh_best]

PS5 is having stock issues in Japan for several weeks already.
Not sure what is happening.

Installbase is so dumb that they are surprise PS5 hold 10k calling how it received a boost lol
When it basically sold what Sony shipped.

No, this is pure cap. Stop the cap bro.

It's not a supply issue; SIE are intentionally shipping what number of units meet the demand. They know the price increase was not a popular decision over there, and naturally demand would drop in response. I'm sure it's not exactly hard to walk into a Japanese electronics shop and pick up a PS5 if you want one.

Another sign that supply isn't constrained is we already have several European markets where supply wasn't a constraint and guess what SIE did? Sales promotions with temporary price cuts. They've been at it all year across parts of Europe, specifically to drive demand and flush out supply. At a time when SIE have actually been getting more releases that would typically cater to Japanese gaming tastes, why would they not have increased the supply? After all, there's already been a price hike, so it's not a case where increasing supply by say 25% would mean they're losing money on sales in that region.

You're jumping through too many hoops to try rationalizing PS5 sales currently being supply-constrained in Japan when that hasn't been the case for at least over a year. And especially more recently, again, with the price increase.

 

[ethomaz]

No, this is pure cap. Stop the cap bro.

It's not a supply issue; SIE are intentionally shipping what number of units meet the demand. They know the price increase was not a popular decision over there, and naturally demand would drop in response. I'm sure it's not exactly hard to walk into a Japanese electronics shop and pick up a PS5 if you want one.

Another sign that supply isn't constrained is we already have several European markets where supply wasn't a constraint and guess what SIE did? Sales promotions with temporary price cuts. They've been at it all year across parts of Europe, specifically to drive demand and flush out supply. At a time when SIE have actually been getting more releases that would typically cater to Japanese gaming tastes, why would they not have increased the supply? After all, there's already been a price hike, so it's not a case where increasing supply by say 25% would mean they're losing money on sales in that region.

You're jumping through too many hoops to try rationalizing PS5 sales currently being supply-constrained in Japan when that hasn't been the case for at least over a year. And especially more recently, again, with the price increase.

Feel free to show examples that PS5 is not having supply issue in Japan.

Amazon.co.jp

 

[TrishaCat]

Samantha Mackenzie Greer (@sammgreer.bsky.social)

"does this game sell" "does that game sell" bitch, the fuck do you care. Half the best games ever made "failed to meet expectations". Shadow of the Colossus? Alien Isolation? Mirror's Edge? Is yer joy based on first week sales?? Stop doing free PR for corporations and start respecting artists

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