Japan Top Weekly Video Game Ranking: September 21, 2020 to September 27, 2020

A pretty slow week for video games and hardware sold in Japan. Almost all of the hardware recorded a drop in sales with the exceptions of PS4, PS4 Pro and Xbox One S which saw sales climbing for the week between September 21 to September 27 according to Famitsu’s latest report available here. Sales of Continue reading Japan Top Weekly Video Game Ranking: September 21, 2020 to September 27, 2020

Japan Top Weekly Video Game Ranking: September 14, 2020 to September 20, 2020

There has been a surge in terms of number of sales for New 2DS LL, the machine saw a significant rise in demand leading to a nearly 85% increase in sales for the week between September 14 to September 20. Most hardware saw improvement for the week too with Switch, PS4 and New 3DS LL Continue reading Japan Top Weekly Video Game Ranking: September 14, 2020 to September 20, 2020

Japan Top Weekly Video Game Ranking: August 31, 2020 to September 6, 2020

Sales of video game hardware have slowed down a little going into September after much better sales posted the week before. However, it is all good news for the Switch machines, as the total lifetime sales finally breach the 15 million units mark sold in Japan. To be precise, the total lifetime units sold for Continue reading Japan Top Weekly Video Game Ranking: August 31, 2020 to September 6, 2020

Japan Top Weekly Video Game Ranking: August 17, 2020 to August 23, 2020

Sales of video game software for the week between August 17 to August 23 did not see much movement that week as only a handful of titles were released during the same period. Therefore, a rather slow week with familiar faces still in the Top 10. Note that it is thanks to the awesome folks Continue reading Japan Top Weekly Video Game Ranking: August 17, 2020 to August 23, 2020

Japan Top Weekly Video Game Ranking: August 3, 2020 to August 16, 2020

First off, Famitsu has published a two-week period of the hardware and software sold in Japan between August 3 to August 16. Therefore, in this post, there will be no week-to-week percentage difference for sales of hardware. I will be making separate posts for August 3 to August 9 and August 10 to August 16 Continue reading Japan Top Weekly Video Game Ranking: August 3, 2020 to August 16, 2020

Japan Top Weekly Video Game Ranking: July 27, 2020 to August 2, 2020

Sales of Playstation machines are up for the week between July 27 to August 2 after seeing massive plunge the previous week. While sales of Switch, 2DS and 3DS are down, Switch Lite saw another increase in sales for the week. Xbox One S also experienced a slight drop while Xbox One X climbed 8%. Continue reading Japan Top Weekly Video Game Ranking: July 27, 2020 to August 2, 2020

Japan Top Weekly Video Game Ranking: July 20, 2020 to July 26, 2020

Well, I figured I should just publish the partial list rather than holding onto it till tomorrow. Please note that the full Top 30 list will be out via Famitsu tomorrow (GMT +9, around 11 AM or 12 PM). Let’s change things up a little and talk about sales for hardware the week between July Continue reading Japan Top Weekly Video Game Ranking: July 20, 2020 to July 26, 2020