All purpose Sales and Sales Rumours and Anecdotes [2023 Edition]

[Dr. Nick]

This week's Famistu numbers
Hardware Sales (followed by lifetime sales)

PlayStation 5 – 77,281 (2,577,614)
Switch OLED Model – 40,992 (3,952,054)
PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 14,448 (401,086)
Switch – 11,226 (19,197,506)
Switch Lite – 9,166 (5,223,631)
PlayStation 4 – 1,646 (7,856,171)
Xbox Series X – 595 (179,001)
Xbox Series S – 132 (250,301)
New 2DS LL (including 2DS) – 72 (1,190,692)

Famitsu Sales: 2/20/23 - 2/26/23 - Gematsu

Famitsu has published its estimated physical game software and hardware sales data for Japan for the week of February 20, 2023 to February 26, 2023. Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe for Switch was…

www.gematsu.com

 

[SmooTh]

https://eraltd.org/media/72551/2023-era-yrbk.pdf

 

[chris1515]

Huge february for Hogwarts Legacy and PS5 in UK. Xbox Series are ok and though start of the year for Switch.

Crazy

https://twitter.com/x/status/1632776682976206848

https://twitter.com/x/status/1632776818339061762

PS5 sales surge over 300% in the UK during February | UK Monthly Charts

Xbox Series S and X sales also increased month-on-month

www.gamesindustry.biz

Meanwhile, PS5 sales increase further in February

February console sales are up 65% over the same month last year, and up 14% over January, to 143,000 hardware units sold (GfK panel data, not upweighted).

PS5 sales are up 316% over the same period the year before, and up 27% over January. Year-to-date, PS5 hardware is up 180% over the first two months of 2022. The PS5 was severely impacted at the beginning of last year due to stock shortages.

The Xbox Series S and X platforms saw sales increase 21% in February compared with January, and are 15% up over February last year. Year-to-date, the platform's sales are down slightly by 5.3%.

It's a tough start to the year for Nintendo Switch. Sales for February are down 15% compared with January, and down 29% over this time last year. Switch is now approaching its sixth anniversary, so it isn't a surprise to see the machine slowdown. Last year also saw the notable release of Pokémon Legends: Arceus towards the end of January. Nintendo is hoping to bolster hardware sales in the second quarter of the year, with the release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, plus tie-in activity with the Super Mario Bros movie.

 

[chris1515]

Interesting for Uk sales

https://twitter.com/x/status/1632630774859018240

https://twitter.com/x/status/1633079969747202048

https://twitter.com/x/status/1633080122084323330

Crazy PS5 and Hogwarts Legacy sales in European Union

 

[Inuhanyou]

Everyone growing in Europe besides switch..which seems to be in decline due to saturation

 

[Dr. Nick]

This week's Famitsu numbers
Hardware Sales (followed by lifetime sales)

PlayStation 5 – 60,403 (2,638,017)
Switch OLED Model – 45,752 (3,997,806)
PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 18,009 (419,095)
Switch – 11,463 (19,208,969)
Switch Lite – 9,310 (5,232,941)
PlayStation 4 – 1,655 (7,857,826)
Xbox Series X – 708 (179,709)
Xbox Series S – 140 (250,441)
New 2DS LL (including 2DS) – 66 (1,190,758)

Famitsu Sales: 2/27/23 - 3/2/23 - Gematsu

Famitsu has published its estimated physical game software and hardware sales data for Japan for the week of February 27, 2023 to March 2, 2023. Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty was the highest selling new…

www.gematsu.com

 

[RobertR1]

At the end of this generation, i expect the PS5 to have a much bigger lead over XSS/XSX than PS4 has over XB1

 

[Johnny Awesome]

I don't.

 

[BRiT]

Square Enix says Forspoken sales have been lackluster, and many small and mid-sized titles "did not perform as well as we had expected" | RPG Site

Square Enix financials in their HD Games segment don't look too hot.

www.rpgsite.net

Square Enix has released the Outline of Results Briefing held on February 3, 2023 [PDF], which reveals some insight on the publisher's takeaways regarding its recent slate of game releases.

Net sales declined YoY in the HD Games sub-segment, partly because the release of major titles a year earlier had created a challenging YoY hurdle, but also because many of the new small and mid-sized titles we launched this year did not perform as well as we had expected.

Reviews of “FORSPOKEN,” which we released on January 24, 2023, have been challenging. However, the game has also received positive feedback on its action features, including its parkour and combat capabilities, so it has yielded results that will lead to improvement of our development capabilities of other games in the future. That said, its sales have been lackluster, and while the performance of new titles with February and March release dates will be the ultimate determinant, we see considerable downside risk to our FY2023/3 earnings.

 

[Deleted member 11852]

Apparently "challenging" is the new "bad".

 

[chris1515]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1635585909675675648

 

[Dr. Nick]

Hardware Sales (followed by lifetime sales)

PlayStation 5 – 51,510 (2,689,527)
Switch OLED Model – 37,373 (4,035,179)
PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 13,359 (432,454)
Switch – 12,354 (19,221,323)
Switch Lite – 10,174 (5,243,115)
Xbox Series X – 2,729 (182,438)
PlayStation 4 – 1,602 (7,859,428)
Xbox Series S – 158 (250,599)
New 2DS LL (including 2DS) – 97 (1,190,855)

Famitsu Sales: 3/6/23 - 3/12/23 - Gematsu

Famitsu has published its estimated physical game software and hardware sales data for Japan for the week of March 6, 2023 to March 12, 2023. Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse was the highest…

www.gematsu.com

 

[Dr. Nick]

This week's Famitsu Sales numbers
Hardware Sales (followed by lifetime sales)

PlayStation 5 – 34,156 (2,723,683)
Switch OLED Model – 33,150 (4,068,329)
Switch – 9,798 (19,231,121)
Switch Lite – 6,637 (5,249,752)
PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 6,255 (438,709)
PlayStation 4 – 1,115 (7,860,543)
Xbox Series X – 497 (182,935)
New 2DS LL (including 2DS) – 138 (1,190,993)
Xbox Series S – 58 (250,657)

Famitsu Sales: 3/13/23 - 3/19/23 - Gematsu

Famitsu has published its estimated physical game software and hardware sales data for Japan for the week of March 13, 2023 to March 19, 2023. Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon for Switch…

www.gematsu.com

 

[chris1515]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1640369319132426242

 

[Johnny Awesome]

What do you guys think are the most important (to the market) non-Nintendo Japanese franchises?

Resident Evil?
Persona?

What else?

 

[Newguy]

Gran Turismo, Final Fantasy, maybe Tekken and Street Fighter although their popularity isn't as great as it was, historically Sonic has to be mentioned. For much more recent titles Monster Hunter has been huge from what I've seen, World and Rise (plus xpacs) have sold incredibly well. *Looking this up combined Monster Hunter's sold around 45m total compared to Street Fighter's 47m total for the lifetime of the entire series as of March 2022. Roughly 20m for MH:World, 10m for Iceborne (xpac), 11m for MH Rise, 4m for Sunbreak (xpac), extremely good and I'm surprised SF has "only" sold that much, I would've expected more given the popularity of SF2/incarnations and 5

More internet presence rather than total sales are FromSoftware's Souls games if we can group them all under the same umbrella. So Demon's Souls, Dark Souls, Bloodborne and Sekiro have punched above their sales in terms of visibility and then Elden Ring sold 20m+ copies which makes it by far the best selling. Compared to DS3 10m, DS1 and Sekiro circa 5m, DS2 4m, Bloodborne 2m.

 

[chris1515]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1640950477323112448

 

[chris1515]

Some NPD Data

https://twitter.com/x/status/1641071390089699328

https://twitter.com/x/status/1641071810291830785

https://twitter.com/x/status/1641071705476173831

EDIT:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1641074152177303552

 

[chris1515]

Best February in US for a Playstation console. The best month was PS2 before 533k in february 2005.

 

[Silent_Buddha]

Some NPD Data

https://twitter.com/x/status/1641071390089699328

https://twitter.com/x/status/1641071810291830785

https://twitter.com/x/status/1641071705476173831

EDIT:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1641074152177303552

Nice, Elden Ring still in the top 10. Yakuza game (Like a Dragon: Ishin) in the top 10.

Company of Heroes 3 (an RTS) in the top 20. Hopefully we see a resurgence in the RTS genre.

Also, Minecraft climbed 3 spots. Someday it's going to drop out of the rankings, this is not the day.

Regards,
SB