Famitsu: Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door topped the Japanese retail chart in May 2024
9 out of 10 games in top 10 are published by Nintendo.
Famitsu only considers physical game sales.
Game Sales
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door sold 115.6 thousand copies in 3 days. The game was released on May 23. The re-release nearly matched the record of the original game, which was released in 2004 on the GameCube and sold 138 thousand copies in retail during the same period.
❗️Digital sales are not included here, so, in reality, the remaster might have higher launch sales with Nintendo eShop numbers.
Stellar Blade (46.4 thousand copies) holds the second place; Endless Ocean Luminous (42.8 thousand) is in third place.
Stellar Blade is the only game in the chart not released by Nintendo. Nintendo holds 48.5% of the total retail sales volume.
79.9% of all games sold were for the Nintendo Switch (769.9 thousand copies). Games for the PS5 account for 15% of the market (144 thousand copies).
Hardware Sales
The Nintendo Switch is the sales leader, with the console being purchased 193 thousand times in May.
The PlayStation 5 sold 89.2 thousand units.