Famitsu: The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom tops Japan's physical sales chart in September 2024
Famitsu: The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom tops Japan's physical sales chart in September 2024
Nintendo left some market space for other companies and consoles in September.
Game Sales
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom sold over 200,000 physical copies in its first four days of sales in September. It outsold its nearest competitors by more than twice as much, even considering that many other titles had been on sale for the entire month.
Gundam Breaker 4 secured second place. The Nintendo Switch version sold 68,000 copies, with nearly 62,000 more added from the PS4 and PS5 versions. This is better than the 2018 release New Gundam Breaker (106,000 physical copies lifetime) but lower than Gundam Breaker 3 (190,000 physical copies in its first month). However, back then, digital versions were less popular.
18 out of the top 30 games were new releases. Umamusume: Pretty Derby – Party Dash had a strong start with over 50,000 copies sold, as did Visions of Mana (54,000 copies on PS4 and PS5) and Astro Bot (35,000 copies).
Mario Kart 8 reached a significant milestone, surpassing 6 million physical copies sold in Japan.
Hardware and Accessories Sales
50% of September's sales were for the Nintendo Switch OLED model, with 193,647 units sold.
The PlayStation 5 was purchased 60,427 times, accounting for 15.6% of the total volume.